Post by Gerard Mendes on May 9, 2017 14:15:52 GMT -5
This is my own weird type of humor but with a funny bit of truth. I like to provoke thought and catch people off guard. Here I share two of my off the wall thoughts.
In MT 9 bout vs 9 we read about a lady with an issue of blood. We have all heard the story. In the OT when a woman was in her time she was to cover herself, proclaim she was unclean. Anybody who touched her in this time was also unclean . Jesus was walking down a street and was being mobbed by a crowd. He says--someone touched me. The disciples response was---watta you mean someone touched you, everybody is all over you. This brings me to my question---how did this lady get to Jesus without touching someone else in her effort? My answer is this---she had to violate her religion to get to Jesus. How many of us have religious practices that keep us from Him?
My second one is found in Jn the fourth chapter around verse 14. Here Jesus is in canaan a land that He wasn't suppose to be in. Here He runs across a lady with a sorted background. While at a well getting a drink He tells this lady that He had water that would make her thirst no more. Again we all have heard this story. Now we being one of off the cuff humor, I like to tell people that this is the one place where Jesus was not truthful. Boy I get some real dirty looks. But here is my answer. Jesus said that we would thirst no more---I CANT GET ENOUGH. I want more and more and more of Him.
O K---one more. In mark 12 about verse thirty Jesus was asked what was the greatest commandment. The leaders of that day were always asking gotcha questions to try and trip up Jesus so they could disqualify Him. And of course Jesus was always up to the task. His answer was to love God with the totality of our beings---my paraphrasing. And of course He had a second followup to it---love your neighbor as yourself. So here is my question for all you great thinkers----was Jesus speaking literally or being prophetic ? Most people jump on the literal bandwagon saying Oh ya, we gotta do it exactly like He said. So now---think a bit here. If we follow it in the literal it is impossible. If we love God with everything about us then we have nothing left for the second commandment. And if we devote one iota to the second commandment we violate the first. So we cant obey this in the natural or literal. Here is the answer ---we will love our neighbor the same way we already love God.
In MT 9 bout vs 9 we read about a lady with an issue of blood. We have all heard the story. In the OT when a woman was in her time she was to cover herself, proclaim she was unclean. Anybody who touched her in this time was also unclean . Jesus was walking down a street and was being mobbed by a crowd. He says--someone touched me. The disciples response was---watta you mean someone touched you, everybody is all over you. This brings me to my question---how did this lady get to Jesus without touching someone else in her effort? My answer is this---she had to violate her religion to get to Jesus. How many of us have religious practices that keep us from Him?
My second one is found in Jn the fourth chapter around verse 14. Here Jesus is in canaan a land that He wasn't suppose to be in. Here He runs across a lady with a sorted background. While at a well getting a drink He tells this lady that He had water that would make her thirst no more. Again we all have heard this story. Now we being one of off the cuff humor, I like to tell people that this is the one place where Jesus was not truthful. Boy I get some real dirty looks. But here is my answer. Jesus said that we would thirst no more---I CANT GET ENOUGH. I want more and more and more of Him.
O K---one more. In mark 12 about verse thirty Jesus was asked what was the greatest commandment. The leaders of that day were always asking gotcha questions to try and trip up Jesus so they could disqualify Him. And of course Jesus was always up to the task. His answer was to love God with the totality of our beings---my paraphrasing. And of course He had a second followup to it---love your neighbor as yourself. So here is my question for all you great thinkers----was Jesus speaking literally or being prophetic ? Most people jump on the literal bandwagon saying Oh ya, we gotta do it exactly like He said. So now---think a bit here. If we follow it in the literal it is impossible. If we love God with everything about us then we have nothing left for the second commandment. And if we devote one iota to the second commandment we violate the first. So we cant obey this in the natural or literal. Here is the answer ---we will love our neighbor the same way we already love God.