DATE : 8/10/2020, Thursday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time (A)
EVENT :Mass of the Weekday
COLOUR : GREEN
READINGS : Gal. 3:1-5; Resp. Psalm Luke 1:69-75; Luke 11:5-13.
THEME: REJOICE FOR WE HAVE A BENEVOLENT GOD
Greetings beloved people of God. I welcome you to "My Catholic Homily Digest". Today we shall be reflecting on the theme "Rejoice for we have a Benevolent God". One of the many attributes of God is benevolence. According to the Webster English Dictionary, benevolence is defined as an inherent disposition to do good. It is a goodness not premised on any merit from the beneficiary. Thus, we can deduce that God is not only good, but it is in His nature to transmit and communicate this goodness to all His creatures.
Often times we have a misguided theology that God will stop being good to us or prevent His blessings, favours and protections from reaching us because of what We have failed to do. Or if we do certain things, then we can trigger Him to act good to us. This is not strictly the way God is. He is inherently generous, benevolent, merciful and kind at all times, and He can not change from who He is because of you. What happens sometimes is that our sins and shortcomings act like a blockade preventing the unending rain of God's benevolence from falling on us. This is why St. Paul corrected the Galatians in the first reading of today that, it was not due to their efforts that God acted good towards them, but because it is His nature. However, this is not to say that good works and fervent prayers are not efficacious like Christ narrated in the parable of the Gospel today. Rather, they only help to position us properly to better receive the blessings which is constantly flowing from God.
Beloved, we must realise that our prayers add nothing to God's greatness or to his loving, benevolent and merciful nature. Rather, it is to our own profit and gain. God already has a good plan for you (cf. Jer. 29:11), even before you were born (cf. Jer. 1:4-5), and He intends to fulfil this plan upon your life. So, keep your cool, make effort at holiness, avoid acts that jeopardize God's good plans for you and pray constantly. God bless you
Oh that today you would listen to his voice harden not your hearts (Ps.95:7-8)
LET US PRAY : Lord Jesus, help me to realise that all that I am and all that I have come from you and not through any merit of my own......Amen
@ Fada Emmanuel Nnamdi Megwara, MSP. ⛪
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