DAILY DEVOTIONAL, (THURSDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2017)

Reading the Liturgy of Thursday, February 16, 2017

First Reading Genesis 9: 1-13
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
Will be afraid and will shake you every beast of the earth and all the birds of the air, everything that moves on the earth, and all the fish in the sea; into tanganmulah everything was delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food. I have given it all to you as well as greenery. Only flesh with its life, namely his blood, you shall not eat. But the blood on you, the lives of you, I will demand an accounting from every beast I will require it and from each man I will require the life of man. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in His own image. And you, be fruitful and multiply, so countless in number on the earth, yes, multiply on it. "God said to Noah and to his sons that together with him:" Behold, I establish my covenant with you and with descendants, and with every living creature that is with you: birds, cattle and wild animals of the earth which, together with you, all that came out of the ark, every beast of the earth. Then I will establish my covenant with you, that since no one be cut off by flood again, and there will be no flood to destroy the earth. "And God said:" This is the sign of the covenant that I will make between me and you and every living creature, that together with you, to all generations, for ever:
I put my bow in the cloud, so that it becomes a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.

Psalm Ps 102: 16-18.19-21.29.22-23
God looked down from heaven to earth.
* The nations fear will be the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory, if you already build up Zion, and manifest themselves in thy glory; when you listen to the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
* Let this be written for another generation, and the nations that will be created later praise the Lord for He has looked down from his holy place, God looked down from heaven to earth,
to listen to the complaints of the prisoners, to release those who are determined to be dead.
* Children thy servants will live in safety, and their offspring will remain in your presence. so that the name of the Lord in Zion, and he praised in Jerusalem, when the nation gathered together
and the kingdoms assemble to worship God.

Gospel reading Mark 8: 27-33
One day Jesus and his disciples went to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say I am?" The disciples answered, "Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, others say: one of the prophets." Jesus asked them, "But do you think I am?" Then Peter answered, "You are the Messiah!" And he ordered them to hard, not to tell anyone about him.
He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things. He will be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days. It is said this openly. Peter took Jesus aside and rebuked him. So turn Jesus and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men."
Thus the Gospel of the Lord.

Devotional.
We must admit that we humans are eating everything. Try it, what we eat. Of the types of vegetables, various kinds of leaves late, various kinds of animals even cobra else, all we eat. Banyakdari we also enjoyed the fish, either freshwater fish, sea, or brackish. Moreover, eating sea food ,,,, ouch delish. More palatable way, already matched his diet, cooking miroso (very tasty), do not pay anymore, Well, that's heaven on earth.
The word of God to Noah in the first reading today confirms that all the moving and living should be our food, ie plants and all the animals. Of course, if the animal is still alive, then do not eat. Later it we were bitten by the animal. Allah said: "Only flesh with its life, namely his blood, you do not eat" In other words, even if the entire contents of nature, especially all kinds of plants and animals may be utilized for the life of us, we even know of procedures, ethical. That governance environments must we do in order to remain sustainable.
Nature is not seriously damaged our environment now? Many hunters and shooters bird damage bird populations in many protected areas. Waste plant waste dumped in the river so that people lacked clean water .The most people smoke is much more haphazard. Everywhere smoke, but not around a lot of children and people who do not smoke? What they should also bear the smoke unhealthy? Sensitivity of the environment preserving nature today feels really just more blunt.

Prayer
O Lord, make us leaders for ourselves, which is always submissive and obedient to your will in all things. Amen.