Friday of week 17 in Ordinary Time
Jeremiah 26:1-9
Psalm 68(69):5,8-10,14
Matthew 13:54-58
We see in today’s gospel reading that Lord Jesus Christ was not exempted from rejection even in his hometown-Nazareth. Despite the fact that Christ showed great wisdom and insight that surpasses anyone at His time, the saying is true that “familiarity breeds contempt.”
The people who had known Him, and who knew His relatives, would not accept Him; His teaching would not take root, His words were misconstrued, His divinity was not recognized and His humanity knew rejection by the members of His own community.
The Lord is the eternal wisdom
and has become for us the wisdom from God (1 Cor. 1:30). So what we really need is the Lord Jesus. He is our wisdom and only He can cause us to always do the right thing in the right way.
Let us not be carried away with distractions of life that lay bear before us simply because we are used to them, When we constantly believe in God’s word, the many troubles and dangerous situations can be completely avoided when we do not depend on our own wisdom and planning, but involve the Lord in all that we do (Prov. 3:6)..
Fr Joseph Osho