My indignation towards God is never justified. My view on the situation is never complete…my opinion, never unbiased. Only God can see from beginning to end, and every detail in between. Only He can “see around the corner”. I am so very limited in my scope of reality, that I really have no right to be angry at God.
Month: April 2015
Matthew 28: 5-6 ” The angel said to the women, ‘ Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; He has risen as He said. Come and see the place where He lay.’ “
Are you looking for Jesus just like those women that early Easter morn? He wasn’t where they expected Him to be…the grave couldn’t keep Him…the devil couldn’t restrain Him…the world couldn’t contain Him. No, He had risen just like He promised. If you’re looking for Jesus today…don’t bother to look among the dead…for He’s alive!
Luke 23: 52-53 ” Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body. Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen cloth and placed it in a tomb cut in the rock, one in whom no one had yet been laid.”
Jesus was dead. The Disciples had fled into hiding. The World was in disbelieving silence. But Sunday was coming.
His body was hidden behind a rock. His Followers were in mourning. The World waiting. But Sunday was coming.
If you find yourself today as good as dead. If you’re searching for answers. If life has handed you more than you can handle. Sunday is coming.
If the world is closing in – grieve and pain over whelming. If life is getting too hard to continue on, and you’re thinking of ending your life. Sunday is coming…and with it peace, healing, and restoration for your mind, body, and soul.
Sunday is coming!
Mark 14: 22-24 ” While they were eating, Jesus took bread, giving thanks and broke it, and gave it to His disciples, saying, ‘ Take it; this is My body.’ Then He took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, and they all drank from it. ‘ This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.’ He said to them.”
This was the first Communion Service…or Eucharist. The Greek word actually means thanksgiving, and that’s what we should be doing each and every time we celebrate Communion. Thanking Jesus for His sacrifice – His shed blood, and broken body for all. Jesus didn’t have to come to earth and die an unspeakable death…but He did… and every time we hold those elements in our hands we need to thank Him for that obedience. For without Him, we’d be lost. This Passion week, celebrate your own personal Eucharist of thanksgiving.
John 13:37 ” Peter asked, ‘ Lord, why can’t I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You.’ “
Jesus had just told the Disciples that where He was going, they couldn’t go with. Was Simon Peter hurt, or smugly contending that he would proudly die along side Jesus when he asked why? Peter was one of Jesus’ closest Disciples, a big, loud man who had a habit of speaking first and thinking later. Was his outburst a show of hurt feelings, or brash vibrato…of concerned protection, or a foot in the mouth quip?
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