Posted on 06/25/2004 12:38:57 AM PDT by JustAmy
hahaha ! Gotta send that "Running Eagle" to my brother !!
Read: Luke 11:29-32
This is an evil generation. It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. —Luke 11:29
Bible In One Year: Job 5-7; Acts 8:1-25
A skeptic once said to me, "I'll believe in Jesus if He comes down and appears visibly above my house." Not necessarily!
The Christ-rejecting religious leaders who requested a sign from Jesus had plenty of evidence for believing. They had undoubtedly heard of, if not seen, His miracles of healing, casting out demons, and even raising the dead. What more did they need?
Jesus therefore called them an "evil generation" (Luke 11:29). The only sign they would be given was the sign of Jonah the prophet, who had been thrown into a stormy sea (Jonah 1:2-3). When the Ninevites heard Jonah's message of repentance after he had spent 3 days in the belly of a fish, they believed God had sent him and they repented.
Likewise, the religious leaders who already knew of Jesus' words and works would soon see Him crucified and securely entombed. And in the following weeks they would hear personal testimonies from those who had seen Him alive, and had even touched Him, but they still wouldn't believe.
Today we have in the Gospels a record of what Jesus said and did, written by people who knew Him. If we are open to the truth, we have all the evidence we need to believe. We don't need to be sign-seekers. —Herb Vander Lugt
Too cute!
I've discovered that the painted drinking "glasses" (actually a pretty tough plastic {acrylic}) offer an acceptable emergency substitute.
When I'm drinking water, and look through the bottom of the glass, I can see across the room. Now there's a picture for you! Me wandering around the house with a literal coke-bottle binocular, trying to find my glasses.
It would probably work better as a story element, one of those after-the-apocalypse yarns...
"... Rog'rr shielded his eyes from the sunlight. The crude goggles he was wearing could never be properly cleaned, but they seemed durable. There was no question that he needed them, and there was no doubting his good fortune in finding the broken glasses in the remains of a house. He would have been dead a dozen times by now without them. Scanning the rocks around him, he looked for ...."
I tell ya, I felt pretty helpless/useless this morning before I found them. I am almost blind without them. :^(
Thank you so much for the precious poem and graphic!
You are most welcome.
Now, where was I? Oh, yeah, yardwork ...
Cute puppy!
He is not happy. He is driving our 4 year old shepherd crazy. She is really hyper so it is now turn-about. He did okay last night but he wants to spend his time inside with us.
We want him to also become accustomed to staying outside.
Hey, CG, did you see post 49?
Betcha a nickle I already wrote a pome 'bout it!
Has anyone else invited you to? It looks like your kind of topic.
Do you know what just dawned on me?
Well?
Do you?
I'm back ..... what just dawned on you? LOL
Have you started shopping???
LOL
Yep .... I bought a puppy!!
You DID? For you? Or someone (hehe) else?
WHAT KIND OF DOGGIE? I'm a real sap when it comes to puppies....
THAT'S your puppy??????
TOO CUTE!!!!
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