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If God be our God, He will give us peace in trouble. When there is a storm without, He will make peace within. The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble.
- Thomas
Watson
Let God's peace take root in you this day. |
Daily Readings
1 John 4:19–5:4
Psalm 72:1-2,
14 and 15bc, 17 Luke 4:14-22 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit,
and news of him spread throughout the whole region.
He taught in their synagogues and was praised by all. He came to Nazareth, where he had grown
up,
and went according to his custom
into the synagogue on the sabbath day.
He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah.
He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written:
The Spirit of the Lord is upon
me,
because he has anointed me
to bring glad tidings to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to
captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to proclaim a year
acceptable to the Lord. Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down,
and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him.
He said to them,
“Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.”
And all spoke highly of
him
and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth.
Praying the Daily Gospels: A Guide to Meditation, by Philip St. Romain, 2018 (3rd ed.) Luke 4:14-22 (Jesus at Nazareth) The Jewish synagogue was the place where people from the local community gathered to worship. As part of the service, people from the congregation were invited to read Scripture passages. Frequently the president of the synagogue invited distinguished guests to comment on the passages. It was often from that forum that Jesus addressed the Jews. • Although Jesus obviously disagreed with the manner in which many
aspects of Judaism were taught, he still went to the synagogue to worship with the people. What does this say to you about community and ~worship? • Spend some time with the verse “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me.” Pray for the grace to believe these words.
Treatise on the Love of God, by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) ____________ BOOK VI: OF THE EXERCISES OF LOVE IN PRAYER Chapter 11: A continuation of the discourse, touching the various degrees of Holy Quiet, and of an excellent abnegation of self which is sometimes practised
therein. Now this quiet, in which the will works not save only by a simple acquiescence in the divine good-pleasure, willing to be in prayer without any other aim than to be in the sight of God according as it shall please him, is a sovereignly excellent quiet, because it has no mixture of self-interest, the faculties of the soul taking no content in it, nor even the will save by its supreme point, in which its contentment is to
admit no other contentment but that of being without contentment for the love of the contentment and good-pleasure of its God, in which it rests. For in fine the height of love's ecstasy is to have our will not in its own contentment but in God's, or, not to have our contentment in our own will, but in God's.
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