October 31, 2020
Saturday for Week Thirty for Ordinary Time
Readings for Today
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“When person invite you come wedding feast, no go siddon for place of honour for table. E fit don invite another guest wey get honour pass you, and the person wey invite both of una fit come tell you, ‘Give this man your place,’ and then you go carry shame go take the lowest place.” Luke 14:8-9
As Jesus tell this parable to the people wey dey eat with Am for the Pharisee house, E touch something for their hearts. E clear say many of the people wey dey listen to Am na people wey dey seek respect from others and dey worry well-well about how society dey see them. To take place of honour for feast, only for the host to shame them by telling them to move go lower place, na thought wey for make them fear. The people wey put their mind for high position and honour for society understand this kind shame well.
Jesus use this example wey dey bring shame to show their pride and the danger wey dey for to live with that kind pride. E still talk say, “Because anybody wey lift imself high, dem go bring am low, but the person wey humble imself, dem go lift am high.”
No matter how often we check our conscience about pride, e no fit ever too much. Reason dey why dem dey call pride the “Mama of all sins.” Pride dey lead to every other sin and, for many ways, na from pride all sin dey come. So, if we want strive to become perfect for life, make we seek true humility every day.
Humility no be any other thing apart from to see things as dem really be. Person wey humble dey see imself according to God truth. This one fit hard to do because e mean say we must see say we weak and we depend on God. We fit achieve plenty things for this world with our own strength and hard work. But we no fit get happiness and goodness unless we open our hearts to the truth say we weak and we depend on God for everything.
Humility still dey help clean our hearts from something wey hard well-well to leave. Pride dey make us seek respect from other people with all our heart, and make our happiness depend on that respect. That road dangerous because e dey make us depend every time on wetin other people think about us. And too many times, wetin other people think dey come from false judgement wey no dey look beyond wetin eye fit see.
Today, think about how free you dey from the false things wey other people think about you, wey fit lead you astray. True-true, you need to dey seek advice from people wey you know and love. But na only God and Im Truth you must allow yourself to depend on. When you do this, you go don go far for the road of true humility.
Lord, abeg, make me humble. Remove all pride from my life so that I fit turn to only You and wetin You want. Help me make na only the Truth wey You establish I go care about, and make I use am as the only measure for my soul. Jesus, na You I trust.
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Picture: The Food Wey Dem Dey Chop for the Pharisee House, by James Tissot
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