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Date:
Sunday December 5th
Meditation Opportunities
coming from Biblegateway.com The Daily Verse
John 10:7, 9-10 (TPT) The Passion
Translation
7 So Jesus went over it again, “I speak to you eternal truth: I am the Gate for the
flock.[a]
Footnotes
10:7 As
translated from the Aramaic. There is a word play with “I” (ena) and
“flock” (ana). As the gateway, he brings us to the Father and his
kingdom realm. As the shepherd, he cares for us and shows us his loving heart.
John
10:7 in all English translations
John 10:9-10
9 I am the Gateway.[a] To enter through me is to
experience life, freedom, and satisfaction.[b] 10 A thief has only one thing in
mind—he wants to steal, slaughter,[c] and destroy. But I have come to give you everything in abundance,[d] more than you expect[e]—life in its fullness until you
overflow!
Footnotes
10:9 A
sheep pen was an enclosure with walls and no roof that would often have the
sheep of an entire village kept within. After the sheep were brought in for the
night, it was common for the shepherd to sleep at the entrance so he could
protect his sheep. Only the shepherds of the sheep would be recognized by that
gatekeeper. Jesus is the one who will remain with his flock and keep his sheep
living in peace and safety. His teaching (voice) will guard us from the
unreliable teachers who want to steal our hearts and bind us to themselves.
They steal and rob the affection that belongs only to Jesus, our kind shepherd.
10:9 Or “go
in and out and find pasture.”
10:10 The
Greek word thuo is not the usual word for “kill.” It means
“sacrifice” or “slaughter.”
10:10 Implied
in the Aramaic text.
10:10 Implied
in the Greek text.
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Man,
when that love washes over and through you and just never goes away! It does not matter if the hurt and pain
consume you as once you reach the other side and look back and know it is still
in the very depths of our soul. You
just know making it dangerous and
keeping you on the move, so you do get caught up and burn.
Jesus
how do you do it! Unconditional love
for all people all the time not just when things are going well? In fact, how you weep for every soul lost and
wandering. Those who come to find you so close to the end
you dance with them as they transport over all the while the others that
stepped away; how do you handle the hurt God of all that this world brings?
Be it
a battlefield of the mind, the spirit is forever at war. Being we are fighting to survive in the world,
or we are fighting to get through all that pounds on us every single day. May we all learn to cling to you and your
word Jesus.
We can
speak it or think it to life no matter when, who or why!
I am
no authority, in fact so very unqualified and so many chipped and broken edges
floating around. Anyone that ever reads
any pieces of me get a glimpse of that at any given time.
Blessed
beyond all and any deserving. Every day
given no matter if anything transpires or nothing transpires. Still blessed another day like this one; to
get up and find, be, do, make, change or be an opportunity of anything and everything
that shines bright and allows growth every step forward. For you, for those who are coming up behind
you. For selfish or selfless
reasons.
We all
get to choose.
Filling
my head 24/7 with anything and everything positive heck yes. Anything that can keep my spirit from dying
and wanting to just be done. There is
always so much sadness and heartache in such a vast universe we have. So many spirits like electrical currents
flowing through the world and well look around as they short circuit.
I will
never know what I could be as know what is and what was. Thankfully I met Jesus and he makes it enough.
I
remember for years I wanted to be a motivational speaker. Just to share all of the life experiences I
survived through and get them out there so people knew they were not alone and
that they could choose and learn and grow differently. Today well everything is so instant. The world is so over stimulated with all that
is morally unhealthy and maybe it was always there but it somehow now in the
terms of man is said to be okay.
I know
it may be controversial but really what you do is your business. However, stop forcing all your choices down
the throat of the universe with things such as gender neutrality, or open
relationships, or how you make your living by allowing the world to look at you
like just a piece of meat that will be tossed out for the vultures soon.
I am
not perfect in fact far from it struggling with my own judgements and even that
of sometimes looking up and wondering what the heck.
Constantly
seeking forgiveness and healing from the father. And yes for years dumping those twisted
wires firing off at times and short circuiting on this public wall for others
to maybe get a smile or a small step in a direction that helps them get back
up. Or not maybe just a huge belly
laugh so hard they cry.
In any
case this is just the pieces of me not pretending, perhaps not putting all the
broken dirty details out there of every day and the journey where I face plant
in my own muck; while holding on to that thread of Jesus’s robe when the days
he keeps dragging me along like some child holding his leg afraid to just
breathe; yet cannot let him go even if, even when.
Holding
nothing back is my transparency flaw.
Yet it was made perfectly clear even when I cannot see through the mist
on any given day. Jesus saved my soul when
I finally woke. So no matter what bits
in pieces make anyone laugh, cry or anything in between. He is, He will, and always has been the saving
grace through every breath you call upon His name.
I don’t
have any fancy words to explain or scholarly experience to show or prove you
should believe that. I can only tell
you he calls the broken and unqualified to light up the world and shines life
and light through all the broken pieces as they get back up and love themselves
and learn to love as he does.
In
this season where nothing makes sense, or everything falls into place. When you are reaching for your God; know the
only way to get there is through the sacrifice that poured out and into who we
can be.
As
this holiday season creeps up may we know that God is the reason of the season
and Christ was born and the light of the world for Christmas day. That the gift of giving is more than what
debt you can bury yourself in; or even all that material life that we chase to
prove we have meaning.
Choose
to get back up and pay it forward with kindness from the depths of your very
being. It does not need to be
expensive. For the true meaning of life
and that one word that may save the soul
next door is priceless. Be it a listening
ear, holding a door, thank you, or even forgiving what once was. Love
who you are in the eyes of Christ! Love others as God loved us all enough to put
us in this planet to be more than what we will ever understand.
Know
who you really belong to!
Date:
Saturday December 4th
Meditation Opportunities
coming from Biblegateway.com The Daily Verse
John 8:12 (TPT) The Passion Translation
Jesus, the Light of the World
12 Then Jesus said, “I am[a] light to the world, and those who
embrace me will experience life-giving light, and they will never[b] walk[c] in darkness.”
Footnotes
- 8:12 Again we see
Jesus using the words “I Am,” which is the name of God.
- 8:12 The Greek
word is a double negative, emphatically saying, “never, no never!”
- 8:12 The
Aramaic is “they will never be driven (pushed) by the darkness.”
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