Daniel 3:14-20, 24-25, 28 / John 8:31-42
In the gospel of Mark 12:30, Jesus said this: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
In short it means to give our love totally to God and to God alone, and to love God physically, mentally and spiritually, in other words, with our whole being.
But it also means that we love God in the physical, mental and spiritual aspects when we freely choose to do so.
In the gospel, when Jesus said that the truth will make us free, His listeners didn't understand what freedom He was talking about.
For them, freedom means that they are not enslaved or bounded physically. They understood freedom only in the literal physical sense.
But Jesus said that when we make His Word our home, we will indeed be His disciples, and we will learn the truth, and the truth will make us free.
When we know that Jesus is the Truth, then we will freely choose to love God and freely choose to accept the trials and difficulties with love.
It is just the three young men in the 1st reading who freely choose to be thrown into the fiery furnace because they love God with all their heart, their soul, their mind and their strength.
May we too make our home in Jesus who will teach us the Truth and teach us how to love God with all our heart, our soul, our mind and our strength.