So, far this week I have noticed some underling things about life in general. At the church I go to we are celebrating the season of Lent. Which is the time span of 40 days up to the death are resurrections of Jesus Christ. Which my church is sending out daily devotionals that are not you typical devotional that you would find in any book, but it is still a devotional none the less. They are written by church members that are heavily involved in the church in someway, to me when I read them they seem to have an underling tone of sorts. Like Mondays for example," When I saw the Eagles, I was lifted up and was reminded of the verse from Isaiah: "...but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."" Which tells me that no matter how darned we maybe no matter how hurt we are as in pain or by someone not to fear but have faith and trust and know that this will all be wiped away by our God and we will have strength and we will not have any pain, and well will move on from this. To walk with God is an amazing thing but at the same time is very difficult to do with the temptations that are all around us.
In Tuesdays devotional that was sent out "The essence of our faith is that the grave was not the end for Jesus and so is not the end for each of us." Gives meaning to what our walk with Jesus is like, during this time. We are taking a walk with him as he is giving his talks, working his last miracles during these 40 days. We all know how his life ended; we all know how it began, and what happened after he was hung on the cross to bear all of our sins. What we have little knowledge of is walking with him during that turbulent time during his last 40 days that he spent here with us before going home. I would like to think many bad thing may have happened and some good. When you take all in it can be very overwhelming. During this time he did many great things, one of those things was telling the messenger that came to warn him that king was out to have him killed, Jesus took this time not the same words as I am using to tell the messenger this, you can go now go back to your king tell him I have work that will complete and he is not going to stop the work that I must do. It was during this time that he did many great thing one of which was showing complete love and understanding of what must be done. At this point in his life he knew what his porous in life was, it was not to die in-vane, to die to show Jerusalem what love was and is, to you and me we know that God sacrificed his son for us all. But he did much more than that he gave us away as humans to communicate with Him and to know what true endearing love is.
Jesus came in to this world with noting we born in a manger with no cloths what so ever, he was born in to a family how was poor and had nothing to offer, he was greeted into this world by three wise men and give gifts for they knew he was the chosen one that was for told that would come to save Jerusalem. It is said to say that her people shunned him and didn't believe such nonsense, but the wise men knew of the greatness that he was and would become. The years between his birth and when his work began is very obscure meaning we do not no much at all about it, things started to change when he met up with John the Baptist; and boy ever did things change. John appears on off through the New Testament, he is strange men indeed but in his strangeness we can learn a lot from him. He knew of the coming of a great king that would save us all but his people deemed him as being crazy so that is how he comes across in the bible. As time pasted Jesus did many great thing like turning water to wine, walked on water, feed hundreds to thousands with one loaf of bread, and made fishers of men. He also brought the dead back to life, he healed the sick, and made the crippled to walk again. But I think that with his statement to that messenger was the most profound thing. For he had no fear nor know what fear was, he showed is followers and his people that with the love of God we should not have any fear of what is to come our way. For fear in its self is want can hinder you from walking with God, it can stop you from moving forward with your life. It can stop any thing good that might come your way.
Everyday we face the unknown; we wake each morning hoping that this day will be better than the last. But we as humans and children of God should not hope we should have the attitude that I will be a great day. I know that may seem hard for us to do for we all are prewired in someway to be fearful and to hope rather than to affirm that it will be. If we all just started to be more assertive in our actions and more positive about the thing that go on from day to day we notice a vase improvement in our lives. For what takes place today is not what will take place tomorrow or next week and so on, but if we are negative about things, are not assertive about our lives, and only hope we'll you get what you get, hope. Not that hope is a bad thing but if you never put power to your thoughts of hope nor give them life they will not come to pass.
So this the time that you need to stop what you are doing and look around you, take a real hard long look. Now that you have done that you will probably notice areas or times in our life where you were assertive and were positive example I will get my degree or I will marry this man or woman, I will have children. I know that some of you have made thus goals which they are commonly called, but to me they are actions. How you say really simple "I WILL" meaning that you are going to do this which is an action, in turn your were being you guessed it assertive about something that was or is important to you and that would bring a positive impact in your life. Ok now that we know about some of the things that Jesus did in is life and that all important moment of revelation about not having fear I think we can safely say this, fear is something in your life that stops you from loving and being loved it also keeps you from God. So try and look towards life as that of Jesus you might be surprised as to what good thing will come your way.
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