Thursday of 26th Week, Year II: reflection

Theme: I know my Redeemer lives (Job 19:25)

Reading: Job 19:21–27

One of the things the devil does masterfully well is making people feel they have been dribbled by God whenever they are surrounded by difficulties.

Despite the extreme difficulty that Job faced and the pressures that continued to mount from his friends, he refused to succumb to the grand plan of the devil. Rather, in the passage we read in today’s Mass, he raised his voice and strongly affirmed his faith in God saying: “I know that my Redeemer lives.”

Dear friends, can you raise your voice today and tell the difficulties, trials and tribulations that are pushing you to see faith in God as a scam that you know that your Redeemer lives and that he will never fail you. Tell them that as long as your Redeemer lives, you will never give up, that you will continue to keep hope alive.

May God’s grace lead you this Thursday, Amen

Fr Isaac C. Chima.