WEDNESDAY 17TH WEEK IN
ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.
1ST READING: JEREMIAH
15:10. 16-21
GOSPEL: MATTHEW 13:44-46
THEME: TO FOLLOW GOD IS NOT EASY.
Jeremiah complained to God all
that he was passing through because of his words. He suffered many tribulations
because of the word of God. But all hope were not lost.
In the gospel, we are made to
understand that, to get that heaven we must sacrifice many if not all we have.
The man who found the treasure in the field sold all he had in order to buy
that land. We have to sacrifice all we have in order to buy or make heaven.
What are those things we have to sell? We have to sell our pride, insincerity,
adultery, idolatry, fornication and all forms of sins we commit to buy every
other good things that lead us to heaven. When we talk about selling what we
have, it is not like a woman who changed church newly from catholic to another
church. On her first day in the church, the pastor told them to sell everything
they had and bring the proceed to sow seed and God will multiply it. She went
home and sold all that she had and took the proceed to the pastor. After two
weeks she was left with nothing and nothing came in. Instead of running to the
pastor, she ran to the parish priest to tell him what happened. After all said
and done, the parish priest helped her to start life again and she was forced
by experience to come back to the Catholic Church. We are not to sell what we
use for our living but the evils we do and it must surely pain us to do that
because they are our comfort zones but our rewards will be greater. Thanks.
I appreciate your efforts brother.
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