8th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A By Tobe Eze

8th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

FIRST READING Isaiah 49:14—15

SECOND READING
1 Corinthians 4:1—5

GOSPEL
Matthew 6:24—34

THEME: HE REMEMBERS US IN ALL OUR SITUATIONS

Will mother forget her child? Even if she forgets, I will not forget you. This is promise of God to us. He is our Lord and God. He cares for us and provides for us. We should fear not. It is out of fear that we sometimes judge our neighbours, but St. Paul in the second reading tells us not to judge. Be still and know that I am the Lord. One with God is majority. If you are with God nothing will harm you, there is nothing to fear about. Fear not for he is with us. First reading tells us that he will provide all our good needs. St. Paul said that, it is now the time for us to show our stewardship in Christ.

How do we show that stewardship? By obeying the law. What are the laws? The greatest commandment is love. If we love, there is nothing more that is expected of us. It is in love that we find hope, it is in love that we find joy, it is in love that we find prosperity, it is in love that forgiveness lives. Every good things are born out of love. If there is love among us there will be no fear. Where there is no love, every other vices live there.

In the Gospel, Jesus tells us that he cares for us more than every other creature. He is our father. Our good father. He has every good things in him, let us imitate, emulate and photocopy him. Let us answer oyiri Nna for our father is good. Oyiri Nna (Carbon copy of the father) is only good when the father is a good person. Because our father is good we should answer it, and if you cannot be like the father please do not answer it and remember those that he cares and provides for are those who are like him. Ndị nke ya n' eziokwu. In fear sometimes we lose our names.

Most times we fear too much that we don’t even remember God again and what we may be fearing for may be something too small. Continue Reading

A Story: Fear

There was a lion who feared nothing except the crowing of cocks. A chill would go down his spine whenever he heard a cock crowing. One day he confessed his fear to the elephant, who was greatly amused. “How can the crowing of a cock hurt you?” He asked the lion. “Think about it!” Just then a mosquito began circling the elephant’s head, frightening him out of his wits. “If it gets into my ear I’m doomed!” He shrieked, flailing at the insect with his trunk. Now it was the lion’s turn to feel amused.
MORAL: If we could see our fears as others see them we would realize that most of our fears make no sense!

In all our situations, he is there for us. He remembers us in all our situations, if we put our trust in him and serve him. FEAR NOT HE IS OUR LORD. HAPPY SUNDAY.

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