Religion
PSALM 116: “Our blessing cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ.”
How can you make a return to the Lord? Is there anyway you can actually ‘payback’ the Lord for all the good he has done for you?
Think about it: everything you have is a gift from God: your family, your friends, shelter, food … everything.
What can you possibly do to pay Him back? That is the question posed by the psalmist in Psalm 116 which Roman Catholics traditionally sing/pray on Holy Thursday…
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Christ’s message is as politically-incorrect today as it was in his own time
Muslim terrorists murder more Christians in Egypt this Palm Sunday
In my previous post, I reflected on Psalm 22. Christ Himself invoked the psalmist as He hung on the cross on Good Friday with the lament, “My God, why have you abandoned me?”
Christians living in the Mideast and North Africa surely must feel the same. They are being murdered, raped, burned, and expelled by Muslim persecutors while the West seems to keep their outrage in check.
On this Palm Sunday, 2017, the atrocities continue as ISIS attacked two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt, killing 43 and injuring 100…
Read MorePSALM 22: “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”
So when Jesus cries out, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”, He has allowed Himself to experience the isolation of the sinner as He takes all the sins of the world … onto Himself.
Sin separates us from God.
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