Jesus Calling by Sarah Young

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True Yesterday True Today

Beliefs that fail...

I cannot get over tricks people go thru to suit their beliefs. Some say what was true yesterday was true when it happened but today is no longer true.

Seems strange to me that if something is true when it happened, but today is no longer true, then it was never true yesterday either, or today is definitely not true also. What about the crucifixion? No longer true? Where do you stop? Oh, ye of weak belief?

Only the words of Jesus

I keep wanting to find a large print red letter Bible with only the words of Jesus in it.  But I always seem to be rediscovering Jesus in Mathew, as I am doing lately while writing in Manna. I am thinking that it does me not much good to be talking about what is wrong. Not entirely sure I am correct in this. 

Why did Jesus have to die on the Cross?

 Was Jeus Murdered?

There are those Christians, believing church instructed Christians, who maintain Jeus was murdered by the Italians. Contrasted with the "Centurion of the Italian Band," of whom Jesus might have said He had not seen greater faith in all of Israel, this was unlikely that Italians murdered Jesus.

My view of this is that those who believe any of this murdered business reveal they do not designate between the physical world and the spiritual. 

Did not Jesus, quoted in John 19:11 say, "You would not have any authority of Me, unless it had been given you from above, for this reason he who delivered Me up to you has the greater sin."

Question for me now is that Pilate and Judas were now, with those words" in the same column.

 

Heb 13:8

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

We are what we speak

I sometimes think of actors who make movies attacking each other are risking and paying heavily acting out such attacks. Geroge Sanders acted out being snobbish and bored. He looked down on others and was the very essence of boredom. He committed suicide at 65 saying so in a note he left behind. He wrote a bio book about himself with a title that said he was a dreadful man. He acted all his films that way and so he was.

Jesus is talking in Mark 11:23-25 telling me to forgive others so that I can be forgiven myself. Attacking others, or even just being annoyed by someone since it too is a sign of weakness, is an attack on myself.   

 It was not until I encountered the word "incarnate," regarding Jesus, that I realized the Baby Jesus emphasis this time of year crowds out for the children the fact He was already God before the beginning, when He was incarnate, "born" in a manger. 

I remembered then, as a youngster, adults who often said that Jesus was not always a Baby, reflecting this view that Jesus did not begin as a Baby. 

I wonder how many young people endure this same mistaken impression, as I did when growing up looking for Santa Claus, only to discover he did not exist. Another case of the story is not true, only the meaning is true. It was all for the sake of the children. When I found this out, I felt that I had grown up and adopted the same adult pretensions.