What the Bible says about Jesus
The Good Seed and the Weeds “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seeds in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.” Matthew 13:24,25.
Monday, March 20, 2023
Saturday, March 18, 2023
A Reflection on Love.
Written and published by Jean-Louis Mondon
Love always hopes. When everything seems hopeless to the world, the Christian has hope in God working out His will and plan for the ultimate best.
We can do more than praying after we have prayed.
We cannot do more than praying until we have prayed.
In Corinthians, we have love defined by its nature and principles, in Ephesians Paul calls the believers to understand and grow into the dimensional aspect of love.
The Corinthians being immature needed to learn the ABCs, the rudiments of doctrine, they needed things to be spelled out for them.
In Corinthians 10:7, Paul tells them: You are looking only on the surface of things.
Again in 2 Cor 3:15 he tells them: “So fix your eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal”.
In 2 Cor 5:12, he talks about those who take pride in what is seen rather than what is in the heart.
The Corinthians had all the external trappings of religion, the experience of the emotional release that can be found in and is similar to any gathering of people coming together for whatever the happening is football game, movie, circus, concert, etc.
The danger present in the situation is that they would revert back to the kind of worship and life style that was prevalent in Corinth among the pagan cults they came out of and wouldn’t know the difference.
This is why Paul took time to explain to them the principles of godly agape love, not some kind of philosophical, cerebral, ethereal, or emotional kind of love, but a love that has practical application in its outward manifestation as willful and deliberate attitudes of the heart, a relational love resulting in works of love.
Now contrast this with the prayer found in Ephesians 3:16 through 3:19
Paul's Prayer for the Ephesians
I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth 19of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.…
If in Corinthians Paul writes about the nature of love and what to do, in Ephesians, he writes about the dimensional aspect of love and how this love is manifested.
The qualities and nature of Christ’s love as it is expressed through the believer’s life have width, length, height and depth which implies the ability to be measured and the possibility of increasing.
Sometimes, time and space which we consider to be limitations in the natural state of man can be turned around for our ultimate good and our benefit in the development of the qualities of love, if we understand them properly and apply them accordingly in their dimensional aspects and grow into “being filled to the measure of all the fullness of God” that Paul speaks of in Ephesians 3:19.
Psalms 71 declares:“My mouth will tell of your righteousness, of your salvation all day long though I do not know its measure”.
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Friday, March 17, 2023
Politically Incorrect Hand Painted Love Poem
A Breakfast Poem Baked with Love in the Sun
I am hereby registering my lament
Not being one of the foxes
Feeling small in their boxes
To add to my irreverence
And have a little blast
My slogan forever will be
engraved in bold
Thursday, March 16, 2023
The Feet of the Messenger
The Feet of the Messenger
How
beautiful upon the mountains
are
the feet of the messenger who announces peace,
who
brings good news,
who
announces salvation,
who
says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” Isaiah 52:7
So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. John 13:14-17
And with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the the gospel of peace. Ephesians 6:15
It´s been two months
Since you appeared at my door
You came in gently without fanfare
And simply sat on the floor
Your grateful sheepish smile
Welcomed my invitation
To let you sit down
In a corner for a while
Like a young aphonic boy
His head among the stars
Under the veiled power
Of your unveiled charm
I invited you to sit on the throne
For it is not proper to offer the guest
A corner of the rug belonging
To the devoted servant
Then, taking a cushion
To rest your feet
Tired from the long voyage
I removed the used sandals
Full of dust covering
Their rare beauty
I took a basin and tenderly
I washed and dried them
Then, leaning to pray,
I warmed and blessed them
For these beautiful and fragile feet
Belong to the docile messenger
Proclaiming the Gospel of Peace.
Jean-Louis
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