"Later, Jesus talked to the people again, saying 'I am the light of the world. The person who follows me will never live in darkness but will have the light that gives life."
S A Yes, if God should give punishment and stripes, it ought to be a matter of thankfulness; because He always does so for our welfare, whatever He permits to happen to us. (CIoC) God likes to take “the lemons in our lives” and make lemonade yet sometimes He does need to discipline us because He loves us and He knows more about us than we know about ourselves and He wants the best for us. Contemplate on how Jesus handled Peter when he cut off the guard’s ear at His arrest and His reconciliation with Peter. What can you learn from Peter’s experience that will help you in your life now? You can discover this story in the biographies of Christ written by Sa...
These are the words of Christ, which reminds me of Paul Harvey's modern day parable about a religious skeptic who worked as a farmer. It's found in the student bible
ReplyDelete“One raw winter night the man heard an irregular thumping sound against the kitchen storm door. He went to a window and watched as tiny, shivering sparrows, attracted to the evident warmth inside, beat in vain against the glass.
Touched, the farmer bundled up and trudged through fresh snow to open the barn door for the struggling birds. He turned on the lights and tossed some hay in a corner. But the sparrows, which had scattered in all directions when he emerged from the house hid in the darkness, afraid.
The man tried various tactics to get them into the barn. He laid down a trail of saltine cracker crumbs to direct them. He tried circling behind the birds to drive them toward the barn. Nothing worked. He, a huge alien creature, had terrified them; the birds couldn’t comprehend that he actually desired to help them.
The farmer withdrew to his house and watched the doomed sparrows through a window. As he stared, a thought hit; if only I could become a bird, one of them, just for a moment. Then I wouldn’t frighten them so. I could show them the way to warmth and safety. (Student Bible (NIV) page 1008)
At the same moment, another thought dawned on him. He had grasped the reason Jesus was born.”
Jesus said to Nicodemus “For God so loved the world that He sent His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” Saint John’s Biography of Christ John 3:16