How can we praise and glorify God when our lips are sealed by our sinfulness? The devil uses all his trickery and deceit to lure and keep us away from God. “You are not good enough!” “There’s always tomorrow “”Enjoy life while you can, then when you are good and ready you can always go for confession.” “Jesus loves only good children.”Christian faith is stifling, old fashioned and brutally rigid!” his voice in the world tells us. So sisters and brothers, do we allow ourselves to continue to submit to the lordship of the devil?
So loving is our Lord Jesus that He sees the goodness in our hearts, no matter how faint or minute. He wants to heal us, to transform us. “Come let me embrace you with my love, I know how sorry you are. Come follow me, as we journey home to our Heavenly Father.”
Jesus is calling for us all to be shepherds like Him, for others; so that they too may find their way to Him. Many are crying out to know Him, to love Him, to be loved by Him. To be healed, to live life to the fullest. Let us respond to His call and let us pray for one another that all our hearts may be opened to be filled with His grace and strength as we declare, “Yes Lord here I am ready to serve!” Amen
GOSPEL
Matthew 9:32–38
A demoniac who could not speak was brought to Jesus, and when the demon was driven out the mute man spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.” But the Pharisees said, “He drives out demons by the prince of demons.”
Jesus went around to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom, and curing every disease and illness. At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.”
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