OUR DAILY BREAD : FEVER PITCH
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 4:26 pmFebruary 28
Saturday
Matthew 22:34-40
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You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.
__Matthew 22:39
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In the movie Fever Pitch, Ben Wrightman is crazy about the Boston Red Sox baseball team. He rarely misses a game during the spring and summer months.
One winter, Ben falls in love with a young woman named Lindsey and wins her heart. Then spring rolls around, and she finds out that he's a different person during baseball season. He has no time for her unless she goes to the games with him.
When Lindsey ends her relationship with Ben because of his fanaticism, he talks with a young friend, who says, "You love the sox. But tell me, have they ever loved you back?" Those words caused Ben to analyze his priorities and to give more time to the woman he loves, who loves him back.
We pour our lives into hobbies, pleasures, activities, work--many good things. But two things should always be thought about when making our choices. Jesus said, "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart.... You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (Matt. 22:37,39).
When it seems our life is getting out of balance, the question, "Has that hobby or activity or thing ever loved me back?" may help to keep us in check. Loving God and loving people are what really count.
__Anne Cetas
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````````````Follow with reverent steps the great example````````````
``````````````Of Him whose holy work was doing good:`````````````
``````````So shall the wide earth seem our Father's temple``````````
```````````Each loving life a psalm of gratitude. __Whittier``````````
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We show our love for God
when we share His love with others.
**************Today's Bible Reading __ Matthew 22:34-40**********
34 But when the Pharisees
heard that He had silenced
the Sadducees, they
gathered together. 15 Then
one of them, a lawyer,
asked Him a question,
testing Him, and saying,
36 "Teacher, which is
the great commandment
in the law?"
37 Jesus said to him, " ' You
shall love the LORD your
God with all your heart,
with all your soul, and with
all your mind.' 38 This
is the first and great
commandment. 39 And
the second is like it: 'You
shall love your neighbor as
yourself.' 40 On these two
commandments hang all
the Law and the Prophets."
The Sadducees were members of a Jewish sect, which probably
dominated the Sanhedrin (Acts 5:17). Together with the Pharisees,
as part of the Sanhedrin, they plotted Jesus' death (Matt. 26:1-4,59;
Mark 15:1), and persecuted the early church (Acts 4:1-3; 5:17-18;
23:1-9). John the Baptist called them a "brood of vipers" (Matt.
3:7). Jesus called them "Hypocrites" and warned His disciples
agaisnt them (Matt. 16:2-6). The Sadduecees did not believe in the
resurrection of the dead or the immortality of the soul, and they
fought with the Pharisees over the resurrection of the dead (Acts
23:6-9). Sim Kay Tee
Saturday
Matthew 22:34-40
_______________________________________
You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.
__Matthew 22:39
_______________________________________
In the movie Fever Pitch, Ben Wrightman is crazy about the Boston Red Sox baseball team. He rarely misses a game during the spring and summer months.
One winter, Ben falls in love with a young woman named Lindsey and wins her heart. Then spring rolls around, and she finds out that he's a different person during baseball season. He has no time for her unless she goes to the games with him.
When Lindsey ends her relationship with Ben because of his fanaticism, he talks with a young friend, who says, "You love the sox. But tell me, have they ever loved you back?" Those words caused Ben to analyze his priorities and to give more time to the woman he loves, who loves him back.
We pour our lives into hobbies, pleasures, activities, work--many good things. But two things should always be thought about when making our choices. Jesus said, "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart.... You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (Matt. 22:37,39).
When it seems our life is getting out of balance, the question, "Has that hobby or activity or thing ever loved me back?" may help to keep us in check. Loving God and loving people are what really count.
__Anne Cetas
_____________________________________________________________
````````````Follow with reverent steps the great example````````````
``````````````Of Him whose holy work was doing good:`````````````
``````````So shall the wide earth seem our Father's temple``````````
```````````Each loving life a psalm of gratitude. __Whittier``````````
_____________________________________________________________
We show our love for God
when we share His love with others.
**************Today's Bible Reading __ Matthew 22:34-40**********
34 But when the Pharisees
heard that He had silenced
the Sadducees, they
gathered together. 15 Then
one of them, a lawyer,
asked Him a question,
testing Him, and saying,
36 "Teacher, which is
the great commandment
in the law?"
37 Jesus said to him, " ' You
shall love the LORD your
God with all your heart,
with all your soul, and with
all your mind.' 38 This
is the first and great
commandment. 39 And
the second is like it: 'You
shall love your neighbor as
yourself.' 40 On these two
commandments hang all
the Law and the Prophets."
The Sadducees were members of a Jewish sect, which probably
dominated the Sanhedrin (Acts 5:17). Together with the Pharisees,
as part of the Sanhedrin, they plotted Jesus' death (Matt. 26:1-4,59;
Mark 15:1), and persecuted the early church (Acts 4:1-3; 5:17-18;
23:1-9). John the Baptist called them a "brood of vipers" (Matt.
3:7). Jesus called them "Hypocrites" and warned His disciples
agaisnt them (Matt. 16:2-6). The Sadduecees did not believe in the
resurrection of the dead or the immortality of the soul, and they
fought with the Pharisees over the resurrection of the dead (Acts
23:6-9). Sim Kay Tee