A Christ Follower: The Journey

I will never leave you nor forsake you. Jesus      Jesus knew what is was like to be left alone and totally, completely and utterly forsaken.  Though he had never sinned, given into temptation, or failed his heavenly father in anyway, he still experienced abandonment in the worst kind of way.  He was abandoned by God.  Yes, as he suffered, bled and died and took our sins on himself, sin did its worst.  Just as our sins separated us from God, he who brought us back into relationship with him, had to be separated and or isolated from the Heavenly Father to the point that the grief was just too much.       This horrific ripping away from his father was demonstrated as Jesus experienced the first stage of grief.  He set the appropriate example for grief as he did that which some preachers say we should never do.  He cried out in agony the "Why" question. "My God!  My God!  Why have you forsaken me!" Yes, he wh...

  JESUS SPEAKING TO OUR DAY! If anyone harms one of these little ones who believe in me, it is better that a millstone be placed around their neck, and that they be cast into the sea. Jesus -- Mark 9:42      All too often people misunderstand that, while in one context, the context of persecution, we are to turn the other cheek, as did Jesus when he was crucified and as when the disciples were martyred; yet there were other times (and these are those times when the misunderstanding occurs) he faced down injustice with a vengeance. His response was specific, quick and targeted toward unrepentant and unbelieving abusers ... people who would not repent and who would NOT believe.   The money changers were ripping off the poor and polluting the temple with their dishonesty, and so he plaided a whip, kicked over tables and ran the religious hypocrites out of the temple! Money went flying everywhere!  He also faced down the religious hypocrites...

        As I sit at my computer, It's so very sad to hear that another earthquake or two has struck:  One struck in Japan and the other in  Ecuador. Is it just me? Or does it seem that the earthquakes are coming a  more rapid rate than previously?   Once Jesus talked briefly about earthquakes, and he discussed them in the context of what it would be like when he returned, and what it would be like at the end of the ages.  In a nutshell, he was answering the questions of his disciples about when will the end come?  See Matthew 24:3.  His earthquake quote goes like this . "Nation  will rise against nations, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and  earthquakes the world over. All these are the beginning of birth-pains. Nat "  Matthew 23:7 There is so very much I could say about all the "signs," but I have been led of the Holy Spirit to talk about this issue.  So here we go. There ...