A daily walk in faith, hope and love
Reference text: Mark 7:31-37 When the crowd in today's Gospel pointed out the deaf man with a speech impediment to Jesus, their request was for him to 'lay his hands on him'. Later in the text(vs 37) however, when this man is restored whole, the reaction of the same crowd is one of amazement, and... Continue Reading →
Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. We travel back to the book of the beginning where we see "LET THERE BE" as a recurring theme. That is a statement of permission - allowing things to happen. Why... Continue Reading →
Matthew 15:32 Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.” I read the whole text and the line that... Continue Reading →
Luke 19:46 It is written,” he said to them, “’My house will be a house of prayer’ but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’” A very unusual perspective came to mind while reading this Gospel. It begins with the text from 1 Corinthians 3:16 'Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple... Continue Reading →
Matthew 26:15-16 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him. The moment Judas set his heart on the price for betraying Jesus, the deed was already done.... Continue Reading →
Imagine giving a builder the housing plans from an architect only to realise that the entire building has been put up without a single component of the plan being taken into account? This is likely to be met with anger. This was the story of Israel with God when God reached out to Hosea in... Continue Reading →
DAY 73 OF 366 Matthew 1:19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. And wile he taught ok Today, we read about the birth of Jesus. However, the central character is Joseph, husband of Mary. Two things are of... Continue Reading →
DAY 131 John 15:10 If you keep My commandments [if you continue to obey My instructions], you will abide in My love and live on in it, just as I have obeyed My Father’s commandments and live on in His love. Keeping the commandments is not the same as keeping the law, for from the... Continue Reading →
DAY 116 John 6:38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. '"Today, I will do whatever I want and say whatever I want'. That sounds very much like a regular pep talk you might tell yourself at some point in... Continue Reading →
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