 | Daily Bible Reflections
for June 25, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
May others see Jesus in you this Friday.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | come and ask “… if you wish, you can make me clean….” “I will do it.… Be made clean.” – Matthew 8:2–3 I do not enjoy seeing my son being injected with a syringe needle. It hurts me to see him being hurt. But I allow it because of the greater healing or cure that comes with it. I don’t allow him to suffer for suffering’s sake. It’s a suffering that would be a blessing. In the same way, God doesn’t enjoy seeing us suffer. But He may allow us to go through pain and suffering, only because there is a greater blessing that will come out of it. But as in the leper’s powerful prayer-encounter with Jesus, the secret is we have to approach Jesus and give ourselves to Him. We tell Him we want to be clean — to be healed, to be forgiven, to be saved and to be blessed! God loves us so much He respects what we want for our lives. So we have to come to Jesus with boldness and faith. It wasn’t easy for a leper to come out publicly and approach Jesus. Yet he chose and decided to change his life. He believed that Jesus can change him. And Jesus wanted to cure Him. REFLECTION: Believe that God wants to heal you. Come to Him in faith — today! Jesus, I do want to be clean. Heal me. Change me. Transform me. And turn my sufferings into my blessings. In Your most powerful name. Amen. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING When will we ever learn? Zedekiah rebels against his oppressors and the oppression is taken to a new level — exile. We are just as stubborn in our own way when we strive against the work of the Holy Spirit and seek out sin instead of holiness. We may not be quite as brazen as that but at the final analysis this is what is too often going on. 2 Kings 25:1-12 1 In the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and his whole army advanced against Jerusalem, encamped around it, and built siege walls on every side. 2 The siege of the city continued until the eleventh year of Zedekiah. 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month, when famine had gripped the city, and the people had no more bread, 4 the city walls were breached. Then the king and all the soldiers left the city by night through the gate between the two walls that was near the king’s garden. Since the Chaldeans had the city surrounded, they went in the direction of the Arabah. 5 But the Chaldean army pursued the king and overtook him in the desert near Jericho, abandoned by his whole army. 6 The king was therefore arrested and brought to Riblah to the king of Babylon, who pronounced sentence on him. 7 He had Zedekiah’s sons slain before his eyes. Then he blinded Zedekiah, bound him with fetters, and had him brought to Babylon. 8 On the seventh day of the fifth month (this was in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan, captain of the bodyguard, came to Jerusalem as the representative of the king of Babylon. 9 He burned the house of the LORD, the palace of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every large building was destroyed by fire. 10 Then the Chaldean troops who were with the captain of the guard tore down the walls that surrounded Jerusalem. 11 Then Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, led into exile the last of the people remaining in the city, and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the last of the artisans. 12 But some of the country’s poor, Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, left behind as vinedressers and farmers. P S A L M Psalm 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 R: Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you! 1 By the streams of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. 2 On the aspens of that land we hung up our harps. (R) 3 Though there our captors asked of us the lyrics of our songs, and our despoilers urged us to be joyous: “Sing for us the songs of Zion!” (R) 4 How could we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land? 5 If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand be forgotten! (R) 6 May my tongue cleave to my palate if I remember you not, if I place not Jerusalem ahead of my joy. (R) G O S P E L The leper expresses his trust and belief in the power of God to heal him when he acknowledges that, if Jesus wills it, he can be cured. Of course Jesus wills it and so the leper goes away cleansed of his illness. We can have equal certitude that God wills our lives to be free of sin. Thus the only thing hindering this reality is our own choice to keep welcoming sin back into our lives. We need to pray for the grace to hate sin so much that we will never invite it into our lives again. Matthew 8:1-4 1 When Jesus came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. 2 And then a leper approached, did him homage, and said, “Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean.” 3 He stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, “I will do it. Be made clean.” His leprosy was cleansed immediately. 4 Then Jesus said to him, “See that you tell no one, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses prescribed; that will be proof for them.” 1 Chronicles 25-26 my reflections t h i n k : We need to pray for the grace to hate sin so much that we will never invite it into our lives again. _________________________________________________________
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| | SABBATH | IF I EVER FORGET YOU It was a sad chapter in Israel’s history. The Babylonians pounced on the hapless little kingdom of Judah, sans power, sans glory, sans influence. But most important of all, the little band was left without a trace of its obedience and fidelity to Yahweh. The inevitable happened. They were ransacked, raped, pillaged and plundered. On top of all this, they were utterly humiliated by deportation and exile to a foreign land, sans temple, sans ritual worship, sans sacrifices. “By the rivers of Babylon, there they sat and wept, remembering Zion.” As a community of believers, we have our own sob stories to recount. We have our own version of bitter exile in a land we know not. Our culture has progressively been co-opted by the culture of mass media. Our entertainment-crazed world that puts a premium on the latest scoop from the so-called “media moment” of shallow and sallow skin-deep hierarchy of values has taken the better of us. The peaceful February revolution of 1986 is now nothing more than a fading distant memory. In place of the high ideals we set after removing an unjust dictator, and after putting in place a new constitution that might have gotten rid of Ali Baba, we have adopted a political system that put back Ali Baba’s 40 thieves (Read: traditional politicians) who have since ruled the political and economic roost, with impunity. Our valley of tears, our Babylonian exile of our cultural malaise and apathy have now been made even worse by the forces of globalization and post-modernity, where truth — moral truth, objective truth — has effectively gone the way of the dodo. And yet, as a pilgrim people, we rise to the occasion. As a people of faith, true to the Filipino tradition of giving our hearts to the Divine Heart (El pueblo Filipino te da su Corazon!), we strive to rise above the ashes and claim our rightful place in the Kingdom by way of fervent prayer: “Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!” It is as much a prayer as a pledge and promise. Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB Reflection Question: In times of trial, do I remember God’s love and protection in the past? Does it give me strength to carry on? Let my tongue be silenced if I ever forget You, my God! St. Prosper of Aquitaine, pray for us. | |
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