 | Daily Bible Reflections
for January 18, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
Be God?s blessing to the world this Monday!
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | A MOTOR CYCLE AND AN ENEMY “Obedience is better than sacrifice.” – 1 Samuel 15:22 I’ve had many experiences that prove that obedience to the Lord really pays. Let me share two with you. Before, I hated riding on my husband’s motorcycle because, well, it wasn’t as classy as riding in a car. But the Lord said, “Be thankful in all circumstances.” So I obeyed Him and gave thanks every time I rode on that motorbike. When I finally began to appreciate the bike’s benefits — like never getting stuck in traffic — we were finally able to buy a car. Next, one of the Christian teachings I found difficult to obey was to love your enemy. Once, I had a co-employee who didn’t like me. I didn’t like her either. We just didn’t see eye to eye on many things. Then one day, after hearing for the nth time the teaching about loving one’s enemy, I finally decided to change my ways so that I would not turn off my co-employee. Soon, I found out that she was resigning because she’d been offered a better-paying job. Next thing I knew, she was out of my life! Only when I learned to obey God did my burden of having an enemy go away.Cynthia Santiago (boses2go@yahoo.com) REFLECTION: What Christian teaching do you still find difficult to obey? Lord, not my will but Yours be done. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Saul’s sin is placed before him as a sin of disobedience, even idolatry, to God’s command. It is not for Saul to question God’s will or instructions — it is for him to obey whatever they may be. We may well agree with Saul’s position here but we need to be careful how we understand an event that occurred 3,000 years ago. What was the concept of God and morality that the minds of the people would have had access to 3,000 years ago? I dare say that they would have viewed war and many other actions in a very different moral light than we would today. 1 Samuel 15:16-23 16 Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! Let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night.” “Speak!” he replied. 17 Samuel then said, “Though little in your own esteem, are you not leader of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king of Israel 18 and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and put the sinful Amalekites under a ban of destruction. Fight against them until you have exterminated them.’ 19 Why then have you disobeyed the LORD? You have pounced on the spoil, thus displeasing the LORD.” 20 Saul answered Samuel, “I did indeed obey the LORD and fulfill the mission on which the LORD sent me. I have brought back Agag, and I have destroyed Amalek under the ban. 21 But from the spoil the men took sheep and oxen, the best of what had been banned, to sacrifice to the LORD their God in Gilgal.” 22 But Samuel said, “Does the LORD so delight in holocausts and sacrifices as in obedience to the command of the LORD? Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission than the fat of rams. 23 For a sin like divination is rebellion, and presumption is the crime of idolatry. Because you have rejected the command of the LORD, he, too, has rejected you as ruler.” P S A L M Psalm 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21 and 23 R: To the upright I will show the saving power of God. 8 “Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you, for your burnt-offerings are before me always. 9 I take from your house no bullock, no goats out of your fold.” (R) 16 “Why do you recite my statutes, and profess my covenant with your mouth, 17 though you hate discipline and cast my words behind you?” (R) 21 “When you do these things, shall I be deaf to it? Or do you think that I am like yourself? I will correct you by drawing them up before your eyes. 23 He that offers praise as a sacrifice glorifies me; and to him that goes the right way I will show the salvation of God.” (R) G O S P E L This story affirms to us that the Law is here to aid human living, not hinder it. There is an ever-present danger that the Law is interpreted to make life difficult for individuals when it does not have to be. We must always avoid this, of course, never forgetting that we must always respect the truth. Let us seek to understand the roots of the Law before asserting dogmatically what its interpretation should be. Mark 2:18-22 18 The disciples of John and of the Pharisees were accustomed to fast. People came to him and objected, “Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” 19 Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast. 20 But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day. 21 No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old cloak. If he does, its fullness pulls away, the new from the old, and the tear gets worse. 22 Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are ruined. Rather, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins.” my reflections t h i n k : Let us seek to understand the roots of the Law before asserting dogmatically what its interpretation should be. _________________________________________________________
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| | SABBATH | BEING OPEN TO THE NEW IS ESSENTIAL One of the great traditions of the Church that is slowly being revived is that of pilgrimages. There are literally hundreds of ancient pilgrimage routes throughout Europe and around the Mediterranean. One of the interesting things about the revival of many of these routes is that they are not being revived for religious reasons but for tourism. The Church needs to look seriously at this phenomenon and see where it can tap into the desire in the hearts of people to accomplish a pilgrimage and then discern ways of inserting the Gospel into the experience. My experience of pilgrimages is a little mixed in that people can be on them for reasons that may not work very well together. I have found it most helpful, and one of the best ways to maintain peace when there are conflicts of interest, to seek to keep pilgrimages uncluttered. The tendency is to want to pack as many sites as possible into a limited period of time; this can be counterproductive — the experience becomes one of rushing here and there with little or no time for reflection. One of the essential aspects of a pilgrimage is reflection and recollection of life. Without this, a pilgrimage will have little opportunity to be a life-changing experience. I do not believe that it is an accident that Jesus spent a lot of His time walking from place to place with His disciples. It is here that I believe the greatest formation and best brotherhood is built. Pilgrimages should be a testing time for our strength — strength of character most of all. I believe that while it is possible to build character while on your own on a pilgrimage, the more fruitful ones will be those in the company of others. It is learning to walk and work with others through the various hardships of travel that will forge relationships that will endure the test of time, not just with one another but with Jesus as well.Fr. Steve Tynan, MG Reflection Question: Have I ever been on a truevvpilgrimage? Have I ever journeyed with others who have the same goal as I? What was my experience of these times? Holy Spirit, lead me on the pilgrimage of life so that I will never cease growing in my love of God and neighbor. St. Day, pray for us. | |
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