This is something that my brother from church,sam david,sent me via email from:D
May God bless you:D
Love,Li Lin
Indulge me a moment. Jesus had such a desire to be made known. Jesus is translated into 'Jehovah Savior' or 'I Am, Your Savior'. Jesus went around healing the sick, casting out demons, teaching as God Almighty would always do. But you see, these works were done to show the world who He really was, that He was the Father, the God of the Old Testament. But the name Jehovah Savior would require more from God. At Gethsemane, Jesus travailed and prayed more earnestly for the cup of suffering to be taken away from Him. I always wondered how long He took to say the next lines, 'nevertheless, not my will...'
On a personal note, the last time I prayed anything 'close' to that pray, I didn't get to 'nevertheless...' until much much later. Sometimes, I don't even go there. Why must Jesus die on the cross? More than just to rid us from punishment. Let this be a perspective change for you as it was in a way revealed to me. It is really a terrible thing to be a secret admirer from afar. The issue with secret admirers is not the liking part, but the intense desire to make known him or herself. God was a secret admirer on earth for 33 years, to which the Bible says,
John 1:11
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
1 John 3:1
…therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. At Gethsemane lies two options:
Stop the suffering, stop the cross and forever be made unknown to Humanity that I am Jesus, leaving us an unrevealed name of God
The Cross and all that came en route to it that the world may know that there is no Savior but I, hence revealing the highest Name to the World.
John 8:28
Then Jesus said to them, 'When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he…It was the cross that brought revelation of the name of Jesus. The price of revelation was the Cross. The price God paid for us to know who He is. What does the name of Jesus mean to you? It took a cross for it to be bestowed upon you.
Genesis 22:10-14
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. [11] And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
[12] And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
[13] And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
[14] And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
If you really want to know God, then be ready to sacrifice. To give something as worship unto God. Abraham called his act of giving Isaac, the thing he treasured most, 'Worship'. As Paul says in Philippians,
that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death (3:10)
Just felt to share this. Be Blessed.
Love,
samuel
love liz (again.)
love, liz :)
(btw i'm feeling better now. thanks you guys! :))
during meeting: isaac with his wooden-peg-earring
scissors, paper, stone!
nah it's just isaac and helsa fighting again.
and here's a video of them arguing. as always. haha.
watch out for the part where isaac does his funny "wave your hands in the air" dance
hi josh.