Milo

Thank God that was not the end of the young man and his quest for eternal life because Jesus said that with God all things are possible as with man , well pretty much lots of things are impossible.

It’s sad that the people of Jesus day refused to believe Jesus and yet he gave them a plan B and that was that they should believe from the very evidence of his miracles that were happening all around them. And if they failed to do even that then what else could the Lord have done.

Denominations ? or rather to redeem people out of all the nations upon the earth. In heaven there is only one body of believers from before Calvary to the day of Christs return. Some say that the denomination’s were of God but I rather think that they were created from people who quarrelled over the bible and caused divisions amongst themselves leading to splits and factions like we have seen for hundreds of years now. But still despite this being the case God continues to save people everywhere. James asked, from where do wars come from? And the simple answer is that they are created from themselves out of their own evil passions. So I guess if we each practiced what Jesus did with washing the disciples feet we would learn at least what real humility actually felt like.

In proper context Jesus was telling the disciples that they were His friends and that He was going to the cross to lay down His life for them But in doing so He was referring to all afterwards who would believe on Him for their own individual Salvation that they too would become His friends.

There is a old hymn that says “What a friend we have in Jesus….”

Greater Love has no man/ woman… to lay down their lives for their friends. Thank God His love is Greater still.

June 23rd

Acquaintance with grief

A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isaiah 53:3.

We are not acquainted with grief in the way in which Our Lord was acquainted with it; we endure it, we get through it, but we do not become intimate with it. At the beginning of life we do not reconcile ourselves to the fact of sin. We take a rational view of life and say that a man by controlling his instincts, and by educating himself, can produce a life which will slowly evolve into the life of God. But as we go on, we find the presence of something which we have not taken into consideration, viz., sin, and it upsets all our calculations. Sin has made the basis of things wild and not rational. We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in my life. The New Testament brings us right down to this one issue. If sin rules in me, God’s life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed. There is no possible ultimate but that. The climax of sin is that it crucified Jesus Christ, and what was true in the history of God on earth will be true in your history and in mine. In our mental outlook we have to reconcile ourselves to the fact of sin as the only explanation as to why Jesus Christ came, and the explanation of the grief and sorrow in life.