After His resurrection Jesus returned to His Father and now sits at His right hand.
It was expedient that He fulfill death on the Cross, taking on the sins of the world, so that Holy Spirit could be sent to indwell those who place their trust in His salvation. God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world but that through Him the world could be saved John 3:17
Holy Spirit takes the truth and teachings of Jesus and inscribes them on our hearts. We now desire to please God, not the doctrines of man, through our deeds and actions. With Holy Spirit within we are sealed, and precept by precept, we are changed.
In Jesus the blood sacrifice, in the perfect spotless Lamb of God, the sin of mankind was paid in full and as believers we are now, in this present age, abiding in His grace.
In Christ we are freed from the bondage of sin! Grace, amazing grace!
When we live from tenderness, we see one another.
And in my reading today, I was grateful for this, from Nicolette Sowder…
May we raise children who love the unloved things
May we raise children
who love the unloved things
– the dandelion, the
worms & spiderlings.
Children who sense
the rose needs the thorn
& run into rainswept days
the same way they turn towards sun…
And when they’re grown &
someone has to speak for those
who have no voice
may they draw upon that
wilder bond, those days of
tending tender things
and be the ones.
Tending tender things indeed. Yes, and amen.
SabbathMoments
Matthew 19:16–19
16 Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?” 17 So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.” 18 He said to Him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “ ‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ 19 ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ” The New King James Version
Eternal life describes life in the kingdom of the Messiah, which starts now but extends forever.
God already had defined what is good when He gave the Israelites the 10 commandments. Jesus responds with a representative sampling of the 10 commandments, to which he adds the command about loving one’s neighbor. Faithlife Study Bible
Why do you call Me good may be rephrased as “Why are you asking me concerning what is good?” The only One who can ultimately answer the question about goodness is God. The fact that Jesus went on to answer the question is a quiet claim to deity. The NKJV Study Bible
Exodus 20
1 And God spoke all these words, saying: 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 “You shall have no other gods before Me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. 7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. 8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you. 13 “You shall not murder. 14 “You shall not commit adultery. 15 “You shall not steal. 16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. 17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.” The New King James Version
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