Computer Cud      Vatican II asks us to read the Bible every day, 
 'to have a burning love'   for the Word of God           Resolution

This plan follows the Sunday liturgy:  reading + psalm + reading + gospel             
From  www.simplebible.info              Previous Bible Blogs

O Holy Spirit, may these passages give us hope, wisdom, compassion, courage and peace for our daily life           Chinese text

  Reading:  Deuteronomy 29-30

See, today I set before you life and prosperity,
death and disaster.

If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God,
if you love the Lord your God and follow his ways,
if you keep his commandments, his laws, his customs,
you will live and increase,
and the Lord your God will bless you
in the land which you are entering to make your own.

But if your heart strays, if you refuse to listen,
if you let yourself be drawn into worshipping other gods
and serving them,
I tell you today, you will most certainly perish;
you will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan
to enter and possess.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today:
I set before you life or death, blessing or curse.

Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants
may live in the love of the Lord your God,
obeying his voice, clinging to him.

For in this your life consists,
and on this depends your long stay in the land
which the Lord swore to your fathers
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob he would give them."

Reflection:
From our earliest days till the end of our days, our life is one long series of choices, from the moment we decide to wake up instead of sleep, to what we wear, what we eat, what we say, where we go, what we do ......and every little choice involves a fundamental choice: life or death.   e.g. I choose to look after my health ...I'm choosing life; I choose to neglect/abuse my health ...I'm choosing death

Prayer:  Dear Lord, please us in the little choices and decisions of each day to say yes to life and no to death

Reading: Psalm 7

Lord God, I take refuge in you.
Please rescue me from people who are trying to hurt me.

Lord, please stop bad people from doing bad things.
Please help good people to keep on doing good things.

Lord, I will sing to you and thank you for your goodness to me.

Reflection:
May government laws be improved to encourage goodness and avoid evil (e.g. US gun laws ....)

Prayer: Lord, please help us to avoid evil and to do good

Reading:  Hebrews 10

Remember all the suffering you experienced after you became  Christians
 - the insults and violence, the loss of your possessions

Don't give up now. Keep going in your Christian life.

You and I are not the sort of people who give up.
We are the sort of people who stay faithful until our souls are saved

Reflection: 
Once again Hebrews repeats its basic theme: "keep going; don't give up!"
 
Prayer:  Jesus, please help me keep going, despite difficulties

Reading:  John 3

Jesus said to the religious leader: "The Son of Man must be lifted up on a cross, as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him"

God loved the world so much, that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost, but may have eternal life  (Jn 3.16)

For God sent his Son into the world, not to condemn the world,
but so that through him the world might be saved

Reflection:
A colorful, but unbalanced character: the John 3.16 sign man.
(note the sad but humorous line: "During the 1986 World Series, Hockridge said that Stewart tried to choke her for standing in the wrong spot with a John 3:16 sign" !)

Prayer:  Jesus, only Son of God the Father, thank you for coming into this world. Please help more and more people believe in you