OzThoughts Friday 19th December 2008

OzThoughts Friday 19th December 2008

In Tuesday’s OzThoughts I related some stories where there was a sound recording or sound system malfunction to demonstrate how with the best intentions of all concerned sometimes the message does not get through.

I attempted then to show by quoting from Hebrews that God had sent many messages in many ways through different people but now he spoke through his Son, Jesus. For various reasons, even with the perfection there was in Jesus some people did not receive him as John states in his first Chapter, verse 11.

I apologize to those who thought I was criticizing “sound people” that was certainly not my intention and on many occasions I have been the “sound person” for a meeting or event.

It comes as a reminder to me to take care with what I write but also, I wonder if those who saw criticism only got that far and whether they saw the point I was endeavoring to make.

When Jesus came there were many who because of their own agendas, ideas, training, traditions, and position did not accept him as God’s son, the Messiah. They had their own road they were walking and as they walked they failed to see who Jesus was. Some, in fact many even claimed to be looking for him.

PRAYER:

Heavenly Father, again I thank you for Jesus. I pray that I might not get caught up in other things which distract me from you and your will for me. I pray today, I might see Jesus.

[Listen: http://www.salvoaudio.com/audio/songs/songs_001.mp3 ]

I know thee who thou art,
And what thy healing name;
For when my fainting heart
The burden nigh o'ercame,
I saw thy footprints on my road
Where lately passed the Son of God.

Thy name is joined with mine
By every human tie,
And my new name is thine,
A child of God am I;
And never more alone, since thou
Art on the road beside me now.

Beside thee as I walk,
I will delight in thee
In sweet communion talk
Of all thou art to me;
The beauty of thy face behold
And know thy mercies manifold.

Let nothing draw me back
Or turn my heart from thee,
But by the Calvary track
Bring me at last to see
The courts of God, that city fair,
And find my name is written there.
Author: Albert Orsborn (1886-1967)
The Salvation Army Song Book: Song Number: 59


John 1 (The Message)

1The Word was first,
the Word present to God,
God present to the Word.
The Word was God,
2in readiness for God from day one.

3Everything was created through him;
nothing--not one thing!-
came into being without him.
4What came into existence was Life,
and the Life was Light to live by.
5The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness;
the darkness couldn't put it out.

6There once was a man, his name John, sent by God
7to point out the way to the Life-Light. He came to show everyone where to look, who to believe in.
8John was not himself the Light; he was there to show the way to the Light.

9The Life-Light was the real thing:
Every person entering Life
he brings into Light.
10He was in the world,
the world was there through him,
and yet the world didn't even notice.
11He came to his own people,
but they didn't want him.
12But whoever did want him,
who believed he was who he claimed
and would do what he said,
He made to be their true selves,
their child-of-God selves.
13These are the God-begotten,
not blood-begotten,
not flesh-begotten,
not sex-begotten.

14The Word became flesh and blood,
and moved into the neighborhood.
We saw the glory with our own eyes,
the one-of-a-kind glory,
like Father, like Son,
Generous inside and out,
true from start to finish.

15John pointed him out and called, "This is the One! The One I told you was coming after me but in fact was ahead of me. He has always been ahead of me, has always had the first word."

16We all live off his generous bounty,
gift after gift after gift.
17We got the basics from Moses,
and then this exuberant giving and receiving,
This endless knowing and understanding--
all this came through Jesus, the Messiah.
18No one has ever seen God,
not so much as a glimpse.
This one-of-a-kind God-Expression,
who exists at the very heart of the Father,
has made him plain as day.

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