GOOD MORNING MY PEOPLE..AS WE EMBARK ON TODAYS HUSTLE,LETS TAKE TIME TO REFLECT ON THESE WORDS.remember,no matter how hard the road seem,we have a God who is more than ABLE.so cheer up and keep your faith alive.


Mass Reading & Meditation for August 25, 2014
Meditation: Matthew 23:13-22


Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees! (Matthew 23:13)

Aah, the Pharisees! We are all familiar with the many times they publicly harassed Jesus. It’s easy to let a quick reading of the Gospels give us a negative view of them. But who were they really?

The Pharisees came into existence just after the Maccabean Revolt around 175 b.c., when Jews were under intense pressure to abandon their faith and adopt Greek practices. The Pharisees were lay people, many of whom loved God and tried to help their people hold fast to the Law of Moses. In fact, the word “Pharisee” comes from a Hebrew word meaning “separate,” emphasizing their desire to stay pure.

By the beginning of the first century a.d., the Pharisees were an educated group who studied the Scriptures and taught their fellow Jews how to follow God’s laws. After the Temple was destroyed in a.d. 70, the Pharisees survived as the predominant Jewish religious group, and they are considered the precursors to modern Judaism.

This doesn’t sound too bad, does it? So what was the problem with the Pharisees? Some of them—not all—had a very hard time accepting the idea that Jesus could be the Messiah. He didn’t fit into their expectations of ritual purity Saint Louisor adherence to Jewish traditions. Many of them saw Jesus as a revolutionary whose new teachings threatened their people’s identity as the chosen race. Their zeal for the Law kept them from being open to the new thing God was doing through Jesus.

We can all fall prey to the same challenges that trapped these Pharisees. We can balk in the face of something that upends our comfortable ways of looking at God or our faith. We can hold on to our traditions so tightly that we aren’t open to God doing something new and exciting.

So the next time you see the Pharisees in the Gospels, try not to look down on them right away. Remember their devotion and their love of God’s Law. Remember their heroic efforts to preserve Judaism in a hostile culture. But remember, also, to keep your heart open to the eternal newness of God’s plan!

“Jesus, you loved the Pharisees just as much as you love everyone else—including me! Help me to put aside anything that keeps me from being open to you!”

2 Thessalonians 1:1-5, 11-12; Psalm 96:1-5

Greetings...


Ba3 low

woky: I'm the happiest person to see/have u here bro!
Feel free to come always, your contributions and prayers will be highly acknowledged..

This my first time of you seeing ur moniker... Welcm

Lol, you will most likely see it at the 'viewing this'. Less likely at the comments.

Rich4god: Lol... How can she turn nun when everything have been sealed... Abi dem dey axept married pple 4 monastry...

You never paid dowry

POPEII:

You never paid dowry

Na wetin she tell you....

@Salc... Hope you are ok... Being a long time...

babestell:
Sighs woefully !!!!
God please give our catholic boys the eyes to see!!

My dear sister...I(we) have been seeing it and I(we) knw the difference btw the two......

babestell: This is so ROMANTIC!!!!
striktlymi and musKeeto arguing over Catholic girls!!!
Our heroes saying the same thing in different languages.
This just brings tears to my eyes!
Whoever wins gets to take Kamsified out to dinner!!!

Why the tears na... You knw striky is just airing his own view....

striktlymi:

Fallacy of hasty generalisation!

Hope the bold is not your way of saying those you have dated are 'easy pickings' and gullible? I guess to Atheists, anyone who hold on strong to 'Christ' principles' is closed minded.

By the way its the company you probably keep. I have seen Pentecostal ladies that are more intelligent and better behaved than some of the Catholic girls I know.

Gbam!

jnrbayano:

Gbam!

Why you dey gbam him post na... Everyone to his own believe...

Rich4god: Why you dey gbam him post na... Everyone to his own believe...

I gbammed his post because I have had similar experience to his on the subject matter.

Quite house... Where is my zing...

KiddaBlingzz:

Hope all is well.... Abi plate too much for you to wash....

Hmm...Quite some interesting readings.

Good evening brethren, a pleasant day to you all.


SalC, do get well quick.

Hello all. God bless you all

jnrbayano on peeping mode...

Rich4god: jnrbayano on peeping mode...

How has your day bro?

babestell: Hello all. God bless you all

Udo diri gi

Good evening brethren. Hope we're all doing great

@salc if the physician be sick, what will the patients do na
Get well soon dearest

babestell: This is so ROMANTIC!!!!

striktlymi and musKeeto arguing over Catholic girls!!!

Our heroes saying the same thing in different languages.

This just brings tears to my eyes!

Whoever wins gets to take Kamsified out to dinner!!!

It'll be even more romantic if d winner prepares the diner

Rich4god: Quite house... Where is my zing...

Hello sweetie here I am

babestell: Hello all. God bless you all

Same to you dear

frodobee:
Lol, you will most likely see it at the 'viewing this'. Less likely at the comments.

No na. Viewing without commenting is prohibited joor

Ubenedictus: Greetings...


Ba3 low

you've missed o oga Uben
Hope you've bn fine

Good evening

*falls back to bed*

POPEII: Anambra kwenu oooo
I'm back

I missed u all, esp my PA and Sal c

How are you all doing ?

I've never bn far from you dearest
I greet you sir

hurricaneChris: Good evening

*falls back to bed*

@9.0clock

wonda26: Happy week ahead toy fellow brethren.

Same to you dearie. How have you bn?

KiddaBlingzz:

Hi sweerie. How was your day?

Jnrbayano!!!