 | Daily Bible Reflections
for August 16, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
Conquer this new week with God's Word in your heart!
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | SURRENDER “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me. ” – Matthew 19:21 I was kidnapped. I was in Sulu, Mindanao covering news as a TV reporter when it happened. Armed men captured me in an area where there was no cell phone signal, no jeepneys, no tricycles.They took all my valuables. I was separated from my loved ones. They threatened to kill me. Before this ordeal, I found it difficult to surrender to God. But in that situation, with nothing to cling to except my faith, it was suddenly easy to surrender. “His will be done!” I kept saying to myself. It was only a matter of time before I could go to heaven, I thought. I was at peace. I had accepted that whatever would happen, my God loves me and I’d endure everything with gladness for the Lord. I thought, this was what Jesus meant when He asked us to sell all our possessions. It meant I had to be detached from the material wealth and everything else that kept me from surrendering. After all, I own nothing, God owns everything, even my life. If this abduction didn’t happen, I wouldn’t have known how to surrender completely. Carlo F. Lorenzo (cflorenzo@gmanetwork.com) REFLECTION: Will I wait for an ordeal to be able to surrender to God every day? What steps can I take to surrender? Holy Spirit, teach me how to surrender and realize that God gives and God can take away. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Sin and death often accompany one another. Ezekiel’s wife dies and God uses this fact to teach Israel about the effects of sin. God is so fed up with the sin of the people that He is going to allow His sanctuary to be profaned. That is, the Temple will be destroyed. Just as Ezekiel’s personal temple, his wife has died, so will the Temple on the Mount in Jerusalem be destroyed. Ezekiel 24:15-23 15 The word of the LORD came to me: 16 Son of man, by a sudden blow I am taking away from you the delight of your eyes, but do not mourn or weep or shed any tears. 17 Groan in silence, make no lament for the dead, bind on your turban, put your sandals on your feet, do not cover your beard, and do not eat the customary bread. 18 That evening my wife died, and the next morning I did as I had been commanded. 19 Then the people asked me, “Will you not tell us what all these things that you are doing mean for us?” I therefore spoke to the people that morning, 20 saying to them: Thus the word of the LORD came to me: 21 Say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord GOD: I will now desecrate my sanctuary, the stronghold of your pride, the delight of your eyes, the desire of your soul. The sons and daughters you left behind shall fall by the sword. 23 [22] You shall do as I have done, not covering your beards nor eating the customary bread. 24 [23] Your turbans shall remain on your heads, your sandals on your feet. You shall not mourn or weep, but you shall rot away because of your sins and groan one to another. P S A L M Deuteronomy 32:18-19, 20, 21 R: You have forgotten God who gave you birth. 18 You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you, You forgot the God who gave you birth. 19 When the LORD saw this, he was filled with loathing and anger toward his sons and daughters. (R) 20 “I will hide my face from them,” he said, “and see what will then become of them. What a fickle race they are, sons with no loyalty in them!” (R) 21 “Since they have provoked me with their ‘no-god’ and angered me with their vain idols, I will provoke them with a ‘no-people’; with a foolish nation I will anger them.” (R) G O S P E L Again, just like last Saturday’s Gospel, we have a call to absolute trust in God’s goodness towards us. Jesus challenges the rich young man to forsake his trust in everything except God’s providence. This seems to be an unreasonable request but it is actually what faith is all about — it is the essence of what it means to have faith in somebody — to entrust all to their care. Let us seek to make our lives living examples of such faith. Matthew 19:16-22 16 A young man approached Jesus and said, “Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?” 17 He answered him, “Why do you ask me about the good? There is only One who is good. If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.” 18 He asked him, “Which ones?” And Jesus replied, “ ‘You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; 19 honor your father and your mother’; and ‘you shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ” 20 The young man said to him, “All of these I have observed. What do I still lack?” 21 Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” 22 When the young man heard this statement, he went away sad, for he had many possessions. my reflections t h i n k : Sin and death often accompany one another. _________________________________________________________
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| | SABBATH | POSSESSED BY POSSESSIONS When we read the same story in the Gospel of Mark, we are told the man is rich and he is a ruler. In other words, he is in a position of authority and quite wealthy. He possesses many things and now he wants to possess eternal life. The young man is keen to be on the right side; he has done all things well but he feels something is still lacking. Jesus knows the one thing he lacks — detachment of heart. To possess this is the way to enter into eternal life, according to Jesus. The trouble with the young man is that he possesses many things that the world portrays as good, yet is far from God. But God is still pleased with him — he keeps the commandments, is a good person, morally and civilly. You might say that his possessions are controlling him rather than he being in control of his possessions. Notice the man’s response. Jesus gives him the answer to his question, yet he walks away sad. Does this mean he is not willing to give up his possessions? On the other hand, does he now realize what kind of a stronghold he has with these material possessions? Why is he sad? Shouldn’t he be rejoicing at having found the answer to life? Matthew tells us that he left the presence of Jesus in sadness because his possessions were many. Perhaps he was not willing to give them away. Perhaps there were too many to give away. Do you want to enter eternal life? Perhaps like the young man in the Gospel, you are doing all the right things. You keep the commandments, you act in charity, you love the Lord, but what is the one thing you lack? What is your possession? What is the one thing you will not give away, because if you do you will fear being sad? Jesus is telling us to be detached. The very thing that holds us is possessing us to the point that we do not want to let it go. Yes, it will be hard to let go but we must understand the joy and liberation we will have once we are detached. Fr. Brian Steele, MGL Reflection Question: What are my possessions? What are the things I hold dear and find hard to let go? Lord, I rejoice in the gift of eternal life given me. Help me to live, as You want me to, holding nothing back but surrendering all things to You. Amen. St. Beatrix da Silva, pray for us. | |
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