Message of 7-13-15

Published: Mon, 07/13/15

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Monday: July 13, 2015
Message of the Day
Measure not God’s love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.
- Richard Sibbes

(Faith transcends feelings. "Blessed are those who believe without seeing.")
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Readings of the Day
EX 1:8-14, 22;    PS 124:1-8;    MT 10:34—11:1

R. Our help is in the name of the Lord.

Had not the LORD been with us–
let Israel say, had not the LORD been with us–
When men rose up against us,
then would they have swallowed us alive,
When their fury was inflamed against us. 

Then would the waters have overwhelmed us;
The torrent would have swept over us;
over us then would have swept 
the raging waters.
Blessed be the LORD, who did not leave us
a prey to their teeth. 

We were rescued like a bird 
from the fowlers’ snare;
Broken was the snare, 
and we were freed.
Our help is in the name of the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.

USCCB lectionary
Reflection on the Scripture
"Come, let us deal shrewdly with them to stop their increase." –Exodus 1:10

We live in a modern-day Egypt. We need new Daniels to speak out against this corruption (Dn 13:45ff), new Johns to boldly confront sexual immorality (Mk 6:18), and new Paul’s to call society to purity and holiness (1 Tm 4:12). We need people to love Jesus more than anyone or anything (Mt 10:37). We need to use the weapons of prayer and fasting to destroy Satan's strongholds in the bedroom (2 Cor 10:4-5). Rescue those held in Satan's snare (Ps 124:7). Offer your body to Jesus as a weapon for righteousness (Rm 6:13).

PRAYER: Jesus, I will spend my life proclaiming You as Lord with my words and by my lifestyle.

PROMISE: "He who brings himself to nought for Me discovers who he is." –Mt 10:39

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Spiritual Reading
Theological Gems from Emile Merch's Theology of the Mystical Body
- selected by Jim and Tyra Arraj

Book I: Theological and Philosophical Introduction

Chapter 4: Unity: The Human Consciousness of Christ and the Consciousness of Christians

76. Consciousness is a possession of oneself in oneself, a perfect identity of being with himself.

To be conscious is the same as to be.

Knowledge of being, hence true knowledge, is impossible without self-knowledge.
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