No matter have far we have gone for the day, we will still return back home.
Home is where we came from, and home is where we will return to.
And if we go too far from home, we will lose our roots and may even forget how to go back home.
In the first reading, the Lord said this to His people, “Come back, disloyal children, for I alone am your Master.”
It is quite difficult to comprehend the love of God for His people.
They were stiff-neck hard-headed people who doesn’t seem to be grateful for the wonderful things the Lord has done for them.
It even seems like the more God loved them, the further they turned away from Him.
And the Lord God even promised to give His people shepherds after His own heart and they will teach the people knowledge and discretion.
But the strange tendency of people is that as much as they know what is the right path, they seem to be attracted by the road of desires and pleasures.
In the gospel, Jesus explained about the parable of the sower.
The seeds fell on the edge of the path, on patches of rock, among thorns and also on fertile soil.
If we are the seeds, we ought to fall on the fertile soil, which is like our home.
But like the people of God, we too may give in to distractions and temptations and wander far off.
Let us heed the call of God in the first reading and come back to God.
It is only in the rich soil of God’s home that we will bear good and abundant fruit.