30th Sunday in
Ordinary Time Year B.
Jeremiah 31:7—9
SECOND READING
Hebrews 5:1—6
Hebrews 5:1—6
GOSPEL
Mark 10:46—52
Mark 10:46—52
THEME: LET US THROW AWAY OUR TROUBLES
FOR THE LORD HAS COME TO SAVE US.
In a certain place, there was this poor
palm wine tapper. He has been struggling since his youth. One day as he was
going about his normal wine tapping, a rich man stopped his car before him. He
was wondering whom that person maybe. When the man came down from his car, he
greeted the poor man as a friend but he could not recognize him. After the
introduction, it was his classmate from the neighbouring village. They hugged themselves and exchanged
necessary pleasantries. After the greetings, the rich man brought out two
bundles of money and gave it to the poor man.
Out of joy he threw away his climbing rope. After everything, he left it there and went
home with the money. He used it for
investment and it helped him to become an average man in the society. He did
not stick to his palm wine tapping rather he changed and became a better
person. Continue Reading................
Thus says the LORD: Shout with joy for
Jacob, exult at the head of the nations; proclaim your praise and say: The LORD
has delivered his people, the remnant of Israel. The first reading calls us to rejoice
for the Lord has delivered us from the bondage of the evil one (the Devil). God
has ever remained faithful to us even when we do not recognize that. He always has plans of saving us. Ihe gbasara anyi n' echu ya ura. And that he
manifested more in the second reading.
The second reading started with these
words: Brothers and sisters: Every high priest is taken from among men and
made their representative before God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. God
takes men to become his priests to meditate between him and his people. He is
an instrument or a bridge that joins two roads above a river. This is in the fulfilment of our redemption
and salvation that God decided to call men to be ministers for him and his people. It was because of this duty that St. Augustine said, with you, I am a Christian and
for you I am a priest. Every high priest
is taken from among men for those men he was taken out from. He is to represent God before them and
represent them before God. He is a man like others, he has his weaknesses like
every other man and that will make him understand others in their own
weaknesses. God being a perfect being may
find it difficult to understand imperfect beings if he has to be with us, his
anger (though does not last longer) will consume us if he should be with us
directly. Out of his love for us, he appointed those who are weak like us to
minister so that they may understand us.
We have seen this beautiful plan of salvation by God, few things are
required of us, and these are made manifest in the gospel. 
Bartimaeus in the gospel gave us the
perfect example of some of the few things required of us. He was blind begging,
when he heard of the passing of the Son of Man, he had faith that he will save
him from his situation. How many of us
have that type of faith in God?
Many persons were there that he (a blind
man) had found it very difficult to reach Jesus or more still, for Jesus to
hear him but he did not relent. Finally, when he was asked to come by Jesus, he
threw away all that he had been setting him back and ran to Jesus.
When he was asked what he wanted, he
went straight to his major problem and he got it. Some of us do not know how to pray. When Jesus asks us to present our problems
before him, we will be running from this point to another. Remember he was a
beggar. He did not ask for sight, money, house, probably wife and so on,
rather, he asked only for sight.
Many things maybe the cause of our
problems but God is telling us today that he is here for us. Faith maybe our problem, material things we
have, people around us, things around us, not having an intention for every
prayer and so on. Let us imitate Bartimaeus
today and throw them away and follow Christ. THANKS AND HAPPY SUNDAY
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