+ The topic of our readings today is an important one: freedom. It seems that Jesus and the Jewish people to whom he spoke were on two different wavelengths, again: this time regarding what it truly means to be free! The Jewish people still see freedom as a national condition that is the goal to be striven for: the children of Abraham are free because they are to be the favored nation of God – among other nations and gods!
But Jesus speaks very plainly
today: only I can give you true freedom, inner freedom, freedom to be who
you are on the inside – and it is from the inside out that you will attain
your true status as heirs of Abraham and favored children of God!
Most often, freedom comes at a
price: such as the price the three young men faced in the fiery furnace of
Nebuchadnezzar! But when one is totally engulfed in faith in God – not even
lapping flames of any kind – real or symbolic – can disturb you.
And this has immediate
application and direction as one year later the Corona Virus continues to ravage
our country and the whole world – which by the way has nothing to do with
Satan, it is simply nature being nature, a virus being its best self! What need
do is to protect ourselves by immersing ourselves in FAITH and belief that GOD DOES
HAVE EVERYTHING IN CONTROL – even if it seems exactly opposite of what my
physical eyes are telling me.
And how we do that is to,
believe it or not – sit, and saturate ourselves in silence and solitude – which
ought to be easier than ever now that we are still in effect house-bound – sit
STILL AND DO NOTHING! DO NOTHING! DO NOTHING – and ENGAGE IN BEING, JUST BEING,
JUST being with your true self, and with God – for 20 minutes in the morning,
and 20 minutes in the evening! and you will WAKE UP, you will become AWARE of
what is really going on! And you will begin to understand the mystery of it
all! And what a wondrous mystery it is: to feel calm, and peace and healing in
the midst of a roaring whirlwind of disease and death going on all around us,
or even in us if we become a victim of the virus.
LIVE JOYFULLY IN THE HERE AND
NOW – doing NOTHING as often as you can and you will be VICTORIOUS
when all is said and done.
May we today truly be free,
enjoying the freedom of the sons and
daughters of God: a freedom consisting of informed consent and cooperation
with God who wants to be an intimate part of our lives – if we let him!
Blessed
are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers, praiseworthy and exalted above all
forever!
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