Prayer Prompt before reading JN 8:31-42: Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father and God the Son are so that I may know who I am.
“BUT NOW YOU ARE TRYING TO KILL ME, A MAN WHO HAS TOLD YOU THE TRUTH THAT I HEARD FROM GOD.” JN 8:31-42
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Jesus reveals in plain language again that He is the Messiah, the Son of God, and the 2nd Person of the Trinity, fully human and fully divine. This is Good News. We are broken, we inherited a loss of holiness from Adam and Eve, we are sinners who need a Savior. God the Father sent Him to save us.
We remind ourselves of this by looking in the mirror and recognizing our brokenness and sin during Lent to prepare for the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Today, our culture is continually killing Jesus, the Truth.
The Devil wants us to have so much information that we cannot find the Truth. It is very difficult to find the Truth on the Internet, a vast highway of information. There is only one Truth, it is impossible for there to be multiple truths or there is no truth. If everyone has their own opinion, but has no Truth (revealed teachings of God) we are going nowhere with no purpose.
God is Truth. He created us to be rightly ordered with mission and purpose. If we are ever struggling in life, we can come to God and His Word to teach us the Truth to help us make the right decisions.
Are we like the Jews and want to kill Jesus, the Truth? Are we like today’s culture (and every culture since the beginning of time) who want to kill the Truth? Why? The truth divides. “He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters.” MT 12:30
It requires conversion. If there is no conversion, there is no transformation. Conversion is changing the way we see things, from human ways to God’s ways.
I just attended a conference that told a lot of truth. “Nobody wants to be average,” was a catch phrase of the speaker. We discussed that for growth to happen we had to change. When we are not growing or feel like we are accomplishing anything we get stuck or scared. What relationship in your life is stuck because you or the other person won’t change (I emphasize you because we cannot change others)? What fear do you have to overcome causing you to be stuck?
Jesus is Truth and He will not change, He is the rock (In this time of stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, struggle with sin, cancer, being accepted, have an uncertain future, etc. cling to the One who is unchanging). He is love, Truth, and the first and only good.
We all want these, but get stuck or we are scared causing us not to change. If we want to be holy and be with Jesus forever, we have to change. How? Our yes, our fiat (accepting God who is trying to act on us and give ourselves totally and completely to Him), cooperating with God’s grace.
Today’s challenge: Get out of the way and allow God to transform you. It is hard, it requires that you look in the mirror and hold yourself accountable, and say yes to conversion. Be not afraid, Jesus gave all to be with you each step of the way! He is not dead but fully alive, He has risen!
Be a servant, be a saint today!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; We will live again!)
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