6TH Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C. By Tobe Eze

6^TH Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C.
 First reading

JEREMIAH 17:5-8

Second Reading

1 Corinthians 15:12, 16-20

Gospel

Luke 6:17, 20-26

THEME: HAPPY THE MAN WHO PLACED HIS TRUST IN THE LORD.

Let me start with a story that I heard somewhere. Three young men who were business men but were not all that wonderful in their businesses. They had been prayerful as the story went but things were not working as they expected. They met a man whom they thought was doing very well to help them. The man recommended a devotion to our Lady for them. They went home not satisfied for that was not what they expected. They met another man who took them to a native doctor. The native doctor agreed to help them but he gave them a condition. The condition was that they will be turned into vultures for two weeks and after that, they will be turned back to human beings and money will be theirs. Out of curiosity, they accepted. The man turned them into vultures and asked the man who took them there to go and come back after two weeks to go with them. After one week, when the native doctor was on his way to attend to someone, he had accident and died. When the time to turn them back reached, they flew back to the shrine to be turned, on reaching there, they could not see the man. When the person that took them to the place came back, he could only find those vultures and no native doctor. When he went out to ask people about the man, they told him that he is dead. That was when he knew that those three are gone. Continue Reading..........................

Those who put their trust in human beings will be disappointed forever. God is the only one that we can have a total trust in him. The first reading made this clear for us. The first reading further said that those who put their trust in the Lord are like a tree planted beside the river that bears fruit in season and out of season. The problem of many of us today is that we have lost faith in God and trust in men. Many do not work according to what the Lord expects from us rather what the people will say or do, or more still what the so called men and women of God tell them to do. Many  ladies are unmarried these days not that they did not see men who wanted to marry them but so called men and women of God have asked them not to marry them because God has not approved it. Some, dreams.

If we trust in men who are passing away and leave Christ who has died and has been risen from the dead, then, his death is in futility. The authority, sting and power of death will be above us, but if we believe in Christ, we have to trust him for faith in him will not deceive us (Romans 5:5).

All those that are blessed in the gospel reading are those who have placed their trust in the Lord. And those that will suffer are those who have placed their trust in things of the world. Some of us put our trust in the material things we have and that is what Christ is against when he said those who are rich will suffer not that he is against richness.

We have to trust in the Lord no matter the situation we find ourselves. Christ is the only hope that can never fail us, he is the only God who has conquered death for us, and he is the only one who can protect, provide, guide and direct us in season and out of season just like a tree planted beside the river. We shall bear fruit all the time. Happy the man who put his trust in the Lord. THANKS AND HAPPY SUNDAY.