Lord I am learning, I am growing forgive me now my shortcomings. Yes Lord I have taken Your love for me and my loved ones for granted. All that is good comes from You and through You; yet I often seem to thank only those who bore the gifts or good tidings.
I realise now that offering Praise and thanksgiving is more for me than it is for You. Foremost it is a sign of worship of a loving God. (not of human beings, idols of myself) Then also it, is a result of me being in union with my God.
Reading Your Word daily and understanding Your Will for us through the Scriptures is very, very important but still not as important as growing in our relationship with You, through quiet time in prayer and worship.
Afterall it is only through the relationship that we are able to hear Your heart, Your Word most clearly. It further leads us to live holy righteous lives. And the prayers of a righteous person can accomplish much (James 5:16);so let pray for one another, especially those we see who are in need. Amen
FIRST READING
Exodus 32:7–14
GOSPEL
John 5:31–47
Jesus said to the Jews:
“If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not true. But there is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that the testimony he gives on my behalf is true. You sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth. I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved. He was a burning and shining lamp, and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light. But I have testimony greater than John’s. The works that the Father gave me to accomplish, these works that I perform testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me. Moreover, the Father who sent me has testified on my behalf. But you have never heard his voice nor seen his form, and you do not have his word remaining in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he has sent. You search the Scriptures, because you think you have eternal life through them; even they testify on my behalf. But you do not want to come to me to have life.
“I do not accept human praise; moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you. I came in the name of my Father, but you do not accept me; yet if another comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God? Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father: the one who will accuse you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope. For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
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