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Grace, mercy and peace…

2 John 1:3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. (WEB) Grace, mercy, peace, truth and love. These are five amazing benefits of being joined with both the Father and the Son. Each one of these heavenly attributes are part of your birthright. You don’t have to earn them or deserve them. They belong to you because you belong to Jesus. If we struggle with the concept of inheritance, we may struggle to receive all that God wants to give...

THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR

“So Moses stayed there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights.” –Exodus 34:28 Moses would meet God at a certain tent, and “the column of cloud would come down and stand at its entrance while the Lord spoke with Moses…the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as one man speaks to another” (Ex 33:9, 11). Many Christians today would like to trade places with Moses because he had such direct communication with the Lord. But Moses would have liked to trade places with us because in the new covenant we have much greater opportunities for...

TWICE AS FAST

“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...

Keep yourselves in the love of God…

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...

THE MIRACLE OF MULTIPLYING MIRACLES

“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...