A Christ Follower: The Journey

May God Fill You Today With The Knowledge Of His Will, Through All Spiritual Wisdom and Understanding, I Bless You With This So That You Will Live A Life Worthy Of Him And So That You May Please Him In Every Way. Receive This Blessing From The Lord And Be Blessed 2day Especially 2day. SoJourner

“ But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him. They will be like a tree planted by the water  that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought  and never fails to bear fruit.”   Jeremiah 17:7-8 Meditate On This For A While Today. Then... Be Blessed 2day, Especially 2day SoJourner

May the God of peace, who through the blood of the Eternal Covenant, brought back from the dead the Lord Jesus...  that GREAT SHEPHERD of the sheep... equip you with everything good for doing His will. And may He work in us what pleases Him, through Jesus Christ  to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen!

Next Picture Of Jesus:     Wrong Nationality, Wrong Gender, Wrong Moral Code... Changed Lives John 4:1-42    As I think about this picture today, it would be a picture of which many "Church" people might say, "How in the world could He allow Himself to be seen with her?"  I had such an experience as this many years ago, when as a Pastor,  a woman came into the church.  Someone said to me "What is she doing here?"  I had been outside the "Church" providing Pastoral Care to her family; therefore, this caught me off guard, but I had God's grace to say, "She is seeking God and His grace. That is all that is required."  And God did a great work in her and her family... as well as that church family.   This was the case of Jesus and this Picture of this "Woman at the well."  The disciples had gone to get food, and missed out on a whole lot of stuff.  First they missed out on a REAL GOOD picture of how Christ...

JPEG. Group of Pictures/ John 3... NIGHT SCHOOL Pay attention class.  Night school is now in session. Smile for the camera  Nick.    John is taking a picture of true spiritual transformation in progress, as at night,  a guy named Nicodemus comes to the Teacher.  And he gets a life transforming -birth from above- education that seems to change the course of his life.  Actually JPEG. #3 is actually a series of digital class pictures...Picture this:    Credentials: In our day, Nick would have been the teach.                       He is one of the great formal religious teachers                        of his time... Sanhedrin leader and Pharisee.         ...

John 2:1-10 or JPEG.2   As we look at John's digital picture album, we see JPEG.2, We see his lens focused on a wedding to which Jesus and His disciples were invited.  They were indeed "partying on."  It looks like MOM/ Mary was the wedding planner of some kind???  Refreshments were running low.  So she set the example for us on how to handle even "the small stuff" of life.  And rather sweat the "Small Stuff," She did what God tells us to do... Cast all your cares on HIM because He cares for you.   Check out John 2:1-10 and you will see Jesus first Miracle came as He obeyed (honored) His MOM. The Miracle was not about opening blinded eyes, causing the mute to talk, causing the deaf to hear.  It was not about standing up a paralyzed person so they could carry their bed home on the Sabbath.  No... it was nothing as profound as these.  It did, however, set the stage for all that would come later, including these miracles...

I was laying here looking over the Good News About Jesus that John recorded, and I recognized he was taking pictures of Jesus life. Yep! If John had a digital camera he would be taking some real clear photos. I will just call each one a Jpeg. and give it a number Take some real time to check these out.  I am sharing only one at a time. His nick name in the first pic is "The Word." Jpeg. #1   The Son of God... John 1-14     Now just look this over.   Read it.  Re-read it. Write it in YOUR own words. The write out what it says to you and how it might apply to you today.   Then Be Blessed 2day Especially 2day. "Get The Picture??? SoJourner