June 23, 2020
Tuesday for di Twelfth Week for Ordinary Time
Readings for Today
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“Do for other people wetin you go want make dem do for you. Na dis be di Law and di Prophets.” Matthew 7:12
Dis talk wey we know well na command from God wey dem establish for di Old Testament. Na good guide for how person suppose live.
Wetin you go want make other people “do for you?” Think about am and try to talk true to yourself. If we dey talk true, we must agree say we want make other people do plenty things for us. We want make dem respect us, treat us as people wey get dignity, treat us fairly, and other things like dat. But deep pass all dis, we want make dem love us, understand us, know us well and care for us.
Deep inside us, all of us suppose try to recognise di natural longing wey God put for us to share relationship of love with other people, and make God love us. Dis desire touch di very heart of wetin e mean to be human being. God make us as human beings for dat love. Dis Scripture passage above show say we must ready and willing to give other people wetin we ourselves want receive. If we fit recognise di natural desire for love inside us, we suppose also work hard to grow di desire to love other people. We suppose grow dis desire to love reach di same level wey we dey seek love for ourselves.
Dis one hard pass as e sound. Because of our selfish nature, we dey demand and expect love and mercy from other people, but at di same time, we no dey expect ourselves to give nearly as much. Di main thing na to first put our mind for our duty. We must work hard to see wetin God dey call us to do and how E dey call us to love. As we take dis as our first duty and work hard to live am, we go discover say to give dey satisfy us far more than to dey seek wetin we go receive. We go find out say na to “do for other people,” no matter wetin dem “do for us,” dey really make us feel fulfilled.
Today, think deeply about di natural desire wey dey your heart for other people to love and respect you. Then, make dis guide how you dey treat di people around you.
Lord, help me do for other people wetin I want make dem do for me. Help me use di desire for love wey dey my own heart as wetin go move me to love other people. As I dey give myself, help me find fulfilment and satisfaction for dat gift. Jesus, na You I trust.
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