Monday 19 August 2024
St John Eudes
Ezekiel 24:15-24. You have forgotten God who gave you birth – Deuteronomy 32:18-21. Matthew 19:16-22.
We are invited to grow in relationship with God
Being a disciple of Jesus is not necessarily easy. In some final sense, for the believer, it is all there is. But that doesn’t make it easy. To be a disciple is graced. There are moments, long periods even, of consolation; of the experience of faith, hope and love – of an inner peace. But these things require freedom. Not a freedom to do whatever we like but a freedom to have space for the relationship with God. This is what Jesus asks of the man who comes to him in today’s Gospel.
What Jesus asks is really an invitation – for the man to set himself free. It is not about the application of rules, as such, or an abstract perfection. It is about the opportunity for a growing in relationship with Jesus. Today you might consider what burdens keep you from growing in relationship with the God revealed in Jesus?
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