 | Daily Bible Reflections
for October 25, 2010 |
|  Dear Lordie,
Conquer this new week with God's Word in your heart!
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | THE HEALER! He laid His hands on her, and she at once stood up straight and glorified God. – Luke 13:13 The teenager was sobbing. She begged, “Bro. Obet, please pray over somebody I love. He lost his sight. I’m too shy to approach our elders so I ask you instead.” I declined because I was a neophyte in the ministry and didn’t know what to do in such case. Yet, the more I refused, the more she insisted. Through her “gentle coercion,” I gave in. We went toward her car and she said, “His name is Tiger.” I couldn’t believe what I saw. Tiger was a spotted puppy who couldn’t open its eyelids due to sore eyes. With confidence, I laid my hands on Tiger and proclaimed, “Be healed in Jesus’ name!” The teenager thanked me profusely and sped off. The next prayer meeting, she stood up and testified, “Last week, Bro. Obet prayed over somebody who’s blind. Now he can see!” The congregation ganged up on me asking to be prayed over! They didn’t even hear me say, “He’s just a puppy!” Funny, but many “healers” ascribe the miracle to themselves and no longer to God. The truth is: God intends to use our brokenness to restore many. We are merely channels. He is The Healer!Obet Cabrillas (kpreacherobet@gmail.com) REFLECTION: “Not to us, Lord, not to us but to Your name, give glory because of Your faithfulness and love.” (Psalm 115:1) Lord, help me realize that we are healed to help and are saved to serve. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING It is important that we interpret what the author of the Letter to the Ephesians has to say about the marital relationship through the first line, “be subject to one another”. Marriage is a relationship between two adults and it is up to them to work out how their relationship will work best, namely who does what and exercise this or that authority within the relationship. Ephesians 5:21-33 21 Brothers and sisters: Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body. 24 As the church is subordinate to Christ, so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her 26 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word, 27 that he might present to himself the church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28 So also husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one hates his own flesh but rather nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ does the church, 30 because we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church. 33 In any case, each one of you should love his wife as himself, and the wife should respect her husband. P S A L M Psalm 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 R: Blessed are those who fear the Lord. 1 Blessed are you who fear the LORD, who walk in his ways! 2 For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork; blessed shall you be, and favored. (R) 3 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the recesses of your home; your children like olive plants around your table. (R) 4 Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears the LORD. 5 The LORD bless you from Zion: may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life. (R) G O S P E L The Kingdom of God, its nature and truth must permeate every aspect of our lives. It is not enough for us to say that we are living in it; we must actually be living and breathing the values and truths of God’s Kingdom every moment of our lives. This is what it means to be a disciple of Jesus; we are never on holiday from our faith. Jesus calls us to give everything to the service and proclamation of the Gospel. Luke 13:18-21 18 Jesus said, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it? 19 It is like a mustard seed that a person took and planted in the garden. When it was fully grown, it became a large bush and ‘the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches.’ ” 20 Again he said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? 21 It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch of dough was leavened.” my reflections think: We must live and breathe the values and truth of God’s Kingdom every moment of our lives. _________________________________________________________
God’s special verse/thought for me today________________
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T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Isaiah 13-16 | |
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| | SABBATH | Law Must Lead To Love When I was a seminarian, our rector would post a note one week before the final exams week advising us to study hard and to take care of our health. At the end of the note he would write, “During final exam week, nobody is allowed to get sick!” Of course we knew it was written tongue-in-cheek. But getting sick is hard to control. All we can do is avoid it as best as we can. In the Gospel today, it seems that the leader of the synagogue, in his desire to implement the Sabbath, was serious in legislating when to heal the sick. Because Jesus cured on a Sabbath, he said to the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done. Come on those days to be cured, not on Sabbath Day.” But Jesus would have nothing of it. For Him, the sick should be attended to immediately. For Him, Sabbath was made for man and not man for Sabbath. He showed the leader the real spirit behind the law on Sabbath. Yes, there must be a day dedicated to worshiping God, but the law of love prevails. Jesus called the synagogue leaders hypocrites because they, too, broke the Sabbath — not for a neighbor, but for an ox or an ass. For them, caring for their animals was more important than the curing of a woman bound by Satan for 18 years. Laws are important. Even God gave us the Ten Commandments as guide to our journey to His Kingdom. Laws help us obtain discipline, and constant adherence to the law imbibes in us the spirit of the law. Once we obtain the discipline, our lives become free of the law. The law now becomes our way of life. It is similar to using a map to find our way in an unfamiliar place. The more we frequent a place, the more it gets familiar to us. Eventually, we will no longer need a map. Christian life includes following some laws. Going to Sunday Mass regularly should hopefully lead us to appreciating its value in our life. Every part of the Mass should slowly lead us to a deeper understanding of it. Every Sunday that we encounter Jesus in His Word, in His Body, in His priest, and in our neighbors, we gain a closer and meaningful relationship with God. When we no longer see Sunday Masses as a burden but a celebration, then the law has now been replaced with love. Fr. Benny Tuazon Reflection Question: Do you see laws as absolute standards in life? Do you follow laws, especially the laws of God, blindly? Can you transcend the law out of love? Your laws of love are above every law that man has ever made. Fill my heart with Your love, Lord, that I may be always a good abider. St. Daria, pray for us. | |
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