Thursday, March 13, 2008

devotional

I've never been one to read devotionals, either online or in books, but I found a new one that I like. It is at www.rc.net/wcc/readings/ I am not sure exactly how I found it, but I have been using it every morning lately. I think the guy who wrote it has a Catholic background, but so far I haven't seen anything that I really disagree with. I like it too that the web site has a place where you can look at pictures of the Holy land and Biblical sites that you have heard about.
He gives you a passage from the New Testament and one from the Old and then a meditation and prayer. Right now, he is in the Gospel of John. Mainly the passages deal with how Jesus claimed to be more than just a man. Jesus claimed that God is His Father. He also claimed that he existed before Abraham.

Psalm 32:5-7 God is Ready and Eager to Forgive

  Psalm 32:3-7 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me...