21st Century Pilgrim

Time has a continual succession of parts. In other words, time presupposes something before it and after it. The former passes, and another follows. For example, I am posting this status at exactly 12:06am of Friday, September 10, 2020. By the next 60 seconds, this exact time ceases and another succeeds. This is the nature…

A Meditation on Leviticus 18 Today, I am reading Leviticus 18. It is full of laws concerning sexual relations – who should one NOT have sex with, when NOT to do it, and what one should NOT do to his children. It is a chapter full of “DO NOTs”. Apart from the fact that these…

Today, I’m reading Leviticus 13 as part of my daily Scripture reading. It is a chapter on regulations concerning skin diseases. The chapter is somewhat comprehesive as to how a priest direct the people regarding the possibility of skin disease. Basically, the chapter tells us that the priests are in charge of diagnosing the Israelites’…

“I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”-John 11:25-26 The occassion of this revelation of Jesus concerning His person was the death of His beloved Lazarus. The brother of Mary, and Martha…

“I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”John 6:35 The event that prompted this discourse by Jesus was the seeming desire of people to ‘seek’ Him. Jesus confronted their wrong motivation, and it turned out that they are only seeking after the…

John 1:1-18 Jesus is the eternal Word who has been in the beginning, with God, who Himself is God. (v.1-2) He was active during creation, (v.3) because in Him was life. (v.4) This life gives light to men, (v.5) even John the baptist bore witness about this. (v.6-8)Thus, He is the true light that came…