LIVING FOR CHRIST
(John 6:52-59)
Our Lord Jesus Christ says: He
who eats me will live because of me.
Jesus lives because of the Father
who sent Him. He came and became food for us to digest Him within us and become
what we eat. He wants us to live for Him. He wants us to live not for the self,
not in accordance with the standard of the world, but make Him the only reason
of our existence.
Who and what are you living for?
You may live for your family, your wife, your husband. You may be suffering and
sacrificing a whole lot to make them happy. But are you doing these in ways
pleasing to God? You may be making effort to give yourself a certain position,
fame, connection, trying to enhance yourself and give yourself one
paraphernalia or prestige. All these decorate you outwardly. But what do you
have on the inside? What's the conviction behind who you're and what you do?
Have you built your faith in and around Christ?
When you live for Christ people
around you will feel it. You yourself will know it too well within yourself.
You will testify with St Paul that you're not the one living but Christ lives
in you. You will speak in the way of Christ. You will act like Christ. You will
be Christ to your world. You will be filled with Christ. And out of the
abundance of your heart filled with divine inspiration you will live and move
and have your being.
When Christ lives in you, old
things shall pass away. When Christ lives in you a lot of things that make
meaning for people in the world will be counted as great loss by you. Your
values and sense of judgement will surely change when you receive Christ and
allow Him to have His ways in your life.
Live for Christ who lived and
died for you and left you His Himself as food. You will not regret living for
Him.
LET US PRAY
Dear Lord, we lose sense of the
reason why we are alive. Like saint Augustine, help us to realize that our
hearts lives for you and that we shall remain restless till we rest in you.
Give us the grace to live for you, to live Eucharistic. Deliver us from living
outside You our only source of life. Save us and feed us with your Body and
Blood to continue living for You now and forever. Amen
God bless your Friday (Easter,
Week 3)
Rev Fr Julian O Ekeh
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