Being Children in faith
Saturday, 27th week in ordinary time
Gal 3: 22-29; Lk 11: 27-28
Being related to God is a faith experience. I do not call you servants but friends, declared Jesus. Remain in my love, he said. I shall be your God and you shall be my people, was the mind of God when God made the covenant with people. Being related to God is a need, a longing, and a recognition that gives me my identity.
But this does not come by default. Merely because I am baptised I don't belong to Christ or I don't become a child of God. Paul says, I need to clothe myself with Christ. My mentality has to change and be transformed. That is what Jesus means when he says it is more important to hear the words of the Lord and put them to practice than to go around saying I am a Christian.
We need to become Children of God not merely by title but in faith.
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