Wednesday Of Week 14 In Ordinary Time

Hosea 10:1-3,​7-8,​12
Psalm 104(105):2-7
Matthew 10:1-7

EMBRACE INTEGRITY IN YOUR DUTIES AND REAP A HARVEST THAT ENDURES

“God’s grace is sufficient. He heals our wounds and supplies us with our every need. We need only to have faith in the mission God has entrusted in our hands.” In today’s gospel, the Lord Jesus summoned and entrusted to the twelve disciples the authority and power to preach and to heal those who are sick and those who are under the bondage of evil spirits.

Talk about an incredible responsibility! They were instructed not to go to pagan territories, showing them the importance of integrity and dedication to their mission. The Lord wants them to understand that integrity is golden and makes one’s labor enduring.

Think about it – what tasks has the Lord entrusted to your care? Are you carrying them out with integrity? Are you constantly seeking the Lord’s face so that you can do his work not by your power but by his grace and in the right manner?

We are called today to know that our Christian missionary mandate requires discipline and detachment from all the pagan and sinful actions that have corrupted some parts of our lives. Let us cut off these ugly attitudes because when we do, the harvest becomes bountiful. How amazing is that?

Fr Joseph Osho