Thought for the weekend: Our mission to do God’s work

Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” . One day, a man presented him a golf club and made him smell it. He struggled with it for a while, and then, with a smile, he said: “Tiger Woods?!”

To really get a sense of the importance of this story, which is much more than just another account of one of Jesus’ miracles, we have to think about where it falls in the Gospel of Mark. When he heard that Jesus would be passing by, he cried out, “Jesus, son of David, have pity on me!” It was a cry made in desperation and helplessness. In the encounter with Christ, lived with faith, Bartimaeus regains the light he had lost, and with it the fullness of his dignity: he gets back onto his feet and resumes the journey, which from that moment has a guide, Jesus, and a path, the same that Jesus is travelling. Therefore, if Jesus Christ is God, then “his Spirit is the Spirit of God”. Why not throw away our cloak, our false securities and stand up? And the former blind man followed Jesus along the road.

Oso told the congregation: “Whatever the challenge, once you continue to serve God, that challenge will expire”. Better for you to surrender your cloak to him, out of love and obedience, while you still can.

God knows us intimately.

As Jesus was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a sizable crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son of Timaeus, sat by the roadside begging. Romans 14:17. If “God’s Righteousness, Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost” is the Kingdom of God, then one must receive his “Gift of the Holy Ghost” to have “the Kingdom of God within him”. So, too, our accepting God’s acceptance of us motivates us to trust God and compassionately embrace our neighbor.

When we pray to our Father in heaven we honor and glorify Him with great respect and reverence. At Boundbrook, we are a family and the church is always open to all, who desire spiritual rest and upliftment, guidance, counselling, marriage, and baptism.

At that point, this woman knew she had to seek God. A broken heart is an open heart. But as we’ve discovered over the past several Sundays, the apostles and the other disciples don’t seem to be able to comprehend Jesus’ message or to understand the true cost and meaning of discipleship.

How strong is our faith in God and our trust in Him? How is your sense of sight? Blindness deprives the person to see and acknowledges the world around him. Do you see the hand of God in every event that happens in your life? Apart from God we can do nothing.

“What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asks us this question today. Also, as already mentioned, He tells us the reason the Father purges the branches is for the objective of bringing more fruit (John 15:2). Vain repetitions would be the very thing people do with the prayer Jesus taught in the following verses; i.e. just repeating the words verbatim without any true understanding of those words or any true expression of heartfelt faith.

The invitation for us this Sunday is to humbly reflect on the ways we might be spiritually blind by asking ourselves what habits, attitudes and ideologies hold us back from becoming the disciples that Jesus is calling us to be. May people so blinded by money, power, pleasures, and politics be set free from their selfishness and pride. May we see the “big picture”, and look beyond that which meets the eye, and see with the eyes of faith and love so that we can move on. Jesus told him, “Go your way; your faith has saved you”.

In a recent pilgrimage, Maria Victoria Ludan shared with us how our guardian angels can help us solve our relationship problems. How? “You are mine! I am with you!” Try it! It works. However, it is ironic that more than two decades ago, I was a much feared individual, but today instead of engaging in fights, I am calling people to God and offering them a chance at salvation. It actually took a very long time for a few to believe that I am serious about my Christianity. “It is really an honour to lead at Boundbrook church, and I am thankful for the support from members”.