Inside Out

“Hear me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that enters one from the outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.”
“From within people, from their hearts come; evil thoughts, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly. All these evils come from within and they defile.”
The human person is continuously absorbing, our lives would cease to exist if it were not so. From the moment a new born baby is placed in the arms of its loving mother and she whispers to the babe the first words the child will hear and then the child absorbs from the mother the energy of her love. As we progress from our infancy to adulthood we are on a non stop cycle of absorbing for our survival. We intake food and drink to nourish our bodies, wisdom and knowledge to progress as human beings, and so many other things that help us to evolve into the people we ultimately become.
The Lord tells us that it’s not what we take in that so much that will defile us, but how we digest it into our human person. If it is not good for us then we should not allow it into our lives in the first place. If our environment is corrupted then we must have the common sense to remove ourselves as best we can from it or we too shall become corrupt. Finally then, the point is, that it is up to each individual person to control themselves and conduct their lives according to what is just, and not let ourselves become corrupted and defiled by the things around us that we see, hear, and absorb into our lives on a daily basis. People around us will see us as we are, because what comes out of a person on a daily basis is more than likely the kind of person it is at heart. It’s not what enters a person that defiles; it is what is seen coming forth from that person that will define the character and life of that human being.