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Father Forgive Them Luke 23 Christians in Conversation on the Internet

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Jesus said it from the cross and asked God to forgive them. 

"They know not what they do. "
Luke 23:34

This blog post by Mary Katherine May of QualityMusicandBooks.com.

The internet offers ways to be part of the conversation, but being a part of the conversation means that the Christian needs to be prepared for what comes in return.

You will be called names.

You will have your words twisted.

You will be challenged to return insults.

You will be tempted to respond in anger.

Please remember that the world, and by that I mean in the Spiritual sense, has no common ground with the Christian.  Arguing with those who have no belief in God or understanding of the beauty of the Christian life is throwing pearls to swine.

Choose responses carefully by testifying to the truth and by doing so Jesus Christ is in the center of your conversation, and He will then do as He wills.  It is often the case that angry people, those who choose sin over freedom from sin, do not know how to respond to kindness while they will gladly reply with a vengeance to words returned that mimic their tone.

The global web is an anonymous place where freedoms to say whatever comes to mind at the moment is blown grossly out of proportion. What you type as conversation on the internet is there always. A good rule is to respond in the same way that you would do if the person was standing right in front of you.  Even better is to only say what you would say knowing that God is present and with what fits with Christ's Sermon on the Mount.

Keep this in your thoughts: They stripped, whipped and crucified our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and after all that He asked his Father to forgive them. 

Peace and blessing are abundantly provided for those who rest their hearts and minds in the Savior's loving embrace.

Brandon High Football fans sing How Great Thou Art at halftime.

Hallelujah! Jesus IS Lord! 

Judge ordered school band to not play How Great Thou Art at halftime show

so people in the bleachers STOOD UP and sang How Great Thou Art!

source: YouTube.com
CLICK HERE to read Todd Starnes editorial about this event.
This blog post by Mary Katherine May.

Blessed in the Beatitudes Matthew 5 Gift for Faithful Christians

Makarios: Happy, Blessed.
Bible Quotation: NKJV. Source: BibleGateway.com
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Blessed -- Happy
The word blessed in New Testament Greek is Makarios (Strong's G3107) and translates both as happy and blessed.  

An explanation in Thayer's Lexicon adds this: joined to the names of God, which as a Christian I find most pleasing to think about.  Beatitude: Supreme Blessedness or Happiness
Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 5, tells us why and how we are blessed and what the consequences are.  In this case, the consequences are most wonderful. 

Joined to the Names of God
There is an awareness that develops in living as a Christian through study and reflection upon Scripture and Godly teaching, of exactly how wretched the state of the human race is without the saving act of the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  It is a spiritual relationship like nothing else that forms in part out of an overwhelming gratitude for a gift given so freely by God, through his Son, from pure love.  

BE Attitudes vs. Beatitudes
Sermons have been preached, books written, and Bible teaching presented on the Beatitudes as BE Attitudes where these blessings have been promoted as a state of mind in which Christians are supposed to dwell, yet there is still so much more.

Being blessed in the Beatitudes as Christ taught, however, is not something that we can manufacture to our benefit or acquire ourselves, but instead are blessings that are given to the committed Christian as rewards for the life well-lived, the race run past the finished line...all the way to Heaven.  

Blog post by Mary Katherine May of QualityMusicandBooks.com.

What Sort of People Are Here? Looking for the Good in People Edwin Markham

Edwin Markham
source: Wikipedia

     Browsing through an old book I picked out at a local store I came across a parable of sorts by Edwin Markham titled What Sort of People Are Here?  It was a good, positive reminder for me and no doubt will be for those who read it.  

     It is a real gift to look for the good, the positive, and the best the world has to offer in the midst of negativity, anger and hatred perpetrated toward and on people who have done nothing more than want to live a good life.  

     On the receiving end, it is a real blessing when those who know our faults and weirdness still look for, and focus on what is good in us.

     It is a fact that every person who has lived, is living, and will live at some time will act in a manner that is hurtful or negative, or mean-spirited. Each person will say or do something without their knowledge that is inappropriate or will be taken wrongly.  

     We all have a choice to dwell either on the negative or the positive.  We all have the choice to look for that one spark of good.  

     When good is hard to find what should we do?  We can commit that person or situation to God and pray, "Lord, this is too hard for me to handle. I release it too you and ask for healing of my feelings and healing of this person's heart."  

What Sort of People Here?

Once when a prophet in a palm shade lay,

A traveler stopped at noon one dusty day,

And asked, "What sort of people in this land?"

The prophet answered, lifting happy hand,

"Well, friend, what sort of people whence you came?"

"What sort," the traveler snorted, "knaves and fools."

"Well," said the prophet, "when your fever cools,

You'll find the people here the very same."

Another stranger at the dusk drew near,

And paused to ask, "What sort of people here?"

"Well, friend, what were the people whence you came?"

"Ah," smiled the stranger, "they were good and wise."

"Then," smiled the prophet, laughing in his eyes,

"You'll find the people here the very same."

     "Love covers a multitude of sins" (1Peter 4:8a) because love forgives and leaves justice to God.  Love looks beyond the sin to the sinner, and sinners we all are.  The only thing that makes another person's sin greater than our own is that we are not the one who did wrong or we are the one who was wronged.  

This blog post by Mary Katherine May of QualityMusicandBooks.com.

Embrace God Before You are in Emergency Mode Needing Immediate Comfort

I am as sure that GOD IS as i am sure that the wind will blow again.
Mary Katherine May

     Embrace God before you are in emergency mode needing immediate comfort.  Develop a relationship with our Loving Father in the little things of everyday life--not that He needs to develop a relationship with us because on his side the bond is always present. We are the ones in our imperfections and human nature that have the need to grow closer in our hearts and minds.  

     Then, when you need the Lord most it won't seem like He is a stranger not giving what you expect--it will be what you need--moment by moment, and you will know for certain that you are not alone.  You won't need a feeling to know God is present.  You will know God is present because you trust that He is present because that is where He promised to be.

Romans 8: 38-39 NASB
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

This blog post by Mary Katherine May of QualityMusicandBooks.com.