Daily Dose of God’s Glorious Love

April 21, 2019 Easter “ Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.” (Luke 24:1 NKJV) Easter and Christmas day are the two days it is easiest to experience God. On these days we see God directly acting for us in a very personal way. Both days allow us to experience the humanity and divinity of Jesus in a moment in time. Easter is so important the early Church move the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday! Yet it is very easy for us to miss this revelation of God by merely looking at what it means for us. We can be so caught up in the Babe and our resurrection to miss God’s desire and love for us. The women experienced the wonder of the resurrected Jesus just as the shepherds experienced the wonder God coming not only wrapped in cloth but in human flesh!!! The shepherds came to the manger and the women came to the tomb. The Benedictines of Mar

April 19, 2019 Good Friday “ 1 ¶ « To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Deer of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David. » My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning? 2 O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; And in the night season, and am not silent. 3 But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel. 4 Our fathers trusted in You; They trusted, and You delivered them. 5 They cried to You, and were delivered; They trusted in You, and were not ashamed. 6 But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised by the people. 7 All those who see Me ridicule Me; They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, 8 “He trusted in the LORD, let Him rescue Him; Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!” 9 But You are He who took Me out of the womb; You made Me trust while on My mother’s breasts. 10 I was cast upon You from birth. From My mother’s womb You have been My God. 11 ¶ Be not far from

April 18, 2019 Maunday Thursday “ 1 ¶ Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. 2 And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, 4 rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. 5 After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. 6 Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, “Lord, are You washing my feet?” 7 Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.” 8 Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash

April 14, 2019 Sixth Sunday in Lent – Liturgy of the Passion “ 5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. 9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:5-11 NKJV) If you want to truly understand what happened at the crucifixion of Jesus you must look at Psalm 22. To get a full description of Jesus you must look at Philippians 2. In this passage we can be

The Passion of Jesus God’s passion for us Passion is deeper love A love putting before A love that gives all A love which forgives A love that warns A love that guides A love that is Life A love desires good A love that is Truth A love that is scary A love unappreciated A love often unwanted A love willing to die so you can live again 4/7/2019

The journey is long and the road is hard the trail goes from easy to very difficult at times the trail will be flat and easy and then the trail climbs beyond sight then the trail will grow to be a trial The weariness sets in like a blanket enfolding, wrapping weighing down Not just our body but even our soul Hope can seem just out of our reach We must climb step-by-step trusting In the trail and the trails Creator as we climb soon the clouds get thinner in the light begins to shine to guide us we reach the peak standing in the light soon our body and soul are renewed We want to stay at the peak in comfort But the Creator beckons us to go The path which lies for us declines and we want to decline to go but the Creator pushes us forward and we descend into the clouds the trail going down is not easy At times it even seems harder our feet stumble threatening we Will pitch forward and fall down if we are not careful we will look down An

April 7, 2019 Fifth Sunday of Lent “ 4 ¶ though I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. 7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 ¶ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any m

The Passion of Jesus God’s passion for us Passion is deeper love A love putting before A love that gives all A love which forgives A love that warns A love that guides A love that is Life A love desires good A love that is Truth A love that is scary A love unappreciated A love often unwanted A love willing to die so you can live again 4/7/2019