Without Attachment

Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed, saying: "Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. When I was with them I protected them in your name that you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, in order that the scriptures may be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you. I speak this in the world that they may share my joy completely. I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the Evil One. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth."  Consideration: Jesus said, "They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world." Praise God! Jesus is telling us that if we are one with him and follow his words and teachings that we belong to him and not the world. How blessed are those who firmness and conviction proclaim Jesus Christ as our Savior and Son of God. We go forward into the world and love one another just as our Lord loves us; without attachment to the world. Amen!