19/07/2026
Do Not Allow Anyone to Destroy Your Honest Efforts
16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
Sunday 19th July, 2026.
An account of the Homily by Rev. Fr. Augustine Chibuike Ovia
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"Let anyone who has ears listen."
In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells His disciples the parable of the sower and the weeds.
Why did the enemy come to sow weeds in the sower’s field? To destroy the sower’s efforts. Notice something: the devil did not come when the sower was working in the field. He came at night, while everyone was asleep.
*Don’t allow anybody to destroy your honest efforts or the service you are rendering to God.*
The master said, "Let them both grow together until the harvest" — until the end of time.
The evil one is very skillful and tactical. Sometimes, without knowing it, we even become agents of the devil by destroying other people’s efforts.
It’s not really about the comments people make. It’s about the intention behind them: to discourage you. And once you are discouraged, you can easily let go of the grace of God and everything you have worked for.
Look at the wisdom of the sower. He saw what was happening. Even when his servants came to complain, he remained calm.
What do you gain when you talk down on someone?
Be careful. The enemy often comes to discourage you through words, through people, through situations.
Instead, let us encourage one another. Don’t say things that will bring another person’s spirit down. Let us refuse to discourage each other.
The sower teaches us the skill of survival in life.
Let us be our brother’s keeper.
Learn to be an encouragement to somebody today.
