at the hospital yesterday
with some people
I haven't seen in a while.
The end result was,
I found out just how far I/we
have been removed
from this world.
Small talk,
chit-chat, logistics
and talk about
what was happening
dominated the day.
While all of that was going on?
The following
just would not leave
my mind alone:
Matthew 22:36-40
36 “Teacher, which is the
greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied:
“‘Love the Lord your God
with all your heart
and with all your soul
and with all your mind.’
8 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
I asked my son:
"Do you know what the greatest commandment is?"
"Dad?, I haven't slept, and I cant really think right now."
I told him that verse and I said to him:
Do you catch where it said for me to love you with:
"all my heart
and with all my soul
and with all my mind?"
He just kinda smiled.
I said, did you catch the part where it said
to love granny with:
"all your heart
and with all your soul
and with all your mind.’
He just smiled and said:
"It didnt."
I said thats right,
and people have forgotten
they are to love God
more than anything else,
relatives included
and that we have strayed so far away
from this
that maybe God thought
we all needed a reminder.
Ref Matthew 17:11-13
(JTB had already came BTW
he's talking about the second coming.)
Luke 17:2
2 It would be better for them
to be thrown into the sea
with a millstone tied
around their neck
than to cause one of these
little ones
to stumble.
Talked about this in-depth already.
GOD DOESNT MISSPEAK.
He is perfection,
he is incapable of it.
If he meant "children"
he would have said "children",
It's not what he said,
he said
"little ones"
as in
miniature versions of himself
(Christ-likeness)
as much as a person
could be.
Martyrs, saints,
miracle workers,
visionaries,
all of those
who would freely give to others
without expecting anything back ever
and be persecuted/mocked/jeered ect
for having done so.
Literally, for all of those who have
"lost their minds"
for Christ.
(See Revelation 20:4
"beheaded".)
It would be better
for the individuals
who want to see them
(Little Ones)
fall/fail etc
to be thrown in the ocean
with a heavy large rock
tied around their neck
than to try and cause
their will to be done
instead of Gods.
Some have to learn the hard way,
just a fact of life.
(Side Note:
vs 3 and 4 go on to say:
3 Take heed to yourselves:
If thy brother trespass against thee,
rebuke him;
and if he repent,
forgive him.
4 And if he trespass against thee
seven times in a day,
and seven times in a day
turn again to thee, saying,
I repent;
thou shalt forgive him.
(I am going to tell you right now
even if you forgive people who
NEVER
asked for it?
(Going above and beyond
what the scripture says, see above)
Others will still:
persecute/mock/jeer
you for doing so.
Oh yes they most certainly will.)
Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to me
and does not hate
father and mother,
wife and children,
brothers and sisters
—yes, even their own life—
such a person cannot be my disciple.
("Well that just means "Love less"
is what all the sermons
taken from the lectionary
and commentaries will say.
BALOGNA.
The word used there means:
HATE.
That is its definition.
How it is applied is shown by:
"Loving Less"
Somewhere along the way
we got definitions
and applications messed up.
See Matthew 17:11-13 again.
Also reference:
"Do not think that I have come
to bring peace to the earth.
I have not come to bring peace..."
Plus?
"such a person
cannot be
my disciple.
We use that term
way to liberally.
Not everybody
is a disciple.
You got Church Goers,
Believers, Followers
and then you have those
that actually tried
to live like he did
while on this earth:
DISCIPLES.
(See: "all of those who would freely give to others without expecting anything back ever and be persecuted/mocked/jeered etc. for having done so." from above.)
Wanna know about God?
Read and study the scripture,
go to church,
take communion,
have an active prayer life,
be among like believers,
do good deeds.
Wanna KNOW God?
Then go live like he did
while he was here on this earth.
(But only do so
if you are 100% certain
it is his will for your life
otherwise it wont work
and you'll just wish you didn't even try.)
Matthew 10:36
a man’s enemies
will be the members
of his own household.’
John 13:7
Jesus replied,
“You do not realize now
what I am doing,
but later you will understand.”
People just can not see
beyond flesh and blood
and they cant/don't/just don't wanna
acknowledge
The spiritual warfare that is so plainly
taking place right in front of them.
Needless to say
I just don't do
small talk very well.
Go read up about
the prophets of old
and you will quickly find out,
they were mostly elderly men
(usually single)
without a lot of family
(minimizes collateral damage)
who suffered,
were persecuted
and were misunderstood
by the people of their times.
Only later,
did what they do,
how they lived,
and what they said
and wrote
make sense
to a larger audience.
Me and honey
are in very good company.
"Drew?
Why didnt you just get a job
and leave a bad situation?"
Ask yourself;
Would you have witnessed
the suffering and the patience endurance
thats going to be expected of us here real soon
if I had?
The easy way out
was just never an option.
Hopefully?
Some things make
a lil more sense now.
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