Please join our new Mentor 123 campaign starting this coming Easter Sunday, March 31, 2013!
What you need to do is to find two more people meeting once a week for three months, encouraging each others to have daily devotion - a daily intimate personal relationship with Jesus!
To create a momentum to this new yearly campaign I am going to start a new blog and podcast on that day. I will direct my two blogs and podcasts to that new site to have a 40 days BREAK.BUILD daily devotion. For a preliminary format please go to this site: http://www.breakbuild.blogspot.ca/ .
You can see the layout and titles of all 40 days. Come on , let's get two more people to start a daily tasting of Jesus wonderful banquet specially prepared for us!
Today's Reading: Luke 17: 1-10
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Please click this link to read Luke 17: 1-10
Bible Study
This passage is to tell us what could we become when we follow the true Master and not a wrong master or masters.
We know well of what we could become if we follow a wrong master or masters. It should be pride, self-centered, greed, lust, anger, unforgiving, insecure, hatred, control, restless ... and many more you can name right now.
There are many good characters come out for those who follow the true Master, here we find one: humility, true humility.
N.T. Wright says:
Christian leaders and teachers need this warning on a regular basis. It is possible for them to do and say things which make others think, 'Well, if that's how God's representatives behave, I suppose the whole thing's a waste of time!' How can you avoid putting someone in that situation? Humility.
Or what about the call for repeated forgiveness? How easy to take the moral high ground: I haven't done anything wrong, so if I choose to forgive you that makes me superior to you. Then, once I've enjoyed exercising that position once or twice, it's time to draw back a bit. Why should I go on giving you all that freedom?
Jesus' approach is utterly different. When you forgive someone, you are making yourself their servant, not their master...
Finally, the shocking lesson that all we do, even the hard work we do for God, never for a moment puts God in our debt. How often do we hear it said: I've done all this, I've given all that money, I've worked so hard - surely God will be satisfied with that? The answer is that all genuine service to God is done from gratitude, not to earn anything at all.
If you are really following the true Master, then true humility will surely happen as one of those Godly character in you. Then, when people see you they see the grace of God in you, they see Jesus in you!
We know well of what we could become if we follow a wrong master or masters. It should be pride, self-centered, greed, lust, anger, unforgiving, insecure, hatred, control, restless ... and many more you can name right now.
There are many good characters come out for those who follow the true Master, here we find one: humility, true humility.
N.T. Wright says:
Christian leaders and teachers need this warning on a regular basis. It is possible for them to do and say things which make others think, 'Well, if that's how God's representatives behave, I suppose the whole thing's a waste of time!' How can you avoid putting someone in that situation? Humility.
Or what about the call for repeated forgiveness? How easy to take the moral high ground: I haven't done anything wrong, so if I choose to forgive you that makes me superior to you. Then, once I've enjoyed exercising that position once or twice, it's time to draw back a bit. Why should I go on giving you all that freedom?
Jesus' approach is utterly different. When you forgive someone, you are making yourself their servant, not their master...
Finally, the shocking lesson that all we do, even the hard work we do for God, never for a moment puts God in our debt. How often do we hear it said: I've done all this, I've given all that money, I've worked so hard - surely God will be satisfied with that? The answer is that all genuine service to God is done from gratitude, not to earn anything at all.
If you are really following the true Master, then true humility will surely happen as one of those Godly character in you. Then, when people see you they see the grace of God in you, they see Jesus in you!
Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"
Spiritual Journal
What I heard from Jesus today is: True humility comes when following the true Master!
What I received from Jesus today is a spiritual check-up for all of us. Are you in the process of living out this true humility as Jesus described. If not, then you must be following a wrong master. Or, most of the time, we become that master who wants to control everyone and everything! How sad!
Let's rise up to become faithful servants of Jesus that we can humbly do the plowing, shepherding and preparing as our Master commands us to do. And, we live out that true humility which comes out so naturally from following the true Master, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Let's rise up to become faithful servants of Jesus that we can humbly do the plowing, shepherding and preparing as our Master commands us to do. And, we live out that true humility which comes out so naturally from following the true Master, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Dear Lord Jesus,
Lead us to be willing to follow you so that we can live out true humility and others can taste that sweetness of the fruit of true humility to glorify your holy name. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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Israel Study Tour Highlight DAY 6 :
Wailing Wall, the place where the temple was and now the Muslim Golden Shrine, Jerusalem city underground tunnel, far view of Mount Olive(The place of Ascension, Great Commission and the place where Jesus will come back), the place of the coming of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2(Day of Pentecost), continue celebration on the streets in the National Feast of Purim(Esther 9:17-26)
