(Homily for February 6, 2017).
Our first
reading today takes us to the beginning. It tells us of how God, being good,
created a good universe and at each step of creation, God himself assessed what
he had made and expressed satisfaction. However, our Gospel passage paints a
starkly different reality. It tells of a world full of sick people, people
ready to do anything just to get a glimpse of Jesus and to obtain healing.
If the
world was really good as God said at creation, why were there so many sick
people looking for healing? What went wrong? How do we reconcile sickness with
goodness? As we continue to read from the book of Genesis, we would soon
discover that something went wrong along the line – the good man and the good
woman God created made a bad choice. Sickness is a function of sin. Before sin
came, there was no sickness. Now that sin has come, we have to deal with
sickness.
Jesus did
not just bring healing to many, he left humanity as a whole with the secret to
wholeness. To love God with all our heart, with all our mind and with all our
souls and to love our neighbours as ourselves. Just as many made efforts to get
to Jesus for healing, we need to make every effort to get to God, to obey his
word and live according to the original purpose of our creation in other to find
wholeness and life. The more we accommodate sin in our lives, the more we give
room for sickness of our sorts. The more we try to touch Jesus, the more we
allow the light of Christ shine through us, the closer we get to healing and
the closer we get to our original goodness.
Let us
Pray: Lord Jesus, heal me and free me of all impurities. Amen.
Be Happy. Live Positive. Have Faith.
It is well with you. God bless you. (Monday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time. Bible Study: Genesis
1:1-19 and Mark 6:53-56).
Fr. Abu.
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