Life is so compartmentalized today, that we bring demarcation in every facets of life. Our goodness and virtues are limited to place, situation and context. We sometimes, believe we need to put different masks and portray images to make our survival better. I can understand, our roles can be different based on our responsibilities, but why do our goodness and virtues need to bend to vices with our position?
Dr. Richard puts it beautifully, “To separate the sacred from the secular, to
remove religious belief from social discourse and public intercourse is to
arbitrarily divide sacred and secular, private and public. Human life,
individual and corporate, grounds the connection. Distinguish but don't divide
unless you want to devalue life!
This
life is not conditioned and a result of physical union alone. Medical Science
& human intelligence does not have the ability to create a new life, it is
only striving to find what is available and see how best it can sustain life,
even that too for a temporary period. I heard an atheist stating that “death is
a technical error”. Oh really, do you think so? We are limited and finite
compared to the infinite.
The grandeur design of God, the universe is a display of divine goodness and we are His Masterpiece. God expects us to be who we are and integrate life, and not devalue it by separating Sacred from secular. Conflict of roles, character and position can have a serious effect on our children too. Let your time with the sacred transform you as a person in order to make this world a better place not use the name of the sacred to revolt, terrorise and make the life of the vulnerable and poor miserable. Your Life can be transformed when you confess who you are to God who is holy and sacred. Jesus is perfectly holy and all who encounter Him are made new and their life transformed to a brand new person.
We live in a world where people are attacked for maintaining truth and sacredness. The one who politicises God and religion are lifted high. So rightly G. K Chesterton puts this, “We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.”. Nevertheless, trust Him and allow the maker and the creator of the universe to help you maintain the sacredness and dignity of being a human being.
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