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Thursday, February 14, 2008
Editor's Note:
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This week Phil is in Uganda, Africa with 15 other bloggers
who are seeing first-hand the work of Compassion International.
You can read the moving story of Phil personally meeting
Doreen, the little girl his family sponsors:
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He is posting updates from his trip on his blog:
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Please prayerfully consider taking part in this effort!
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Angry Eyes
Jesus said to the man with the crippled hand, "Stand up here
so that all the people can see you." Then Jesus asked the
people, "Which thing is right to do on the Sabbath day: to do
good, or to do evil? Is it right to save a life or to destroy
one?" The people said nothing to answer Jesus. Jesus looked
at the people. He was angry. But he felt very sad because
they were stubborn. Jesus said to the man, "Let me see your
hand." The man put his hand out for Jesus, and it was healed.
-- Mark 3:3-5 (ERV)
KEY THOUGHT:
Jesus becomes angry with his critics because they had lost the whole
sense of the Sabbath. Instead of making the Sabbath a day to bless and
refresh God's human creations, they had made it a day full of rules to
the point of harming people. Jesus is angry and disturbed because of
their hard hearts and their inability to see how they had perverted
something God had intended for good. When religion goes astray, when
what is called faith becomes a tool for hurting those whom God intends
to bless, then it must be confronted. That is precisely what Jesus
does!
TODAY'S PRAYER:
Father in Heaven, please never let my heart become hardened because of
my religious zeal. I want to be passionate in my faith, but I never
want to become so blind that I distort your will and end up hurting
those you want to bless. Keep my heart soft -- open to you and to those
whom you want me to touch with your grace. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
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