And to those many places where Paul had planted the seeds of faith with total confidence, God will bring about growth, and maturity.
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Jesus teaches, but we also hear his call
And to be sure, the sinners knew with all their heart that Jesus was calling them and loving them into goodness. The fact that Jesus did it in spite of all those who criticized his words and actions gave the perfect proof.
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Determined to seek his healing, love
He spoke of and offered forgiveness; and he healed and gave a man who was paralyzed the ability to walk, run, dance, and jump like a child!
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Meeting God authenticity means seeing beyond sensation
And for you and me the reader, this almost spoken secret becomes the very revelation of Jesus and his works.
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Seeing ourselves as happy souls doing God’s will
And maybe we all need a little of Eli in our lives, too. Maybe we need to share with one another our own experiences of God, and our own growth in listening and surrendering so that others might learn it, too.
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An extraordinary story is promised
Uh oh! This, undoubtedly, would one day be his downfall.
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This word will do something to us
The question is, how will we experience it? And, what will happen to us and in us because of this word? The psalms, once again, say we will be blessed and we will draw and drink water joyfully from the springs of salvation. So, are we thirsty?
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Today is our Epiphany, and the presence of God always in our lives
Epiphany is the revelation of the eternal truth inviting us to participate in it as never before. Indeed, we are children of the light.
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We are broken, but Jesus leads us back to God
And further, this will be done divinely by Jesus on the cross as he loves and forgives, and gives us the model of what and how to do that in total pain and rejection, and human failure, but Divine Redemption.
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Amid the murkiness of the scriptures, they are becoming clearer all the time
And is not there always more to see, more to hear, more to know, more to find?
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