Post by Woody Williams on Feb 6, 2008 8:39:42 GMT -5
Text for the Day -- Luke 6:17-21
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He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd
of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea,
Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him
and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with
unclean spirits were cured. And all in the crowd were trying to touch
him, for power came out from him and healed all of them.
Then he looked up at his disciples and said:
Blessed are you who are poor,
for yours is the kingdom of God.
Blessed are you who are hungry now,
for you will be filled.
Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.'
Devotional
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The beatitudes recorded in Luke are a bit different from those in
Matthew. They are couched in a scene of Jesus healing and delivering
people from sickness and evil. In that setting Jesus taught these
beatitudes that relate to a social situation of the human conditions
of poverty, suffering and hunger. These are the people who most
readily responded to Jesus. His teaching affirmed them, his healing
gave hope and his presence brought them joy. In Christ we are rich in
our poverty, comforted in our sorrow and fed in our hunger.
Prayer
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Help me live sharing with and caring for those trapped in hunger,
poverty and injustice gracious God. Amen
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He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd
of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea,
Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him
and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with
unclean spirits were cured. And all in the crowd were trying to touch
him, for power came out from him and healed all of them.
Then he looked up at his disciples and said:
Blessed are you who are poor,
for yours is the kingdom of God.
Blessed are you who are hungry now,
for you will be filled.
Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.'
Devotional
----------
The beatitudes recorded in Luke are a bit different from those in
Matthew. They are couched in a scene of Jesus healing and delivering
people from sickness and evil. In that setting Jesus taught these
beatitudes that relate to a social situation of the human conditions
of poverty, suffering and hunger. These are the people who most
readily responded to Jesus. His teaching affirmed them, his healing
gave hope and his presence brought them joy. In Christ we are rich in
our poverty, comforted in our sorrow and fed in our hunger.
Prayer
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Help me live sharing with and caring for those trapped in hunger,
poverty and injustice gracious God. Amen