Today’s Reflection: God is speaking a message of your restoration

By Charles Muchiri

Today’s Mass Readings

Monday of the Fourteen Week in Ordinary Time

First Reading: Hosea 2:16, 17c - 18, 21 - 22

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 145: 2 - 3, 4 - 5, 6 - 7, 8 - 9

Gospel: Matthew 9: 18 - 26

 

Christ restores life

The number 12 is mentioned 187 times in the Bible; 22 of these mentioned are in the Book of Revelation.

Significantly, the number 12 represents Divine authority as well as appointment. It also represents government foundation and perfection: The number symbolizes completeness.

      Picture this: 

• The 12 Patriarch, including; Shem, Arphaxad, Salah, Heber, Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor, Terah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
• The 12 sons of Israel
• The age 12, when Jesus first appeared in public
• The 12 Legions of Angels

And in today’s Gospel, we encounter Christ healing a woman who was suffering from hemorrhage for 12 years.

Matthew’s account about the dead official’s daughter doesn’t mention it; But the Gospel of Mark is particular about this story to the point of her age. ‘She was twelve years old,’ he tells us in Mark 5: 42.

God is telling you today, that at His own appointed time; that He is coming to give you restoration.

At God’s appointed time, He will espouse you; He will betroth you to Himself; to His righteousness; to His justice; to His love; to his mercies; to His compassion!

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