The Power of the Cross, Wednesday, of the second week of Lent.

The Cross of Christ unites in liberty.

Ask, what continues to enslave me?

Seek. Ask God to point out areas of slavery that still exist in your life as you go through your day catch yourself not being true to who you really are ask

yourself who are you serving now?

Knock, meditate on Romans chapter 7, verses 22 through 25.

In my inmost self, I dearly love God's law, but I can see that my body follows a different law that battles against the law which my reason dictates.

This is what makes me a prisoner of that law of sin, which lives inside my body.

What a wretched man I am.

Who will rescue me from this body doomed to death?

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

In short, it is I, who with my reasons serve the law of God, and no less I, who serve in my unspiritual self,

the law of sin.

Paul talks about delighting in the law of God, but finding himself at war with other parts

of himself.

Spend time reflecting on what delights you about God's law.

Ask Christ to save you.

Transform your life.

Thomas Merton wrote about what he called a person's true self.

Prayer, Merton argued, helps us to discover our true self.

The person God created us to be, totally free from the expectations and demands of others.

By contrast, the false self is enslaved.

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