Saint John Bosco, Priest
Wednesday of week 4 in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Matthew 18:1-5
“I tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven”. This is the logic of the Kingdom of God. We must change and become like the children of God. How to change? Jesus himself is explaining it. You must make yourself a little child. This is the way to be greatest in the Kingdom of heaven. So, again, the question comes: how to become oneself like a child? This can be achieved only by emptying yourself from everything that makes you think that you are important, and you are great. Whatever you are, you are a son or a daughter of God. You are a child of God. To live this fundamental truth is the first step in becoming a child. When we try to live this fundamental truth that we are children of God, everything in our life becomes relative to this fact. Children stay in the house of the Father, children live with the Father, children follow the Father. So we recognize our condition of being sons and daughters of God and we try to live as a child of God, we are in the Kingdom of God. Let’s reflect: Recognize your truth as a son or daughter of God and live as His child to be in the kingdom of God
Wednesday 31 January
