I am still decompressing from my amazing trip to Israel...still have 1200 pictures to cleanup, delete or use out of 2000...other things, like doctor visits, company, bill paying, weeding have had to take precedence, but am itching to relive the trip through the pictures again...processing the moments, the emotions, the sights, the sounds, the people....
I wrote down titles as they came to me along the fast paced, drop into bed each night way, knowing that if I was to blog, God would bring to remembrance the words that went with each...discarding the ones that weren’t to be used...
This was one....as I have been asked over and over “ what was the best?”....it was all great...but I keep coming back the the simple things...we saw amazing sights, sites, ruins from thousands of years and a few years, heard amazing singing, brushed shoulders with amazing people...but, simple things caught my heart...
It was finding a shepherd with his sheep in a field deep with flowers and deep green lush grass....simply standing on the shore of the Sea of Galilee where fisherman still fish or Jesus fixed a meal of bread and fish....it was looking at the city of Jerusalem, seeing it as Jesus saw it and wept...it was sitting inside a Bedouin tent receiving their hospitality as Abraham might have done for the visitors...it was walking down the narrow streets of the cities surrounded by crowds of people like Jesus did...having communion in the garden under ancient olive trees...seeing a 2000 year old sycamore tree in Jericho where Zacchaeus May have climbed to better see the Savior of the world...walking on ancient stones uncovered where Jesus may have walked...the dry parched desert of the Engedi where David hide from Saul....seeing the skull in the rock formations on the hill of Golgotha...it was seeing an empty tomb where Jesus may have been laid....none of these worthy of worship...but it was just glimpses of history...written in God’s Word that came alive ....
Jesus was a real man who came, God walking in the everyday life of mankind...living here to love us, to die and live for us...He came to seek and save the lost...and now He lives, preparing a place for his followers...He walked, talked, healed, taught, loved...in these places...the simple places...His Word is simple and deep...as is His love...the call is plain....Seek...Come...Find...Look...Believe...and you shall be saved...
thank YOU for the simple things....
Those who know your name trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.
Psalm 9:10
8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Matthew 7:8
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Luke 19:10
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