DAILY HOMILIES #milk and honey

"He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it." This world is not our home. This is why we cannot find lasting peace on Earth. Again, this explains why the world hates us. If we belonged here, the world would love us. We are only sojourners in a strange world. Our homeland is heaven – that is the land flowing with milk and honey. To get there, we cannot afford to love this world; instead, we must deny ourselves, take our crosses and follow Jesus’ footsteps.

When we read in Jeremiah 29:11 that God has plans for us, we must bear in mind that part of that plan is that at some point, we would undergo some amount of suffering.

Do not be surprised when Pharaoh along with his cohorts becomes hostile to us. They hate us because we don’t belong here. If out of love for Egypt, we begin to compromise our faith, swim in sin and deny God, we would be making ourselves slaves in a foreign land whereas our true homeland is flowing with milk and honey.