Thursday Think About

Man Sees Jesus

Cleaning

        Yesterday I cleaned my big book shelf. Well, 1 Shelf for books, 3 Shelves for my religious stuff and 3 shelves for junk. So I went on the dangerous path to clean the book shelf. The religious stuff was just to go through it and clean them. But then my junk, I spent all my time going through it, and throwing majority of it away. So now, my book shelf is 4 religious shelves, 1 for books, 1 For showing things of, Souvenirs and stuff and 1 for junk.

I did spend majority of my day yesterday cleaning. I don't really enjoy it, I just needed to before I go back to school. I'm trying to make my room, my working space, instead of the kitchen table. But anyways, next to clean is my desk, my drawer and my bedside table.... Scary stuff. 

       of course as I'm cleaning I never, really focus on cleaning, I think about many other things, that I find or whatever my mind really thinks of. And as I was cleaning, I was thinking about a clean body. Having a clean and presentable body..... Into the bible I went......

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy spirit, who is in you, whom you have receive from God?

1 Corinthians 6: 19

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of Gods mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God- this is your spiritual act of worship.

Romans 12: 1

      We receive Jesus and we accept him. We bring him, and accept him into our bodies. Our bodies are a living temple. Not like the temple's curtain that tor when Jesus died. A temple of which Jesus can live in us and work in us. God has given us this temple, and he has given us the choice of  yes or no. So we can say yes to Jesus or no to Jesus.

God wants to work in you.

Then in Romans we find that we are told by Paul, to give our bodies, our temples, as living sacrifices. We must be holy and pleasing to God. Not to anyone else; only God. This is our reasonable and spiritual act of worship to our God, by letting him use our bodies has a place to live and a place to continue his work, that he entrusted us when he went back to his father.

Will you let him?

So, lets try to keep our bookshelf clean. Maybe there won't be a room for junk... But that's what God wants. And he wants the rest of the shelves set aside for him and his work. We are the temple of God. We are our own sacrifice and we are here for the work of God.

I'm Back!

Honey Moon Island

     I'm back, from my 10 day vacation. I took a few books with me; Never touched them. I took with me a mind thinking of time of relaxation and not being busy; the opposite happened. If you read my post called,"vacation" Then you would have read that I thought it would have been a nice relaxing time. Nope. We were busy every day, all day. We went to All four Disney parks in three days! I'm not complaining here, I'm just saying. I loved it though. We went back in 2010 and I fell in love with it. So, forward two years of me asking to go back and I did :) I went back and I enjoyed every minute of it.... Even if I was sick, in bed....

Here's some pictures:

Honey Moon Island

On, my vacation, There was my uncle,my brother,my sister and my uncles friend, her son and me. There were 6 of us. And so we needed food right? well of course we did. And we had lots. Lots of food. by the  end of the week in about two days we ate, 4 thick pork chops, 3 fillets of salmon, 2 fillets of tilapia and a partridge in a pear tree....  hehe.... K but the point being there was a lot of food left, and we had to finish it.

⁴¹ Then the Jews began to complain about Jesus. That was because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven." ⁴² They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph? Don't we know his father and mother? How can he now say, 'I came down from heaven'?"⁴³ "Stop complaining among yourselves," Jesus answered. ⁴⁴ "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me brings him. Then I will raise him up on the last day.⁴⁵ "It is written in the Prophets, 'God will teach all of them.'—(Isaiah 54:13) Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.⁴⁶ "No one has seen the Father except the One who has come from God. Only he has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ What I'm about to tell you is true. Everyone who believes has life forever.⁴⁸ "I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ Long ago your people ate the manna in the desert, and they still died. ⁵⁰ But here is the bread that comes down from heaven. A person can eat it and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Everyone who eats some of this bread will live forever. The bread is my body. I will give it for the life of the world."

          This was this August 12, 2012 Gospel. I really enjoyed this gospel and the first reading and how they fit together. But you know that saying, " You must read the Old Testament to understand the New Testament and You must know the New Testament to understand the Old Testament." Well it's kinda like that.

       This weeks Gospel is a continuation from John, from last week. The Bread of Life. This part of John is one of my favorite readings/sections of the bible.  John paints the picture for us. So, we find here that  the Jews were complaining about, what Jesus said..... Nothing new.....  Not only that God gives us his son, but the Bread of life so that we might live. And we may only live if we listen and learn from the son. 

       A person can eat it and not die. I love that line. It's securing, to know that we may NEVER die from eating this food. That we may NEVER die, if we believe. If we believe that He is the way and if we Listen and learn from him.

⁴ Then he traveled for one day into the desert. He came to a small tree. He sat down under it. He prayed that he would die. "Lord, I've had enough," he said. "Take my life. I'm no better than my people of long ago." ⁵ Then he lay down under the tree. And he fell asleep.Suddenly an angel touched him. The angel said, "Get up and eat." ⁶ Elijah looked around. Near his head he saw a flat cake of bread. It had been baked over hot coals. A jar of water was also there. So Elijah ate and drank. Then he lay down again.⁷ The angel of the Lord came to him a second time. He touched him and said, "Get up and eat. Your journey will be long and hard."⁸ So he got up. He ate and drank. The food gave him new strength. He traveled for 40 days and 40 nights. He kept going until he arrived at Horeb. It was the mountain of God.

       
      After Elijah thought he had done enough. He wanted to die. He thought his time was up. But no, God had something different in mind. And God usually does. For the better... Anyways, we have in August 12, 2012 first reading that fits perfectly with the gospel. The Angel has cooked for Elijah some Bread. Bread that was cooked over hot coals. The angel, tells Elijah certain instructions, to get up and eat because his journey will be long and hard. That food gave him Strength. Just like the food Jesus gives us. The food Jesus is.

We are fed for our journey, we are fed for our road, we are fed by the body and blood of Christ. For our long and hard journey, we need this food to live on. We need Jesus. We need him to complete our road.


So, may our earthly food not be the food we store up, but the food we store up on his the food of Elijah, the food of Jesus. Jesus the bread of life who came down from heaven. And Cooked a loaf of bread over hot coals so that we may eat for our long journey.

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Vacation

Yes, you heard me Vacation. I haven't and usually wont blog about my vacations and things I do. But This week and next week, I will upload Photos and talk about my vacation. As I a Canadian don't really need to go some where hot in summer because it's already really hot here. But I'm going to Florida.

The beauty of Florida. I've been there before, and everyday we were busy busy busy. Every day was packed with amazing adventures of Disney World.

But this time is a vacation.

We are staying in a condo that my uncle owns. And as far as I know there are a few plans but not much. So I can sit by the pool and relax. I can go on the flotation device and float on the water of the pool. I plan on bringing of course some of my Religious books to read. (they are listed below.)

 I really want to find God in the beauty of the nature in Florida. It's so different than from here in Winnipeg. The people (in a Good way), the buildings, the surroundings, and the environment. I'm looking forward to it. I plan on letting the Holy spirit guide me.

Which I don't very often. I often, only let him when I think I should, when I need him all the time. I only let him when I want him to. But I come to realize that I need/ Want him ALL the time. And that's a big adjustment, in your life and in mine. I want to say YES to Jesus. 


I want to find him.

 Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Come Jesus.


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On a totally different note, I want to propose a question. Every second week I will propose a question.I Encourage you to please answer it in the comments. And then later I will make a post on it and maybe give an answer if I know the answer to the question. I Encourage you to please answer....

This weeks question is:

Where do you find God?

ANNOUNCEMENT

Announcement! 

A CHAPTER EXPLAINED:THE FOUR GOSPELS AS BEEN RESCHEDULED!!!

IT HAS BEEN MOVED TO AUGUST 18-24 2012.

Sorry, I will be away during the original date. 

Matthew 5, 6, and 7

Today, You can find  me At: Encourage 365 posting there... Heres a snip it from the post Click here to see the post!

" Ask and it will be given to you;seek and you will find;knock and the door will be opened for you.  For everyone who asks receives;he who seeks will find; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened."

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     Are you scared to ask questions? Yes? No? Depends who it is? There is a lot of things that come into this question. What is the question? whom are we asking? What are answer are we looking for? What about this and that....  I often have questions.... And anyone who I know will probably say the same thing.

But i'm not scared to ask questions. When I don't know I ask. Like we all should. Ask if you don't know... As simple as that. I think it's very easy for us to ask God things.( Don't be scared to ask GOD) Ask him for help and peace and  wisdom. And indeed God never leaves one of his children unanswered. God, will only give us the things we need and that are helpful in fulfilling his plan. And for most things he gives us.

Beyond...

On your marks get set....



GO!

    Above and beyond. That's what we all wish to be. We all wished to go that extra mile... One time in our life for sure.  We all wanted to be that one who healed twenty people and preached about God so perfectly and helped many people. Yes, that's nice to be recognized for it all, but what if we look beyond these and think of our above and beyond moments.

    It doesn't take a super human to do all this stuff. God gives use each and every day new powers, new visions, new plans for us to live. And sometimes that power might be beyond what we can handle, but he still gives it to us any ways. We have to look beyond our ways, to see the great things our next door neightbour has done. We have to look beyond the seperation of religion and culture to see the above and beyond things of people in different countries and of other religions.

   Imagine your self in front of a lake, a pond or a stream. And look into the water. What do you see? the fluffy clouds, the blue sky, the bright light reflecting off the water. You will also see the dark dirt of the mud below and you may see other garbage. We ll have our pond, our water. And each and everyday we are given a fresh look at. God, looks beyond the dirt, and beyond the sky , to look at you. To look at your reflection.

Stop!

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