DAY 146 OF 365 IN 2021 Mark 10:37-38 They replied, “Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in your glory.” “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said. “Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?” James and... Continue Reading →
LEAVING ALL BEHIND
Mark 10:28 Then Peter spoke up, "We have left everything to follow you!" We can sometimes try to make the words of others our own, likewise their experiences. Therefore, with Peter in the limelight today and ourselves also in the shoes as disciples, we would find it appropriate to want to also ask Jesus: with... Continue Reading →
HABERE EST HABERI
DAY 144 OF 365 IN 2021 Mark 10:21-22 Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." At this the man's face fell. He went away sad, because he had... Continue Reading →
BOLTED DOORS
DAY 143 OF 365 IN 2021 John 20:19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you! What was the highlight of this encounter should have been... Continue Reading →
BUSYBODIES
DAY 142 OF 365 IN 2021 John 21:22 Jesus replied, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? As for you, follow me.” The disciples today were overly interested in the words of Jesus, to an extent that they had to be told off for sticking their heads... Continue Reading →
IT TAKES MORE THAN ONE ‘YES’
DAY 141 OF 365 OF 2021 John 21:17 He asked him a third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was deeply hurt that he had asked him a third time, "Do you love me?" So he told him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you!" Jesus told him,... Continue Reading →
MADE WITH PERCEPTION
DAY 140 OF 365 IN 2021 Acts 23:6,7 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. And when... Continue Reading →
IN THE MIDST OF ENEMIES
DAY 139 OF 365 IN 2021 John 17:15 I'm not asking you to take them out of the world but to protect them from the evil one Sometimes, it does feel as though the only way out of a tough spot is to have the whole situation reset- back to a state where the difficulty... Continue Reading →
KNOWLEDGE OF HIM
When one wants to ask the question 'WHAT IS... ', there are no better persons to approach than experts on the matter. Thus, if we wanted to ask the question 'what is eternal life', there would be no go-to person than the author of life himself. We can trace our steps back to the popular... Continue Reading →