DATE : 8/3/2021
EVENT : Monday of the Third Week of Lent
COLOUR:Violet
READINGS : 2Kings 5:1-15; Resp. Psalm 41:2-3,42:3-4; Luke 4:24-30.
THEME: DO NOT DISREGARD AN ANOINTED PERSON.
Greetings beloved people of God. I welcome you to "My Catholic Homily Digest". On this Eighth day of March, I wish to reflect with you on the theme: " Do Not Disregard An Anointed Person". Beloved in Christ, I welcome you to this new week and I pray that you may meet with God's protection and favour as your traverse through it. Dearest, God is constantly among his people ( Imma-nu-el, God is with us. Cf. 1Kgs 7:14), and he will never leave or foresake us, even when we often annoy Him. But as a Spirit, we cannot visibly see him. So, He has always chosen persons from among our midst, to acts as intermediaries between Himself and we His children. However, because God is a holy and blameless God, He always sanctifies, cleans and makes worthy those whom He has chosen to act His intermediaries. This means that, there is no self imposed intermediary. A man cannot chose, sanctify and make himself an intermediary. It is completely the prerogative of God to chose his workers. Just like Scriptures says in Heb. 5:4, "No man can choose himself, every priest must be called, chosen and anointed as Aaron was selected".
Therefore, since no man ever choses himself, but he is chosen by God, we owe it to always regards God's intermediaries. I could recall that before and after my ordination in 2019, I felt no visible change in me. I did not become taller, fairer or anything else. But, I knew with full certainty that something great had occurred in me, and that change is not physical but spiritual and ontological. Thus, dearest friends, every anointed person carries God's seal within himself, divinely imparted for the discharge of spiritual and sacred duties (Exo. 30:29-30; Isa. 10:27 1Sam. 10:1,6; 16:13-14; John 1:33-33; 2Cor. 1:21). A priest or prophet who is anointed does not speak or act of his own accord, but God's. And God will always honour the words of their mouth (Cf. 1Chro. 4:10). This is the crime of Naaman in the first reading of today, 2Kg. 5:1-15. He expected some kind of acrobatics, prolonged spiritual incantations, loud shouting and speaking in tongues, great potents, signs and thunders from the prophet Elisha, so that he will believe that he is an anointed man of God, before he would be healed. But, Elisha, knowing his true worth, never did all of those. He only said, 'Go and bath seven times in the Jordan'. And when Naaman finally obeyed, he was healed of his leprosy.
Beloved in Christ, do not disregard an anointed person, simply because in your own Reckoning he is not prayerful, he does not speak in tongues, he is not spiritual, he drinks too much, he talks too much, he is promiscuous, he is your family member, your school mate, or your friend. He does not preach well, he is not charismatic, he is not polished enough, does not wear fashion cloths, drive the latest cars or use the newest gadgets. No. These are all irrelevant frivolities. This is why Christ cried out in the Gospel reading of today, 'A prophet is not without honour except in his own town and among his acquaintances'. Because, they too often focus on the physical and fail to recognise the spiritual elements. Therefore, child of God, I tell you most solemnly if you regard God anointed with reverence and obey their teachings, you will certainly Attracts blessings to yourself, and if you disregard one of them, you may incur a curse. 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 treat with reverence all those whom you have chosen and called to serve him as our intermediaries, so that your blessings may follow me all the days of my life......
The Lord be with you....... and with your Spirit.
May Almighty God bless you in the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit ....Amen
HAPPY NEW WEEK BELOVED FRIENDS
@ Fada Emmanuel Nnamdi Megwara, MSP. ⛪
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