 | Daily Bible Reflections
for March 18, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
Follow Him all the way this Thursday.
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | NO ID, NO ENTRY “You do not believe in the one whom he sent…” – John 5:38 “Ma’m, I can’t get an interview,” a writer of the magazine where I am editor explained to me why she had not yet submitted an article about a woman executive we had scheduled to feature. “The secretary said her boss is super busy,” she added. So I called up the woman manager and she gave me a date for the interview. On another occasion, a photographer told me he wasn’t allowed to take pictures of a celebrity I assigned him to cover. So I called up the celeb’s manager and she gave me an appointment for the pictorial. It happens now and then.The staff doesn’t get their job done unless I make representations for them. One time, I myself was not allowed to cover an event. I hissed at the security guard, “Why?” With a poker face he said, “Sorry, no ID, no entry.” Yes, people won’t believe us if we are not properly identified or represented. Sadly, the people in Jesus’ time found it difficult to believe in Him even if He already identified Himself as being sent by the Father. Alas, many still don’t believe Him today.Cynthia Santiago (boses2go@yahoo.com) REFLECTION: Jesus is the One sent by Our Father. Believe! Lord Jesus, draw me closer to You. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Moses, like all good leaders, is willing to place his own life on the line for his people. He risks the wrath of God and pleads for the lives of Israel despite their terrible apostasy against the goodness and grace of God. Let us pray that all of our leaders in the Church will be inspired by Moses to intercede for their flock and lay down their lives in the service of the People of God. Exodus 32:7-14 7 The LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once to your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, for they have become depraved. 8 They have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them, making for themselves a molten calf and worshipping it, sacrificing to it and crying out, ‘This is your God, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ 9 I see how stiff-necked this people is,” continued the LORD to Moses. 10 “Let me alone, then, that my wrath may blaze up against them to consume them. Then I will make of you a great nation.” 11 But Moses implored the LORD, his God, saying, “Why, O LORD, should your wrath blaze up against your own people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with such great power and with so strong a hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent he brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains and exterminate them from the face of the earth’? Let your blazing wrath die down; relent in punishing your people. 13 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and how you swore to them by your own self, saying, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky; and all this land that I promised, I will give your descendants as their perpetual heritage.’ ” 14 So the LORD relented in the punishment he had threatened to inflict on his people. P S A L M Psalm 106:19-20, 21-22, 23 R: Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people. 19 Our fathers made a calf in Horeb and adored a molten image; 20 they exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating bullock. (R) 21 They forgot the God who had saved them, who had done great deeds in Egypt, 22 wondrous deeds in the land of Ham, terrible things at the Red Sea. (R) 23 Then he spoke of exterminating them, but Moses, his chosen one, withstood him in the breach to turn back his destructive wrath. (R) G O S P E L Jesus tells us that His focus is the will of His Father. It is as simple as that for Him. He is interested in little else. What concerns do I have at the moment? How many of them concern my spiritual state of being? Do I have the right priorities at this time or is some reordering necessary? These are questions that we must honestly face each day. Gaining the world will do us no good if we lose the gift of eternal life. John 5:31-47 31 Jesus said to the Jews: “If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not true. 32 But there is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that the testimony he gives on my behalf is true. 33 You sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth. 34 I do not accept testimony from a human being, but I say this so that you may be saved. 35 He was a burning and shining lamp, and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light. 36 But I have testimony greater than John’s. The works that the Father gave me to accomplish, these works that I perform testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me. 37 Moreover, the Father who sent me has testified on my behalf. But you have never heard his voice nor seen his form, 38 and you do not have his word remaining in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he has sent. 39 You search the scriptures, because you think you have eternal life through them; even they testify on my behalf. 40 But you do not want to come to me to have life. 41 “I do not accept human praise; 42 moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you. 43 I came in the name of my Father, but you do not accept me; yet if another comes in his own name, you will accept him. 44 How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God? 45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father: the one who will accuse you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope. 46 For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me. 47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?” my reflections t h i n k : Gaining the world will do us no good if we lose the gift of eternal life. _________________________________________________________
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T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Genesis 37-39 | |
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| | SABBATH | Truth Has Many Voices A popular saying goes: “You may fool someone at one time, but you cannot fool all people all the time.” Hence comes our practice of establishing the right side of stories through the corroboration of witnesses and through the test of time. Amidst the doubts and intrigues of His human critiques, Jesus resorts to the human logic of coming to know the truth. He enumerates the many “witnesses” that will favor His claims of Messiahship: the ministry of John the Baptist, the signs and miracles that accompanied His preaching, the abiding signs of the Heavenly Father’s accompaniment of Jesus, the prophecies of the Jewish scriptures. The preponderance of witnesses and proofs in favor of the truth, however, is inutile if people’s minds and hearts are ruled by biases, and by outright efforts to cover up and deny the truth. I believe this is what is happening to numerous fact-finding sessions, congressional inquiries and senate investigation in our country, for instance. The facts and the proofs are many times glaring, staring people on their faces, obvious. The truth is as clear as daytime… but all quests for truth come to naught because the lure of money, the influences of powers-that-be, the pressures from high places overturn judgments and logic. In the end, good people become tired, hopeless… indifferent. Jesus’ experience makes us sigh: He knows why truth does not always triumph, why bad things happen to good people, and why evil men seem to enjoy themselves! Man-made obstacles hindered Jesus’ teaching of the Good News in His earthly ministry. Jesus had also to surmount the closed mindset and the evil schemes of Jewish leaders who preferred to safeguard their political privileges. Amidst these things, Jesus invites us — never give up. There are times when truth becomes victorious because witnesses become victims. Then the world could not but listen!Fr. Domie Guzman, SSP Reflection Question: Like Jesus, are you confident about your side of the truth? If you are now brought before God and others, what “witnesses” will you confidently invoke to your favor? Dear Lord, You alone know what is in my heart. I ask for Your mercy that I may stand before You justified. St. Edward the Martyr, pray for us. | |
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