Category: Bible Reading & Meditation
“Why, then, did you not fear to speak against My servant Moses?” –Numbers 12:8 “Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses” (Nm 12:1). “So angry was the Lord against them that when He departed, and the cloud withdrew from the tent, there was Miriam, a snow-white leper!” (Nm 12:9-10) ” ‘Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,’ says the Lord” (Rm 12:19). The Lord stands up for His people. He takes personally any attack on us. Remember that Jesus flattened Saul and said: “Saul, why do you persecute Me?” (Acts 9:4) when Saul went after the Church. Because the Lord avenges His...
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Titus 3:4-7 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior; that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. (WEB) There is no greater expression of the Father’s love than when Jesus came to earth two thousand years ago and dwelt among us. That is...
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“If this is the way You will deal with me, then please do me the favor of killing me at once, so that I need no longer face this distress.” –Numbers 11:15 The Israelites were willing to give up their freedom because they felt that the Egyptian food was tastier than God’s miraculous manna (Nm 11:4ff). Moses was willing to give up living rather than carry the burden of a complaining people (Nm 11:15). Esau gave up his birthright rather than be hungry a few minutes longer (Gn 25:30ff). Demas gave up loving and serving the Lord in favor of...
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Hebrews 12:7-10 7 It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children. 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit,...
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“I Myself am the Bread of life.” –John 6:35 Do you believe that Jesus is “truly, really and substantially” present in Holy Communion? (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1374) Before Jesus revealed that He would give us His body and blood in Communion, He performed the amazing miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fish (Jn 6:11ff). Then Jesus walked on the water (Jn 6:19ff). In this context of miracles, Jesus declared: “My flesh is real food and My blood real drink” (Jn 6:55). Under these circumstances, you would think we would believe anything the Lord said, even if...
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