Revive your decision to be free
Wednesday, 5th week in Lent: 21st March, 2018
Dan 3: 14-20, 24-25, 28; Jn 8: 31-42
Look at three types of people in the first reading today: the officials who reported three youngsters to the King merely because they were against them and against the King being so much for them; then the King himself who acts on the words of the officials and later gets upset with the officials as if they alone were responsible for the injustice done to the three youth; and then the three youth, you did not consider even burning in a furnace worse than turning away from the Lord - who of these was truly free?
Those officials who were caught up in the prison of jealousy and rancour, wishing the destruction of the other, plotting and scheming, losing their peace of mind and tranquility of life?
Or the King who is so full of himself, that he cannot see the facts, that he goes by hearsay, that he does not consider all the good experiences he had with those youngsters but decides to burn them alive, merely because the treacherous plotters said so! And worse, he has not guts to take the blame on himself and tries to blame it on the officials and throws them into the furnace - what merit has he to be kept out of the furnace?
Or the three young men... who were bound in no way...they were free when they were in the Royal court, they were free as they refused to worship the statue of the King, they
Today we see people who are bound to do things like falling at people's feet, doing whatever other's command, worried about their life and their future, merely because they do not hold on to the Truth! Once you decided to be true to your innermost self, you will see the tranquility, the serenity, the peace that can come over you! Yes, truth will set you free, decide to be truthful, decide to be free!
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