Learning together~

Something I came across while preparing for sunday school about leprosy...

Something the children likely to do better than their teachers.

Mark 1-2: Cleansed!

Leprosy Victim

The leper of Mark 1:40-45 amazes me. Jesus told him to keep his mouth shut and he couldn’t. What saddens me is Jesus has told me to keep my mouth open and I don’t.

The thing I need to recognize about this whole scenario is the leper couldn’t keep quiet because of the joy over his cleansing. He knew exactly how defiled and vile he had been. Therefore, he was overjoyed at his newfound cleansing. He had to tell someone.

Who do you think he told first? I imagine he told the only people that had stayed with him, the other lepers he had been relegated to live with outside the city. He probably told his family. He may have told his friends. I bet he told the next person he saw in the street.

What I need to do is realize just how defiled and vile I was spiritually. Only then can I have the joy of the cleansing Jesus has given. Perhaps, when I remember that and meditate on it, I won’t be able to help telling people about it either.

Keep the faith and keep reading,

ELC

Seeking the Truth

"He must be blind who from the most wise and excellent contrivances of things cannot see the Infinite Wisdom and Goodness of their Almighty Creator, and he must be mad and senseless who refuses to acknowledge them." - Sir Isaac Newton

"Someone who lives at the North Pole, where light shines 24 hours a day and it is never night, might not believe in stars because he has never seen them. Still, they would exist as massive, awesome realities. The fact that we cannot yet see something (God) does not mean it (He) does not exist or that the evidence for His existence is lacking."

"Anyone who has not believed in God has always substituted something else for Him, and by necessity always something inferior."

"To live our lives apart from the truth isn't healthy, but to die without the truth is a tragedy."

- John Ankerberg & John Weldon

"What is so notable about the twentieth century, and a principal cause - I think the principal cause - of its horrors, is that great physical power has been acquired by men who have no fear of God and who believe themselves restrained by no absolute code of conduct." - Prof. Paul Johnson

Flame of God (Amy Carmichael)

From prayer that asks that I may be,
Sheltered from winds that beat on Thee,
From fearing when I should aspire,
From faltering when I should climb higher
From silken self, O Captain, free
Thy soldier who would follow Thee.

From subtle love of softening things,
From easy choices, weakenings,
(Not thus are spirits fortified,
Not this way went the Crucified)
From all that dims Thy Calvary
O Lamb of God, deliver me.

Give me the love that leads the way,
The faith that nothing can dismay
The hope no disappointments tire,
The passion that will burn like fire;
Let me not sink to be a clod;
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God.