NOPE! TATTOOS ARE NOT MY CUP OF TEA. SEEMS THAT SUDDENLY, all over the place, our younger generation has tattoos. I saw an old codger – wrinkled and everything (‘bout my age) – with tattoos all over his arms and neck. Then I read Isaiah 49:16 (kjv)
“Behold, I have engraved thee upon the palms of my hands; ….”
Next, I was shocked how the Living Bible (paraphrase) translates it.
“See, I have “TATTOOED” your name upon my palms ….”
MORE COMPLETELY THE NIV SAYS: “Shout for joy, you heavens; rejoice, you earth; burst into song, you mountains! For the Lord comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones. “See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; ….”
Isaiah 49:13, 16
Jesus “‘said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. STOP DOUBTING AND BELIEVE.’”
John 20:27 (niv)
Tag: Earth
IF THERE IS NO GOD, NO HEREAFTER, NOTHING MORE THAN THE PHYSICAL floating through millennia of transmutation, why do we sometimes hurt deeply in our soul? Why don’t we die like a dog or mosquito or a fish in the ocean? What’s the big deal!
Why is it that for the last 6,000 years human beings have yearned for a supreme being making gods of wood and gold? Who put the hunger in our heart for love, purity, moral conscience, for order? What about that yearning to live forever? If we are animal only with no hereafter what, then, is the big deal about dying – we just disappear, rot away in the dirt? To the dialectical materialist/Left/communist crowd, you and your family are only economic animals to be manipulated for what they would interpret as the good for the whole of society. Are human beings possessor of some kind of strange spirit that other creatures don’t have; or, does a dragonfly have what we have? A cow, horse, warthog, grasshopper? If we are no different, why not feed the hungry with human meat?
NO! A thousand times NO!
“In the past you were spiritually dead because of your sins and the things you did against God. Yes, in the past you lived the way the world lives, following the ruler of the evil powers that are above the earth. That same spirit is now working in those who refuse to obey God. In the past all of us lived like them, trying to please our sinful selves and doing all the things our bodies and minds wanted. We should have suffered God’s anger because we were sinful by nature. We were the same as all other people. But God’s mercy is great, and he loved us very much. Though we were spiritually dead because of the things we did against God, he gave us new life with Christ. You have been saved by God’s grace.”
Ephesians 2:1-5 (ncv)
To the eternal God the writer of Hebrews wrote: “‘You made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.’”
Hebrews 2:7 (nlt)
“Now we did not receive the spirit of the world, but we received the Spirit that is from God so that we can know all that God has given us.”
1 Corinthians 2:12 (ncv)
“I want [you] to be strengthened and joined together with love so that [you] may be rich in [your] understanding. This leads to [your] knowing fully God’s secret, that is, Christ himself. In him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are safely kept. I say this so that no one can fool you by arguments that seem good, but are false. “When you were spiritually dead because of your sins and because you were not free from the power of your sinful self, God made you alive with Christ, and he forgave all our sins.”
Colossians 2:2-4, 13 (ncv)
“God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 4:24 (ncv)
You are not just a piece of evolutionary meat roaming the desert of confusion. You are a spirit longing to join the Spirit of God Almighty. Your spirit is that something God put within you that gives you the ability to have an intimate relationship with God through the redeeming sacrifice Jesus made on the cross for the penalty of your sin and mine!
THERE ARE FLASHLIGHTS AND CANDLES. There are little insects that procreate light – like lightening bugs. Fire produces light. There are electric lights. Light can be generated by using petroleum and wood and other things. It’s no secret that our main source of light is the sun. You can close your eyes and shut out the light. [Don’t get technical with me.]
The older I get the more I need light, lots of it! There are green lights, red, blue, yellow and on & on.
Light is wonderful. And get this, light is fast … very fast – 670,616,629 miles per hour or 186,282 miles per second (approx. 298,960 kilometers per second).
Our Great God created light and He did it because when He created the universe, the heavens and the earth were without form, and void and “the earth was empty and had no form. Darkness covered the ocean, and God’s Spirit was moving over the water. Then God said, ‘LET THERE BE LIGHT’ and there was light. God saw that the light was good, so he divided the light from the darkness.”
Genesis 1:2-4
There is inner light and inner darkness, too. Unfortunately, everyone born into this fallen world has experienced inner darkness. Oh, I’m longing for that day of no darkness, no sadness, no death, no hurt, no sickness, no deception, no sin, no Satan!
A new form of light will forever brighten eternity with the face of the Son of God!
“The sun will no longer be your light during the day nor will the brightness from the moon be your light, because the LORD will be your light forever, and your God will be your glory.”
Isaiah 60:19 (ncv)
“The WORD [Christ] gave life to everything that was created, and his life brought light to everyone. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.”
John 1:4-5 (nlt)
“The ONE who is the true light … came into the very world he created ….”
John 1:9-10 (nlt)
Yes, Jesus came!
“The whole world was lost in the darkness of sin,
The Light of the world is Jesus!
Like sunshine at noonday,
His glory shone in;
The Light of the world is Jesus!
“Come to the light, ’tis shining for thee;
Sweetly the light has dawned upon me;
Once I was blind, but now I can see:
The Light of the world is Jesus!
(P. P. Bliss)
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