 | Daily Bible Reflections
for March 27, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
Be inspired with His message to you this Saturday!
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | KNOWLEDGE AND WORD POWER “It is better for one man to die instead of the people...” – John 11:50 Back in college, a friend of mine asked me, “So what makes Christianity special as a faith? All religions are the same and have one purpose… eternal happiness!” I gave him my standard, impersonal “religion subject” response: “It is only Christianity that had a promise of the Messiah (Old Testament) and a fulfillment of the promise in Jesus Christ (New Testament). No other religion has that.” My “scholarly” yet insincere answer was enough to get him to think and go to church the next day. He even went on to be active in one of the school’s religious organization. My response was used to touch him regardless of my internal disposition. My textbook knowledge and words had power. Caiaphas didn’t like Jesus at all. More than that, he most probably wished harm on him like his contemporaries. However, because of his anointing, God used his knowledge and words to prophesy. As Christians, our words and knowledge contain power. The Lord uses us to bless. May we be willing instruments of God to bring others to Him through our knowledge of His Son and our anointed words.Ariel Driz (adriz77@yahoo.com) REFLECTION: Am I building my knowledge of God’s Word? Am I responsible for the words I use? Is it my desire to be used by God to teach others? Lord Jesus, thank You that in spite of me, You continue to use me for the benefit of others. I pray that I may do so willingly with an ardent desire to grow in my walk with You. Amen. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING Ezekiel promises that the exile will end and that the Jews will eventually be able to return to their land. This promise of return is one that the Jews have been forced to cling to time and time again throughout their history. As Christians we are able to let go of it in a literal sense as we realize that what is important is not an earthly homeland but the promise of eternal life in heaven. This is the true hope of the man and woman of faith. Ezekiel 37:21-28 21 Thus says the Lord GOD: I will take the children of Israel from among the nations to which they have come, and gather them from all sides to bring them back to their land. 22 I will make them one nation upon the land, in the mountains of Israel, and there shall be one prince for them all. Never again shall they be two nations, and never again shall they be divided into two kingdoms. 23 No longer shall they defile themselves with their idols, their abominations, and all their transgressions. I will deliver them from all their sins of apostasy, and cleanse them so that they may be my people and I may be their God. 24 My servant David shall be prince over them, and there shall be one shepherd for them all; they shall live by my statutes and carefully observe my decrees. 25 They shall live on the land which I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where their fathers lived; they shall live on it forever, they, and their children, and their children’s children, with my servant David their prince forever. 26 I will make with them a covenant of peace; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will multiply them, and put my sanctuary among them forever. 27 My dwelling shall be with them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28 Thus the nations shall know that it is I, the LORD, who make Israel holy, when my sanctuary shall be set up among them forever. P S A L M Jeremiah 31:10, 11-12abcd, 13 R: The Lord will guard us, as a shepherd guards his flock. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, proclaim it on distant isles, and say: He who scattered Israel, now gathers them together, he guards them as a shepherd his flock. (R) 11 The LORD shall ransom Jacob, he shall redeem him from the hand of his conqueror. 12 Shouting, they shall mount the heights of Zion, they shall come streaming to the LORD’s blessings: The grain, the wine, and the oil, the sheep and the oxen. (R) 13 Then the virgins shall make merry and dance, and young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, I will console and gladden them after their sorrows. (R) G O S P E L It is undisputed that Jesus was a miracle worker. It demonstrates the potential hardness of heart that we can have when we see that there are still many authorities who refuse to believe in Jesus as a prophet, let alone the Messiah. Why is it that we can be so stubborn even when we know we are wrong? The simple answer is sin and lack of humility. Let us pray that we can be done with all such childishness in our lives. John 11:45-56 45 Many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what Jesus had done began to believe in him. 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs. 48 If we leave him alone, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our land and our nation.” 49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing, 50 nor do you consider that it is better for you that one man should die instead of the people, so that the whole nation may not perish.” 51 He did not say this on his own, but since he was high priest for that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, 52 and not only for the nation, but also to gather into one the dispersed children of God. 53 So from that day on they planned to kill him. 54 So Jesus no longer walked about in public among the Jews, but he left for the region near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and there he remained with his disciples. 55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before Passover to purify themselves. 56 They looked for Jesus and said to one another as they were in the temple area, “What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?” my reflections t h i n k : Why is it that we can be so stubborn even when we know we are wrong? The simple answer is sin and lack of humility. _________________________________________________________
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T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Exodus 16-18 Exodus 16-18 | |
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| | SABBATH | The Amazing Wonder of God’s Plan My maternal grandmother, a widow at an early age, was a woman of deep faith and incomparable piety. She was one of those who shaped my own personal way of devotion to God. Whenever she narrated to us from her own mastery of the “Pasiong Mahal” the story of Jesus’ Incarnation, Ministry, Passion, Death and Resurrection, the plot and the characters became very much alive in our imagination. She would build up the story in such a way that we would be on the verge of tears recalling Jesus’ sufferings, and we would equally hate from our hearts those whom she referred to as “Hudyo” — the soldiers, Annas, Caiaphas, among them. John’s Gospel, however, tempers those childhood imageries I have about the “Hudyo.” It is true that they exercised their individual human discretions and freedom in deciding to condemn and crucify Jesus, but God’s way is called “economy.” Nothing is useless; nothing is wasted. In the midst of human frailty and mistakes, God made something good come out: the story of our salvation in Jesus Christ. Everything and everyone became a channel of God’s gifting and grace. In our time, mistakes and human errors then should not overwhelm us to the point of depression and despair. In everything, we should be forgiving and hopeful. Rather than be mad and sad, we should lift up every circumstance and everyone to God’s infinite wisdom.Fr. Domie Guzman, SSP Reflection Question: Who are the people whose images, faces and memories make you experience hatred and negative feelings? Recall the good things that also came to you because of what these people did. Bring your realizations and reflections to prayer. You work out everything for good, O Lord. Let me believe that in the bad things that have happened to me. Let me give glory to You in them. St. Alkeld, pray for us. | |
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