Daily Bible Reflections
for September 6, 2022
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Dear Friend,

God has a great plan for your life including this Tuesday.

Praying for you,

Bo Sanchez



6
September
Tuesday
TODAY'S READINGS:

DIDACHE | COMPANION | SABBATH
DIDACHE

DECIDE
If you have such matters to resolve . . . – 1 Corinthians 6:4 (NCB)

I read somewhere about a great warrior who had to make a crucial decision to ensure success in battle. He had a powerful enemy whose army outnumbered his own. After arriving at enemy shores and unloading all their equipment, the great warrior ordered his army to burn all their boats. He said to his men, “We cannot leave these shores alive unless we win . . . We win, or we perish!” Without an exit strategy, they fought for their lives and won.

If a person wants to win, one must be willing to burn his ships and remove all options for retreat.

As a strengths coach, I have encountered many people “deciding to be undecided.” How? By not making a firm choice on a course of action and eliminating all other alternatives. By doing this, they sabotage themselves and give themselves room to fail. They end up not getting the results they so desperately want but are unwilling to take the risk. You will never know if a decision is right or wrong until you decide to decide. J Yogawin (coachj@jyogawin.com)


reflect

Choose. Cut off all your excuses. Decide.

Lord, grant me the wisdom, discernment, and courage to choose You and Your will.


Saint Dionysius, pray for us.

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COMPANION

First Reading | 1 Corinthians 6:1-11

Paul is indignant that a member of the Corinthian community has sued another. Those in conflict should sort out their differences through dialogue rather than dragging the name of the Christian community by taking the problem to the secular courts. Let this be a warning for us to seek a more conciliatory means of working out our differences within the Christian community instead of resorting to secular courts of law.

1 Brothers and sisters: How can any one of you with a case against another dare to bring it to the unjust for judgment instead of to the holy ones? 2 Do you not know that the holy ones will judge the world? If the world is to be judged by you, are you unqualified for the lowest law courts? 3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? Then why not everyday matters? 4 If, therefore, you have courts for everyday matters, do you seat as judges people of no standing in the Church? 5 I say this to shame you. Can it be that there is not one among you wise enough to be able to settle a case between brothers? 6 But rather brother goes to court against brother, and that before unbelievers? 7 Now indeed then it is, in any case, a failure on your part that you have lawsuits against one another. Why not rather put up with injustice? Why not rather let yourselves be cheated? 8 Instead, you inflict injustice and cheat, and this to brothers. 9 Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor sodomites 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the Kingdom of God. 11 That is what some of you used to be; but now you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.


Responsorial Psalm | Psalm 149:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 9

R: The Lord takes delight in his people.

1 Sing to the Lord a new song of praise in the assembly of the faithful. 2 Let Israel be glad in their maker, let the children of Zion rejoice in their king. (R) 3 Let them praise his name in the festive dance; let them sing praise to him with timbrel and harp. 4 For the Lord loves his people, and he adorns the lowly with victory. (R) 5 Let the faithful exult in glory; let them sing for joy upon their couches; 6 let the high praises of God be in their throats. 9 This is the glory of all his faithful. Alleluia. (R)


Gospel | Luke 6:12-19

Jesus often retires to the hills to pray. He, the Son of God, is committed to prayer and is faithful to the Father. It is interesting to watch young couples in love and see how they try to maximize their time with one another. If we can do it for the love of another human being, why do we find it so difficult to do it for the love of God?

Gospel Acclamation

I chose you from the world that you may go and bear fruit that will last, says the Lord.

12 Jesus departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. 13 When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles: 14 Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, 15 Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot, 16 and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. 17 And he came down with them and stood on a stretch of level ground. A great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon 18 came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and even those who were tormented by unclean spirits were cured. 19 Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them all.


Reflect:
“The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day.” (Adrian Rogers)

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SABBATH

Better Be Kind

In the First Reading today, Paul berates the Corinthian community. He founded that community about 51 A.D. and just five years later, he hears of the disunity and legal battles disrupting its harmony. He was disappointed that they immediately resorted to the strong arm of justice in pagan courts instead of relying on the gentle wings of love within the community: “If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord’s people? Or do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!”

The key here is the word “immediately.” Paul expects the Christians to rules their lives not only by the force of law, but first and foremost by the force of love. This is what will distinguish them from the rest of the unbelievers. Paul is recommending here a virtue that should characterize the Christian community - that it is more important to be kind than to be right.

I remember once being invited to bless the house of a family. I immediately noticed that the house was “minimalist” not by style but by economic consequence. The family was poor and there was barely furniture beyond the necessary. After the blessing, they handed me an envelope as stipend. I cordially refused it. By Canon Law, ministers are to be given a stipend for their ministerial services. Although by law and practice it was “right,” I felt it would be unkind to take it in that situation. I wanted to be kind more than right. I felt so much better afterwards.

There are people who are right but not kind. There are people whose lives are ruled solely by the force of law and not by the force of love. Justice is the minimum of love, while love is the perfection of justice. Remember the call of Jesus: “Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect” (Matthew 5:48). Fr. Joel O. Jason


reflection question

What force rules your life right now—the force of law or the force of Christian love?

Lord Jesus, You do not deal with us as our sins deserve. Help us not so much to be right as to be kind. Amen.

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