 | Daily Bible Reflections
for February 6, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
Be filled with God?s joy this Saturday.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | Wise Discernment “Give your servant, therefore, an understanding heart to judge your people and to distinguish right from wrong.” – 1 Kings 3:9a The group of companies I worked for was closing down and I was about to lose my job. Some people with whom I had former business dealings offered me more than double my salary to manage their company. Upon closer scrutiny, I learned that this company didn’t pay minimum wages and didn’t pay the right taxes. But I desperately needed a better job then and lifted my cause in prayer to God. Through my wife’s prayer, God told me not to take the job. A few years later, a multi-billion tax scandal landed on the front page of the papers. At the center of the scandal was this same company. Its owner, who had offered me the job, was on the run. If I had taken the job, I would have been his fall guy and taken the raps. I thanked God for the wisdom that he had given me not to take on that employment. When we’re on the side of integrity and honesty, our discernment will always be a wise one!Rolly España (rolly@homeliving.com.ph) REFLECTION: Do you put your trust on what the world tells you or what God’s Word tells you? Lord, thank You for the grace to discern what is wise from Your perspective. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Solomon prays for the gift of wisdom with which to govern the people. This pleases God and He rewards Solomon not only with wisdom but great power and wealth as well. It is sobering to reflect on how wealth corrupted Solomon. This is something of which we must be aware as we live in a world where the trappings of riches are very seductive. There are so many things we desire to have and they easily distract us from the one desire that we should focus on, namely being disciples of Jesus. 1 Kings 3:4-13 4 Solomon went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, because that was the most renowned high place. Upon its altar Solomon offered a thousand holocausts. 5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night. God said, “Ask something of me and I will give it to you.” 6 Solomon answered “You have shown great favor to your servant, my father David, because he behaved faithfully toward you, with justice and an upright heart; and you have continued this great favor toward him, even today, seating a son of his on his throne. 7 O LORD, my God, you have made me, your servant, king to succeed my father David; but I am a mere youth, not knowing at all how to act. 8 I serve you in the midst of the people whom you have chosen, a people so vast that it cannot be numbered or counted. 9 Give your servant, therefore, an understanding heart to judge your people and to distinguish right from wrong. For who is able to govern this vast people of yours?” 10 The LORD was pleased that Solomon made this request. 11 So God said to him, “Because you have asked for this — not for a long life for yourself, nor for riches, nor for the life of your enemies, but for understanding so that you may know what is right — 12 I do as you requested. I give you a heart so wise and understanding that there has never been anyone like you up to now, and after you there will come no one to equal you. 13 In addition, I give you what you have not asked for, such riches and glory that among kings there is not your like.” P S A L M Psalm 119:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 R: Lord, teach me your statutes. 9 How shall a young man be faultless in his way? By keeping to your words. (R) 10 With all my heart I seek you; let me not stray from your commands. (R) 11 Within my heart I treasure your promise, that I may not sin against you. (R) 12 Blessed are you, O LORD; teach me your statutes. (R) 13 With my lips I declare all the ordinances of your mouth. (R) 14 In the way of your decrees I rejoice, as much as in all riches. (R) G O S P E L We live in a world that thinks it knows what it means to lead people to a better life. The world’s answer is to offer more things to make our lives more exciting and more comfortable — or so the advertising slogans will tell us. The truth of the matter is that fulfillment will come only through faith in Christ and living according to His will. This is the way to eternal life, not accumulation of numerous possessions. Mark 6:30-34 30 The apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught. 31 He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” People were coming and going in great numbers, and they had no opportunity even to eat. 32 So they went off in the boat by themselves to a deserted place. 33 People saw them leaving and many came to know about it. They hastened there on foot from all the towns and arrived at the place before them. 34 When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things. my reflections think: There are so many things we desire to have and they easily distract us from the one desire that we should focus on, namely being disciples of Jesus. _________________________________________________________
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| | SABBATH | What Kind of Wisdom to Pray For? Young King Solomon prays for wisdom. Are you surprised? You should be. Look around and find out what young people usually pray for (if they pray at all). I ask you: Who among our young people today would pray for wisdom? Even among older persons, it is rare. After all, who admits to lacking wisdom? Often the reality is that the more foolish one is, the more clever one thinks of himself. Could it be pride that hinders our praying for wisdom? Or is it simple foolishness? Or is it because of the vast amount of information available to us today? But information is not wisdom. And wisdom does not fall from heaven like rain, as the prayer of Solomon shows. Wisdom, real wisdom, is a gift from God one has to pray for. But be careful, there are different kinds of “wisdom.” “Greeks look for ‘wisdom,’ but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and an absurdity to Gentiles,” St. Paul wrote. Yeah, that’s a problem, it is the “wisdom of the cross” we should pray for. Again, today’s saints — the Jesuit Paul Miki and his 25 companions who were killed in 1597 in Nagasaki, Japan help us to understand this paradox. They were all crucified by being attached to crosses with ropes and chains before they were killed with a lance. An eyewitness wrote: “Our brother, Paul Miki, saw himself standing now in the noblest pulpit he had ever filled. To his ‘congregation’ he now began by proclaiming himself a Japanese and a Jesuit. He was dying for the Gospel he preached. He gave thanks to God for this wonderful blessing and he ended his ‘sermon’ with these words: ‘At last, I come to this supreme moment of my life. I am sure none of you would suppose that I want to deceive you. And so I tell you plainly: there is no way to be saved except the Christian way.’” Hmm, the “foolish ness” of the wisdom of the Cross? For which kind of wisdom would you pray? What would be your word of wisdom from a cross?Fr. Rudy Horst, SVD Reflection Question: Have I ever prayed for wisdom? What kind of wisdom should I pray for? Lord, I never prayed for wisdom, for I thought I know a lot. The examples of young Solomon and the Japanese martyrs humble me. Give me the wisdom I need to serve You in the right way. St. Dorothy, pray for us. | |
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