The Truth Will Make You Free

Again he said to them, ‘I am going away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.’ Then the Jews said, ‘Is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means by saying, “Where I am going, you cannot come”?’ He said to them, ‘You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he.’* They said to him, ‘Who are you?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Why do I speak to you at all?* I have much to say about you and much to condemn; but the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.’ They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father. So Jesus said, ‘When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am he,* and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father instructed me. And the one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.’ As he was saying these things, many believed in him.
Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, ‘If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.’ John 6:21-32

The Truth Will Make You Free

Dear God of free will and intellect
you made up capable of understanding
we have been given free will and vision
yet we often want to revel in fantasy.

In this time of pandemic and loss
we cling to our individual choices
we scream we have the right to choose
as people are dying for our foolishness.

Help us to see the error of our ways
help us to see freedom's honest truth
that we are interdependent and together
in every daily victory and in every crisis.

Make us face the truth that are very hard
help us choose the whole before ourselves
let us love others as you always do
with the truth that sets us all free. Amen.