Today’s reading talks about Noah and the floods that destroyed the earth and every living creature with it. God chose to do such a thing because of the people’s evil. The only person who found favour with God was Noah. The Pharisees and the Jews thought that they belonged to this chosen race of Noah. They found themselves to be blameless and thought they had found favour with God. But the truth was their hearts were hardened and they had evil intentions too. Todays Gospel proclamation shows us how the Lord Jesus was warning the disciples to beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and

the yeast of Herod. Here yeast is a symbol of the evil influence of the Jews and the political leaders. A warning that the disciples could not understand. They thought our Lord spoke about yeast because they had only one loaf of bread with them. These were the same disciples who had heard of the miracle of manna in the desert, who witnessed feeding of five thousand and four thousand gentiles with seven loaves of bread. Having witnessed such powerful miracles, they were still blind to the truth. If our Lord Jesus could feed multitudes with a few mere loaves of bread, how much more could he do it with his chosen twelve.

“ Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed “ (John 20:29) the disciples saw but yet could not understand that the one true Messiah was with them and they had no reason to doubt or fear.

Today though we have seen the wonders we fail to put our complete trust in Him. There was a time in my life when I had to scrape through with my finances. Though I had faith in God, I always lived in fear and doubt. I always kept counting the finances. Once the Lord showed me my lack of trust in him. He used the example of the multiplication of the loaves and asked me to offer the loaves I had (my current income earnings) He promised to multiply. It was hard to do. But I knew the Lord was teaching me to accept Him as the Lord and Savior of my life, to put my complete trust in him. From then until now I have not counted a single cent, but yet I have never fallen short. When we accept and make God our first priority in life, the Lord looks after every little detail of our life. All we need to do is put our trust in Him and he will never fail us.

Prayer: Abba Father, help my unbelief. Come into my life and help me put my trust in you. Amen