truthfulness, caring, etc? No one
would ever see these words unless we
"DID" them. In the same way the only
reasons we know the words hate, hurt,
cheat, lie, etc. is because some one
did them to us, someone put skin on
them. Sound funny?
Well, that's what Jesus did. God sent
Jesus to us so we could see how great
a human being can be. Jesus loved like
no one ever loved before. Now we do
a lot of the things Jesus did like love,
serve, give, and care because Jesus put
clothes on those words for us. That's
what we mean when we say, "the
word made flesh'.
The Rev Lindy Black
Luke 12.49–56
Jesus said to his disciples:
‘I came to bring fire to the earth,
and how I wish it were already
kindled!
I have a baptism with which to be baptized,
and what stress I am under until it is
completed!
Do you think that I have come to bring peace
to the earth? No, I
tell you, but rather division! From
now on five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three;
they will be divided:
father against son and son against
father, mother
against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law
and daughter-in-law against
mother-in-law.’
He also said to the crowds,
‘When you see a cloud rising in the west,
you immediately say, “It
is going to rain”; and
so it happens. And
when you see the south wind blowing, you say, “There will be scorching heat”;
and it happens.
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of
earth and sky, but
why do you not know how to interpret the present time?’
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