Friday, January 5, 2007 - Not on what is Seen
Dapeesha, yeah, i've tried it. but when i try it on my own, it all falls to peices.
Totustuus, thanks so much for your comment! that verse really brought it together!
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So, I read this in my Bible today, and I always had thought that it was a cool passage, one of the most wonderful passages in the Bible. But today, it took on a new meaning. It takes place right after the death of Jesus and the women have gone to the tomb...and found it empty.
While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them,
"Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee:
'The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.' "
(Luke 24:4-7)
There were many things that shouted out to me here. One: after all the time they spent with Jesus, after all they heard and saw, when they found the tomb empty...they wondered. I would have thought, that when they saw it empty that the lightbulb would have gone off and they would have known.
Two: They were looking in the wrong place. They were looking for the living among the dead.
And three: They didn't remember. Perhaps they had never really listened. Jesus told them countless times in the Bible what would happen. He had told them He would die and be raised to life. And He told them in very simple terms. Yet, they did not understand, and they did not remember.
The most important thing we can grasp from this passage is that we need to LISTEN when He speaks. Don't get caught up in grief or the troubles of this world to the point that you forget the promises of God and you have to wonder what's going on when they come true.
Don't look for the living among the dead. Don't look in this world for the living God, look up! For God is not of this world, nor is He dead, as the world is dead in sin. Look up!
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
(2 Corinthians 4: 16-18, italics mine)
Danya <><
Comments
Friday, January 5, 2007 - verse
Posted by FullyAlive
hey Danya! love those verses. oh i looked up the band Tait. i like them! they r good! r they still friends? cause on his links there is Toby Mac's site and there is the other guy in the badns site.. i think .... oh btw thx for the comment girl.
Mary was really brave. both Marys. Plus they had to see Jesus die on the Cross. Mary's SON! that must have been very hard on her. the image would be stuck in my head forever. but to think he has RISEN again... i would be in disbelief but i would run around saying he has risen anyway. Dont u wonder what it would be like back then? I always picture dirty roads and everything. DO u think it is alot like Russia or forieghn lands? What do u think Russia and India was like back then? did they not no about those places over there? were there no ppl over there? i wonder!!!
-FullyAlive
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - <i>Untitled Comment</i>
Posted by WiseUp
The gospel story was taking place in Israel and around Palestine. So, I'd guess it looked a lot like Iraq and Israel. I wonder what it was like all the time! You know, all this took place in a little piece of land, yet it's well-known around the world today! At the time, I'm sure that the people in other parts of Asia and Europe and Africa and the Americas had no idea what was going on. Thank God for missionaries!
Danya <><
Edited by WiseUp on Saturday, January 6, 2007 at 10:09 AM
Saturday, January 6, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by BrokenRose
I always thought the same thing. It is almost funny how shocked they were when they found out He was alive. They were His followers, you think they would have listened and believed.
~Root