YEAR B: HOMILY FOR THE ELEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (5)

YEAR B: HOMILY FOR THE ELEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

HOMILY THEME: GOD’S MASTERPLAN FOR MY LITTLE SELF

BY: Rev Fr Joseph Nyarko Asare

HOMILY:

(Ez 17:22-24/Ps 92/2 Cor 5:6-10/Mk 4:26-34)

Patiently and systematically, Jesus taught the likes of us until they could understand. With love and dedication, God the Father takes the crest of the cedar, moves to the high and lofty mountain, plants it there, makes it glorious, and the delight of all. From little beginnings, God plants a Kingdom so that you and I will get a perpetual dwelling place. As a result of this assured kingdom, Paul is able to proclaim that we are far from home and are on our way back to where we, permanently, belong.

God’s plans for us encompasses all our years. In the words of a spiritual man, God became a child to minister to our infancy, a youth to journey with us in our prime, and an elder to offer assistant at our old age. He is our God for all ages with plans for every stage of our lives. The Psalmist prays, “They shall bear fruit even in old age; vigorous and sturdy shall they be, declaring how just is the Lord, my rock, in whom there is no wrong”.

Compared with all creatures and the entire universe, I may look insignificant and negligible. I might have tried and failed on uncountable occasions. My beginnings may be smaller than little. These notwithstanding, there is the Most Powerful but Tender Hand of God, relax but Gracious Hand of the Most High ready to lift me up and make me glorious. The Hand is ready and waiting because God respects “My Yes” and surrender. Only if I will let him in, my story will become different.

Practically, a hunger for God, a desire for more of him, a readiness to surrender, and a daily, conscious, effective, few moments of Divine invitation to take over my life is all that I need to do. Once, I am consistent with this, the rest is testimony and thanksgiving.

PRAYER POINTS
~Have your way in us Lord
~Help us to trust you more and more ~That we will be consistent in our act of surrendering

(Rev Fr Joseph Nyarko Asare of the Catholic Diocese of Obuasi)