God is love and all that is love comes from God. All that God created was for love and fashioned through and in love. Because we are born in love it is only right that we love our creator and yet by love, we have the freedom to choose whether to do so or not.
To love one another, we must do so with the love of God in our hearts for only then do we truly love. Sin often blinds us to this fact and so our love has limitations, even conditions; lest we are freed from that which blinds and binds us.
When we put family and others before God, we have made a choice to live in the world, to live and love according to its values. The world we create for ourselves gets smaller while we become bigger.
To love and honour God above all things is to love and bear our cross. To spend time in Communion with our Lord and God through prayer. To partake of the bread of life. We live not in this world or of it, but thrive in Our heavenly Father’s vast Kingdom here on earth as we await our heavenly inheritance. Amen
FIRST READING
Romans 13:8–10
GOSPEL
Luke 14:25–33
Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them, “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion? Otherwise, after laying the foundation and finding himself unable to finish the work the onlookers should laugh at him and say, ‘This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’ Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whether with ten thousand troops he can successfully oppose another king advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops? But if not, while he is still far away, he will send a delegation to ask for peace terms. In the same way, everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.”
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