IF YOU HATE ANYBODY, YOU HATE GOD

 Thursday, June 8, 2023

Weekday Ordinary Time (9)d

First Reading. Tobit 6: 9-12; 7:1, 9-12, 16; 8: 1, 4-9
Psalm. 128: 1-5 (R. see 1 a)
Gospel. Mark 12: 28-34

TOPIC FOR REFLECTION

DO YOU TRULY LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR?

If you love your neighbour, you love God

If you hate your neighbour, you hate God

Christianity is not theoretical, but practical; more reason we are made to understand that it is a way of life.

Invariably, if your character is good, it means you are spiritually sound, but if it's bad, it means you are a fake Christian.

Everything good belongs to God, while everything bad belongs to the devil. Therefore, if you are good, you belong to God, and if you are bad, you belong to the devil.

However, there are some people in life, when they greet you good morning, please you need to kindly check the time to be sure it is morning.

These are the people who eat and dine with wickedness. 

They eat wickedness as food

They drink wickedness like wine and water

They digest wickedness

They sleep and wake with wickedness, and everywhere they go, they go with it.

My dear, it is not just enough to proclaim oneself as a Christian, the moment one does not love his or her neighbour like himself is not keeping the commandments of God.

This is the lesson Jesus taught us today in the Gospel. Love God and love your neighbour as yourself. 

We can reach the known from the unknown,  so the moment you show love to your neighbour, you show love to God, and vice versa

God was the first to empathically love humanity which He expressed in the life of Sarah and Tobias in the first reading by sending Angel Raphael to them in human form.

Therefore, in summary, God answers prayer at His appointed time, what He expects of us is to keep His commandments by loving one another as we love ourselves. 

Peace ✌️ be with you.

Rev. Fr. Segun Oladeji, CRS.


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