Mark 12:28-34 ~ you shall Love

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Mark 12:28-34 

28 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that He answered them well, asked Him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” 

29 Jesus answered, 

“The most important is, 

‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 

 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 

31 The second is this: 

‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 

There is no other commandment 

greater than these.” 

32 And the scribe said to Him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that He is One, and there is no other besides Him. 33 And to love Him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” 

34 And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, He said to him, 

“You are not far from the kingdom of God.” 

And after that no one dared to ask Him any more questions.

This week, we were discussing the Pine Beetle Blight.  

We have neighbors and family who are very upset, having homes in Colorado and no oversight and accountability for the dead and dying Pine Trees.  I have High School friends who are so upset in Pennsylvania Forests, from the same problem insect.  And we are concerned for them and the fires. 

As this was part of our conversation,

I was struck with horror,

to find Los Angeles on fire 

with terrible, intense firestorms.

This must have been a concern for the Southern Californians.  A deep concern.

When Edward's mother had her birthday in September, San Diego family could not attend because Southern California around San Diego was terribly on fire. 

Malibu had a very terrible fire 3 months ago.

Preventable.

To say the most encouraging thing, to this tragedy, 

We would have to say:

It is time to have a Fire Plan, 

A Water Plan,

A new and Functioning Plan.

This is different from North Carolina. 

There was no widely available footage, or news, immediately, of the houses flowing down the rivers. The North Carolina tragedy had never happened in the History of the Nation. An unbelievable, tragic, was a total surprise.

The Los Angeles fires are a shock to the entire nation, to see this happen to families and people who have loved having their homes in sunny, beautiful California. 

Why this Gospel? 

When we love ourselves and others, when we see ourselves careening down a spiral, we suddenly want to be better.  When everyone wants us to be better. When others hurt, seeing one another's pain.  And in this Light, we suddenly want to be better. 

As the Nation faces a failing climate system, 

dealing with the obscure weather seen in the 1st and 2nd century AD. As coal is purchased in such high volumes, NASA remarks Coal has helped the growth of more trees than NASA has history seeing from orbit.  

THEN, we want a system that works. 

SUCCESS WITH RUGGED CLIMATES!

WATER USAGE WITH SCIENCE

Africa Video, 

Revealing the UN's Hidden Role in Sahara Desert Farming

Planting farms winning in agriculture and tree farming in the deepest desert. LA knows about arid conditions, just going east over the mountains.  

India Video 

How Farmers Reshaped a Region and Solved Drought

is reclaiming the desert, making green trees and crops growing.  

China Video

Woman Totally Reversed Chinas Desert - From Sand Dunes To Green Forests

 has been turning complete desert into a farmland of crops and 35-year-old mature trees from total desert. 

We, all the USA, need these logic-based success projects. 

We need to love one another, and see across the globe to true Climate Blessings. Love North Carolina. Love California. See the desert blessings being worked around the world. 

TEXAS 

The Rio Grande River, flowing between the tip of Texas, South Padre Island, and Mexico, no longer muddies the Gulf.  Because to travel along the Border, before the Pandemic and Border situation. The farms grow so well and lush. The River is completely used for agriculture, much to the delight of the small towns and the farmers, both USA and Mexican.

Abba, Father!

WE PRAY 

PLEASE
STOP THE
90 and 80 MPH

CALIFORNIA
WINDS

WE PRAY FOR RAIN!

 

and

GIVE THANKS

FOR YOUR BLESSINGS

THANK YOU

The safety 

of Your people.

Houston rejoices 

 no to a tornado, hail, or terrible 

thunderstorms,

Thank God.

Praying freezing cold, cold temperatures

from 78' to 28' in one day

will skirt the freeze mark

and, maybe give us a sweet, small snow.

Please pray for our NATIONAL

weather safety.

Perhaps God will be merciful

Giving thanks

for great Furnace help

and insulation help.

Thank You, Lord.

The safety 

of those

helping the earth 

to heal.

Let evil and practicing evil

depart 

far 

from us

and our children.

With Your Help

We will act justly

 and to love mercy

 and to walk humbly with You, our God.

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

And we will finish well, 

in Jesus Christ. 

Help us seek and find 

and bring,

to become,

 more Heaven

to this earth.

And in Jesus - This Hope.

Faith and Love - we will rise up Believing Jesus.

Amen

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You Jesus

Mark 16:1-8 ~ He has RISEN †

 

Mark 16:1-8

¹ When the Sabbath was over

 
Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. 

Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, 

they were on their way to the tomb ³ and they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?”

⁴ But when they looked up, they saw that the Stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. 

As they entered the Tomb, 

they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. 

⁶ “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, Who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. 

See the place where they laid Him. 

⁷ But go, tell His disciples and Peter,

‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see Him, just as He told you.’” 

⁸ Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, 
because they were afraid.

Every day of our lives 

We have times we are bold and times we worry. 

To continue to do good, even with trepidation, is to look for Him. 

Seeking and finding.

When Jesus began collecting Disciples, we would do the same? 

With certainty, we would choose Peter and Andrew. They chose their lives like Gad, from the 12 Tribes, Gad. Gad, son of Jacob, was known for picking the best properties. Capernaum! Capernaum was new. Lovely. More temperate. View of the Sea of Galilee. Fish. All the Roman Empire living in Judea would want their fish. Great for a job market, nationally.  Peter and Andrew had the best house and had plaster walls. Seen, today, in Archaeology - writing in plaster. Not just with the perfect view, next door to the most important building, the Synagogue. Keeping them safe from patrolling Romans. Keeping them in the know with any news.

Ok, Peter. 

Not so much Matthew, the ... thug.  

Simon the Zealot... ok... but not the exact reputation to have.  So ... fairly certain... we, all, probably, would have found and chosen many more Peter, Andrews.

And Jesus did, in finding this preferred placement in James and John. 

Their father, Zebedee, had an entire column donation in the Synagogue. Kept up for centuries for the worldwide understanding of Zebedee and James and John. We can find this today in Capernaum. However, Mary, the wife of Zebedee, is not included. This Mary was extremely pushy. Jesus had this fact published for all of eternity, her asking for the great seats in The Kingdom of God, now, recorded for all time. 

And yet, Mary was asking for her sons, like Abraham. 

And Mary was asking for the Blessing of God the Almighty, like Jacob. 

Very like Jacob. 

"Mary. Mary. Mary," Jesus was known to say. 

How ironic, so many Mary names. Oh, but this is the History of God. And He is known to use coincidences.  Like Peter... being married. MARRIED. Yes, not an accident.  

Mary Mary Mary because God says if you do the will of God you are Blessed. 

Blessed Mary.

This Mary, mother of James, makes the History of God again in Mark's Gospel, Chapter 16. Mary, Mary, Mary.  She is like Mary the Mother of God going forth to do a Mother's job.  Her Mary, Mother of God, friend was pierced to the heart, her core, we learn from Simon, Luke Chapter 2, during Jesus' Infant Presentation.

 Mary, Mother of God is told about the ending of the Life of our wonderful Jesus. 

Mary in the Holy Spirit. And Mary, mother of James and John, is like the Disciples. Human fear, human bewilderment. Yet, Mary's life filled with the Holy Spirit. A Hero because of The Lord.

Flawed. Imperfect. Would Jesus have picked this Mary? He did. He surely did.

Bravery. Daily.

And an example of the Garden of Gethsemane. Guess we see many. Gethsemane. An English coincidence.  For Today's generation.

BOLDLY, 

Defy having your name known by the Romans crucifying Jesus. 

And yet...

Traveling at daybreak, so only the sheep see you. 

Comfort your friend, Mary Mother of God, but go early, early way to stay alive, to tell her later. Mary Mother of God will be comforted, both to have her Son comforted and to know Mary, mother of James and John, is still alive. Whew.

This First Easter is so hop scotched up, they have NO IDEA how to really accomplish the complete job. And so overwhelmed to miss the importance of gaining entrance to Jesus' Body. Only these traveling women hope to help everyone.

Philippians 4:19 

And my God 

will supply 

every need of yours 

according to His Riches 

in Glory 

in Christ Jesus.

Without a doubt, Philippians 4:19, is a wonderful verse. 

However, Mary, mother of James and John, was acting upon a desire to be kind and brave and supremely helpful to the Son of God, about 3 decades before Paul would convert and write in the Holy Spirit Philippians 4:19.

We find Mary, the bossy Jacob like, mother of James and John, was so closely living the will of God, she would see Philippians 4:19 fulfilled without knowing God's Scripture.  Her Spirit of God within said seek and find. Seek and find. Seek and find. And as surely as GOD helped Abraham with his son, God helped Mary, mother of James and John.  The Tomb was opened - by a miraculous event.

And they are so overwhelmed to lose Jesus not reliably in their midst, (Jesus said days will come) they find the detail of completion, to open the tomb, is just remembered. Jesus is going to have to fulfill every dot and iota.  Who has known the mind of God and Who has given Him Counsel. 

Coincidentally, we will quote James, since both Mary Mother of God and Mary mother of James and John have James sons:

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.

Mary, mother of James, is to have another coincidence with Mary, Mother of God. Her son James is the only one mentioned here.  He is the first Disciple to quickly pass on. He is mentioned in this Chapter, deliberately.  Why? Mary will remember she "Comforted" Mary and as her grief heals, she will know God has known her own "Comfort" and she will have The Holy Spirit's Comfort.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 

Blessed 

be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 

The Father of mercies 

and 

God of all comfort, 

Who comforts us in all our affliction, 

so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, 

with the comfort 

with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Hebrews 11  tells us by faith, we know Mary had supreme comfort in her recovery, from God.  Jabez prayed not to know pain.  We hope this for Mary.

THE STONE IS ROLLED AWAY!

 JESUS IS ALIVE!

Mary is now informed by an Angel of God

Exactly how large are the Works of God in Jesus Christ... TODAY

And Mary promptly does what she didn't do, again, she forgets to 

PROCLAIM JESUS RISEN.  

And again, Jesus is the fulfillment of every dot and iota

and 

the Works of Jesus

are Proclaimed.

 After all, Our God is Profoundly Capable and Entirely Steadfast.  God of Mercy.

 God of Encouragement. Our Living God.  He upholds the Universe with... His Word. 

Ancient of Days. 

We are not God. He is. And His Word and Promises are CERTAIN TO BE

THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.

HE IS

OUR HELP,

OUR HELPER

OUR COMFORT

and

OUR COMFORTER

JESUS CHRIST

HIGHEST NAME ABOVE
ALL OTHERS

FOR ALL

Mark 4:30–32 

And He said, 

“With what can we compare the Kingdom of God, 

or 

what parable shall we use for it? 

31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, 

which, when sown on the ground, 

is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, 

Yet, when it is sown 

it grows up and becomes larger 

than 

all 

the garden plants 

and puts out large branches, 

so that the birds of the air 

can make 

nests 

in its shade.”

Beach of Tyre

- even the pups

under the table

All 

Things

are

Interwoven

for

Good

for

those who Love the Lord

and 

work according

to His Purpose

Abba, Father!

Happy New Year 

"Anticipation!"

WE PRAY 

Yes, BLESSINGS 

and

GIVE THANKS

FOR YOUR BLESSINGS

THANK YOU

The safety 

of Your people.

Houston rejoices 

 no to a tornado, hail, or terrible 

thunderstorms,

Thank God.

Praying freezing cold, cold temperatures

from 78' to 28' in one day

will skirt the freeze mark

and, maybe give us a sweet, small snow.

Please pray for our safety.

Perhaps God will be merciful

and we will have mild snow... instead!

Giving thanks

for great Furnace help

and insulation help.

Thank You, Lord.

The safety 

of those

helping the earth 

to heal.

Let evil and practicing evil

depart 

far 

from us

and our children.

With Your Help

We will act justly

 and to love mercy

 and to walk humbly with You, our God.

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

And we will finish well, 

in Jesus Christ. 

Help us seek and find 

and bring,

to become,

 more Heaven

to this earth.

And in Jesus - This Hope.

Faith and Love - we will rise up Believing Jesus.

Amen

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You Jesus