No Secrets

Gospel: Luke 8: 16-18

We live in an age where almost the entire world is captured on CCTV.  All our actions on electronic devices is monitored and recorded; all of it can be retrieved and accessed.  There are no longer any secrets that are hidden from the world.  To watch people hatch schemes to hide things is like watching children play a game of spy.  They must know it is all just that - play acting.  

In a very real sense, however, our world has always been like this.  There is nothing we can hide from God or from ourselves.  We try and run from our actions like Cain, but we cannot hide from God or our own selves.  We can try to lie to ourselves and God about ourselves, but this leads to all sorts of bad consequences.  Often we try to justify our actions and make them appear to be good, but this too is folly.  There is only one healthy path - to own our deeds, repent over the bad ones, rejoice over the good ones, and be honest, authentic people.

Everyone of us has a light God has placed within us to discover and reveal.  It is for us to seek and make known to ourselves and the world.  It is not defined by another or by some external code or theory.  Everyone has a light, everyone has a good to be discovered and revealed.  Only an authentic, honest self can find it and cultivate it and make it known with God's help.