It does not matter how old or how young we are, it is how we respond to the Lord our God’s call through our faith in Him. For whatever the endeavour if we surrender our all to do His Will for us, then He will surely bless us. For He is a faithful God who keeps His promises.
How then can we ever say we are not good enough? Too tired and too old? Not eloquent or knowledgeable enough? Afraid to be made a laughing stock? To be judged and criticised by others?
The Lord our God alone is our judge. And it is He who will qualify us. He will empower and equip us with all that we need to build His Kingdom. And though we know that we are all far from perfect, we also know that we can be perfected through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who loves us dearly.
Here I am Lord, I’ve come to do Your Will. Amen
First reading
Genesis 12:1-9
‘Leave your country, your family, and your father’s house’
The Lord said to Abram, ‘Leave your country, your family and your father’s house, for the land I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name so famous that it will be used as a blessing.
‘I will bless those who bless you:
I will curse those who slight you.
All the tribes of the earth
shall bless themselves by you.’
So Abram went as the Lord told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had amassed and the people they had acquired in Haran. They set off for the land of Canaan, and arrived there.
Abram passed through the land as far as Shechem’s holy place, the Oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. The Lord appeared to Abram and said, ‘It is to your descendants that I will give this land.’ So Abram built there an altar for the Lord who had appeared to him. From there he moved on to the mountainous district east of Bethel, where he pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and invoked the name of the Lord. Then Abram made his way stage by stage to the Negeb.
Gospel
Matthew 7:1-5
Do not judge, and you will not be judged
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Do not judge, and you will not be judged; because the judgements you give are the judgements you will get, and the amount you measure out is the amount you will be given. Why do you observe the splinter in your brother’s eye and never notice the plank in your own? How dare you say to your brother, “Let me take the splinter out of your eye,” when all the time there is a plank in your own? Hypocrite! Take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take the splinter out of your brother’s eye.’
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