 | Daily Bible Reflections
for August 30, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
Conquer this new week with God's Word in your heart!
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | “THE UNLIKELY VESSEL” ... and my message and proclamation were not with persuasive (words of) wisdom, but with demonstration of spirit and power. – 1 Corinthians 2:4 Hillsong Conference was drawing to a close that winter of 2007 in Sydney. A dozen heavyweight speakers from different parts of the world took turns on the pulpit before a 10,000-strong audience. As the night progressed, the people got bored and couldn’t wait for the proceedings to end. Then at last, an odd-looking black guy, possessing an image far different from the other speakers who came before him, made his way to the pulpit. Everyone was dumbfounded. The guy, due to his lack of “charm” and high profile, spoke of how intimidated and terrified he was to come after all the brilliant speakers. He went to tell of how much the Holy Spirit reassured and humbled Him to just proceed in sharing the truth of God’s Word. He sang and spoke in layman’s language and slang, presented his life in amusing circumstances and made fun of himself to the delight of the people. Then he closed and blessed the crowd. In the end, the audience got what they needed that cold night to bring home to their loved ones — warmth of God’s powerful words through the person of TD Jakes.Eugene Cailao (eugenecailao@gmail.com) REFLECTION: How much of God’s wisdom and power do I allow to work in my life? Grant me the grace to seek You constantly, Lord. To allow You to work Your way through my life and make it a powerful testament of Your wisdom and glory. Amen. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING It is important that we learn how to place our lives under the grace and power of the Holy Spirit so that what we do for the Kingdom of God will be built on God and not on the shifting sands of our own wisdom and talents. The key to doing this is humility. We need to entrust our lives to the will of God, understanding that His will is the best way for us. We may not always understand His ways, but they will always be better than our own. 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 1 When I came to you, brothers and sisters, proclaiming the mystery of God, I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom. 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling, 4 and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of spirit and power, 5 so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God. P S A L M Psalm 119:97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102 R: Lord, I love your commands. 97 How I love your law, O LORD! It is my meditation all the day. (R) 98 Your command has made me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. (R) 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers when your decrees are my meditation. (R) 100 I have more discernment than the elders, because I observe your precepts. (R) 101 From every evil way I withhold my feet, that I may keep your words. (R) 102 From your ordinances I turn not away, for you have instructed me. (R) G O S P E L This is like preparing a mission statement for your life. Jesus takes the scroll of Isaiah and proclaims to all in the synagogue His mission in life. Read it again and see that Jesus holds nothing back. The world and the Church needs men and women who are as equally committed to the call God has on their lives. Luke 4:16-30 16 Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read 17 and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, 19 and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.” 20 Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him. 21 He said to them, “Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” 22 And all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They also asked, “Isn’t this the son of Joseph?” 23 He said to them, “Surely you will quote me this proverb, ‘Physician, cure yourself,’ and say, ‘Do here in your native place the things that we heard were done in Capernaum.’ ” 24 And he said, “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place. 25 Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over the entire land. 26 It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon. 27 Again, there were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet; yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.” 28 When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury. 29 They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong. 30 But he passed through the midst of them and went away. my reflections t h i n k : The world and the Church needs men and women who are as equally committed as Jesus to the call God has on their lives. _________________________________________________________
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T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Psalm 26-30 Psalm 26-30 | |
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| | SABBATH | TAKE UP THE CHALLENGE The synagogue was a central place in the Jewish religious culture. There, people would go to hear the Word of God proclaimed and expounded. It was an important aspect of Jewish culture. Our Sunday Eucharist had its humble beginnings through the practice of synagogue worship. The rabbis would gather the faithful and expound sound doctrine. There was time for discussion and worship. People would come with great expectation to hear the Word from the holy Rabbi as if God Himself was speaking. How odd it must have been this day to hear Jesus simply say, “Today this passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” Gracious words indeed! Did Jesus really know what He was saying? Was that all He had to say? Did He mean what He said? There was an awe that spread through the synagogue. But that soon changed to indignation as they heard that challenge from the lips of Jesus to them. Jesus reiterates stories of people and prophets with the view to awaken their senses. Their senses were awakened and inflamed as they intended to hurl him down. Sometimes it seems OK when we hear the nice words, the gracious words. But whenever we are challenged, there is always something that rises within for revenge at any accusation, good or bad. We don’t like to be challenged. We know it’s good but, in a sense, it is awkward. We see ourselves for who we really are, like the townsfolk in Jesus’ village. They were listening to His kind words of inspiration, then, having been challenged, they were quick to judge and reject this newcomer in their midst. “We know him, the son of a carpenter!” Let us take up the challenge to hear the Word of God and practice it. Let us respond in faith and confidence to the will of God in our lives. Let us not be angry or resentful that we are challenged but embrace it as a call of the Lord to grow and develop in our lives. Fr. Brian Steele, MGL Reflection Question: Where do we feel challenged by the Lord? Where in our lives is the passage of Scripture being fulfilled? Lord, let Your Spirit anoint me. Remove the blindness from my eyes and set me free that I might be Your eyes and love to others. Amen. Blessed Edward Shelley, pray for us. | |
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