There are times in our lives where we need someone to stand up and tell us, we are wrong. We need to be corrected. We are in error. To some degree we expect it, like when in school and we turn in homework and the teacher points out our mistakes. It isn’t that the teacher is trying to catch us doing something wrong or is waiting to punish us. It is because the teach wants us to learn the material. To improve ourselves. To utilize all of our potential. Or when a law enforcement officer pulls us over for speeding, failing to stop or overdriving the road conditions, it isn’t because they hate us. It usually is because they are trying to save us, to protect us from ourselves, to keep us alive.
But often times, when we try to correct someone on spiritual or moral matters, it becomes an entirely different story. We are just haters. We get yelled at or ridiculed. Our rights as citizens are too often challenged. Even today, in some countries, believers in Jesus Christ are killed, not because they have even said something, but simply because of their belief.
In today’s first reading, we hear God telling Moses:
Go down at once to your people
whom you brought out of the land of Egypt,
for they have become depraved.
God asks Moses to go help the people, to correct their lives.
For most christians, we are actually like the teacher or the law enforcement officer. We are open to God’s invitation to help correct people. We want the person to improve themselves, to achieve their potential. We want to help them save their lives, specifically their eternal lives.
While being corrected, be set straight is not always an easy thing to hear, or to say to someone, it is often the right thing to happen. So when someone corrects you, especially in spiritual or moral matters, take it how it is given, with a loving attitude and a desire to make you the best person you can be, to live your life, as God desires you to live your life. And if you see someone that needs correction, be courageous, listen to God’s instruction, and stand and speak, with love.
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