Tọzde, February 28, 2019
Tọzde for di Week wey Be Number Seven for Ordinary Time
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“Dem go use fire salt everybody. Salt good, but if salt lose im taste, wetin una go use bring im taste back? Make una keep salt inside unaself, and una go get peace with one another.” Mark 9:49-50
You ready make dem “use fire salt you?” Jesus make am clear say everybody go pass through this “salting.” So wetin this one really mean?
When person add salt to food, e dey bring out di taste. E no really dey turn di food to another thing; instead, e dey make wetin already dey there better, and make di taste richer.
Salt dey also help make things pure. Dem dey use am preserve food, and e dey help remove bacteria from food. E good make we look well at these two ways salt dey work: to bring out taste and to preserve food.
To receive “salt through fire” mean say God dey purify us. Fire dey purify things and remove wetin no pure from dem. Dem dey use heat to kill germs for utensils, dem dey use fire to purify gold, and dem still dey use am to mould precious metals into images or jewellery.
Na so e still be with us. God fire must make us pure for every way. E must remove sin from us, and e must make us soft enough for God to shape us into His divine image.
But how this one dey happen? One way na when God remove from us all di desires and cravings of di body wey dey selfish and wey dey against wetin God want. This one fit pain us, and na why dem compare am to fire. Another way na when God make us pure deep inside our spirit. This one fit happen when dem give us heavy cross to carry, and we carry am with patience and acceptance. When our will face challenge and test, we get chance to hand over our own will to God and choose His will. But many times, His will include make we fully accept any suffering wey we dey endure. For that kind case, suffering fit make us pure for di deepest part of our will, and so suffering go work for our redemption.
Today, think deeply about how God dey work to make your life pure. Think especially about any suffering wey dey pain you and wey you no want accept. Know say if you fully accept this suffering, e fit truly bring di purification wey God want for your life, so that you go truly become holy and pure.
Lord, I pray make You purify my soul from all sin. First, help me make I free from all di things of di flesh wey I dey cling to, wey dey disturb my love for You. Help me, too, make I free from my own will. Make di sufferings and di cross for my life become real grace wey You go use free me and help me grow strong for patience and every virtue. I give myself to You, my dear Lord. Jesus, na You I trust.
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