Daily Meditation: Tuesday, May 31, 2005

God’s law - inscribed in our heart

05/31/2005

In the book of the prophet Jeremiah, God says: ‘I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts… And no longer shall each man teach his neighbour and each his brother… For they shall all know me.’ If God wrote his law in the hearts of men, this means that each of us possesses within ourselves the light we need in order to understand what is good, just, and true – and to implement it. Obviously, it is not reasonable to leave human beings to their own devices: most of them are not yet ready to decipher the divine writing in their heart. In order to read this law correctly which God has inscribed in your heart, each of you must begin by introducing order, harmony and purity within you, or you will only read phantasmagoria and dark desires. This is what the role of religion is meant to be: to prepare human beings to discover the law of God inscribed within them, so that in deciphering this law they free themselves from all the dark forms which inhabit and endlessly enslave them. But are religions really concerned about the liberation of humanity?