27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A By Tobe Eze

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

FIRST READING
Isaiah 5:1—7

SECOND READING
Philippians 4:6—9

GOSPEL
Matthew 21:33—43

IF IT WERE YOU, HOW WILL YOU FEEL.?

There is what our people say when one is inappreciative, Eri ago, (someone who eats and deny). A woman was beating her child one day and I went to intervene. The woman told me to leave her alone for her to kill the child for he does not deserve to live. When I asked her reason for that she said that the boy has never obeyed anyone talk more of listening to what she tells him to do. She said that he likes doing opposite of things he is asked to do, that he should die once and leave her alone. I tried talking sense into her. After sometimes, she told him that brother has saved you today.

All that God has been doing for us, how do we pay him back? After all good things God has been doing for us, we choose to do otherwise. When we follow other ways that lead to doom, we will live our lives as we like not even caring about whether it is pleasing God or not, when we face anything on the way, we will start questioning God. God where are you? God why me? God why now? And many other questions we as God.

In the first reading, God is telling us how he plans everything good for us and how he gives them to us but after, we will pay him back with our evil deeds. In our Catholic Church, we have seven free sacraments Jesus left us for our own good. The first Eve made mistake and the mistake reached first Adam which brought death to us but due to God’s kind and loving heart, he allowed second Eve and second Adam to come to our rescue. When the second Adam which is Jesus Christ came. He gave us seven sacraments that help us to be closer to him so that we shall live but we still go back to that our rough ways of life.

How will you feel when you give some food, drinking water, water for washing hand, meat and enough wine, after eating and drinking washes his hand and pour you the water he used for washing? That same water you gave him. What we do to God is above this and I know none of us will be happy when such happens to him/her. When we claim to be a Christian and tell all sorts of lie, we sell Christ and all the good things he does for us.

St. Paul urges us not to have anxiety in all that we do, we should hand our lives and all we do to the hands of God through prayer, good deeds and Thanksgiving. Evil deeds will pay us bad no atom of good thing will come from them.

How will you feel if it where you? The parable in the Gospel is a touching story that should touch our hearts. People of old were killing prophets sent to them by God. Those were those servants in the parable. After all the only son of man came as in the person if Jesus and they killed him also and still in the parable. In our own area, Chinua Achebe in his work, Things Fall Apart, was telling us a story of how the first missionaries were killed in our own setting. Some years ago, we have not been experiencing killing of missionaries but it has started again. We now kill them with everything we have, our actions, our mouths, our hearts, our legs and everything we have and are. Let us just bear in mind what will happen to us at the last day. Onweghi onye etiri ihe etiri mgbada imi hapu iputa ya. None of us will be happy when it happens to us, as such let us not do it to our God. THANKS AND HAPPY SUNDAY.