Today, I am reading and commenting on  Luke 6-7.

In Luke’s account of Jesus’ primary teachings, which Matthew records in the Sermon on the Mount, He tells us that we are blessed when people hate us because of Him, when they exclude us and insult us, even go so far as to call us evil because we hold to His teachings.  In fact a little further into His sermon, Jesus tells us that we should do good for such people, pray for them, and bless them.  He tells us to be like our Heavenly Father, merciful to those who hate us just as He is merciful to us and to those who hate Him.  Let us do good to those who cannot, or will not, repay us (or who will repay us with evil), and God will repay us for what we have done.  Let us remember that we owe Him more than we can ever repay.  Which brings me to the story of the woman who anointed Jesus’ feet at the end of today’s passage.  We should all strive to have the enthusiasm to serve Jesus that she had.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.