Those of us who claim to be close to God, to know Him or to be His followers have a great responsibility on our shoulders. How we behave and conduct ourselves on this earth (even behind closed doors) affects our entire profession of faith. Showing one face in public while hiding our true selves behind a mask, save for those who know us all our life is not going to take us anywhere. I know some people who claim to be close to God but live a dual life. I too have done it in the past, I am making a great deal of effort to rid myself of still inherent traces of this deceptive manner of living which is far from being a trait of Godliness and more like the trait of the great deceiver the Devil himself. But as I look around me I see that some are not even aware of this kind of duality in their lives!

They don’t realize that this brings more of harm done to those we must witness to rather than helping even our own spiritual growth. We must learn to live Christ’s teachings interiorly before we aspire to teach or preach to those around us. Our greatest desire should be to become as docile as clay in the hands of our creator and then only can we co-operate with Him in shaping the lives of others.

This kind of docility can be attained only when one becomes first a good student. A student understands that he is weak and must be taught, he does not feel qualified to change the world with just a trickle of enlightenment that the haughty assume to be a flood of knowledge. The student is aware that this is only his admission into the school and if he must harbor dreams of being a successful teacher some day he must first be an excellent learner himself (God provides great graces to those who are willing to humble themselves under His giudance, one does not have to be highly intelligent, humility is the key factor that opens the floodgates of wisdom). Then when he is ready enough he will be called!