WORD 2day: 30th May, 2017

Glorifying, in the Spirit

Tuesday after Ascension Sunday 

Acts 20: 17-27; Jn 17:1-11

People long  to be glorified today. The giant flexes and the wall paintings so keen about names and faces, the schemes announced and credits misappropriated... these are effects of this longing for glorification. Jesus declares, 'now is the time for the son of man to be glorified'... Paul looks for a glorification too; but this is a glorification  in the Spirit.

Jesus gets ready to take up the cross and Paul says the Spirit has foreshown  him sufferings and persecutions. Glorification in the Spirit would be accepting the will of God in total surrender, without trying to change it or adapt it to our convenience. The Spirit alone can empower us towards such a disposition.

WORD 2day: 29th May, 2017

The Graduation time

Monday after Ascension Sunday

Acts 19:1-8; Jn 16: 29-33

It is graduation time now...you ask a child this season - which class are you studying? You would get a typical reply, something like: fourth to fifth. smiling? Yes...it is graduation time.

In the Word today we see people graduating to the next levels...Paul introduces Apollos and others to the Holy Spirit; Jesus finds his disciples finally beginning to believe him. The call is the same to us today: as we have celebrated the feast of Ascension just yesterday, to graduate. To grow into people of the Spirit. The journey is begun, we would travel till coming sunday, reflecting towards being people of the Spirit. It is graduation time, we have to grow to the next level. We cannot just remain moderate and nominal Christians, we need to be Spirit filled Christians. Are we ready. Let us begin that week long journey today...towards being Spirit filled Christians!