We have just heard Jesus’ saddening observation: You are trying to kill me, because my word has no room among you. These words addressed to the Jews are being addressed to us also for all too often there is no room in our hearts and minds for God’s Word to enter and find a home; and this in two primary senses. Firstly, there is no room because a host of other things absorbs our attention, interest, and time—things which intrude during times of prayer and lectio divina resulting in God’s Word being sown on the rocky soil and pathways of our hearts so that they never take root or the birds of the air swoop down and consume them. The second sense in which there is no room is that our minds can already be filled with a fixed and rigid set of ideas, attitudes, preferences, and prejudices that actually resist receiving the truth that will set us free. This is not to suggest abandoning our fundamental beliefs and values, or remaining noncommittal, only that we need to constantly submit these beliefs and values to the illumining light of the Holy Spirit so that anything at variance with the truth can be exposed and relinquished. This is more difficult than it sounds because invariably the truth that sets us free also makes increasing demands and brings new challenges that we would prefer to avoid. And yet, this is the only path to true freedom and escaping our slavery to sin—and so we need to decide: freedom or slavery?