A sower went out to sow....

The death and resurrection of Jesus eloquently tell us how dead serious God is in his plan to save us out of His great love. He made us, and so he does not want us to perish. He desires our good, for our good is his crowning glory!

However, we have to claim for ourselves the plan of God. We have to correspond to his desire by also confessing our lives to him. One saint said, “The God who created you without you, cannot save you without you!” This much, too, God loves us – he respects our human freedom!

In the First reading, God sent his angel to free the apostles from the public jail. The apostles then used their God-given freedom to teach the people about the Risen Jesus.

How dead serious are we about our spiritual life and our relationship with the Lord? Are we also investing in the way God invested for our salvation?

How are we using our freedom?