Category: Faith And Musings

Filet-o-Fish Sandwich

Scripture: Matthew 14:13-21

It seems like everyone has heard this story in the Bible. 5 loaves + 2 fish + 5000 starving men = 12 baskets of leftovers. Yeah God’s math usually doesn’t add up.

You would’ve guess by now that I’m talking about the time Jesus fed the 5,000 who were following Him around. If you turn to verse 15, you’ll find that the disciples wanted to send the crowds away because: 1) place is desolate; 2) hour is late and 3) they only have 5 loaves and 3 fish – someone’s snack and definitely not enough to feed 5,000 people.

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Two Words. One Invite.

Scripture: Matt 9:9

To give you a brief summary, Matthew was sitting in the tax collector’s booth, minding his own biz when Jesus saw him and said “Follow Me.” Responding to those two words, Matthew turned his life around, became part of the Twelve Apostle and one of the 4 Gospel writers who chronicled the earthly life of the Savior of the world.

In my humble opinion, this passage right here is one of the best bios I’ve ever read. First of all, Matthew used his Apostle name (the name he is known after his conversion) instead of Levi, as Mark and Luke wrote. Matthew never did try to hide his past. It was as if he was saying, “Hey guys, it’s me Matthew. But you know what, I was once a tax collector.” He was once THAT guy, Levi.

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Show His Love

The Gospel called us to go and preach the Good News to everyone. And if you call yourself a Christian, that means ALL PEOPLE – regardless of their belief status. God showed me the world – from people who have a growing relationship with Christ to people who are on the fence to people who are completely against Him. I mingled with people I never thought to mingle with..

What’s my point? We go through life like it’s a battlefield sometimes. The world and all the people in it are flawed. Us versus the world. But these people you are dealing with – they have a story to tell. Each of them. Humanize the people you deal with. They hurt like you do, probably not at the same things. They laugh. They lose hope. They cry on the outside and inside. Too often, churches are caught up in the business of serving, converting and evangelizing that they fail to see the “who” in the “how”. Both words have the same 3 letters so that should be easy to remember.

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Jeremiah Made Me Think

In my quest to finish reading the entire Bible, I was doing my usual Chapter-a-Day morning time with God when I came across this verse in Jeremiah 10:

“For thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time; And will cause them distress, that they may be found.” (v.18)

I had to read it repeatedly. Doing Old Testament books had always been challenging for me since they usually feature a nation running away and God sending warnings about His wrath through His prophets. Something about God’s righteous wrath makes my soul uneasy. I mean, it took me 3 months to finish Deuteronomy and I had to stop and switch to Philippians halfway for a reprieve. But that’s another discussion altogether.

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