Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Looking beyond

While reading God's word I noticed that Jesus was not only mocked by "His enemies" and at His Crucifixion. All through His ministry, His disciples, who would give Him a sarcastic proud attitude saying, "hummmm HELLO!!!?".
For example, we have the woman with the issue of blood in Mark 5:24 "And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him. And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in [her] body that she was healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?"
Another place when in the same chapter was when Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, asked Jesus to come see his daughter who was dying. When Jesus said,"the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn." He went into the little girls bedroom and told her to get up and she did.
It's as if part of them believed He was God but they couldn't look beyond the fact He wore flesh.
I think sometimes we're the same way. We desperately ant a miracle in our life or that of someone else but we can not look beyond the physical aspects.
God is just that, He's God! Money is not an issue for Him for Psalm 50:10 says, "For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills." Earthly destruction is not an issue for 2 reasons. 1- He is the creator of this earth and the universe, Gen. 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." 2- The things that have been happening are only to set the stage for when Jesus comes back to get His own. Matthew 24:6-8 says, "And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows."
He is not limited by our stubborn will. Proverbs 21:1 says, "The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will."
He is still God whether this proud world want to ridicule Him or ignore Him altogether.
If there's something in your life that is blinding you from the power and mightiness of God, you should start reading the bible and get a glimpse of it.
Look around, then look beyond.

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