July 27, 2020
Monday for Week Seventeen for Ordinary Time
Readings for Today
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“Kingdom of heaven be like mustard seed wey one person take plant for farm. Na im small pass all the seeds, but when e don grow finish, e big pass all the other plants. E go become big bush, and birds for sky go come live for im branches.” Matthew 13:31b-32
Too many times, we dey feel say our life no nearly important reach other people own. We dey often look at other people wey get far more “power” and “influence” pass us. We fit begin dream of how we go be like dem. How e for be if I get their money? Or if I get their position for society? Or if I get their work? Or if people know me as dem know dem? Too many times, we dey fall for the trap of “how e for be if.”
This passage for up show the truth wey no doubt dey inside: God want use your life do great things! The seed wey small pass go become the bush wey big pass. This one make us ask, “Sometimes, you dey feel like the seed wey small pass?”
Na normal thing to sometimes feel say we no matter, and to wish say we be “more” than wetin we be. But this one na only dream wey follow the way of the world, and e no correct. The truth be say each one of us fit make VERY BIG difference for our world. No, dem fit no show us for evening news or give us national awards for greatness, but for God eye, wetin we fit become pass anything wey we fit ever imagine.
Make we look this matter as e really be. Wetin be greatness? Wetin e mean for God to change us into the “plant wey big pass,” as e happen to the mustard seed? E mean say God give us privilege wey wonderful well-well, to fulfil the exact, perfect and glorious plan wey E get for our life. Na this plan go bear the best eternal fruit, and bear am plenty pass. True, people fit no know our name here for Earth. But wetin that one matter?! E really matter? When you dey Heaven, you go dey sad well-well because the world no recognise you and the part wey you play? No, e no go be so at all. For Heaven, na only how holy you become and how completely you fulfil God plan for your life go matter.
Saint Mother Teresa dey often talk say, “God call us to remain faithful, no be to succeed.” Na this faithfulness to wetin God want really matter.
Today, reflect on two things. First, reflect on how “small” you be before the mystery of God. By yourself, you be nothing. But as you humble yourself like that, reflect too on this truth: when you live in Christ and according to His divine will, your greatness no get measure. Strive for that greatness, and you go get blessing for all eternity!
Lord, I know say without You, I be nothing. Without You, my life no get meaning. Help me accept Your perfect and glorious plan for my life with all my heart and, inside that plan, reach the greatness wey You call me to. Jesus, na You I trust.
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Image: “The Parable of the Person Wey Dey Sow Seed” by Harold Copping
