Message of 7-1-25

Published: Tue, 07/01/25

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Tuesday: July 1, 2025

Forum on Christianity and Spirituality
July 3, 2025, 7:30 p.m. CDT

Topic: Meditation and Contemplative Prayer

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Message of the Day

We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.
--Oswald Chambers

Letting God be God . . . What a relief!

But what is yours to do these days?

Readings of the Day

Genesis 19:15-29
Psalm 26:2-3, 9-10, 11-12

Matthew 8:23-27

Jesus got into the boat followed by his disciples. Without warning a storm broke over the lake, so violent that the waves were breaking right over the boat. But he was asleep. So they went to him and woke him saying, ‘Save us, Lord, we are going down!’ And he said to them, ‘Why are you so frightened, you men of little faith?’ And with that he stood up and rebuked the winds and the sea; and all was calm again. The men were astounded and said, ‘Whatever kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him.’

USCCB lectionary

Reflection on the Scripture

“Jesus “got into the boat and His disciples followed Him.” —Matthew 8:23

After the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus decided to take the disciples on a tour with Him. It was a healing, miracle, and deliverance tour. The disciples saw a leper cleansed, the centurion’s servant healed of paralysis, Peter’s mother-in-law healed of a fever, a storm stopped, two men delivered from demons, a paralytic cured, the daughter of Jairus raised from the dead, a woman who had hemorrhaged for twelve years cured, two blind men given sight, and a mute delivered of a demon and enabled to speak (Mt 8:1—9:34). What a tour!

The disciples were sightseers on this tour. At its conclusion, Jesus asked His disciples to pray for tour guides, that is, workers for the harvest (Mt 9:38). They became the answer to their own prayers and were given the authority to do what they had just seen Jesus do (Jn 14:12).

Jesus gave His apostles “authority to expel unclean spirits and to cure sickness and disease of every kind” (Mt 10:1). Additionally, the Holy Spirit has given many Christians gifts to do great works for the common good (Rm 12:6-8; 1 Cor 12:4-11).Yet many Christians don’t believe Him. We should first go on tour with Jesus and see His mighty works. Then we will believe His promises. Obey Him. Come, see, conquer.

Prayer: Jesus, open my eyes to Your almighty power and love.

Promise: “You have already thought enough of Your servant to do me the great kindness of intervening to save my life.” —Gn 19:19

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Spiritual Reading

The Practice of the Presence of God: The Best Rule of Holy Life, by Brother Lawrence (1611 - 1691). Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
https://ccel.org/ccel/lawrence/practice/practice

Ninth Letter

Enclosing a letter to a corresponding sister, whom he regards with respect tinged with fear. * His old theme concisely put.

Since by His mercy He gives us still a little time, let us begin in earnest, let us repair the lost time, let us return with a full assurance to that FATHER of mercies, who is always ready to receive us affectionately. Let us renounce, let us generously renounce, for the love of Him, all that is not Himself; He deserves infinitely more. Let us think of Him perpetually. Let us put all our trust in Him: I doubt not but we shall soon find the effects of it, in receiving the abundance of His grace, with which we can do all things, and without which we can do nothing but sin.

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