Fr. Michael Osatofoh Eninlejie, MSP - Homily for Monday Week 28 Ordinary time - October 12, 2020

MONDAY 28TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR II Galatians 4:22-24,26-27,31-5:1, Luke 11:29-32 NO NEED TO LAUGH AT OTHERS; GOD HAS PLANS FOR US ALL There is a cliche that God's time is the best. Sometimes it may seem as if God's time will never come or that he is delaying; many people cry and lament that God comes late, but in the first reading of today, St Paul gave us an analogy to demonstrate that God does things at the most perfect time. We can only imagine how long Sarah the wife of Abraham would have cried with her husband asking God for a child. Hagar the slave who had a child for Abraham would have tormented Sarah for her childlessness. As St Paul says today, the promises of God endures forever and they are perfect. God blessed the descendants of Abraham through Isaac the child promised to him. Impatience can sometimes cost us our blessings. We may feel that God is delaying in answering us, but God acts at the perfect time, he is always on time. If you have been asking God for something do not relent, thinking that he has forsaken you, do not go and seek the solution to what you know you cannot help yourself with. God's promises to us endures forever. May almighty God help us to patiently wait for him. Amen. Fr Michael Osatofoh Eninlejie MSP