RenHar. 5 Jan 2017. Kita ingin menjadi semakin serupa dengan Dia.

KETIKA kita masuk ke dalam hubungan pribadi dengan Yesus Kristus,
  sesuatu yang indah terjadi:

Tuhan mulai mengubah keinginan kita,
  dan kita ingin menjadi semakin serupa dengan Dia.

*Joyce Meyer*

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Kamis, 5 Januari 2016
Shalom!
INILAH HARI YANG SUCI! 

MARILAH, HAI PARA BANGSA, SUJUDLAH DI HADAPAN TUHAN, SEBAB CAHAYA GEMILANG TELAH MENYINARI SELURUH MUKA BUMI. ALLELUYA.
1 Yoh 3: 11-21
Mzm 100: 1-2,3,4,5
Yoh 1: 43-51
PEKAN BIASA MASA NATAL.
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Rakyat yang berjalan dalam kegelapan melihat cahaya terang benderang.

 Suatu cahaya menyinari mereka yang tinggal di daerah naungan maut.
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Dalam Injil hari ini, Natanael mengakui Yesus sebagai Anak Allah, karena Yesus telah mengenal dirinya begitu mendalam, "Lihatlah inilah seorang Israel sejati, tidak ada kepalsuan di dalamnya."

Yesus mengenal pikiran, perasaan dan kehendak Natanael. Yesus telah melihatnya di bawah pohon ara. 

Hal itu berarti Yesus menaruh perhatian penuh padanya. Yesus tahu apa yang dikatakan Natanael kepada Filipus. Ini berarti bahwa Yesus tahu isi hatinya. Maka pantaslah Natanael memuji Yesus.
Kata Natanael kepadaNya, "Rabi, Engkau Anak Allah, Engkau Raja orang Israel!"
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Setelah berjumpa dengan Yesus, pandangan Natanael terhadap Nazaret berubah. Ia mengakui Yesus sebagai Anak Allah, Raja Israel dan ia akan melihat anugerah yang lebih besar lagi. 
Yesus berkata kepadanya, " Aku berkata kepadamu, sesungguhnya engkau akan melihat langit terbuka, dan malaikat-malaikat Allah turun naik kepada Anak Manusia."
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Lewat InjilNya hari ini, Yesus mau mengajarkan kepada kita akan pentingnya menjadi pribadi yang sejati seperti Dia yang telah menyerahkan nyawanya bagi seluruh umat manusia sebagai tanda cinta yang sejati. Natanael juga tidak ada kepalsuan di dalam diri sendiri.
Ia adalah seorang yang jujur.
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YUK

 KITA GUNAKAN SETIAP KESEMPATAN UNTUK MEMPERDALAM CINTA KITA KEPADA TUHAN DAN PELAYANAN YANG JUJUR KEPADA SESAMA. 
Gbu.

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BERSIKAP WAJAR"

Kamis 5 Januari Masa Biasa Natal. Surat  Yohanes yang pertama 3:11,menulis.

"Sebab inilah berita yang telah kamu dengar dari mulutnya, yaitu bahwa kita harus saling mengasihi."

Saudara, kerapkali suatu kepentingan duniawi terlalu menguasai hati kita sehingga mendorong kita bersikap tidak wajar terhadap kita. 

Meskipun demikian, Allah tidak pernah bertindak tidak wajar terhadap kita. Sebab ketidakwajaran manusiawi tidak berlaku dihadapan Allah. Sedang ketidak wajaran Ilahi menurut penilaian manusia adalah kewajaran bagi Allah. Itulah pengampunan bagi mereka yang berbuat baik.

 Sadarlah bahwa Allah selalu bersikap wajar terhadap kita. Maka tidaklah pantas bagi kita untuk bertindak tidak wajar terhadap sesama kita

Tuhan, 

  bantulah aku untuk bersikap wajar terhadap sesamaku untuk saling mengasihi. Amin.
Met Hari Kamis

Bacaan: 1Yoh 3:11-21 Mzm 100:1-5. Yoh 1:43-51.

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SabdaNya Kamis 05 - 01 -17

1Yoh 3: 11-21           

 Yoh 1:  43-51

Shalom,
Natanael terkejut krn dg Sabda PengetahuanNya , Kristus  tahu siapa dia, pdhl baru pertama kali itu dia bertemu Kristus.
Kristus tahu bahwa dia adalah guru hukum Taurat, yg pada saat itu biasanya mengajar murid2nya dibawah pohon ara.
Kristus  tahu bhw dia adalah seorang yg jujur yg tdk suka ber pura2
Kristus juga tahu bahwa dia menemui Kristus krn diajak Filipus.
Natanael sadar bhw dia berhadapan dg Putera Allah krn hanya Allah dan mereka yg diberi anugerah Sabda Pengetahuan saja yg bisa mengetahui segalanya ttg orang lain.

Ttp Kristus mengatakan bhw kuasa Allah yg jauh lebih dahsyat akan dia saksikan dariNya.
Dg menyebut 'langit terbuka dan malaikat2 Allah turun naik kepada Anak Manusia' , Kristus mengingatkan Natanael ttg peristiwa besar yg pernah dialami Yakub, nenek moyang bangsa Yahudi (Kej 28:12).

Yang dimaksud dlm hal ini adalah adanya persatuan antara Allah yg Maha Kuasa (langit) dg manusia , didalam pribadi Yesus Kristus.

Puncak dari persatuan ini adalah kasih dan ketaatan Kristus sebagai manusia kepada rencana Bapa sehingga Dia rela mati disalib. Kuasa Allah yg tdk ada bandingannya terlihat melalui kebangkitanNya dari alam maut.

Sebagai murid2 Kristus kitapun diminta untuk menunjukkan kehadiran Allah didalam diri kita melalui perbuatan2 kasih yg tulus.

'Inilah berita yg tlh kamu dengar dr mulanya.yaitu bahwa kIta hrs saling mengasihi. Barangsiapa mempunyai harta duniawi dan melihat saudaranya menderita kekurangan ttp menutup pintu hatinya terhadap saudaranya  itu, bgmn kah kasih Allah dpt tetap dlm dirinya? (1 Yoh 3: 11, 17).

Setiap kali kita melihat kasih yg tulus dilakukan seseorang ditengah dunia yg semakin materialistis dan egois,  disitulah kita melihat kehadiran Allah yg paling nyata.

Dalam hal kasih inilah kita dapat menunjukkan bahwa Roh Kristus bersatu didalam diri kita.

' Ajarilah kami ya Tuhan untuk saling mengampuni.

Ajarilah kami untuk saling mengasihi.

Ajarilah kami kasihMu yg kudus , tulus dan tiada bandingnya. Amin'.
Gbu all n hv a blessed Thursday.

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Thursday, 5th JANUARY
St John Neumann, Bishop
John 1:43-51

Philip found Nathana-el, and said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." 

Nathana-el said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" 

Philip said to him, "Come and see." 

Jesus saw Nathana-el coming to him, and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" 

Nathana-el said to him, "How do you know me?" 

Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." 

Nathana-el answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"

What a good friend Nathanael had! As soon as Philip was called by Jesus he went to tell his friend Nathanael. But this friend wasn't very impressed with the news. To his mind, Nazareth was not a city fit for prophets, let alone for the Messiah. 

However, Philip didn't try to convince Nathanael with arguments. He just said: "Come and see." 

Maybe Nathanael had no interest, but out of mere friendship, he went to see Jesus. In an instant, he fell on his knees and recognised Jesus as the Son of God! the King of Israel!"

 We don't know if Philip was good at speeches. What we do know is that he was good at friendship. You can't help those you don't love.

A clandestine group of Catholic Chinese families used to take turns to look after some Consecrated Hosts kept in a box in the absence of the priest. 

One day, a woman who was watching over the Eucharist at her home received a phone call and had to leave suddenly. She went to her next-door neighbour, a good friend but not Christian, and asked her to stay in her home and to keep an eye on the 'Box'.

 Out of friendship the neighbour agreed to look after the 'Box' in her absence, but first she wanted to know what was kept in it. 

The lady explained the Eucharist to her as best she could and left.

 When, an hour later, the lady came back, she found that her friend didn't want to leave. Can I stay a bit more? she asked, I have never felt like this before! 

A few months later, after her instruction, she was baptised and joined the 'Confraternity of Clandestine Worshipers of the Box'. 

All her friend did was to allow her neighbour to stay with Our Lord for an hour. Jesus did the rest.

Mary, Queen of the Apostles, may I learn to bring my friends to your Son with the warmth of my affection.

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Commentary of the day :

Saint Augustine (354-430), Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church
Tractate on St John's Gospel, no.7

"I saw you under the fig tree."

Nathanael was under the fig-tree, as it were under the shadow of death. The Lord saw him, concerning whom it was said, "They that sat under the shadow of death, unto them has light arisen," (Is 9:2). What then was said to Nathanael? You ask me, O Nathanael, "Whence do you know me?" Even now you speak to me because Philip called you. But before ever he was called by his apostle, Jesus already perceived him to belong to his Church. O you, Christian Church, true son of Israel… you have known Christ even now through his apostles just as Nathanael knew Christ through Philip. Yet his compassion beheld you before you knew him, when you were still lying under sin.

For did we first seek Christ? Was it not he who sought us? Did we approach sick to the Physician and not the Physician to the sick? Was that sheep not lost and did not the shepherd, leaving the ninety and nine in the wilderness, seek and find it and joyfully carry it back on his shoulders? (Lk 15:4). Was not that piece of money lost and the woman lighted the lamp and searched the whole house until she found it? (Lk 15:8)… Our Shepherd found the sheep, but he began by seeking it; like the woman, he found the piece of money, but only after having sought it... Therefore we were sought that we might be found; having been found, we are able to speak. Let pride, then, be far from us. For we should have been lost without hope of return if God had not sought us until he found us.

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