"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 the 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."
In this beautiful prayer Jesus asks his Father to keep us from evil. But he doesn't want to take us away from this world overshadowed by the evil one. No, he wants us to stay here. The only thing he gives us for protection is the consecration in the truth that is his word. If we accept Jesus as the only Word of God, we will proclaim him, we will become his extended arms to witness the truth in this world.
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