Message of 10-10-16

Published: Mon, 10/10/16

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Monday: October 10, 2016
Message of the Day
Refusing to accept God’s love because we’re unworthy - of course we’re unworthy! - is another golden calf.
- Madeleine L’Engle

(God loves us because God is loving, and delights in our accepting love. Open your heart to God this day.)
Readings of the Day
Gal 4:22-24, 26-27, 31-5:1;    Ps 113:1b-2, 3-4, 5a and 6-7

Lk 11:29-32

While still more people gathered in the crowd, Jesus said to them,
“This generation is an evil generation;
it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it,
except the sign of Jonah.
Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites,
so will the Son of Man be to this generation.
At the judgment 
the queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation
and she will condemn them,
because she came from the ends of the earth
to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
and there is something greater than Solomon here.
At the judgment the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation 
and condemn it,
because at the preaching of Jonah they repented,
and there is something greater than Jonah here.”
Reflection on the Scripture
“Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of the promise.”

We all fear failure and embarrassment and especially disappointing those who depend on our success. Even more, we live in trepidation of what we may actually be capable of if we achieve our potential. We dread the power of the possibility that we hold because we do not understand what demonstrating such competence means. We are scared of the expectations and responsibilities that such awesome promise holds. Most of us would rather go about our day-to-day existence in quiet obscurity. Yet we are not made for inconsequentiality. We are made for the greater glory of God, and with that comes amazing possibilities. We have been freed from the yoke of sin; we cannot be slaves to fear.

“For the courage to embrace the promise, we pray.”

- from preacherexchange.com

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

Book III: Christ
 
Chapter 11: Nature of the Redemption

366. The Son is also pure Being and the Creator and archetype of all being.

368. The Son alone possesses the mystical body and makes it alive in Himself, in the same way as He alone possesses His physical body and gives it life, as He Himself has life from the Father.

The sacred humanity mystically includes Christians.
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Christians must be truly one with the Son to the same degree as they are truly one with Christ.