BEYOND COMPARE

It is foolish for us to think that we can escape or get away with something without God noticing it. Today's 1st reading is a foolishness that we are all sometimes guilty of. We all make plans for ourselves but sometimes we do not take into consideration whether it is in accordance to God's will or not. We make all kinds of excuses and justifications for ourselves thinking that in the end we would all come out clean and justified. No matter what we do if we do not put God first then that plan would never prosper and even if it does it would only be to a certain extent that we would eventually find ourselves still unfulfilled and unsatisfied. Let us not be so naïve and really know who God is and what God is capable of doing in our lives. We can never stand against God nor can we do good to ourselves more than He can. It’s about time we learn this lesson from the tower of Babel before we get totally confused. Amen. Hallelujah!

Genesis 11:1-9
...Let us then go down and there confuse their language, so that one will not understand what another says.” 8 Thus the LORD scattered them from there all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the speech of all the world. It was from that place that he scattered them all over the earth.

Let us truly be wise in the real sense of the word rather than of the world and not forfeit all our benefits from the Lord. Amen. Hallelujah!

Psalms 33:10-11, 12-13, 14-15
R: Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
10 The LORD brings to nought the plans of nations; he foils the designs of peoples. 11 But the plan of the LORD stands forever; the design of his heart, through all generations.

Today’s gospel contains words that the world may consider rubbish but is in truth real treasure beyond compare. If we have truly lived by these principles and found the joy of abiding in it then we are truly blessed. Amen. Hallelujah!

Mark 8:34-9:1
34 Jesus summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. 35 For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the gospel will save it. 36 What profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? 37 What could one give in exchange for his life? 38 Whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this faithless and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”