John 16 ~ your sorrow will turn into Joy

Nasa has brought us photos of newborn stars in a close by Galaxy.

The skies - seen before electricity:

For centuries, all kilometers, miles and distance in France occur from Notre Dame. This is considered to be the beginning of France. The heart of France.

When we consider what Holy Week really is - this is the end times of the life of Jesus Christ. John the Baptist faltered and sent Disciples to check if John the Baptist had correctly given his life proclaiming Jesus the Messiah of God.

It's not a surprise to Jesus as the troops arrive in the Garden of Olives. Clearly the Man and God who heal the blind and cure the deaf and restore the lame and leper - understands what is going to arrive this week.

Jesus spent time on the hills around the Sea of Galilee praying. Telling us two millenniums later,

John 10

29 My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all.

No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.

30 I and the Father are one.”

This is not an older person, tired and worn out to see death as a blessing of rest.

At the point of death - we learn about people. It's the point of the beginning or the end.

John 16

20 Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.

21 When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

22 So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. 23 In that day you will ask nothing of me.

Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. 24 Until now you have asked nothing in my name.

Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

Holy Week reveals the depth of this incredible sacrifice. The absence of fear and terror, mostly. The Blessing of Jesus in his darkest week. The Revealing of the Heart of Jesus Christ.

Why use the stars to speak of God Himself?
For millenniums, the quiet beauty of the skies have brought what is mortal and frail as a flower, to look in understanding at Eternity. Witnessing without a doubt to a Greater Being. A Greater Power. Steadfast Creation.

Like Jesus moving to be quiet and talk with our  Father and even of Abraham, discussions are held about God in wonder. Is this real. Do we believe? Are the eyewitnesses like John credible? Why doesn't our heart ring with the truth as Jeremiah proclaims in God's Word about the New Covenant. God Within.

We discuss the large events of our lives. The shocking, the life-changing - these require fellowship to measure out belief and fact. Opinion and direction. We seek the Body of Christ to find viewpoints. What cannot be changed is the new earth. Historians of the Roman Empire know Jesus was born, died and something drastic happened.

The Bible rightly agrees with His Story. History. We find Historical letters by rabbis. We discover a change in the status of fellowship immediately. We find artifacts in Rome. We find the tombs change in decoration after Jesus is proclaimed. The very History of 4 Centuries of Roman Empire fear of Jesus Christ by Emperors does not change.

The skies proclaim.

Psalm 19

1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.

3 They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them.

4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.

In the heavens, God has placed a tent for the sun.

5 It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. 

6 It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other;

Nothing is deprived of its warmth.

Luke 24

17 He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”

They stood still, their faces downcast. 18 One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, 

“Are you the only one

visiting Jerusalem

who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”

19 “What things?” he asked.

“About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. 20 The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; 21 but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. 

And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. 

22 In addition, some of our women amazed us. 

They went to the tomb early this morning 23 but didn’t find his body.

 They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels,

 who said he was alive.

Isaiah 41:20 

So that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.

Isaiah 40:5

And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. 
For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

John 17:21

That all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

Abba,

With Your Willing Blessings, let us follow the example of Jesus Christ.

Psalm 118:24

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

1 Chronicles 16:34-35:

Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! 

Giving us this day. Jesus told us.

1 Chronicles 29:13:

And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.

The Love Jesus has asking us to pray for more Heaven on earth and God's Good Will accomplished in this life.

For ourselves, for our loved ones, for our Nation, for the Nations Trusting God, for all of His Children circling His Good Creation. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.

For Yours is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory. In Jesus Christ. Our Lord, Our God, our Savior.
Amen.

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