Jeremiah 2:1-3, 7-8, 12-13 / Matthew 13:10-17
What will be our reaction when we see people eating rubbish on the floor when there is sumptuous delicious food on the table?
Or what would be our reaction when we see people drinking dirty muddy water on the ground when there is clean water in glass containers?
We will be either bewildered, to say the least, or horrified at such actions and at such people.
Then what about when we sin and turn away from God who is love and turn to become hateful and hated?
That sound so ridiculous isn't it? But that is how ridiculous we are when we sin and turn away from God.
As the Lord God says in the 1st reading:
You heavens, stand aghast at this, stand stupefied, stand utterly appalled, since My people have committed a double crime: they have abandoned Me, the fountain of living water, only to dig cisterns for themselves, leaky cisterns that hold no water.
Let us have eyes to see, have ears to listen and hearts to feel the horror of our sins so that we will wake up from a deathly existence to a life of love.
Our Lord God is inviting us to His banquet of rich food and sweet wines by just being faithful and obedient to Him.
Let us respond to such a great love from our God.