FIRST READING
Job 38:1.8-11
SECOND READING
2 Corinthians 5:14-17
GOSPEL
Mark 4:35-41
THEME: IT DEMANDS FAITH TO KNOW
CHRIST.
If your faith is as big as the
mustard seed, you will command the mountain to move and it will obey you (Luke
17:6). This is just an example of what faith can do to us if we have it. Jesus
is God and God is a mystery, mystery is something that is beyond the
understanding of human reasoning. So, to understand Jesus to a greater extent
demands faith from us.
Our faith in Christ should not be
a fearful faith for that will make us not to achieve what we suppose to achieve
as those who believe in Christ.
A story about millipede and a
bird (Nduru). Millipede is an animal that does not fear any man while working
on the road. Even when one matches it, one is the one who will shout and run
not millipede. That bird (Nduru) after watching this drama for a very long
period, decided to ask millipede what is giving it that courage. Millipede told
the bird that a Diviner (Dibia) prepared him a charm for that. They fixed a day
for them to go to that Dibia for the bird to get its own charm. The millipede
met the Dibia before that day they fixed to plan on what to do. That very day
came and they went to the Dibia’s house. After preparing the charm, he told the
bird terms and conditions involved. The first and the greatest was that it
should not run no matter the situation. They went home. The bird was feeding on
the ground, a man was coming and it decided not to fly away, when the man was
reaching, a great fear came upon it and it flew away. Out of anger it went back
to the Dibia to complain but he told the bird that it failed the first and
greatest rule which is do not run no matter the situation. The bird told him
that fear covered it and he told the bird. YOU MUST CONQUER FEAR BEFORE YOU GET
WHAT YOU WANT. We must conquer fear before we build faith in Christ. Continue Reading...........................