Readings for Friday, June 26, 2009

Genesis 17: 1, 9-10, 15-22

In this reading, you may notice that God uses the word covenant. Now a covenant is like an unbreakable promise between God and man. If man doesn't keep his 100% of the covenant, then God will take 200%. But if this happens, curses will come upon the people that made the covenant. But if they both keep 100%, then there will be blessings. So, this covenant never breaks. Part of the covenant we hear about today is circumcission. It is like Baptism in the Old Testament. God also tells Abraham that he will have a son and he laughs because he was so old. The reason God chose the name Issac was because it means "I laughed." So, the moral is we should have faith in God no matter how old or young we are.

Matthew 8: 1-4

The leper in this story has such tremendous faith in God that he knows that he can heal his lepersy. But he is also faithful to God's will because he said that if it was Jesus' will he will stay a leper. This was a very courageous thing for him to do. The lesson in this is to know that we can't expect God to give us everything we ask for as a RIGHT, but to remember that God created us and he knows what is good for us. Jesus said to go to the priest and show himself to the priest like Moses comanded. You can find out what Moses said if you go to Lev. 14:1-9.