Daily reflection _ who is your master?

WHO IS YOUR MASTER?
What can you and I do to protect ourselves from anxiety?
Deacon John Ruscheinsky
Who is the master in charge of your life? Our "master" is whatever governs our thoughts, shapes our ideals, and controls the desires of our heart and the values we choose to live by. We can be ruled by many different things. For example, the love of money, possessions, power and prestige, glamour of wealth, even harmful passions and addictions. Ultimately, the choice of deciding who our master is boils down to two: God or "mammon" - material wealth or possessions or whatever tends to control our desires.
There is only one Master Who has the power to set us free from fear, pride, greed and many other hurtful desires in life. That Master, of course, is Jesus Christ, Who alone can save us from all that would keep us bound up in fear and anxiety. Jesus used an illustration from nature in today's Gospel - birds and flowers - to show how our heavenly Father provides for His creatures in the natural order of creation. God provides ample food, water, light and heat to sustain all that lives. How much more can we, who are created in the very image and likeness of God, rely on Him to sustain not only our physical body, but our mind, heart and spirit as well?
Our heavenly Father is utterly reliable because it is in His nature to love, heal, forgive, and bring us to holiness. Let us remember that Jesus taught us how to pray with loving confidence, "Give us this day our daily bread." God knows our needs even before we ask, and generously blesses those who trust in Him. In the Responsorial Psalm, we affirm that our souls find "rest in God alone," for the Lord is worthy of our trust (Ps 62:6a). The Lord never forgets; the Lord is our Rock and our Salvation. He is our Refuge, our Judge, our Light, our Master, and the Provider of all things.  
Here are questions to pray and ponder on today: How anxious are you about God's plans for your life? What can you and I do to protect ourselves from anxiety?
Who is your master?