Lordie, God's Message For You Today, July 1, 2010

Daily Bible Reflections for July 1, 2010 Dear Lordie, Never lose sight of Jesus this Thursday. Praying for you, Bo Sanchez 1 July Thursday TODAY'S READINGS: DIDACHE | COMPANION | SABBATH DIDACHE   STOP THE BLAME   “Rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home.” – Matthew 9:6   In the Garden of Eden, the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?” She replied, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” After all these centuries, nothing much has changed. People still say, “The devil made me do it!” There are people who find the devil hiding behind every corner, tempting us, oppressing us. They like blaming demons for everything — a flat tire, a migraine, a sick child, a divorce, a loss of job, a business failure, an adulterous relationship. But here’s the truth: the devil operates on borrowed power. Whose power? Yours. Unless you give your power to the devil, he will have no power over you. Because his power is based on lies and fear. The more we fear him, the more power he has over us. Friend, here’s the truth: You have power over the devil. Why? Because you’re a child of God. Chisel this on stone: Blaming the devil for our problems is useless. In fact, he likes that you blame him. By making himself bigger, he has power over your life. Instead, be courageous enough to take full responsibility for your actions. And by your courage to take charge, you will free yourself — and others as well.Bo Sanchez (bosanchez@kerygmafamily.com)   REFLECTION: Are there some areas in your life that are askew? How do you think you have contributed to it?   Dear Lord, grant me courage to take responsibility for whatever is not going right in my life and to do my best to correct the situation.   Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top COMPANION   1st READING   There are times when people do not want to hear the truth. So they persecute the messenger hoping that they will go away. Even if the person keeps quiet, it will not change the truth. Knowing the truth is better no matter how painful it might be because, at least, we can address it.   Amos 7:10-17 10 Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent word to Jeroboam, king of Israel: “Amos has conspired against you here within Israel; the country cannot endure all his words. 11 For this is what Amos says: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be exiled from its land.” 12 To Amos, Amaziah said: “Off with you, visionary, flee to the land of Judah! There earn your bread by prophesying, 13 but never again prophesy in Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary and a royal temple.” 14 Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor have I belonged to a company of prophets; I was a shepherd and a dresser of sycamores. 15 The LORD took me from following the flock, and said to me: Go, prophesy to my people Israel. 16 Now hear the word of the LORD!” You say: prophesy not against Israel, preach not against the house of Isaac. 17 Now thus says the LORD: Your wife shall be made a harlot in the city, and your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword; your land shall be divided by measuring line, and you yourself shall die in an unclean land; Israel shall be exiled far from its land.   P S A L M   Psalm 19:8, 9, 10, 11 R: The judgments of the Lord are true, and all of them are just. 7 [8] The law of the LORD is perfect, refreshing the soul; the decree of the LORD is trustworthy, giving wisdom to the simple. (R) 8 [9] The precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the command of the LORD is clear, enlightening the eye. (R) 9 [10] The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the ordinances of the LORD are true, all of them just. (R) 10 [11] They are more precious than gold, than a heap of purest gold; sweeter also than syrup or honey from the comb. (R)   G O S P E L   Jesus is obviously aware of His divinity or He would be blaspheming in claiming to be able to forgive sins. Jesus is not boasting but merely being faithful to His mission. It is important that as we serve in the work of the Gospel, we never underplay the authority God gives us to proclaim His Word and to speak in His name. It is not that we want attention ourselves but that we want to faithfully give glory to God whenever possible in all that we do and say.   Matthew 9:1-8 1 After entering a boat, Jesus made the crossing, and came into his own town. 2 And there people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Courage, child, your sins are forgiven.” 3 At that, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.” 4 Jesus knew what they were thinking, and said, “Why do you harbor evil thoughts? 5 Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? 6 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” — he then said to the paralytic, “Rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home.” 7 He rose and went home. 8 When the crowds saw this they were struck with awe and glorified God who had given such authority to men.   my reflections think: It is important that as we serve in the work of the Gospel, we never underplay the authority God gives us to proclaim His Word and to speak in His name.     _________________________________________________________ God’s special verse/thought for me today________________ _________________________________________________________ T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR  2 Chronicles 9-10     PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT The ultimate purpose of my life __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ GOALS FOR THE QUARTER Priority areas God wants me to work on __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________     PRAYER SHEET                                                                                                                                 FOR Things I will pray for regularly                                                                                                      MY LIFE DATE                          PERSONAL NEED                           DATE                          GOD’S ANSWERS When I                    “Until now, you have not                      When the                 “Ask and you shall receive, started                asked for anything in My Name.”                answer                   that your joy may be full.” praying                            - John 16: 24a                                 came                                  - John 16: 24b     PRAYER SHEET                                                                                                                                FOR Things I will pray for regularly                                                                                                     MY LIFE         EVANGELISM LIST                                                                        CARING LIST                   People God wants me to                                                  People God wants me to                                    bring closer to Him                                                 pray for and show more love to       Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top SABBATH   THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS DEMONSTRATED   Authority is one of the things anyone with common sense will look for in a leader. Will people listen to this person when he or she speaks? Without authority, a leader is crippled and will be unable to perform the necessary duties of leadership. One of the things lacking in many of the world leaders today is moral authority. They lack the ability to command the undivided attention of people simply because, too often, their lives are compromised from a moral point of view. They may be great economic or political leaders, but to command enduring attention, moral authority is important as it is what commends the humanity of an individual to another. Jesus had no such problem. Even His enemies recognized His authority, though they did everything they could to question and undermine it. The example of Jesus naturally raises this question in my mind: “Who in my life’s experience has most closely exercised the authority that Jesus had?” There are only two real candidates for me: Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II. These two people, whether you agreed with their moral stance or not, unquestionably lived out what they preached. The witness of their lives unequivocally supported all they said and stood for. In fact, even people opposed to many of their moral positions recognized their authority and respected it. This is what it means to command authority in a secular world. As Christians, we must ensure that the witness of our lives follow the same kind of authority that Jesus had by ensuring that we live what we proclaim and have properly informed ourselves regarding moral truth. The world cannot afford to accept just another moral opinion regarding issues of life and death. It needs the truth and we must be willing to provide. It is in the truth that authority finds its basis. Let us seek to know the truth, to live the truth and to proclaim the truth in all that we say and do. Fr. Steve Tynan, MGL   Reflection Question: What authority does the witness of my life carry with it? Am I compromised in any way by the things I do?   Jesus, help me to know and understand the thruth as it pertains to my life so that I can live it and thus give witness to the Gospel of life in all that I do.   St. Veep, pray for us.   Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top

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Lordie, God's Message For You Today, June 30, 2010

Daily Bible Reflections for June 30, 2010 Dear Lordie, This Wednesday, may you hear His voice in your heart! Praying for you, Bo Sanchez 30 June Wednesday TODAY'S READINGS: DIDACHE | COMPANION | SABBATH DIDACHE   GREATER SACRIFICE   “Your cereal offering I will not accept.” – Amos 5:22   Gail and Carla’s mom is in the final stage of liver cancer. To ease her last days, Gail agreed to shoulder the expenses and bring their mom to the hospital. Gail sent her driver to pick up her mom. During her short visits to the hospital, she tried to keep the expenses down. She chose a private room in the hospital’s old building where it’s cheaper. She selected a doctor who is a family friend. She limited the medications, stressing there’s no need for heroic efforts. Indeed, she’s generous and practical at the same time. Carla, for her part, never left her mom’s side. She took a leave from work and hardly slept every night. She gently eased her mom’s fears on the way to the hospital. She cleaned her wounds and kept her comfortable. She monitored her labored breathing and adjusted the oxygen mask when it slips. Though both gave up something for love of their mom, I think Carla’s sacrifice is the model of Christian love. Jesus died on a cross to redeem us from sin. Our love for Him should compel us to respond likewise, by giving up our lives for others and for Him.Cecilia Lim (cez_lim@yahoo.com)   REFLECTION: “I will not sacrifice to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” (2 Samuel 24:24)   Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to Thee.   * Names have been changed     Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top COMPANION   1st READING   Many of the reasons that the poor remain poor rest in the decisions of the rich. The one I most like to point out is that so-called Free Trade Agreements always exclude labor from among the goods to be traded freely. When we consider that their ability to work is the primary wealth of the poor, such agreements will never help poor nations and always favor the rich! It is high time for wealthy nations to remove barriers to migration if they want to be honest about free trade.   Amos 5:14-15, 21-24 14 Seek good and not evil, that you may live; then truly will the LORD, the God of hosts, be with you as you claim! 15 Hate evil and love good, and let justice prevail at the gate; then it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will have pity on the remnant of Joseph. 21 I hate, I spurn your feasts, says the LORD, I take no pleasure in your solemnities; 22 your cereal offerings I will not accept, nor consider your stall-fed peace offerings. 23 Away with your noisy songs! I will not listen to the melodies of your harps. But if you would offer me burnt offerings, 24 then let justice surge like water, and goodness like an unfailing stream.   P S A L M   Psalm 50:7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13, 16bc-17 R: To the upright I will show the saving power of God. 7 “Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, I will testify against you; God, your God, am I.” (R) 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) 10 “For mine are all the animals of the forests, beasts by the thousand on my mountains. 11 I know all the birds of the air, and whatever stirs in the plains, belongs to me.” (R) 12 “If I were hungry, I should not tell you, for mine are the world and its fullness. 13 Do I eat the flesh of strong bulls, or is the blood of goats my drink?” (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)   G O S P E L   The demons and devils are no match for Jesus. There is nothing that does not come under His authority. Our God is an all-powerful god to whom we can fearlessly entrust our lives because He desires and does what is best for us.   Matthew 8:28-34 28 When Jesus came to the territory of the Gadarenes, two demoniacs who were coming from the tombs met him. They were so savage that no one could travel by that road. 29 They cried out, “What have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the appointed time?” 30 Some distance away a herd of many swine was feeding. 31 The demons pleaded with him, “If you drive us out, send us into the herd of swine.” 32 And he said to them, “Go then!” They came out and entered the swine, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea where they drowned. 33 The swineherds ran away, and when they came to the town they reported everything, including what had happened to the demoniacs. 34 Thereupon the whole town came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him they begged him to leave their district.   my reflections t h i n k: Our God is an all-powerful god to whom we can fearlessly entrust our lives because He desires and does what is best for us.   _________________________________________________________ God’s special verse/thought for me today________________ _________________________________________________________ T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR 2Chronicles 7-8 2 Chronicles 7-8 Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top SABBATH   THAT WE MAY LIVE!   One memorable piece of writing is that of Henry David Thoreau’s On Walden Pond. It became the basis of that old movie Dead Poet’s Society of Robin Williams fame. He spoke about his excursion to the woods “because he wished to live life deliberately” and also because he wanted to avoid the pain of discovering at the end, “that he had not lived.” This became the basis, too, of my own “excursion to the woods” via mountain climbing. In my younger years, I had wanted to“drive life into a corner” and to look at the heights and “lift up my eyes to the mountains, from where shall come my help.” It had become the guiding motif of my personal vision, summed up in the Gospel passage, “ascende superius!” (Go up higher!), which I am glad to note one of our schools had adopted, too, as their motto. Today, Amos would have us “suck the very marrow out of life.” “Seek good and not evil,” he says, “that you may live.” But there is more to life than just going for an excursion to the woods. Living deliberately and living fully can never be a simple walk in the park that does not carry with it important responsibilities. No, living is so dear. It costs. It pains. And it makes demands. The discipleship that Christ calls us to would not allow us the luxury of dilly-dallying, vacillating and engaging in double-dealing. Amos reminds us of its costs: “Hate evil and love good; let justice prevail.” Make no mistake about it. The call to discipleship would have us dispel “all that does not lead to life.” At the Gadarene territory, he made that lesson clear like no one else did. Two men possessed by demons were cleared decisively of what tortured them. And it took Christ’s unequivocal command to get them to the much hated swine, that went down to their watery grave. “Out with you!” There’s more to being a Christian than “living life deliberately.” “I came that you may life, and have it to the full.” Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB   Reflection Question: Is there an area of my life that is dead or does not grow? What can give it life?   Lord Jesus, grant me the grace to open my life to You completely so that I may live my life to the full!   Blessed Raymond Lull, pray for us.   Didache | Companion | Sabbath | Top

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