Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”So they called to the blind man, “Cheer up! On your feet! He’s calling you.” Throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet and came to Jesus. —Mark 10:49 & 50, NIV
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Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. -Deuteronomy 10:19, 21 NKJV Something explodes. Something new emerges.
It sparks and fills the air with new energies. It sets our rhythms ablaze and pushes life through us. All distortions are left out –the chores, the errands, the stupid requests, the mundane, trivial effects that life suddenly throws at us. We suddenly feel…alive. Fire refines and surges forth, entangling us to its flavors and bringing our hearts peace. Blood fights and glazes and brings us strength. The laws of the past are no more. No more pain and gore. No more sin and selfishness. No more tears and horrid ablutions that tear peoples down. No more unreasonable excuses to have broken scepters reign through our lives. Our hearts find change-and embrace it. Our attitude shines through the darkest night. What drags us down and drops our morale –our attitudes, lifestyles, relationships and lies- suddenly fade. Like the oceans, they part. Like an altar, we become a true sacrifice to the Lord of Hosts. Everything is able, nothing is impossible; every day becomes a new day for hope. Love is like a chemical reaction: it needs no action, nor patronizing cupids, not even outside interventions. When it appears, love arrives like a full storm as it weaves to and fro every step of our lives. And it explodes…when it explodes, the world will see the difference. And the world will see the glorious change. (I have decided to showcase one of my favorite past love posts. "Without love" was written on February 9, 2010, and it explains how horrible it is to live without love in our hearts.) If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. (1 Corinthians 13:1-3, NIV) There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. -1 John 4:18 I look at the heavens you made with your hands. I see the moon and the stars you created. And I wonder, “Why are people so important to you? Why do you even think about them? Why do you care so much about humans? Why do you even notice them?” -Psalm 8:3 & 4, ERV How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure? -Job 25:4, NIV All humanity has seen it; mortals gaze on it from afar. How great is God—beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out. -Job 36:25 & 26 All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him. I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves. So I looked for him but did not find him. -Song of Solomon, 3:2 |
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