I started with the intent to post something up everyday. I don’t always live up to that, but I do my best.
On the one hand, I totally understand that a spiritual discipline is supposed to be disciplined. But, on the other hand, like any spiritual discipline, slavishly sticking to routine can become a idol, bearing resentment instead of good fruit.
I wholeheartedly live into that tension.
9I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. 10All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. 11And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.
1After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, 2since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
(9)He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt: (10)”Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. (11)The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. (12)I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all my income.’ (13)But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast and saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’(14)I tell you, this man went down to his home justified rather than the other; for all who exalt themselves will be humbled, but all who humble themselves will be exalted.”
(10)I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, (11)if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
(27)Again Peter denied it, and at that moment the cock crowed.
(27)But truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God.
(15)All who hate a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them.
(25)Jesus answered, “I have told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name testify to me; (26)but you do not believe, because you do not belong to my sheep. (27)My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me.
(39)Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind.” (40)Some of the Pharisees near him heard this and said to him, “Surely we are not blind, are we?” (41)Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.”
(5)This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. (6)If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true; (7)but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
