Gods Message For You Today, October 24, 2014 Daily Bible Reflections for October 24, 2014 ------------------------------------------------ May you be guided by His directions this Friday! ------------- DIDACHE ------------- MATURITY IN SERVICE Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. – Ephesians 4:2 Let me tell you a story of two people I know. We’ll call the first one Xerxes and the other one Leo. Both of them serve the Lord. But Xerxes has this tendency to think that his service will only be maximized depending on what leadership position he has in the ministry. It saddens me every time I hear Xerxes angry or frustrated with someone because he has relationship problems in ministry. On the contrary, Leo is just astounding. He’s a person who I believe is more talented than me but doesn’t throw his weight around. He gives his 100 percent in everything that is assigned to him. He focuses on enjoying his service and loving the people around him. I’m excited for him because people love him and he just reflects the true meaning of the word “disciple.” Being a Christian is more than being the main speaker or the best singer. It’s about being Jesus to somebody. JPaul Hernandez (jpaulmh@yahoo) Reflection: What kind of Christian are you? Jesus, teach me to have a heart like Yours so that I can be a great disciple. Amen. St. Anthony Mary Claret, bishop, pray for us. ------------- COMPANION ------------- think: No matter how smart or knowledgeable we may be, we cannot achieve the gift of eternal life through our own efforts. T O D A Y’S BLESSING LIST Thank You Lord for: __________________ ______________________________________ God’s special verse/thought for me today _____________________________________________ READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Song of Songs 1-4 ------------- SABBATH ------------- INTERPRETING THE TIMES Farmers who are close to the soil and to nature can teach us so many lessons. They look at the patterns in the world of nature and adjust their sowing and planting accordingly. They are experts at interpreting the times. But life being what it is, a complex but supposedly an integrated whole, we need to grow in our capacity for attunement to everything that goes on — be it on the natural and the supernatural planes. Farmers and fisher folk ought to be attuned to weather patterns. Not to do so could prove disastrous and can cause not just the loss of a livelihood, but also precious human life. I remember hiking up a mountain together with some seminarians from Papua New Guinea many years ago. Coming as they did from a mostly undeveloped place, they were very much at home in the forest. They knew how to read “signs” in things that I didn’t even notice before. It was not a problem for them to find their way through thick thickets and unbeaten tracks, like it was second nature to them. They were experts at interpreting the signs and the times. Many of us now are co-opted by so many conflicting ideologies. In our times marked by complexity and pluralism, whatever is the latest, whatever is mouthed by the most popular showbiz personality is taken hook, line and sinker by the unsuspecting masses, possibly including those who are highly educated. Mainstream media, owned and managed by the same ruling elite, are the contemporary times’ tool for mass manipulation. The times call for more than just shallow attunement. They call, too, more importantly, for attachment — to objective truth, first and foremost. Said truth may not necessarily be what is conveyed by the mainstream and popular media. But we need to be wise and prudent, and work for both attunement and attachment to Him who is Lord of all times and seasons. Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB REFLECTION QUESTION: How attuned are you to the Lord? Grant me the grace to be faithful in listening to Your will for me every day, Lord. -------------------------------------------------------- This reflection is courtesy of Kerygma Family, whose website is located at: kerygmafamily
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 04:05:00 +0000
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