Since we’re no longer amazed when we hear news of people, from inside the prison command drug trafficking, organized crime and, therefore, determine the lives of others outside.
This shows that being in an enclosed environment may not be synonymous with taking freedom from someone.
When an astronaut is ready to be on a mission through the cosmos, remains on a small capsule or ship. And what is in this small space, it is perhaps the greatest adventure of his life of freedom, as well as free access to experience infinity.
In both examples, we see that doors and locks are not able to trap the soul of man.
True freedom takes place in the heart. “For where your treasure is, there will your heart” (Lk 12, 34).
Although this independence is something to look within, we still live boxed in by the little things that are outside. Our treasure is often what is the impression people have of us. Success, fame, power, material goods, pleasurable sensations are examples of how we are selling our heart and locking up the meaning of life.
Only the person of Jesus Christ can be the treasure that gives us complete freedom. He delivers us from the bonds by a free choice between following Him and any other type of investment or wealth, which will not open so many doors and interior windows or even exterior doors.
“I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master. But I have called you friends because I have made known all that I heard from my Father “(Jn 15, 15). Perfect freedom leaves no drift, nor provides the risk of bumping against the rocks of eternal death. What the Lord proposes is a freedom in His care. He is with us, but does not prevent anything. He reveals the beauty of our heart and even makes the human being involved in His work.
Look inward of yourself, to rethink the values and attitudes that we are taking in life, it is a way to visualize how or to whom we are seeking our freedom.
Where your treasure?
God bless you!
Sandro Ap. Arquejada
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