Simple things…2023…

 

It’s the simple things…2023…

I keep rereading the parables of the lost..sheep, coin, son…simple stories… they don’t take up many verses to relate…they all end similarly…

 Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. 

Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” 

It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’”

Luke.15.7, 10, 32

Simple yet profound…there is rejoicing over sinners who realize their need of the Life that only Christ can give them…can’t you just hear the angels clapping…

 Can you imagine looking for your lost sheep in the wilds of the rocky hills…or looking for a coin in the cobble stones of the floors…or watching over the valley for a son to return…all a cause to rejoice at the “found”…small stories to tell a profound truth…

 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Luke.19.10

Thank YOU…

Simple things…written after trip to Israel…2019

“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…”

Found…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Yn1RtfCDc