June 5, 2020
Friday for the Ninth Week of Ordinary Time
Readings for Today
Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr—Memorial
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The plenty people wey gather hear this one with joy. Mark 12:37b
This passage come from the end of today Gospel. Jesus just teach the people wey gather, and dem listen “with joy.” Jesus teaching bring plenty joy enter their souls.
Na so we dey often respond to Jesus teaching and His presence for our lives. The Psalms full of words wey describe this kind thing. “I dey find joy for the Lord.” “Your words sweet well well.” “I dey find joy for Your commands.” These words and plenty others show one of the things wey Jesus words and His presence dey do for our lives. His word and His presence for our lives dey give us joy wey pass ordinary joy.
This truth make us ask, “I dey find joy for Jesus words?” Plenty times, we dey see Christ words as load, or as something wey dey restrict or limit wetin we want for life. Because of this, we fit often see God will as something wey hard and heavy to carry. The truth be say, if our hearts don put root for sin or for the pleasures of this world, our Lord words fit pain us and feel like load for us. But na only because those words dey against the plenty harmful things wey we don hold tight.
If you notice say e hard for you to hear the Word of God, wey be Jesus words, then you don dey start to follow the right road. You don dey start to allow His Word “fight,” as we fit talk am, against the plenty other things wey dey attract and tempt us, but wey go only leave us dry and empty for inside at last. Na this be the first step towards finding joy for the Lord and His words.
The good news be say, if you fit allow His Word cut through the plenty harmful things wey you don hold tight for life, you go begin discover say you love His Word well well and you dey find joy for His presence for your life. You go begin discover say the pleasure and joy wey His presence dey give you for your life pass any other thing wey you fit hold tight or pleasure wey no dey last. Even sin fit give person false feeling of satisfaction. For that kind case, the satisfaction be more like drug wey the effect go soon fade. The joy wey the Lord dey give na something wey dey always draw you higher and dey satisfy you more deeply every day.
Take time today think well whether you truly dey allow joy fill you because of the Lord presence and His words. Try taste their sweetness. Try allow them draw you near. Once dem don “hold your heart,” you go dey seek Him even more.
Lord, I want find joy for You. Help me turn away from the plenty things for this world wey dey attract and tempt me. Help me always seek You and Your Word. As I dey discover Your Word, fill my soul with the greatest joy. Jesus, na You I trust.
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Picture: Sermon for the Mountain, wey Carl Heinrich Bloch paint
