 | Daily Bible Reflections
for February 11, 2011 |
|  Dear Lordie,
May others see Jesus in you this Friday.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes DECEITFUL REASONING The snake asked the woman: “Did God really tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?” – Genesis 3:1 Adam and Eve worked in the same company. He was married while she was single. They worked long hours on the same project and eventually became close. They would sometimes go out of town on their own and watch movies together without the knowledge of their families. Friends warned them that they were spending too much time together. The girl ignored them, reasoning, “Is it wrong to spend time with a friend?” Temptation is subtle. The devil often tricks us into believing something is not bad when, deep in our hearts, we know it is. We can come up with clever reasons to make things seem right. But the truth is plain and clear in God’s commands: “Thou shall not commit adultery” (Exodus 20:14). Like the snake that tricked the woman into eating the apple by engaging her in rational reasoning, we must guard our hearts against the devil’s deceitful lies, making us feel that some things are OK when the Word of God says otherwise. When in doubt, consult God. His wisdom and guidance can be found in the Scriptures. Obedience to God’s commands is our best defense against any temptation.Marjorie Ann Duterte (marjorie.travels@gmail.com) REFLECTION: Do you rationalize when you do something wrong, when you know for a fact that it is contrary to God’s command? Father, give us the grace to resist temptation by following Your truth and faithfully obeying Your commandments. Amen. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Now the horror story begins! We have read the story of Creation; we now read of its near destruction through the choice of humanity to allow sin to enter into the world. This decision is couched in terms of pride and arrogance – a refusal to admit that we are to submit our lives to God’s will and an insistence upon controlling, or at least attempting to control, our own destiny. Sin will affect every aspect of our existence. Genesis 3:1-8 1 Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals that the LORD God had made. The serpent asked the woman, “Did God really tell you not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?” 2 The woman answered the serpent: “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; 3 it is only about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, “ ‘You shall not eat it or even touch it, lest you die.’ ” 4 But the serpent said to the woman: “You certainly will not die! 5 No, God knows well that the moment you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods who know what is good and what is bad.” 6 The woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves. 8 When they heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the garden at the breezy time of the day, the man and his wife hid themselves from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. P S A L M Psalms 32:1-2, 5, 6, 7 R: Blessed are those whose sins are forgiven. 1 Blessed is he whose fault is taken away, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed the man to whom the LORD imputes not guilt, in whose spirit there is no guile. (R) 5 Then I acknowledged my sin to you, my guilt I covered not. I said, “I confess my faults to the LORD,” and you took away the guilt of my sin. (R) 6 For this shall every faithful man pray to you in time of stress. Though deep waters overflow, they shall not reach him. (R) 7 You are my shelter; from distress you will preserve me; with glad cries of freedom you will ring me round. (R) G O S P E L In this miracle of healing Jesus intimates that He is the Messiah. Such acts of healing are part of the expectation of the Jews of what the Messiah will do to affirm His identity. How the Jews failed to recognize Jesus’ true identity is a mystery that we will never be able to answer satisfactorily until we get the answer from God Himself. Suffice it to say that sin, and the blindness it brings to God’s goodness, has a central role to play in the answer. Numbers 7-9 ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia Open our hearts, O Lord, to listen to the words of your Son. R: Alleluia, alleluia Mark 7:31-37 31 Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. 32 And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him. 33 He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue; 34 then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (that is, “Be opened!”) 35 And [immediately] the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly. 36 He ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more he ordered them not to, the more they proclaimed it. 37 They were exceedingly astonished and they said, “He has done all things well. He makes the deaf hear and [the] mute speak.” my reflections t h i n k : Sin will affect every aspect of our existence. 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 Numbers 7-8 | |
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| | SABBATH | THE OLD VIOLIN An old dusty violin was being auctioned. The starting price was a mere $3.00. Yet even at such a very, very low price, the old dusty violin could not attract any bidder. Then from nowhere, a gray-haired man came forward, picked up the violin, dusted it off, and began to play. The man and the violin filled the auction hall with a sweet, enchanting music. When the man finished playing on the old dusty violin, the bidding suddenly jumped to thousands of dollars. What changed the value of the violin? What transformed it into a priceless instrument? The poet, Myra Brooks Welch, says, “The touch of the Master’s hand.” In her poem, “The Touch of the Master’s Hand,” Myra Brooks Welch concludes: And many a man with life out of tune, And battered and scarred with sin, Is auctioned cheap, to a thoughtless crowd, Much like the old violin. But the Master comes, and the foolish crowd Never can understand The worth of a soul, and the change that’s wrought By the Touch of the Master’s hand. Jesus is the touch of God’s hands on each of us — freeman or captive, rich or poor. Jesus is God touching us. With His touch, He heals us, changes us, renews us, transforms us, and makes our faith undoubtedly real. And how does Jesus touch us? Jesus touches us by taking upon Himself our infirmities. Paul says, “He who knew no sin was made sin for us so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21). This is the reason why the touch of Jesus, the Master, is not only skin-deep. His touch opens and penetrates deeper and deeper until it has nowhere else to go but outward, reaching out to others with the kind of love that not only heals wounds but transforms the wounded into a wounded healer. And where it faces a blockade, the same touch reverberates the command, “Ephphatha!” Fr. Bobby Titco Reflection Question: The hand of the Master continues to play with old dusty violins. If I cannot hear the music He’s playing, can I be deaf or playing deaf? Open not only my heart, O Jesus. Open my whole life to Your Spirit and make Your Spirit dwell in me more powerfully. Use me to open closed lives and, with Your Spirit, heal their wounded hearts. Play through me Your sweet music, though I may be an old violin. Amen. St. Jonas, pray for us. | |
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