NOTES for Mar 4:21-25

Have you noticed how widespread schizophrenia is in our time? Some specialists already refuse to draw a line between it and normality. For divided consciousness, a double (or multiple) life, has in fact become the norm. When we are in public, we are one thing, and when we are alone with ourselves, another. We live counting on the fact that no one will find out what we are like in solitude. We have lost wholeness, the integrity of life, because we think that when no one is looking at us, no one sees us either; we have lost the sense of God's presence. But Jesus warns us: what we keep inside ourselves as a secret gradually grows, taking over more and more of our "self," and in the end breaks out. What is hidden becomes manifest.

In order for such a catastrophe not to happen, Jesus offers us a whole, unified life, a life of constant standing before God, regardless of whether people see us at that moment or not. If there is nothing hidden, then the light is not frightening.