Archive for June, 2025
It Bugs Me…
Every day I read of very young people to older folks (though younger than me), who simply expire usually due to a heart attack that instantly kills them. Even there, it used to be that if a person suffered a heart attack, it might not instantly kill them. If they got to the hospital or if emergency crews got to them quickly enough, they could actually save that person’s life. Not so today. There is zero warning. People simply keel over, drop to the floor and they are dead, dead, dead, with no chance of being resuscitating even if people begin the process immediately.
What You May Need
Who can argue that our bodies are wonderfully and fearfully made? They are very intricate and God, in His perfect wisdom filled naturally occurring foods in nature with the necessary vitamins and minerals that our bodies need to thrive. However, decades ago, Big Foods took over the food industry and in their highly processed approach to creating food stuffs, wound up destroying all naturally occurring vitamins and minerals. They then had to add them in on the back end, something they call “enriched.” Yet, because those enriched vitamins/minerals are not naturally occurring and more often than not, man made, they don’t become absorbed into our bodies, but are simply passed out.
Expressions of His Love
Jesus continually expresses His love for us. It wasn’t a one time deal at the cross, though clearly that action as He hung on Calvary’s cross was the expression of His love like no other. However, just because He has gone into the heavenly realms and now sits at the right hand of the Father until His enemies are made His footstool (Psalm 110; Luke 20; Hebrews 10), does not mean that His love for His own is no longer seen in the way He cares for His own. He didn’t change His demeanor toward us because He is now again exalted in heaven. He. Loves. Us.
Acquainted with Grief
What I’ve begun to realize is that when Jesus says we are to count the cost in Luke 14:28, He is saying more than I’ve considered. One of the things He is implying is that the cost of following in Jesus’ footsteps involves being willing to allow God to create within us the same unrestrained compassion that existed in Jesus. Think about what that means. It means that often, our efforts to reach people will be stymied by those we are trying to help see the light. It means they might ignore us, laugh at us, attack us verbally (or even physically), castigate us, make fun of us, label us something we are not and more.
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