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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Proverbs 3:5-6, 1 Corinthians 6:1-11, Luke 6:12-19, Psalm 149:1-6 & 9


Proverbs:3:5-6
Trust in Yahweh with all your heart; do not rely on your own insight. Let His Presence pervade all your ways and He will protect your foot from the snare.

My Beloved, thank You from the depths of my heart for this timely piece of advice. This is the second time You have spoken to me through this verse.  Each time I needed to be reminded that I need to rely on You and trust You, lest, relying on my own wisdom, I stumble on my own stupidity.

1 Corinthians 6:1-11
1 When you have a complaint against a brother, how dare you bring it before pagan judges instead of bringing it before God’s people? 2 Do you not know that you shall one day judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you incapable of judging such simple problems?
3 Do you not know that we will even judge the angels? And could you not decide every day affairs? 4 But when you have ordinary cases to be judged, you bring them before those who are of no account in the Church! 5 Shame on you! Is there not even one among you wise enough to be the arbiter among believers?  But no. One of you brings a suit against another one, and files that suit before unbelievers. 7 It is already a failure that you have suits against each other. Why do you not rather suffer wrong and receive some damage? 8 But no. You wrong and injure others, and those are your brothers and sisters. 9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Make no mistake about it: those who lead sexually immoral lives, or worship idols, or who are adulterers, perverts, sodomites, 10 or thieves, exploiters, drunkards, gossips or embezzlers will not inherit the kingdom of heav¬en. 11 Some of you were like that, but you have been cleansed and consecrated to God and have been set right with God by the Name of the Lord Jesus and the Spirit of our God. 

St. Paul is very, very clear about how Christians must live with each other. We are called to live in harmony and filial love for each other.  He reminds us that we are all sinners who have been saved and set right with God by Jesus and His Holy Spirit. 

Luke 6:12-19
12 At this time Jesus went out into the hills to pray, spending the whole night in prayer with God. 13 When day came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them whom he called apostles: 14 Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James and John; Philip and Bartholomew; 15 Matthew and Thomas; James son of Alpheus and Simon called the Zealot; 16 Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who would be the traitor.17 Coming down the hill with them, Jesus stood on a level place. Many of his disciples were there and a large crowd of people who had come from all parts of Judea and Jerusalem and from the coastal cities of Tyre and Sidon. 18 They gathered to hear him and be healed of their diseases; likewise people troubled by evil spirits were healed. 19 The entire crowd tried to touch him because of the power that went out from him and healed them all.

Beloved, here is a blueprint for living - we pray, uniting our will with Yours and then, filled with Your Holy Spirit, we must plunge into our daily activities and spread the fragrance of Your love wherever we go.  Our presence must be a blessing to each life we touch.

Psalm 149:1-6
1 Alleluia!
Sing to the Lord a new song,
sing his praise in the assembly of his saints.
2 Let Israel rejoice in his Maker,
let the people of Zion glory in their King!
3 Let them dance in praise of his name
and make music for him with harp and timbrel.
4 For the Lord delights in his people;
he crowns the lowly with victory.
5 The saints will exult in triumph;
even at night on their couches.
6 Let the praise of God be on their lips,
and in their hands two-edged swords,
9 to execute on them the written sentence:
this is the glory of all his saints. Alleluia!


 The Psalmist reminds us that we must love with a song on our lips and praise in our hearts.  We are called to be joyful in the Lord and our mouths must be filled with the weapon of His Word in order to refute the worldly wise and encourage the little ones.  We are called to be Your glory and Your light in the dark places.

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