Category: Bible Reading & Meditation
“Moses said to the people, ‘You have committed a grave sin. I will go up to the Lord.’ ” –Exodus 32:30 Moses “stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights without eating or drinking, till the Lord gave” him the Ten Commandments (Dt 9:9-10). When Moses came down the mountain, he saw the people adoring the golden calf. “With that, Moses’ wrath flared up, so that he threw the tablets down and broke them on the base of the mountain” (Ex 32:19). Then Moses went up the mountain again. “So Moses stayed there with the Lord for forty days...
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Jude 1:20-21 But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. (WEB) What does it mean to ‘keep ourselves in the love of God’? In 1 John 4:16, we read that ‘everyone who lives in love, lives in God and God in him’. In John 15:9, Jesus says this to His disciples… Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. (WEB) The call of the...
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“The people saw the sign He had performed.” –John 6:14 Jesus used the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fish to open the blinded eyes of His apostles. He said: “Are your minds completely blinded? Have you eyes but no sight? Ears but no hearing? Do you remember when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets of fragments you gathered up?” (Mk 8:17-19) “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Heb 13:8). Therefore, Jesus may well be using today’s Gospel reading to open our eyes and ears spiritually. Read today’s readings...
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Revelation 14:1 I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. (WEB) I am not a person who feels remotely qualified to explain the Book of Revelation. Much of it is a mystery to me and a book that I will leave to more equipped brothers and sisters in the faith to explain. However, today’s Bible reading caught my eye for a particular reason. I won’t try to unpack the meaning of the one hundred forty-four thousand...
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“The mother of Zebedee’s sons came up to Him accompanied by her sons, to do Him homage and ask of Him a favor.” –Matthew 20:20 The mother of James and John was an expert in “religious selfishness.” Many of us are also experts in this type of selfishness. When we pray, God answers with the question: “What is it you want?” (Mt 20:21) God, Who reads our hearts, knows that we sometimes pray not to get His will but our will, not to please Him as much as to please ourselves. Even when we pray for someone else, we’re still...
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