MONDAY 20TH WEEK IN
ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.
1ST READING: EZEKIEL
24:15-24
GOSPEL: MATTHEW 19:16-22
THEME: THE PROBLEM
OF PLEASURE.
It is never
difficult to get or start a pleasurable act or something but the problem is how
to stop it. The only problem of pleasure is how to stop it. Obughi
ikunye enwe mmiri bu nsogbu kama inata ya iko. It is how to stop our
actions that are not good is the problem and now how to start them. The
Israelites since ages, God has been warning them, giving them all sorts of
signs to leave their evil ways but it was and is a very difficult task for
them. This is not the problem of only the Israelites of the old but the present
Israelites which are us.
The rich man in
the gospel could not take the teaching of Jesus because it touched his comfort
zone. Richness in the Bible may not literarily mean wealth but richness in sin.
Some of us who are wealthy are saints and some who are poor are devils and
still the other way round. It is the richness in sin that God is talking about.
Israelites grew in sin to the extent that God could not only talk to them but
demonstrated it for them, also Jesus demonstrated the same for us and he is
still demonstrating it for us to repent. That our pleasurable actions that do
not give praise to God, we should work around the clock to stop it. We should
work tooth and nail to leave them and heaven will be ours. It is difficult but
not impossible. We should just make serious effort and God will help for he
counts efforts and not result. Thanks.
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