John 6:35 - Jesus our Lord is the Bread of Life
Monday, February 25, 2013
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. (John 6:35 KJV)
What I've learned about this verse is that, no matter what you do as long as you put Jesus our God in it you will never be abandoned by God. He will always be there for you, to guide you to make the things run smoothly.
I remembered when I have been working hard and because I was so busy that I forgot about God. Yes I have been receiving a good pay but I completely forgotten God. Then I realized that with my work I always feel tired, I cannot concentrate on every day that I am doing my job. My salary went to nothing because I spent them with nothing. Nothing in the sense that it never satisfies me.
You may think that I was enjoying every stuff I bought with the pay I received, you may think that I am satisfied with the food I ate at the fancy restaurant then pretend that I didn't see those street children on the road without something to eat.
I was wrong to forgot God in my life everyday, I was so selfish to not remember Him during my abundant days and then only calls Him during my down moment.
Now, I just realized that we need to put God always in our everyday lives. With Him everyday will seem to be very light, so happy, so content I am. By having God everyday will make you safe in what you do. Having God will teach you and guide you to do good. Having God will make everything perfect.
So, just call on Him and live a life with Jesus and he will guide you. There is nothing impossible with the Lord. Call upon Him and you will never get hungry or thirsty. Always live your life with our Lord God and you will realize that life is not so complicated at all.
This, rather, is the fasting that I wish. - Isaiah 58:6
Thursday, February 14, 2013
We should not just look at our personal sins and repent of them, but we should also examine the structures of our society. We should eliminate those that do not facilitate the respect of human dignity, and replace them with those that will. Structural sin may not be easily changed, but that does not mean we should give in to it. We need to work against all sin in the world, doing what we can where we can.
Isaiah 58:1-9
1 Thus says the Lord God: Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like a trumpet blast; tell my people their wickedness, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2 They seek me day after day, and desire to know my ways, like a nation that has done what is just and not abandoned the law of their God; they ask me to declare what is due them, pleased to gain access to God. 3 Why do we fast, and you do not see it? Afflict ourselves, and you take no note of it?” Lo, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits, and drive all your laborers. 4 Yes, your fast ends in quarreling and fighting, striking with wicked claw. Would that today you might fast so as to make your voice heard on high! 5 Is this the manner of fasting I wish, of keeping a day of penance that a man bow his head like a reed, and lie in sackcloth and ashes? Do you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord? 6 This, rather, is the fasting that I wish: releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs of the yoke; setting free the oppressed, breaking every yoke; 7 sharing your bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless; clothing the naked when you see them, and not turning your back on your own. 8 Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your wound shall quickly be healed; your vindication shall go before you, and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. 9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer, you shall cry for help, and he will say, “Here I am!”
Dear God, I pray that my spiritual discipline and obedience to my religious obligations lead me to the point of it all — to love You and others more. Amen.
St. Claude la Colombiere, pray for us.
