WORD 2day: 6th November, 2014

In mutual seeking
Phil 3: 3-8a; Lk 14: 15-25

The initial lines of the Gospel today say it all: the tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to Jesus and the pharisees were complaining. What really matters is not circumcision or not...but the relationship one has with the person of Christ.

Past glories, handed down traditions, legalistic requirements, ritual uprightness...these will not take you that far, however good and right and just they are. All that is expected of us is to get nearer and nearer, closer and closer,  more and more in personal relationship with God. God keeps looking out for us as presented in the parables in the Gospel- the shepherd and the woman! And when God knows our efforts God doubles it up with grace,  grace which comes in terms of our relationship with the person of Christ, before which everything else is trash.

WORD 2day: 5th November, 2014

Called Christian? Better be one!

Phil 2: 12-18; Lk 14:25-33

If you call yourself a Christian you better be one, says the Word today. You want to construct a tower but you don't want to procure the material; you want to fight the battle but you don't care to gather the soldiers; you want to be called a Christian but you don't want to take in all those things that makes up that name! What a shame! 

What does it take then, to be a Christian? 
To be a light when every one around is getting used to the darkness; to carry the cross with love when every one around you is waiting to shake off even an extra speck of dust on them; to be holy and blameless while everyone around is losing the very sense of those terms. That is what it takes to be a Christian!

O Lord Jesus Christ, give us the strength, the courage and the light to walk in your footsteps, carrying our crosses and and making a difference in every life we encounter. You are our light and our salvation.