July 27, 2022
Wenesde for Week Seventeen for Ordinary Time
Di Readings for Today
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“Again, di Kingdom of Heaven be like one trader wey dey look for fine pearls. When e find one pearl wey get great value, e go sell everything wey e get, come buy am.” Matthew 13:45-46
Plenty beautiful things dey wey we fit learn from this passage. True-true, we fit see di Kingdom of Heaven as something wey be like dat “Pearl Wey Get Great Value!” But wetin di passage really talk na say di Kingdom of Heaven be like di “trader wey dey look for fine pearls.” This truth dey open our eyes.
One thing wey this teach us na say we dey find di Kingdom of Heaven as we dey look for am with all our effort. We dey search di mystery of Heaven, and na this search itself dey bring God Kingdom before us.
To talk about “looking for God” na another way to talk say God na deep Mystery of Faith, a Mysterium Fidei as we dey talk for Mass. As God na divine “Mystery,” e important make we understand say we no fit ever “find” God completely. True-true, we fit find Am, understand Am, come know Am and give our lives to Am. But we no fit ever do all this completely. Di truth be say, di more we come know God, di more we dey look for Am; and di more we dey look for Am, di more we dey realize say we never know Am completely. But this revelation dey draw us deeper and deeper into di life of God and into receiving di Kingdom of Heaven.
To discover di beauty, value, mystery, power and glory of God and His Kingdom na wetin life suppose dey about. We must spend this life dey search, dey find, and dey search more. Na this we go dey do for Heaven. Heaven go be di moment when God go fully reveal di Kingdom and His inner life, but inside this revelation, we go discover say, for all eternity, we go dey enter deeper and deeper into God and His glorious presence.
Today, think deeply about wetin you dey look for as you dey live your life. Na God you dey use all your effort look for? Or you dey relax your effort for this search? Commit yourself again to look for God with all your heart, and you go find out say this search na really to discover di glories of di Kingdom of Heaven.
My King for all eternity, I love You and I want love You more and more. Abeg, fill me with zeal and hope as I dey look for You. As I dey look for You with all my heart, make this search reveal to me di mystery of Your glorious inner life. As I dey discover You, help me make I dey look for You more and more. Jesus, na You I trust.
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