Friends, in today’s Gospel two of John the Baptist’s disciples follow Jesus and encounter him.
Jesus’ question to the two young men—"What are you looking for?"—is an indispensably important one. Many people go
through life not really knowing what they most fundamentally want, and accordingly, they drift.
The
correct answer to Jesus’ question is "eternal life" or "friendship with
God" or "holiness." This is the simple, clear, unambiguous articulation
of the end goal that any believer should have as he endeavors to lead
his life.
Now,
other people may know more or less what they want spiritually, but they
lack the courage and attention to pursue that end in the face of
distractions and opposition. They know that they should be growing in
holiness, but the secular culture proposes sex, pleasure, power,
and honor so attractively that they lose their way. Or perhaps they
receive withering criticism from those who are stuck in the old,
standard way of life, and they give in.
What are we looking for?
Memorial of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Religious
Lectionary: 207
Children, let no one deceive you.
The person who acts in righteousness is righteous,
just as he is righteous.
Whoever sins belongs to the Devil,
because the Devil has sinned from the beginning.
Indeed, the Son of God was revealed to destroy the works of the Devil.
No one who is begotten by God commits sin,
because God’s seed remains in him;
he cannot sin because he is begotten by God.
In this way,
the children of God and the children of the Devil are made plain;
no one who fails to act in righteousness belongs to God,
nor anyone who does not love his brother.
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