John 12:1-8
Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
2 So they gave a dinner for him there.
Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table. 3 Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, 5 “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” 6 He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.
7 Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial. 8 For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”
- Jesus is Proclaiming and Giving Blessings.
- There is a life crucial message of the interweaving within conflict, trouble and blessing. We find in Psalm 131. To live with Peace. Faith and Love.
- We rejoice to see Jesus have Joy in Life as He told us. Even Moses wanted Joy in Life.
- We are seeing how far, how wide, how Deep the Word of God Travels - which is pretty amazing really.
Matthew's Gospel, 26th Chapter, remembers more from where Matthew was sitting. In intense discussions, we all remember different aspects:
12 In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.
13 Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world,
what she has done will also be told din memory of her.”
Jesus has Blessed her brother Lazarus. With His Word. With His Action. With Life. With His Time. And in doing so - there will be conflict. Where God is - hearts are revealed.
And no matter what happens - God's Plan, His Good Plan will Prevail.
John 11
44 The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”
Lazarus is "Unbound and Very Blessed"
The Study of Waves
When waves are studied, the details point at ripples, form waves and waves travel hundreds and thousands of miles even crossing the world and reaching new continents.
2 Corinthians 9:11-15
You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. 12 For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God.
Luke 6:38
Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.
Lazarus is unbound, set to go forth and - Blessed - - his sister will be remembered by her kindness, and she will be remembered as Joy to Jesus wherever the Gospel is Proclaimed.
Waves in life are going to arrive. Really we want to have the Faith to have Love and be in His Unshaken Kingdom.
God The Almighty knows how to Interweave to Goodness.
Exodus 1
6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, 7 but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.
Joseph and all of his brothers became so numerous. Jacob was a ripple. A Blessing. The Conflict of Life and intersection with God.
What a Ripple Effect of Blessing.
Exodus 12:37
37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
James knew he was not always a Blessing to Jesus.
And James knew Jesus was and is always a Blessing to James, His Brothers and the people of God forever.
Mary Rejoiced to find herself in Favor with God.
And then we find Mary is flawed. Her heart held the treasure of seeing God's favor. Mary's life reflects the work God gives mankind - to believe in the One God sent us in Jesus. God's favor is not always found perfectly in Mary's life. Yet God is pleased with her heart. And when we find God knows her heart will hurt - God has made a path as clearly as He did through the Red Sea.
Blessing and Trouble
Jesus told us we will all see trouble in this world. And Rejoice Jesus overcomes.
We always study how Overcoming is to occur.
We will fight the Good Fight - even St Augustine found the need to reassure us the small parts we do for Jesus - Jesus multiplies like the loaves and fish. Heaven has the Parable of Yeast flowing. My Grandmother Anita lived a quiet life and I dreamed a few years ago Anita returned to me and said - whatever small part God gives us to do - today - we Please God to try to Please God. Some days the ability to Please God will be large, some days small - we just Please our God, our Father, God of Love to give Him our heart and try today.
God is God the Almighty
We fight the Good Fight with prayer, with expectation of God's Goodness, the seeing and finding interweaving of hard circumstances and Blessings to see God multiply Blessings. Because - the Battle belongs to God. God calls this, His Holy Spirit - Comforter.
And they did go forth with the Blessing of Jesus. Unbound and in freedom.
French history records, like John, Lazarus and his sisters lived in a cave seeing the beautiful water. And a local Church records Lazarus was regarded as a Bishop and his sisters lived lives pleasing to God as well. There is a burial place for Lazarus and the Church records a second tomb for Lazarus. Then a third tomb with a Catholic Cathedral moving Lazarus to Spain, to be placed in a Cathedral Altar. Within the last 50 years, the altar was opened. Human dust and fragments were found from over half a millennium since moving the tomb. And a note was found saying, "Here is Lazarus, friend to Jesus."
Abba, Father
We are finding like the Michael Smith song, "This is How I Fight My Battles!"
And in Jesus - This Hope.
Faith and Love
- We will rise up
Believing Jesus
Amen!
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