Sunday night I watched helplessly as the Indians got pounded by the Red Sox...again. I found myself talking to the T.V. I was saying things like,"Throw a strike. Make him hit it. Don't fall behind in the count again". It was all really good advice if I say so myself. It didn't have much effect. I wasn't talking to a real person. I was talking fairly loudly to a T.V. Anyway, it got me thinking about the power of words. Words really do have a power to them when spoken to a real person. When my wife asks me how she looks in her new dress I realize the next words I speak are important words. They will have an impact not just on her but on me in pretty short order. So, I was thinking about the greatest words in the Bible. Do you know what I decided they were? The greatest and most powerful words in the Bible are...yet, but, nevertheless, even though. "And you were dead in your trespasses and sins Joe Coffey...BUT God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us...made us alive together with Christ. It is by grace you have been saved"(Ephesians 2:1-10). Or in Romans it says, "For one will hardly die for a good man...BUT God demonstrated his love toward us that while we were YET sinners Christ died for us"(Romans 5:8). I guess those words...but, yet, nevertheless are all precious to me because when I expect the worst God gives me the best. I know myself well enough to know I have done plenty to get rejected by God and when I stand waiting to hear the judgement what I hear instead of "guilty as charged", I hear, "Guilty as charged BUT someone has paid his penalty so he can live". The saying is that good things come in small packages and sometimes the best news in all the world comes in small words.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
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Our Community Group studied the 6th Chapter on the book about Peter and Jesus last night. In Jesus' last hours on this earth- The same Jesus that created the universe and provides the very air that I breathe - Took on the role of the lowest servant. He washed the feet of his desciples - Even those of Judas! His silent action that night has such an impact to me 2000 years later.
One of my "Family" in the group made this statement, In Jesus washing their feet it made me feel how his blood washed me free of sins. How true!
How would I feel if I had to wash the feet of a loved one who I knew would turn me over to be crucified? If the Lord of all the universe can do that for us, doesn't he expect the same from us?
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