October 8, 2024
Tuesday for di Twenty-Seventh Week for Ordinary Time
Di Readings for Today
Jesus for di House of Martha and Mary, E dey public domain, through Wikimedia Commons
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Martha, wey plenty work to serve people don weigh down, come meet am and talk say, “Lord, You no care say my sister don leave only me to do all the serving? Tell am make e help me.” The Lord answer am say, “Martha, Martha, you dey anxious and dey worry about plenty things. Na only one thing dey necessary. Mary don choose the part wey better pass, and nobody go take am from her.” Luke 10:40–42
For many ways, this talk of our Lord bring together the message wey dey most important and central for the Gospel. God dey call all of us to choose “the part wey better pass” every day.
Jesus na close friend of Martha, Mary and Lazarus. E dey visit their house often, and their house no too far from Jerusalem. For this visit, one of the siblings, Mary, don sit down for Jesus feet, dey listen to Am and dey talk with Am. Martha dey busy with the important things wey concern how to welcome and care for visitors, and e be like say e vex for Mary. So e face Jesus, dey ask Am make E tell Mary to help am. But as e dey do so, without knowing, e still dey try to turn Mary away from the most important purpose of her life.
As Mary sit down for Jesus feet, e show us example of the most important thing wey we must focus on for life. Even though plenty necessary duties go fill our days, like to cook, clean, work, enjoy entertainment and care for other people, we must never forget wetin God create us for and wetin we go dey do for all eternity: to worship our glorious God.
Think about everything wey dey take your time each day. Even though most of wetin you dey do fit dey important, you dey set time aside every day to worship our Lord, listen to Am and give Am glory through your prayer? Many times, we fit find time for plenty other important duties for life, and even for the ones wey no too dey important. We fit spend hours for housework, put all our mind for films, use whole evenings to read, do our duties for work, but na only one or two minutes each day we dey set aside—if we even do reach so—to pray quietly and worship our God!
Wetin go happen for your life if you choose “the part wey better pass” for one full hour every day? What if you decide say you go use the first hour of your day to follow Mary example for this Gospel passage, and say you no go do any other thing apart from to worship Jesus through quiet prayer and meditation? At first, your mind fit go to the plenty other work wey you fit dey do for that time. You fit decide say you no get time to pray for long every day. But na true? Maybe you dey act like Martha towards yourself, dey tell yourself say you suppose use your time do things wey dey more important, and say Jesus go understand if you no spend time alone with Am every day to worship and pray. If na so you be, then pay close attention to this Gospel passage. For many ways, Jesus really desire to talk this thing about you. E want talk about you say you don choose the part wey better pass for plenty time every day, and say nobody go take am from you.
Today, think deep about wetin dey most important for life. Put away excuses and temptations to just do all the other important duties for life while you dey neglect wetin dey most important. Think deep about this simple truth: Jesus really want make you give Am plenty time every day for quiet prayer and worship. No give in to excuses and things wey dey distract you. Make firm commitment to remain for Jesus feet, dey worship Am, dey listen to Am and dey love Am. If you do so, you go see say your life dey more orderly and say the time wey you spend for prayer dey bear more good fruit than every other important duty wey you dey do every day.
My Lord wey dey invite me, I truly believe say to adore You with quiet prayer and deep devotion na di most important duty wey I must do every day. Make nothing ever stop me from adoring You every day, as I give as much time as You want to quiet prayer wey full of love. Make I discover dis gift of prayer, dear Lord, and sit for Your feet with Mary and all di glorious saints. Jesus, na You I trust.
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