We are all called to extraordinary faith but can our faith match that of our Father Abraham? Imagine being called to leave everything behind at a ripe old age, no security blanket, nothing! To go forth into a strange land and wait on the Lord Your God. Trusting Him to provide, to walk with You and to keep His promises.
Extraordinary faith, such as this requires us to be obedient, patient and loving. As the Lord commanded, we shall not judge lest we be judged by the same standards or worst according to the Lord’s standard! If we were, then who can be saved? For that is why God our Father who so loved us, sent His only begotten Son, our Lord and savior Jesus Christ to die in our place so we might live fully in His love. Through His resurrection we can rise with Him.
Father let all things be done according to Your Will always. Amen
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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.
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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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