Jesus is Lord

The WORD in other words (2006) by Father Bar Fabilla SVD – Calapan, Oriental Mindoro

Friday 9th Week in Ordinary Time

What does it mean to acknowledge that Jesus is Lord? The word Lord means “ruler” or “king” — the one to whom submission is owed. The Lord or Master of our lives is the person or thing we surrender ourselves to fully. Many things — unruly passions, the love of money, alcohol, drugs — can rule us. Yet only one Lord can truly set us free to love and to be loved as God intended from the beginning.

When we acknowledge that Jesus is Lord, we invite Him to be the King of our heart and the ruler of our thoughts, relationships, and all that we do. St. Paul reminds us: “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved” (Romans 10:9).

Is the Lord Jesus the true King of your heart, and do you give Him free rein in every area of your life? Let us believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of David and the Son of God (cf. Mark 12, 35-36). He is our Lord, and we must willingly submit ourselves to His rule in our lives.

Let Him be the Lord and King of our life, our thoughts, our hearts, our homes, our relationships, our work, and all that we do. For “at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:10–11).