October 21, 2020
Wenesde for Week 29 for Ordinary Time
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Jesus tell Im disciples say: “Make una know this one well: if the owner of the house bin know the time wey thief go come, e no for let the thief break enter im house. Una too must dey ready, because the Pikin of Man go come for time wey una no expect.” Luke 12:39-40
This Scripture dey invite us. We fit talk say Jesus dey come meet us for time wey we no expect, and this one dey happen for two ways.
First, we know say one day, E go come back with glory to judge people wey dey alive and people wey don die. Im Second Coming na real thing, and we suppose know say e fit happen any time. True true, e fit no happen for many years, or even for many hundreds of years, but e go happen. One moment go come when the world as e dey now go end, and God go establish the new order. The way we suppose live na to dey look forward to that day and that moment every day. We must live for the kind way wey go make us always dey ready for that end.
Second, we must understand say Jesus dey come meet us continually through grace. As tradition teach us, we dey talk about Im two comings: 1) Im Incarnation, and 2) Im coming back with glory. But we fit talk about a third coming, wey be how E dey enter our life through grace. And this coming na real thing well well, and we suppose dey pay attention to am all the time. As E dey come through grace, we need to always dey “ready” to meet Am. If we no dey ready, e sure say we go miss Am. How we go take prepare for this coming through grace? The first and most important way na to build the daily habit of prayer for inside our heart. This habit of prayer for inside our heart mean say, for one sense, we dey pray all the time. E mean say no matter wetin we dey do each day, our mind and heart always face God. E be like breathing. We dey always do am, even without thinking about am. Prayer must become habit for us just as breathing be. E must dey at the centre of who we be and how we dey live.
Today, think deeply about your prayer life. Know say the time wey you set aside every day for only prayer dey very important for your holiness and your relationship with God. And know say those times must help you build the habit of always paying attention to God. When you prepare like this, you go fit meet Christ every time wey E come meet you through grace.
Lord, help me make I build a life of prayer for inside my heart. Help me make I always dey seek You and always dey ready for You when You come. Jesus, na You I trust.
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