TO BE JEALOUS OF MAN IS TO BE JEALOUS OF GOD

 Wednesday, January 18, 2023


Office: Psalter Week 2.

First Reading.  Hebrews 7: 1-3, 15-17

Psalm. 110: 1-4 (R. 4cd)

Gospel. Mark 3: 1-6

TOPIC FOR REFLECTION

ENVY AND JEALOUSY: THE ROAD TO DESTRUCTION 

😆 😆 😆 Hellooooooo...

Please, are you aware that some people are eagerly and happily rushing to embrace their destruction?

Are you aware that there are so many people who love to celebrate their destruction all the days of their lives?

Anybody who eats jealousy as food, and drinks envy as water is having a destructive body and soul.

Let me bring to your awareness that those who are jealous and envious of you would always find fault in every word you speak and the action you carry out.

Below are some of their fault-finding comments:

No matter your sleeping position, they will find fault 

No matter how you wake up, they will find fault

No matter how you greet them, they will find fault

No matter how you relate, they will fault it

No matter how you eat and drink, they will find fault such as, instead of eating with a plastic plate, you are eating with a broken plate, etc.

No matter your condition in life, they will find fault

If you are alive, they will find fault, if you die, they will still find fault with your lifeless body.

My dearest one, if you have any of such people around you, please do not give him or her any chance to destroy you because such a person has already destroyed him or herself.

The simplest way in which such persons destroy themselves is, instead of building themselves and their careers, they waste it off. Their thought is that bringing others down will lift them, not knowing that as they try to pull others down, they end up pulling themselves down.

Just imagine you are trying to pull a rope tied to a tree, will you not be on the ground before you can pull it down? I am sure you can not be at the top to pull something down.

Now, equate it to someone who is trying to pull others down out of jealousy and envy, will that person ever be at the top to pull? If you pull others down, you will go more down than the person you are pulling down, and if you try to raise others, higher will you go as you raise others.

Remember that you can only raise someone from the ground if you are at the top

The explanation above is what happened to Jesus in today's Gospel.

When Jesus entered the synagogue, a man was there who had a withered hand. And they watched him, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath so that they might accuse him.

Imagine this phrase, SO THAT THEY MIGHT ATTACK HIM.

These are the thoughts of those who live, eat and dine with jealousy and envy.

Still, did it stop Jesus from healing the man? No.

Let me tell you something very important, you don't need to be jealous of others, discover your gift and talent, and be creative with it.

In summary, do not be an advocate of pulling him down (phd), you are only destroying yourself, but if you want to rise and succeed in life, be at the top to pull others up. Invariably, be a person who is known to be "pull him up (phu)" and not "pull him down (phd)"

Peace ✌️ be with you.

Rev. Fr. Segun Oladeji, CRS.

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