14th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year B. By Tobe Eze

14th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year B.

FIRST READING

Ezekiel 2:2-5

SECOND READING

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

GOSPEL

Mark 6:1-6

THEME: GOD IS BEYOND MAN’S THINKING.

A young man was admitted into the seminary school. His own kinsmen started writing petitions against him so that he will be expelled. As God made it he was not expelled. At his ordination, his own kinsmen refused to contribute money for his car and every other things necessary for ordination. What were their reasons? 1. How can the son of Okeke be Fada and our own sons are not. 2. Why should we buy him a car while our own sons have not even a wheel? 3. We know him, he is not qualified. 4. Even his father is too poor to sponsor him, he may have been stealing to survive there. And so many other rubbish reasons. Even after ordination, they failed to see him as a priest but whether they did or not, they know that a priest came out from his father’s house. He is a priest and no two ways about it. Continue Reading..............................

In the first reading, God told Ezekiel to go and discharge his duties as a prophet that whether they accept the message or not, they must know that a prophet existed.

In the second reading, St. Paul said that he glories in his weakness for in it, God is glorified. Again, he had a serious problem that he had prayed three times for God to remove it for him but God told him that his grace is enough for him.

In the gospel, those who should be happiest people on earth that they gave birth to a great man started questioning his linage.

All these from the first reading to the gospel show us that God’s ways are not our ways. The word of God works with and without us. When we think that without us, the word of God will go into extinction, we are just deceiving ourselves for the first reading has shown us that. The troubles we meet sometimes in life are not to put us down but for us to excel more but we focus on the bad side of them so much that we do not see anything good that can come out of it. We do not listen to God to know if we are getting the same response as Paul received. His grace is always there for us but we do not recognize them sometime for we think that it is only through our efforts that we will survive. We are not the ones that call people to the vineyard of the Lord. In the gospel, they lost many things because they thought God would have taken permission from them and show them the type of Messiah he will send them before doing that. That you know a father whole and entire does not mean that you know the son. They knew Jesus’ linage but they did not know where his power came from.

We should always have at the back of our minds that God’s ways are not our ways. God is beyond our thinking. He chooses to work with anyone he likes and in any place and time he likes. He does not need to take permission from us before doing his own thing in his own ways. Our duty is to accept the will of God in our lives and act according to them. His grace is always enough for us as he told St. Paul today so also he is telling us. It is not our workings but he the Lord. THANKS AND HAPPY SUNDAY.