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Recognizing Jesus

April 18, 2010 by Fritz

Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing … when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.” – John 21:3,4 (KJV)

Sometimes God isn’t recognizable by even his closest friends. This happened to the disciples, Mary, hikers on the road to Emmaus, Sampson’s parents; I think it continues even today. We sometimes encounter Him and don’t realize it until after.

Sometimes a complete stranger show up and gives us advice which is just the right word we needed.

As with Mary in the garden tomb, filled with grief, and thinking someone has taken away our faith (John 20:15), God speaks our name and we realize He has been with us all along.

Like the hikers on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24), we hear the Word of God preached and the bread broken (communion) and our hearts burn within us and we know we heard from God.

Sometimes, like Sampson’s parents we grieve our children’s choices (Judges 14:4) but later discover God had a greater plan.

Prayer: “Jesus, help me to recognize you in the events of my life, trust you completely, and love you fully. Amen.”

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>Get up off your duff! – Song 3:1-4

April 14, 2010 by Fritz

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By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not…I will rise now, and go…I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.” – Song 3:1-2a,4 (KJV)

Someone said “If wishes were dollars we would all be rich!” While our lady, here, stayed home in bed, wanting, nothing changed; it was when she decided to go out and find him that she had some results.

FAL

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>A Good Church is Important – Song 1:6

April 11, 2010 by Fritz

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“…my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.” – Song 1:6b (KJV)

“Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon…?” Song 1:7a (KJV)

“If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds’ tents.” – Song 1:8 (KJV)

Where do you go when you live in a hostile environment, you have personal failures, and you have lost your way? Where do you go when you want to know more about God but the Bible is a closed book, when you want to pray but you don’t know how, when you come to the end of your rope and there’s no knot there.

That’s the question this woman asks, “Tell me”, she says to her love, “Where do you (God) feed and make your flocks rest at noon (when it is the hottest)?

His answer – “Go…by the footsteps of the flock…” That would be God’s people, His flock, a good, loving, bible believing church – there are those, still. “The Shepherds” would be godly pastors who really care about their people – there are those, too. Find a little church with a pastor who’s ambition is to know his people and not make a name for himself, then hang around. Let them show you, at least initially, how following Jesus is done.

Sure there are hypocrites in the Church, but attend anyway, there’s is always room for one more.

– FAL

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