 | Daily Bible Reflections
for October 19, 2011 |
|  Dear Lordie,
This Wednesday, may you hear His voice in your heart!
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| | protected You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.” – Luke 12:40 “Dad,” Tina said calmly, “there’s someone here.” There was no one at the gate but as I heard the scuffle of feet from upstairs, I realized what was happening: a thief in the house! I quickly ran upstairs but he had already jumped from the window, gotten on his bike and disappeared. The experience was a lesson: 1. Ready – After the incident, we did everything to be safe. We called the police, told the barangay, installed grills and even bought baseball bats! 2. Rampant – There were five other victims in our community in the past month. The thieves were ready and observant as no one had yet been caught. 3. Resolve – The reason why my usually jumpy wife was calm was because her Scripture reading that morning read, “I am with you. No one will attack and harm you” (Acts 18:10). It was only afterwards did she realize the reason behind the passage and why she was at peace during the incident. God had prepared her. As Christians, we need to protect ourselves spiritually as much as we prepare for physical dangers. God desires our salvation. Rod Velez (rod.velez@gmail.com) REFLECTION: Whether it is insurance, a high wall or a security guard, we go to great lengths to protect ourselves against temporal danger. But how much effort do we invest in preparing spiritually to meet Jesus? You watch over the people I love more than I can ever care for them. But help me, Lord, to pray for them that they may grow to love You always and therefore be prepared to meet You one day. | |
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| | COMPANION | 1st READING It seems hard to believe the words of St. Paul: “Sin is not to have any power over you.” Yet we often find just the opposite. Sin seems to have a strong hold on us. How can we be set free? Only by submitting all our members (every part of ourselves) to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. If we do this, we are allowing Him to exercise His power in our lives and He is the one who will overcome sin in us. We cannot do this on our own strength. Romans 6:12-18 12 Brothers and sisters: Sin must not reign over your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires. 13 And do not present the parts of your bodies to sin as weapons for wickedness, but present yourselves to God as raised from the dead to life and the parts of your bodies to God as weapons for righteousness. 14 For sin is not to have any power over you, since you are not under the law but under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Of course not! 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, although you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from the heart to the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted. 18 Freed from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness. P S A L M Psalms 124:1-3, 4-6, 7-8 R: Our help is in the name of the Lord. 1 Had not the LORD been with us, let Israel say, 2 had not the LORD been with us — when men rose up against us, 3 then would they have swallowed us alive. When their fury was inflamed against us. (R) 4 Then would the waters have overwhelmed us; the torrent would have swept over us; 5 over us then would have swept the raging waters. 6 Blessed be the LORD, who did not leave us a prey to their teeth. (R) 7 We were rescued like a bird from the fowlers’ snare; broken was the snare, and we were freed. 8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. (R) G O S P E L In this parable, Jesus shows that we are all stewards of what God has entrusted to us and, as such, we will be called to account for how we have performed. Jesus will return at a time we do not expect and will call us to give an account. Let us therefore ensure that we are faithful and trustworthy stewards and busy about the Lord’s business. ALLELUIA R: Alleluia, alleluia Stay awake! For you do not know when the Son of Man will come. R: Alleluia, alleluia Luke 12:39-48 39 Jesus said to his disciples: “Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. 40 You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.” 41 Then Peter said, “Lord, is this parable meant for us or for everyone?” 42 And the Lord replied, “Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the master will put in charge of his servants to distribute the food allowance at the proper time? 43 Blessed is that servant whom his master on arrival finds doing so. 44 Truly, I say to you, he will put him in charge of all his property. 45 But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk, 46 then that servant’s master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour and will punish him severely and assign him a place with the unfaithful. 47 That servant who knew his master’s will but did not make preparations nor act in accord with his will shall be beaten severely; 48 and the servant who was ignorant of his master’s will but acted in a way deserving of a severe beating shall be beaten only lightly. Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.” my reflections t h i n k : We can be set free from sin by submitting all our members (every part of ourselves) to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. God’s special verse/thought for me today________________ _________________________________________________________
T O D A Y ’ S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Micah 4-7 | |
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| | SABBATH | Ready and Prepared? We often hear and see on TV news about catastrophes that suddenly struck and killed many people in a matter of a few seconds. Remember the 45-second earthquake that devastated the capital of Haiti in January 2010? At least 300,000 people perished. We cannot forget September 11, 2000, when almost 3,000 people who worked in or visited the World Trade Center in New York, thinking about nothing but their work and what they would do in the evening at home, when terrorist planes crashed into the Twin Towers and killed them. We still remember the tsunami that killed tens of thousands in the vast area from Indonesia to India. We hear about suicide bombers, bomb attacks, typhoons, floods, plane crashes, sinking of ferries and so on. People died and we wonder how many of them were prepared to appear before God. I remember a song from my childhood years in Germany that was usually sung in church during funeral Masses. Translated, the first line said, “In the midst of our life we are surrounded by death…” The thought of sudden death should not make us morbid, of course. God wants us to enjoy life. But we should also be realistic and include death in our planner, as St. Benedict did. He told his monks to keep death daily before their eyes and walk with death as a friend and not as an enemy. St. Francis called death “sister bodily death.” Weird? Morbid? I don’t think so. Jesus tells us in today’s parable to be alert and always ready for the coming of the Master, because no one knows the day or the hour when we will be called to appear before God. Twelve days from now we will go out to the cemeteries and visit the tombs of our loved ones. Many make merry at the tombs, probably to avoid thinking about death. But our visit to the tombs could become a strong reminder of the shortness of life and the possibility of not being prepared when the Lord calls us. Fr. Rudy Horst, SVD Reflection Question: Am I afraid of death? Am I prepared and ready to face my Lord at the end of my life? Lord, Your parable is a very timely reminder of maybe the most important moment in my life — my death. Too often, I live as if life would go on forever. May You not find me unprepared but ready to enter eternal joy when my time comes. St. Charles Garnier, pray for us. | |
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