Daily Bible Readings - February 6,2013

1^ST READING

 

Are you ready for a fight? Are you willing to persevere in the battle for your own salvation until you achieve victory, no matter what setbacks you may experience? If you are not willing to say “yes” to these questions, then you are not fit to be a disciple of Jesus. People who give up when the going gets tough will not make it into eternal life.

 

Hebrews 12:4-7, 11-15

4 Brothers and sisters: In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood. 5 You have also forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as children: “My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord or lose heart when reproved by him; 6 for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines; he scourges every son he acknowledges.” 7 Endure your trials as “discipline”; God treats you as sons. For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline. 11 At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it. 12 So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees. 13 Make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed. 14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for that holiness without which no one will see the Lord. 15 See to it that no one be deprived of the grace of God, that no bitter root spring up and cause trouble, through which many may become defiled.

 

P S A L M

 

Psalm 103: 1-2, 13-14, 17-18

R: The Lord’s kindness is everlasting to those who fear him.

1 Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all my being, bless his holy name. 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. (R) 13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him, 14 for he knows how we are formed; He remembers that we are dust. (R) 17 But the kindness of the Lord is from eternity to eternity toward those who fear him, and his justice toward children’s children 18 among those who keep his covenant. (R)

 

 

GOSPEL

 

Let us not be fooled or worried about the ancestry of the people around us; it is not their fault that they have a particular person for a relative. Let us focus on the things we can influence, namely, the choices we are making in our lives to be a disciple of Jesus. This is what matters most when we consider the Kingdom of God. Let us be wise and focus our lives on the important decisions we have to make and let others take care of themselves.

 

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

My sheep, hear my voice, says the Lord; I know them, and they follow me.

 

Mark 6:1-6

1 Jesus departed from there and came to his native place, accompanied by his disciples. 2 When the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. They said, “Where did this man get all this? What kind of wisdom has been given him? What mighty deeds are wrought by his hands! 3 Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joseph and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. 4 Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house.” 5 So he was not able to perform any mighty deed there, apart from curing a few sick people by laying his hands on them. 6 He was amazed at their lack of faith.

 

think: People who give up when the going gets tough will not make it into eternal life.

 

T O D A Y’S BLESSING LIST

Thank You Lord for: ___________________________

 

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God’s special verse/thought for me today_________

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READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Romans 5-8