Now we have to shape what some have started calling; The Church at Home. Although I keep asking myself; What do those who do not have a home do? For this reason, at the same time, I am declaring today in our Holyrood Church a Lenten day of prayer, fasting and reading the Bible in the Time of the Coronavirus.
Devotional life
Submitted by holyroodchurch on January 24, 2020 - 09:33
Happy Friday and blessings.
Today I want to reflect in a reading from Psalm 119;169 that says: Let my cry come before you, O Lord; give me understanding according to your word. This scripture is a reminder that the devotional life in discipleship is a dynamic part of the relationship with God. It encourages us to be sure our devotions never become commonplace.
Daily devotions are a phrase used to denote the discipline of Bible reading and prayer with which Christians start or end their day. Bible reading in daily devotions can take the form of a structured study using a devotional book or a simple reading of certain passages. Some people like to read through the Bible in a year. Prayer in daily devotions can include any or all of the different types of prayer—praise, confession, thanksgiving, petition, and intercession. Some people use prayer lists for their daily devotions. Others prefer to pray as they read the Word in an interactive manner, listening for God speaking to them through the Bible passages and responding in prayer. Whatever the format of daily devotions, the important thing is that our daily devotions, as the name implies, be truly devoted to God and occur daily. In other words, it is important to spend time with God in daily devotions.
Now, my favorite theologian, John Wesley, taught me that God does not call you to have a devotional time; God calls
you to have a devotional life. No time is taken to enter a devotion to disconnect us from people or the rest of the world.
By the contrary, we live in a life of devotion to connect or reconnect with people and the rest of the world. This is what Wesley called social holiness. It is what Martin Luther King called that we be thermostats and not thermometers. And to what I identify as a faith with spiritual, social and political dimensions.
In the end what we want is to bring heaven to earth.
If you do not have a discipline of devotional life, start today and you will find God in every person you meet and ask yourself: what does God want to tell me? If you allow it, God will speak to you using the most stinky, most despicable and insignificant person for you. Sometimes God disguises himself as these brothers and sisters to see what I am going to do. Be careful.
Blessings
Fr. Luis +
Date news:
Friday, January 24, 2020 - 09:30
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