 | Daily Bible Reflections
for June 21, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
Carry the Lord in your heart this Monday!
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | ECHO “...and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.” – Matthew 7:2 When she heard something unfortunate happen to one of her friends, she gossiped about it to other people. She did it with the seemingly good intention of letting others know so that they can pray for the person. One day, she received the bad news that she had cancer. She didn’t want anybody to know. She already imagined how other people would feast on talking about her because that’s exactly what she does. I read that our knowledge of God’s character is dictated by our own character. If we see God as a vindictive God, it is because we are vindictive. We see God through the same eyes we use to see others. But it doesn’t have to be that way. We can enjoy a loving relationship today with a God who’s so in love with us if only we would change the eyes of our hearts through which we see ourselves and others. The Bible says, “As He is, so are we.” We are supposed to reflect our Father through us. The word “person” comes from two Latin words “per” and “solare” which means “to sound through.” God has intended to sound through or to echo or reflect Himself through us. Let us therefore be faithful echoes of our Heavenly Father to this world. Ronna Ledesma (ronnaledesma@email.com) REFLECTION: Can an echo ever give a different sound other than the original one? Lord, let those who see me see You. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING The Assyrians take the People of Israel into exile. The seeds of destruction planted by the sins of the people are beginning to bear fruit. There will be yet another exile and then a time of rebuilding for a couple of hundred years before the Greeks conquer Israel and then the Romans following them. After that it will be 1948 before the state of Israel is marked again on a world map following a decree from the United Nations. Even today Israel maintains a somewhat tenuous existence due to prolonged fighting and disagreements with its neighbors. 2 Kings 17:5-8, 13-15a, 18 5 Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, occupied the whole land and attacked Samaria, which he besieged for three years. 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, king of Israel the king of Assyria took Samaria, and deported the Israelites to Assyria, settling them in Halah, at the Habor, a river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 7 This came about because the children of Israel sinned against the LORD, their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt, from under the domination of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and because they venerated other gods. 8 They followed the rites of the nations whom the LORD had cleared out of the way of the children of Israel and the kings of Israel whom they set up. 13 And though the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and seer, “Give up your evil ways and keep my commandments and statutes, in accordance with the entire law which I enjoined on your fathers and which I sent you by my servants the prophets,” 14 they did not listen, but were as stiff-necked as their fathers, who had not believed in the LORD, their God. 15 They rejected his statutes, the covenant which he had made with their fathers, and the warnings which he had given them, 18 till, in his great anger against Israel, the LORD put them away out of his sight. Only the tribe of Judah was left. Psalm 60:3, 4-5, 12-13 R: Help us with your right hand, O Lord, and answer us. 1 [3] O God, you have rejected us and broken our defenses; you have been angry; rally us! (R) 2 [4] You have rocked the country and split it open; repair the cracks in it, for it is tottering. 3 [5] You have made your people feel hardships; you have given us stupefying wine. (R) 10 [12] Have not you, O God, rejected us, so that you go not forth, O God, with our armies? 11 [13] Give us aid against the foe, for worthless is the help of men. (R) Who is worthy to judge another? Only God is without sin and worthy to judge the life of a person. However, our society’s imperfect nature demands that we have arbiters of right and wrong. Let us pray that our judges will do so according to truth and righteousness and never be swayed by any other wrong influences. Matthew 7:1-5 1 Jesus said to his disciples: “Stop judging, that you may not be judged. 2 For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you. 3 Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’ while the wooden beam is in your eye? 5 You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.” G O S P E L 1 Chronicles 17-18 my reflections t h i n k: Who is worthy to judge another? _________________________________________________________
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T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR 1Chronicles 17-18 | |
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| | SABBATH | MEASURE FOR MEASURE The tiny tarsiers of Bohol in central Philippines are a sight to behold. They have no eyelids and their eyeballs do not rotate in their sockets. They cannot move their eyes up or down or from left to right. They are frozen in a fixed cold stare. For them to see sideways, the whole head will have to turn around from the base of the neck. What tarsiers do not have in terms of capacity to roll their eyes, they make up for in their soft and supple necks that allow them to turn their heads more than 180 degrees at any given time. In the hypothetical scenario of tarsiers getting stiff neck, they would, technically, be unable to see sideways and backwards, if both their eyeballs and their necks would be frozen in a cold, glaring stare. And with a stiff neck comes more than just the difficulty to see. It could very well approximate the total inability of one to see reality as it objectively is. The Old Testament records a long history of a stiff-necked and disobedient people. The first reading speaks precisely about one such stiff-necked attitude of the leader of the Northern kingdom. Despite repeated pleas from the Lord, “they rejected his statutes, the covenant which he had made with their fathers, and the warnings which he had given them.” Tarsiers and their habitat may very well teach us a lesson or two about obedience to the Lord and His will. Being stiff-necked and defiant just won’t do us any good. We need to bend over backwards like the lowly bamboo, and allow God to hold sway over our lives. We need to follow the tarsier and transform our stiff-necked attitudes to soft and supple obedience to the Lord before whom we profess: “I hope in the Lord, I trust in His word” (Alleluia verse). Such supple obedience then leads us to a non-judgmental stance, for simply put, “the measure with which [we] measure will be used to measure [us].” “Stop passing judgment… Your verdict on others will be the verdict passed on you.” Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB Reflection Question: Am I still struggling in obeying God in something that He wants me to do in my life? Let go and let God! Lord God, make me obedient to Your will. St. Lazarus, pray for us. | |
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