June 10, 2022
Friday for Week Ten of Ordinary Time
Readings for Today
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“If di eye for your right side dey make you sin, pluck am comot and throw am away. E better make you lose one part of your body than make dem throw your whole body enter Gehenna. And if your right hand dey make you sin, cut am comot and throw am away.” Matthew 5:29-30a
Na wetin Jesus really mean be this? Exactly as E talk am?
We fit dey sure say this talk wey dey shock person no be command wey we suppose follow exactly as E talk am. Instead, na talk wey use symbols to command us make we put all our heart to avoid sin, and to avoid everything wey dey lead us to sin. We fit understand di eye as window to our soul, where our thoughts and desires dey. We fit see di hand as symbol of di things wey we dey do. So, we must remove every thought, feeling, desire and action wey dey lead us to sin.
Di real key to understand this passage na to allow di powerful words wey Jesus use touch our hearts. E no hold back from talking for way wey go shock us, so that E go show us say God dey call us to put all our heart to face anything wey dey lead us to sin for our lives. “Pluck am comot…cut am comot,” na wetin E talk. For another way, remove your sin and everything wey dey lead you to sin once and for all. Di eye and di hand no be sinful things by themselves; instead, for this talk wey use symbols, dem stand for di things wey dey lead to sin. So, if some thoughts or actions dey lead you to sin, na those things you need face and remove.
As for our thoughts, sometimes we fit allow ourselves to think too much about one thing or another. Because of this, these thoughts fit lead us to sin. Di key na to “pluck comot” that first thought wey dey produce bad fruit.
As for our actions, sometimes we fit put ourselves for situations wey dey tempt us and lead us to sin. We must cut these occasions of sin comot from our lives.
Today, think deeply about these direct and powerful words of our Lord. Make di power of His words move you to change and to avoid every sin.
My Lord wey dey ask much from me, I dey sorry for my sin, and I dey beg You for Your mercy and forgiveness. Abeg help me to avoid everything wey dey lead me to sin and to hand over all my thoughts and actions to You every day. Jesus, na You I trust.
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