LENT 2016 Day 25 - Delve into the Gospels

Since I deactivated Facebook and now will find other ways to waste precious time, I'll begin the "Easter Season" by reading the Gospels. The more Matthew Kelly talks about the Gospels changing his life the more of a push I have to actually read each one from beginning to end.  I know that I've heard them all before piece by piece but I think this would be a great road to take on this faith journey of mine.

I think he's right,  there are thousands of ways to explore the Gospels. Using different feels and emotions as we read them.  Patience, courage, spiritual and emotional blindness. We can read and re-read them with a different viewpoint and come out at the end feeling completely different, radically changed and perhaps at times overwhelmed with other emotions, all from reading stories we've read thousands of times and probably many memorized.

I have to agree with Matthew and said I too believe that many of us Christians are immune to truth that is the Gospels. We hear them every Sunday but are we REALLY listening to what they have to say. Sometimes I have Claire with me and I can't focus,  other times I'm alone and I still can't focus on what they Gospel is saying but what I do know is that I can start readying them again and no longer will I be immune to them, but instead I'll be sick with a new desire to live them and a new passion seeing them in a whole different light.

Taking it to the HNL - ho, nutha, level!

POINT TO PONDER: Jesus' teachings are astoundingly practical when we pause to reflect on them.

VERSE TO LIVE: "Your word is a lamp unto my feed and a light unto my path. Psalm 110:105

This was the verse of the devotional just the other day, so I was just singing the song that our teacher, Ms. Sandra Mistretta, wrote a million years ago.  "Nothing will I fear, as long as you are near.  Please be near me 'till the end."  Gosh I love that song.

QUESTION TO CONSIDER:
Have you ever really read the Gospels? 
um....nope sure haven't.  At least I haven't read them in the way God I think intends for us to read them and reread them. I'm behind. I'll get there, and I'll get there sooner than I think.

PRAYER: Jesus, reveal yourself to me as I begin to rediscover you through the Gospels.

I've seen some great things happen over the last 6months of my life thanks to my faith and love for Jesus. I cannot even wrap my head around the idea of rediscover Jesus in a new light.  The thought itself is a bit overwhelming.