June 23, 2023
Fraide for di Eleventh Week for Ordinary Time
Readings for Today
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“Na eye be di lamp of di body. If your eye dey good, light go full your whole body; but if your eye bad, your whole body go dey for darkness. And if di light wey dey inside you na darkness, how great dat darkness go be.” Matthew 6:22–23
Every passage for Scripture fit teach us plenty lessons for spiritual life. For di explanation wey Saint Thomas Aquinas write about Matthew Gospel, e give one meaning of di passage wey dem quote above. E talk say di “eye” for dis passage mean wetin you get for mind to do, and “your whole body” mean all di actions wey follow from wetin you get for mind. So, when wetin you get for mind agree with wetin God want, di actions wey follow go agree with am too. Dis na lesson wey useful well-well and wey you fit put for practice as you dey follow di road to holy life.
With dis understanding from Saint Thomas, we must check wetin we get for mind with full honesty, without leaving anything out. Wetin you get for mind for your life? E easy for us to get different things for mind wey fit look good, and even some wey no agree with wetin God want, without us knowing. One time, we fit get am for mind to sleep well for night. Or we fit plan to enjoy time with family and friends for one particular day. Or we fit get am for mind to cook good food, clean di house, do well for work, and so on. Plenty things wey we get for mind for one moment or another dey good, and dem be normal part of everyday life. But di most important thing to consider na wetin dey deepest for your mind among all of dem. Wetin be di main thing wey you get for mind, wey be di foundation of your life and dey direct am?
Di main thing wey you suppose work to get for mind na to give God di greatest glory wey you fit give Am for everything wey you do. You dey give God glory when you choose Am and wetin E want, wey holy, above every other thing for life. When na dis be di deepest and most important thing wey you get for mind for your life, every other thing go flow from am. All di other things wey you get for mind and all your actions go agree with dis main purpose and work to achieve am. But when na other things you put first for di deepest part of your mind, all di rest of wetin you get for mind and all your actions go miss road and follow way wey no dey in proper order.
Today, think deeply about di most important thing wey you get for mind for your life. To do dis, you go need to look deep inside yourself well-well and be honest. You go need to examine di many things wey dey move you to act and di decisions wey you dey make every day. Think deeply about di main purpose of your life, wey must be to give God di greatest glory wey you fit give Am, by choosing and living according to wetin E want, wey perfect. All di things wey you dey do every day agree with dis highest goal? Commit yourself to dis holy work of checking all your actions with dis understanding, so dat you go fulfil more completely di purpose wey God create you for.
God of all glory, na You, and only You, deserve all my praise. Wetin You want, and only wetin You want, must become di foundation of everything wey I choose for life. Give me di spiritual understanding wey I need to look deep into everything wey dey move me to act and all di things wey dey deepest for my mind for life. Make Your eternal glory be di goal of everything wey I get for mind and all my actions. Jesus, na You I trust.
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Pictures wey we display above: Sermon for di Mountain by Károly Ferenczy, through Wikimedia Commons
