Who’s your daddy?

In today’s Gospel (John 8:31-42), a crowd of people boast that their ancestor is Abraham and then they assert that their true father is God.

Our Lord Jesus Christ implies that the intentions of their hearts show them to be children of the devil (an implication he makes explicit in a later verse – verse 44):

You belong to your father the devil
and you willingly carry out your father's desires.
He was a murderer from the beginning
and does not stand in truth,
because there is no truth in him.
When he tells a lie,
he speaks in character,
because he is a liar and the father of lies.

May the Lord Jesus give us the grace to live truly as God’s children: loving Him, serving Him, acting in righteousness and charity, and speaking the truth.