07/07/2025

The events recorded in the scriptures all take place in this world and are witnessed by individual human beings in human time but they also involve IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and thus have universal, eternal significance.

This morning in Genesis it is remembered that the man "Jacob" was assured by the Lord that the place where he was then sleeping was to be his and his descendants for evermore.

I am sure that what is happening in Gaza at this moment as I type these words is not at all part of the intention of the Lord as he began his care of the Children of Abraham in the person of Jacob, at the first "House" of God, Bethel.

No matter how much I have sinned during my lifetime, Our Father never ceases to reach out to me pleading from his cross that I use my freedom to accept his Love and reject everything that does not comply with his revealed will.

The People of the Old Testament continued and still continue in their rebellious relationship with IAMIAM that could not grow beyond the sinfulness that is always the result of human self-love but are always present in His Love that is Beyond all Understanding. It was for their sake that God began the Incarnation in the womb of a teenager in Nazareth.

The Son of God made himself known to his Chosen People by deeds of healing and feeding, by his miracles that shocked many into an awareness that the Baptizer's call to repentance was being continued.

Two thousand years later we have billions of words that record the reactions of millions of us to the events of History but there has been nothing added that is more important for each individual one of us than the words and events of those years in Palestine.

That is why we should all try to return to and become part of the Jesus Generation. Help me with your grace. Amen