Found reasons to Love again
Dear all,
Corny as it may sound, on the 1st day of my second year in Christ, I may have just re-discovered my reason to love again.
And i mean it in two-fashions: both to love another individual, and to love Jesus again.
And now i will tell the tale of how i felt His love today, and i'll leave the reason i have found to love to another day..i'm just so excited and i simply have to unload this from within myself before i forget it..and i dare not dilute it with another account..So here goes.
Just this morning, i was thinking out to myself some stuff, like wondering out of nowhere, who exactly wrote the gospels, and as i read my required readings for my religion class, i came over that answer..Wow..it was the first indication that God was guiding my readings to my answers..but that was a trivial matter..what mattered more was that we discussed about Peter's denial of Jesus 3 times and how he would have felt when Jesus told him that he[Peter] would deny him 3 times..and later how we read that Jesus later gave him a chance to 'redeem' himself by acknowledging that he loves Jesus 3 times at the closure of the gospel.
But generally, most people know Peter to be a unreliable person, who denied Jesus, who went back to his previous living of a fisherman once Jesus was gone from His life. He was the epitome of the saying 'without a vision, man will perish' as mentioned in the famous Proverbs.
How many of you know that the gospel of Mark, the first gospel ever written, was written by Peter's disciple? John Mark was Peter's disciple who followed him around as Peter went about Jesus's work in Rome. In fact, Peter did Jesus's work knowing fully the prophecy that Jesus left him with, that 'people will take him to where he does not want to be', that he would suffer persecution and eventually a difficult death if he should take up Jesus's cross and do his will on earth.
How many of you knew about Peter when he was fleeing the burning Rome, when he asked Jesus 'Wherest is thou gone, Lord?' and Jesus replied to him, 'if you should flee my people, i will return to Rome and die on the cross a second time'
And Peter, the same Peter who denied Jesus 3 times, who went back to his fishermanship after Jesus's crucifixion, who was fore-warned of a difficult death of being brought to where he does not want to go, returned to Rome to his people [the christians] and was eventualy crucified upside down, in place of Jesus; His love for Jesus demanded that of him that he cannot let Jesus go on the cross again if He could prevent it. [Remember in the gopels that Peter told Jesus that if it was in his power, it would not come to pass; it was out of love for Jesus that prompted Peter to say that! not Satan!] and Peter went to the cross willingly for the love of Jesus.
And today at lecture we were shown 3 silent films on early portrayal of Jesus in 'popular' silent films. Of especial note is the 'king of kings', in which the film showed scenes of which people crowded Jesus seeking healing. Of which there was a blind young girl who was seeking and asking everyone whom she touched 'Please sir, please take me to Him..I cannot find Him!' and the film went on to show how she approached everyone and how everyone could not help her. Then she chanced on a boy who was healed of his lame leg, and he proclaimed, 'take my hand, i will guide you to Him..'
How many of us have already received healing from Him in one way or another? but how many of us then decides to keep that miracle to ourselves, thinking that it is enough if we have our own righteousness and keep His faith in us, that it is enough for God that we continue to believe in Him even if we do not tell others about Him?
While it is true that God loves us and accepts us even if we do keep silent, but how much more is our lives worth if we use it to glorify his name, and guide others to him as this boy did to the blind girl? Taken into context, there are many people seeking a higher power in life, and i was one of them, and all it took for me is some1 who knew me and was willing to share what she knew about Jesus. That was all it took..is it that difficult for you, who have received His love and grace so freely to do?
So dear friends, if you have the chance and opportunity to do so, do not fear to proclaim His greatness and be a witness to His glory. I'm not asking of you to create opportunities to do so, just that you look out and see how the Holy Spirit is working in people and how the opportunities manifest itself before you; when you see that God has placed you in such a position to reach out, don't HOLD BACK!
And throughout the film i was busy holding back my tears man..i tell you, i never cried like that in any romance flicks. Testament to what i hold dear within me right now..I've found in this day, the reason i have to love Jesus again after 1 year of know Him. How about you?
-End
Corny as it may sound, on the 1st day of my second year in Christ, I may have just re-discovered my reason to love again.
And i mean it in two-fashions: both to love another individual, and to love Jesus again.
And now i will tell the tale of how i felt His love today, and i'll leave the reason i have found to love to another day..i'm just so excited and i simply have to unload this from within myself before i forget it..and i dare not dilute it with another account..So here goes.
Just this morning, i was thinking out to myself some stuff, like wondering out of nowhere, who exactly wrote the gospels, and as i read my required readings for my religion class, i came over that answer..Wow..it was the first indication that God was guiding my readings to my answers..but that was a trivial matter..what mattered more was that we discussed about Peter's denial of Jesus 3 times and how he would have felt when Jesus told him that he[Peter] would deny him 3 times..and later how we read that Jesus later gave him a chance to 'redeem' himself by acknowledging that he loves Jesus 3 times at the closure of the gospel.
But generally, most people know Peter to be a unreliable person, who denied Jesus, who went back to his previous living of a fisherman once Jesus was gone from His life. He was the epitome of the saying 'without a vision, man will perish' as mentioned in the famous Proverbs.
How many of you know that the gospel of Mark, the first gospel ever written, was written by Peter's disciple? John Mark was Peter's disciple who followed him around as Peter went about Jesus's work in Rome. In fact, Peter did Jesus's work knowing fully the prophecy that Jesus left him with, that 'people will take him to where he does not want to be', that he would suffer persecution and eventually a difficult death if he should take up Jesus's cross and do his will on earth.
How many of you knew about Peter when he was fleeing the burning Rome, when he asked Jesus 'Wherest is thou gone, Lord?' and Jesus replied to him, 'if you should flee my people, i will return to Rome and die on the cross a second time'
And Peter, the same Peter who denied Jesus 3 times, who went back to his fishermanship after Jesus's crucifixion, who was fore-warned of a difficult death of being brought to where he does not want to go, returned to Rome to his people [the christians] and was eventualy crucified upside down, in place of Jesus; His love for Jesus demanded that of him that he cannot let Jesus go on the cross again if He could prevent it. [Remember in the gopels that Peter told Jesus that if it was in his power, it would not come to pass; it was out of love for Jesus that prompted Peter to say that! not Satan!] and Peter went to the cross willingly for the love of Jesus.
And today at lecture we were shown 3 silent films on early portrayal of Jesus in 'popular' silent films. Of especial note is the 'king of kings', in which the film showed scenes of which people crowded Jesus seeking healing. Of which there was a blind young girl who was seeking and asking everyone whom she touched 'Please sir, please take me to Him..I cannot find Him!' and the film went on to show how she approached everyone and how everyone could not help her. Then she chanced on a boy who was healed of his lame leg, and he proclaimed, 'take my hand, i will guide you to Him..'
How many of us have already received healing from Him in one way or another? but how many of us then decides to keep that miracle to ourselves, thinking that it is enough if we have our own righteousness and keep His faith in us, that it is enough for God that we continue to believe in Him even if we do not tell others about Him?
While it is true that God loves us and accepts us even if we do keep silent, but how much more is our lives worth if we use it to glorify his name, and guide others to him as this boy did to the blind girl? Taken into context, there are many people seeking a higher power in life, and i was one of them, and all it took for me is some1 who knew me and was willing to share what she knew about Jesus. That was all it took..is it that difficult for you, who have received His love and grace so freely to do?
So dear friends, if you have the chance and opportunity to do so, do not fear to proclaim His greatness and be a witness to His glory. I'm not asking of you to create opportunities to do so, just that you look out and see how the Holy Spirit is working in people and how the opportunities manifest itself before you; when you see that God has placed you in such a position to reach out, don't HOLD BACK!
And throughout the film i was busy holding back my tears man..i tell you, i never cried like that in any romance flicks. Testament to what i hold dear within me right now..I've found in this day, the reason i have to love Jesus again after 1 year of know Him. How about you?
-End
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