TRUE FREEDOM IN JESUS ~ CookingFood.Org

“HONEY FROM THE ROCK”

Monday, 10^th October 2016,

Twenty Eighth Week of Ordinary Time

Gal 4:22-24, 26-27, 31 - 5:1;

Ps 112:1-7;

Lk 11:29-32

TRUE FREEDOM IN JESUS

As St Paul tells us in today’s first reading that we should never stop celebrating the most fortunate blessing anyone can ever hope to share in - having been given real freedom as children of God by Jesus Christ. Many people are not only born into slavery imposed by unjust and oppressive governments, but they are born into philosophies and religions that, if they have any connection at all with the true God, they distort so much of what is true that the religion becomes more a form of slavery to fear than of the freedom from sin that Christ brought. Let us not take our freedom for granted, but remember to thank God everyday for what we’ve been born into, or have been able to enter into since our birth.

In today’s Gospel when Jesus says “See, something greater than Jonah is here,” who is Jesus referring to? He is referring to himself. Let Jesus become your first and most important friend. Make yourself aware that he is with you at all times, not just when you are praying, but when you are playing, working, eating, sleeping. Jesus wants to do everything with you. The more you become conscious and aware of the presence of Christ in every moment of your life, the greater the possibility for you to grow in the warmest and deepest of intimacy with him. Many of the Jews rejected his friendship. Do you want to reject the freedom which comes in friendship of Jesus?

Prayer: Thank you O Lord, for the freedom we enjoy as sons and daughters of the heavenly Father. Amen.