God understands us best-HOMILY FOR THE 14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME JULY 2023
HOMILY FOR THURSDAY OF THE 13TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Genesis 22:1b-19; Ps.115; Matthew 9:1-8 God understands us best The love of God far surpasses the love of men. In today’s gospel, Jesus attended to the paralytic man in the order of importance. The people around only understood the man to be paralyzed. Bringing him to Jesus, they expected Jesus to make him walk. Their understanding of the problem influenced their expectation. True to the words of scripture in Isaiah 55:8-9 that God’s ways and thoughts far exceeds that of man, Jesus understood the paralytic’s situation more holistically. The man was not just paralyzed, he was in need of salvation. His situation was as a result of sin. And so, the forgiveness of sins was first and most important. Sin cannot be thought to produce lesser effect in man today. How often do we consider our standing with God when trying to find solutions to our problems? In his book titled “Called to Act in Persona Christi: Reflections on Priestly life and ...