Thank you for today with the KaRen kids. Tis so much fun to see them, but I must say, I'm worn out! Fill me back up with your strength.
My time here on earth is ticking away. It's day 65 of 2010, meaning there are 300 days left in the year, even though by this time it's 299 and 1/4.
Lord. Show me the urgency of your mission. Show me your heart your timing, but show me that I don't have groundhog day or days to try again. I only have today. Tomorrow is not certain. Please help me to remember that.
I love you, Señor,
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. Psalm 42:11
Jesus, I wonder what you were thinking while riding into the city. Sometimes I forget that you were human and that you weren't just doing this stuff just because the prophets said it must happen. "Ok, next on tab for today, heal a couple of people, send the disciples to get me a donkey, then ride into the city, so everyone can admire me and I can burn the Pharisees." No. There was a specific plan and purpose, yes, but it just happened. You enjoyed yourself.
Hee hee I wish I could've seen your face when you were driving people out of your house with a whip. That would have been a sight to see.
I often think of the two sons, the one who said he'd do it and didn't and the one that said he wouldn't then did. It's always okay to turn around after you've made a poor decision and fix it, if it's not too late. So often when I was younger, I wouldn't want to do the right thing because I already said I wouldn't and now I was getting yelled at and if I just changed right then and there, they'd laugh or something. Give me strange looks. Or say why couldn't you have done that earlier?
I wonder how the son felt, going to do business for his father with a bunch of murderous men. If he felt like he could handle it or not. At least it's a story.
So now you are hinting that the time will come that your ministry won't be for just the Israel.
Yeah, let's trip you up with politics! It's nice to know that you can answer to politics and get around the petty stuff.
I love that each group has a go at You and you manage to answer all of them with truth, integrity, and the final answer. And then you turn around and ask them a question about yourself, and they couldn't answer. That would be fun to watch.
"Do what they say, not what they do." Because they don't practice what they preach. But you, practice what you preach and give glory to God because of it.
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are." That is some strong language!!! Man, Jesus! Ridiculous.
End of the age. Yeah. I don't want to be on earth when that happens. Just be prepared in case it is during your lifetime. Only God knows when it will happen. But it makes me think of that video I watched, hold on...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6sx0s4sRwo