 | Daily Bible Reflections
for January 3, 2011 |
|  Dear Lordie,
Be God?s blessing to the world this Monday!
Praying for you,
Bo Sanchez
| | 13 OR NO 13 We should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ… test the Spirit to see whether they belong to God. – 1 John 3:23, 4:1 I had just transferred to a new place and brought my relative to check it out. “Your room is good,” she commented after she’d seen the place. “The sun goes in there. But I don’t like the address.” “Why?” I asked. “‘Coz it’s number 13.” Oh yeah, I forgot. A lot of people wouldn’t get caught living in a house with that number. They even skip counting 13 just to escape the bad luck. I wonder if bad luck also knows when to break mathematical progression? And how would people account for what my landlord said that everyone who has lived in my place prospered? We complicate our lives by believing in superstitions. If we strive to know more our faith through prayer, reading of Scripture and Church documents, we will learn the truth that there’s nothing to fear for as long as we are with the Lord. I simplify my life by asking fundamental questions. “Do I really believe in Jesus? Does He love me? Is He really powerful?” REFLECTION: “I do believe, help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24) Lord, the world wants to water down Your greatness. Help me not to follow suit. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING When we choose to follow Jesus as His disciple, we overcome the false prophets and influences in our lives, in other words, the process of conversion has taken root in our lives. It is precisely that – a process – and thus we need to affirm it daily. In fact, we may need to affirm it many times daily as we are tempted to give up the call or even just to sin. It is critical that we persevere in the work we have begun in order to grow in holiness and our service to the Kingdom of God. 1 John 3:22-4:6 22 Beloved: We receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. 23 And his commandment is this: we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another just as he commanded us. 24 Those who keep his commandments remain in him, and he in them, and the way we know that he remains in us is from the Spirit that he gave us. 4: 1 Beloved, do not trust every spirit but test the spirits to see whether they belong to God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can know the Spirit of God: every spirit that acknowledges Jesus Christ come in the flesh belongs to God, 3 and every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus does not belong to God. This is the spirit of the antichrist that, as you heard, is to come, but in fact is already in the world. 4 You belong to God, children, and you have conquered them, for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 They belong to the world; accordingly, their teaching belongs to the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We belong to God, and anyone who knows God listens to us, while anyone who does not belong to God refuses to hear us. This is how we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit. P S A L M Psalm 2:7-8, 10-11 R: I will give you all the nations for an inheritance. 7 The LORD said to me, “You are my Son; this day I have begotten you. 8 Ask of me and I will give you the nations for an inheritance and the ends of the earth for your possession.” (R) 10 And now, O kings, give heed; take warning, you rulers of the earth. 11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice before him; with trembling rejoice. (R) G O S P E L The arrest of John was seen as a sign by Jesus that it was now time to begin His ministry in earnest. We need to realize that God has a plan for each of us to fulfill. If we fail to fulfill it, I wonder what work of the Kingdom of God is going to remain undone and what the consequences of our unfaithfulness will be. This is not to scare anyone, but the truth needs to be spoken and the truth is that each of us has a responsibility to fulfill God’s will for our lives. I hope and pray we all know what His will is. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia Jesus proclaimed the Gospel of the Kingdom and cured every disease among the people. R: Alleluia, alleluia Matthew 4:12-17, 23-25 12 When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. 13 He left Nazareth and went to live in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali, 14 that what had been said through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled: 15 “Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way to the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, 16 the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death light has arisen.” 17 From that time on, Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” 23 He went around all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and illness among the people. 24 His fame spread to all of Syria, and they brought to him all who were sick with various diseases and racked with pain, those who were possessed, lunatics, and paralytics, and he cured them. 25 And great crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan followed him. my reflections t h i n k : Each of us has a responsibility to fulfill God’s will for our lives. 4 God’s special verse/thought for me today________________ _________________________________________________________
T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN Genesis 7-9 | |
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| | SABBATH | Wiping AWAY Sin At the beginning of each year, the Oxford English Dictionary gives out a list of words or phrases that have become catchwords the previous year. These are then included in the list of official words or phrases in the dictionary. These words or phrases usually reflect the prevailing cultural, social and economic climate of the time. In 2009, for example, when the world was hit with the recession, lexicographers noted that credit crunch became a byword. Staycation means a self-imposed stay-at-home vacation because of lack of money. But while the world is busy noting what new words appear in the world vocabulary, no one seems to keep track of the words that are disappearing in our collective language. One word that we rarely use or believe in nowadays is sin. No one talks about sin anymore. Notice the verbal engineering done in the name of political correctness. When Tiger Woods admitted to adultery, his sponsor Nike called it a “temporary blib” in an otherwise sterling career. Gay relationships are called alternative lifestyle. Abortion is rendered pregnancy reduction. Be it in the area of theology, sociology or psychology, sin seems to be attributed to everything else but the individual person. When one commits wrongdoing, we justify it by saying “it’s nature’s fault,” “it’s in the genes,” “he’s suffering from a form of complex.” It’s always everything but free will. This is the product of the spirit of justification — a wrong kind of justification. I call this a justification from below, i.e., justifying wrong by attributing malice away from the person. John in the first reading cautions us from this spirit of deception as he says, “Beloved, do not trust every spirit, but put the spirits to a test to see if they belong to God.” Justification from below does not come from God. What comes from God is justification from above, “Repent, believe for the Kingdom of God is at hand.” We eliminate sin by repentance, contrition and confession — not by striking out the word from the dictionary and from our consciousness. Fr. Joel O. Jason Reflection Question: In what way does the spirit of justification from below manifest in my own behavior? Lord, grant me the wisdom to see my fault, the courage to name it and the humility to be justified by repentance, contrition and confession. Amen. St. Narses, pray for us. | |
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