Why do we allow ourselves to sin? When we know we should remain steadfast and holy as our Heavenly Father is Holy?
Perhaps it is because we did keep our focus on Christ our Lord! We did not dwell on His Word and kept in close to our hearts! We let our minds be idle and turn to fantasy instead of actively serving Him and our brethren!
Shall we not for love of Him, keep our eyes focussed on our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ? Shall we not embrace His Word keeping in our heart, in our mind and Spirit. Putting our love for Him in action by ministering to our brethren. At the very least we can invite our friends and all who comes our way to ‘Come and See’ and lead them into a possible relationship with Jesus our loving Lord and God.
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First reading
1 John 3:7-10 ·
No-one sins who has been begotten by God
My children, do not let anyone lead you astray:
to live a holy life is to be holy just as he is holy;
to lead a sinful life is to belong to the devil,
since the devil was a sinner from the beginning.
It was to undo all that the devil has done
that the Son of God appeared.
No one who has been begotten by God sins;
because God’s seed remains inside him,
he cannot sin when he has been begotten by God.
In this way we distinguish the children of God
from the children of the devil:
anybody not living a holy life
and not loving his brother
is no child of God’s.
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Gospel
John 1:35-42
‘We have found the Messiah’
As John stood with two of his disciples, Jesus passed, and John stared hard at him and said, ‘Look, there is the lamb of God.’ Hearing this, the two disciples followed Jesus. Jesus turned round, saw them following and said, ‘What do you want?’ They answered, ‘Rabbi,’ – which means Teacher – ‘where do you live?’ ‘Come and see’ he replied; so they went and saw where he lived, and stayed with him the rest of that day. It was about the tenth hour.
One of these two who became followers of Jesus after hearing what John had said was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter. Early next morning, Andrew met his brother and said to him, ‘We have found the Messiah’ – which means the Christ – and he took Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked hard at him and said, ‘You are Simon son of John; you are to be called Cephas’ – meaning Rock.
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