Tuesday Week 16 Year A
First Reading:
Exodus 14:21-15:1
Gospel:
Matthew 12:46-50
THEME: THOSE THAT ARE IN GOD’S
LOVE
Who are those that we can
classify as those who are in the love of God? The rich, the poor, the healthy,
the sick, the strong, the weak or who? Those who are in the love of God are
those who receive blessings from God, but from time to time though they may be
passing through some challenges.
In the first reading, the
Israelites are presented to us as those in the love of God for they received God’s saving
help from the clutches of the Egyptians. In the Gospel, Jesus presented those who
are in the love of God as those who do the will of his Father. He was told that
his mother and siblings were looking for him and he gave an answer that looks
like an insult but it is not. Of course Mary was the first to do the will of God
in the New Testament, so even if he was talking about her biological mother,
Mary is still qualified.
Coming from another angle which
is not Biblical, maybe it is this type of claiming that we do when we see that
someone has made it. Our people are fund of relating themselves to people who
have made it in life. Jesus was famous and maybe some people wanted to make
name out of it and he used that way to explain to them the task of being his
mother or relation.
Whichever way, we should always
make effort to be in the love of God and his favours will never leave us in
life. Thanks.
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