FRIDAY 14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B. By Tobe Eze

FRIDAY 14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.
1ST READING: HOSEA 14:1-9
GOSPEL: MATTHEW 10:16-23
THEME: JUST RETURN AND LEAVE THE REST FOR GOD.
God who is reach in mercy knows what is best for us and that, he likes giving us always. He loves us so much that his mission is just to save us and not to leave us to die in sin.
In the first reading, he is asking us to renounce all our evil ways especially those we have taken as our personal gods. We have to leave them and come back to him that he has all we need on earth and after.
In the gospel, he is telling us that we will suffer many things for following him but, he is always with us. We will be hated by father, mother, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, neighbours, friends and enemies for following him but he will always give us what we will answer in the face of trials.
I met a man who told me that he cannot become a Christian at his age for God has nothing to do with him again. I told him that God has many things to achieve with and through him but he insisted. After some years, he became a Christian. Change from your (Our) evil ways and leave how God will clean them, it is his field not ours. Just return to him and leave the rest. Just allow him to send you, as he promised in the gospel, he will do. He told them not to be afraid of what they will say for he will supply. He is ever ready to help us when we return to him. Thanks.