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Bible Study

      This is another interesting, exciting but nonsense passage.

Bishop N.T. Wright's says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright):

     For goodness' sake, I want to say to the soldiers, you've all been through so much together; you've got to know one another these last weeks, you've helped throw things overboard side by side, you've had moments of teasing and grumbling and sharing memories, you've become friends in an odd sort of way.  How can you now when rescue is within reach, turn round and kill these prisoners in cold blood?

     The final twist, just when we were heaving a sigh of relief and thinking all was going to be well, reminds us yet again of the fragility of the whole project, the sheer risk involved.  it is, of course, the same risk as the risk of incarnation itself.  What if Jesus had died of influenza in his teens?  What if he'd been kicked by a camel and never recovered?  Ridiculous?  No; that's the risk God takes in everything he does, the risk of creation itself, the risk of making a world which is other than himself, the risk of deciding to rescue it by using a human family, by becoming himself as a human being. 

N.T. Wright. Acts for Everyone, Part 2. Louisville,KY:Westminster John Knox Press, 2008, p.232.    

     

     What kind of risks have you taken so far?  Where was Jesus in those moments? Do you feel insecure, lonely or safe and satisfied?  

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

 

    What I heard from Jesus today is: Risky, but always in safety!

    What I received from Jesus is a reality check. Do you know that life is always so risky, but we are always safe if we are in Jesus. 

     We like to ask "what if" that makes our lives so insecure. For the past three years since Michelle got leukaemia, I have been asking this kind of "what if" question. What if the cancer comes back? What if I get cancer too? What if ...

     Today's message teaches me a big, big lesson. There should not be any "what if" if we are in Jesus. Life is risky, but for those who have a daily intimate personal relationship with Jesus, we are always in safety!

     Enjoy life and live your life fully each day. Do not let that "what if" to crush your soul!      

Dear Lord Jesus,                                                                                 Lead us to understand that life is risky but we are safe in you always. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.