Do you think the rest of your family should get saved when you do? So do I, but they will have to make this choice as individuals just as you did. Until that time the difference in beliefs can a source of tension, as I warned you in advance, my coming can bring a sword that separates family members.
Is righteousness a default condition? All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Yet when you meet people, should you assume to worst about them? Shouldn’t you give them the benefit of the doubt, and assume that they are upright and righteous until proven otherwise?
Does it ever surprise you when I answer the prayers of other people? Does it ever surprise you when I answer yours? There are some who suppose that gain is godliness and they ask for much in the way of material things.
You live in a world of commerce in which you expect to get paid for the work you do, and that the same rule applies to all. Yet I told a parable of workers who all got the same pay regardless of how long they worked, and said that he who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet receives a prophet’s reward.
When we laugh, we bring healing to our lives.
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Can one be blind and not know it? Not in a natural sense, but this is possible in a spiritual sense. The Pharisees asked me if they were blind also. Can you be lost and not know it?
As part of our meditation time today with Jesus, my wife Mary and I talked about bad things happening to "good" people. We then asked Jesus for His thoughts on this. Here are our dialogues: Holy Lord Jesus, the "natural" disasters hitting the world, causing people to die, to lose their homes, to suffer great loss. Many are asking: "How can a loving God let this happen to good people?" Lord, how does this fit into your loving people?
Holy Lord God, I heard in my thoughts to ask the question, which way is up?. Could that be from you?
What perspective do you take of history? Do you see random events? Irresistible forces? Prominent individuals who change the course of events for all who come after them? My view of history is more complete than yours, and I see it as a progression to a conclusion, that the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of Our Lord and of his Christ.
