Purity IV

Though the Lord be high, he cares for the lowly;

 -  From Psalm 138

One reason why God is great, is because He is so good. A good person has better luck. He finds himself with more respect. She has more opportunities. Good people can be trusted. We are drawn toward someone that puts others first.

And we're challenged by someone that has few vices. They are a reminder that we could do better, and that can be awkward, uncomfortable.

When people of vice ("vicious" people?) get enough numbers, or power, they love to sock it to the good people. They will make vice legal, they will celebrate it. They'll make it prominent and put it right in the face of people with high standards of purity.

As if such cynical and base tactics could ever permanently remove the desire within the human heart (some human hears) to be good.

You can never . . . ever . . . eliminate the last spark of purity. Someone is going to want to live it. And someone is going to want to proclaim it. Eliminate that person, and another takes her place. There is such a thing as a "higher" calling and a higher life.

God occupies that kind of high place. The good news is that He has enough power to win in the end.

We are drawn to good . . . even if good seems inaccessible to us, even if it seems against us. It's actually on our side. But while Good must always put others first, and must be completely in favor of real justice and compassion, Good must also, always, model the highest forms of behavior. Real Good is Pure. Selflessness is the same thing as classic virtue.

You can't have it both ways. There is a person even better than the best person you know . . . and one of the things that makes them better, is their devotion to purity.