TUESDAY 20TH WEEK IN
ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.
1ST READING: EZEKIEL
28:1-10
GOSPEL: MATTHEW 19:23-30
THEME: THE
DANDER OF RICHNESS.
Richness in
money, wisdom, people, intellect, sin and so on can bring us downfall. Igbos
say, okwa
nwa nza rijuo afo, ochere chi kere ya aka mgba. When one is rich in any
form, one will think that he/she is above the heaven. In his riches, man lacks
wisdom (Psalm 49:13).
Responsorial
Psalm says, I kill and I make alive. God is the one who gives us all these
gifts except the richness of sin. If God has the power to give us all these
gifts, don’t we think he has the power also to take them away from us? Why then
do we brag with them? God told Ezekiel to go and tell the house Israel or to
remind them that they are not gods, he has power to do whatever he wills to
then even in that their richness. Their richness moved them away from God and
it is same today with us.
In the gospel,
Jesus talked again about the danger of richness. How hard it will be for the
rich to enter heaven. If we allow our richness of any form to influence us,
then it will be easier for Carmel to go through the eye of a needle than we
going into heaven. In any way or any form that we are rich, let it not move us
away from God. The danger of richness is that it makes us lose focus. Thanks.
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