"DON'T WORRY ABOUT TOMRROW GOD IS ALREADY THERE"

 18^th June, 2022:

SATURDAY,  ELEVENTH WEEK 

OF ORDINARY TIME (C)

(2 Chr 24: 17-25); (Mt 6: 24-34)

"DON'T WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW GOD IS ALREADY THERE"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today as we paid attention to the expressions of the Scripture, we are undeniably helped to remember the words of the Lord telling us and consoling us that there isn't anything that we truly need to stress over in life as the Lord Who is consistently close by will continuously accommodate us and reinforce us. He won't forsake us or overlook our situation, and eventually, the people who keep their confidence in God will be legitimate and will be honored. Our most memorable perusing today from the Old Testament gave only one of the many confirmations of these, similarly as I am certain that a large number of us have encountered God's fortune and help ourselves in our own lives.

In that first reading entry, taken from the Second Book of Kings, we knew about the record of what occurred in the southern realm of Judah as the High Priest Jehoiada died, and the youthful ruler whose ascent to drive he had upheld, to be specific ruler Joash of Judah, started falling away from the way of the Lord, and he started to turn around a portion of the changes started and set up by Jehoiada in driving people  back towards the Lord. This brought about people  of God sliding once more into the way to sin and condemnation, and God raised the soul of the child of Jehoiada, one named Zechariah as referenced in our most memorable perusing, to oppose the ruler and his mischievous activities.

That prompted him being mistreated and gone after, and ultimately was martyred, as a reliable worker of God. We then, at that point, knew about the revenge and equity from the Lord, as a brief time later the powers of the Arameans crushed the realm of Judah and wound up with the passing of Joash, who had caused the demise of the noble Zechariah. Joash got his only outcome of having mistreated and killed an exemplary man, and for his refusal to pay attention to Zechariah and his analysis, effectively reminded him to get back to God. Joash endured and died in view of his slip-ups and sins, in permitting people  of God to slide once again into the way of transgression and obscurity.

In our Gospel section today, we knew about the expressions of the Lord addressing His devotees with the principal aim of letting them know that they should not be stressed, concerned and scared of what they would need to confront and persevere on the planet, for the Lord will accommodate every single one of us in our hour of need. We have compelling reason should be apprehensive or stressed in light of the fact that regardless of what we need to carry on with throughout everyday life, the Lord will win with us eventually. Obviously the way and excursion towards there won't be simple, and there will be a lot of difficulties proceeding, however we shouldn't let those from forestalling us to stroll in the way that the Lord has shown us, or divert us into some unacceptable ways.

Large numbers of us have invested a lot of energy zeroing in on our longings and concerns, our feelings of trepidation and stresses that we have dismissed our purpose in life to be great and faithful Christians. Also, we wound up causing things that carry damage to other people and caused a lot of sufferings and agony, as what ruler Joash, his authorities and a considerable lot of our different ancestors had done. They looked for common power and greatness, and in attempting to acquire the endorsement of the world and the general public, they had made people  of God pass into the way of transgression, and subsequently, they had fallen into the way from which it was challenging to get out from, the tricky way of wrongdoing.

What's more, God remembered about Zechariah and the people who were honest, as we heard how He fairly refused Joash and his associates for having aggrieved and killed Zechariah. While Zechariah needed to endure, yet eventually, he was legitimate and prevailed eventually with God, while the people who oppressed him confronted their only results, as how Joash was lowered and brought low, and as referenced in the Scriptures, that his deeds in killing a committed worker of God and child of the High Priest, who was his own defender, had procured Joash a disdain and being scorned by his own kin, that he was not even buried inside the burial places of the rulers of Judah.

Brothers and sisters in Christ, through what we have heard in the Scriptures today, we all are reminded that we should not permit the enticements of common power and greatness from diverting us in our excursion towards God and His salvation. We should not let the enticements and tensions of common cravings and the appeals of wrongdoing from hauling us down the dangerous way towards condemnation. That is the reason, we need to figure out how to trust more in the Lord, and to place ourselves in His grasp, and endow our lives, our endeavors and works, and all that we say and do, to Him. What's more, we are additionally called to help each other and be wellsprings of motivation to one another so we might remain ever devoted to God, consistently.

May the Lord keep on being with us, directing us and reinforcing us en route, so all of us might become always dedicated to stroll in the way that He has set before us. May He help all of us to get through the mistreatments, resistances, sufferings and preliminaries that we might need to confront, in every single snapshots of our lives. May He engage us generally that we might be better and more undaunted Christians that can help each other to remain focused on our way throughout everyday life, in serving God and in rousing an ever increasing number of people  to draw nearer and nearer to God and His salvation. May God favor all our merchandise works and tries, presently and consistently, forevermore. Amen.