Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Ordinary Time: Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Please remember the Hellums family in your prayers today.

Old Testament Lesson

1 Samuel 16:14-17:11

We see here that scene in the Bible where music can calm the savage beast. Saul is tormented, but even in this he is able to find some relief. There is, even in the darkest moments, some way that we can find relief and some mercy. No spot is beyond at least a little of God's grace. There is that great passage in Psalm 139 where David writes, where could I go from your presence, even if a make make bed in Sheol, there you are. Even in the darkest moments, God is there, if we can just have the grace to look around.

New Testament Lesson

Acts 10:17-33

In this passage we see how God is working in the lives of different people to bring about His plan. He is always at working, working in ways, and in people, that we don't understand, and can't even see. But, there comes a time when His plan begins to unfold that we say, oh, I see what He is doing there, and there, and there.

And all these different threads start to weave together a beautiful tapestry that only God could make.

Gospel Lesson

Luke 24:36-53

It says here that Jesus opened their minds to understand the scriptures. It was not that they had not read them before, it was that there minds had not been enlightened to understand what they had to say. We can read, we can hear, we can see. But, if our minds are not open to understand, we will not understand.

That is what Jesus did in this passage for the disciples. May He do the same for us as well.

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