Daily Devotional

The moment we begin to see ourselves as better than others, the moment we begin to talk badly about others as “good-for-nothings,” God teaches us a lesson; He humiliates us before their very eyes. Like a party host, God politely asks us to step aside, and He does it in so many ways.

Love is the ability to see God in others, especially in those suffering, hungry, thirsty, homeless, sick, etc. No law is superior to the law of love. On the last day, we shall be judged by how we kept this law of love: how we helped others and how we behaved, not like the Pharisees.

Some Pharisees told Jesus to flee Jerusalem to protect himself from Herod. Recall that, as a child, God sent an angel in a dream to warn Joseph to take Jesus and Mary and flee to Egypt. Jesus did not flee from Herod again because He knew His time had come. On the other hand, Jesus did not need to run because He knew Herod wasn’t the one to kill Him.