June 18, 2023
Sunday Nomba 11 for Ordinary Time (Yia A)
Readings for Today
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When He see the crowd, His heart feel pity for dem because trouble dey worry dem and dem dey abandoned, like sheep wey no get shepherd. Then He tell His disciples, “The harvest plenty, but the workers no plenty; so ask the master of the harvest make he send workers go gather his harvest.” Matthew 9:36–38
This passage from today Gospel start by showing us the Heart of Jesus. His Heart na Heart wey “dey feel pity.” As Jesus look the crowd wey dey His front, He fit see say “trouble dey worry dem and dem dey abandoned, like sheep wey no get shepherd.” As He see dem, pity, care and mercy rise from inside Him. This na beautiful picture to think deeply about as we dey pray.
As Jesus dey look you, He dey look you the same way He look the crowd long ago. As He dey do so, that same deep mercy and pity dey rise inside His Sacred Heart. Sometimes, when we think about God, we dey allow ourselves get wrong ideas about Who He be and how He dey see us. If you no dey regularly see Jesus Heart wey full of pity, then think deeply about this passage and know say the love wey His Heart get for you na the same love wey He get for the crowd.
The second part of the passage above show us one of the ways wey Jesus dey reach out to us. Na Him be the “master of the harvest” wey don call other people come meet Him, then send dem out to serve for His name and with His authority. The lines wey follow the Gospel passage wey we quote above tell us say Jesus immediately “call His twelve disciples come and give dem authority over unclean spirits, to drive dem out and to cure every disease and every sickness.”
As you look your own life, the struggles wey you dey face, your spiritual needs and your desire to grow for faith, how God don feed you? Through who He don speak to you? This care wey He dey give you as shepherd go happen as you dey take part for Mass, through the Sakrament of Confession, through holy preaching, through the written word, through another person witness wey God inspire, and through plenty other ways. Wetin go help you as you think deeply na to remember say any time wey you don receive God grace through another person, na because the Master of the Harvest choose to send one worker come meet you. When good fruit come out for your life, na God start that good work through another person, because of the mercy and pity wey dey His Sacred Heart.
Today, think deeply about this picture of Jesus as He dey look you with love and choose to send His ministers come meet you for His name and with His authority. Pay special attention to how God don dey speak to you lately. If na through one particular book, continue to read am. If na through one particular person wey dey preach the Gospel, continue to listen. If na through one particular conversation with your friend, your husband or wife, or somebody wey you love, continue to talk. God love you, His Heart full of pity for you, and He go continue to reach out to you through plenty different ways, especially as He dey send other people come meet you for His name.
My Lord and Master, You dey seek to bring plenty harvest of grace come out for my life. You dey always inspire other people to act as instruments of Your love, and You dey speak to me through dem as You dey call me come meet You. Make I always open my heart to the plenty ways wey You dey come meet me, and make I always receive Your holy Word through the ministers wey You send come meet me. Jesus, na You I trust.
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