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Topic: This was in my e-mail. - John 3:16
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Job511
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I agree.
It kind of reminds me of those who follow Christ in spite of various challenges. @ a defunct Christian forum where I used to post, I read of several of the members, like myself*, having some sort of medical challenge. Instead of asking, "If there was a God, why would He let something like this happen to me," they say, "There is a God and He loves me not only enough to send Jesus Christ to die on the cross for my sins, but to help me through this challenge."
* - See my intro thread.
Edit: Now that I think about it, it also reminds me of the story of Baltimore Ravens left tackle Michael Oher. He had no place to go and his birth mother's on drugs. Then, he moves into the home of the Touhy family. Sean, Sr. and Leigh Anne eventually become his legal guardians and he has a dramatically better life than he would have in Hurt Village. He even becomes an honor roll student at the Touhys' beloved University of Mississippi and then a 1st-round selection in the NFL draft.
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The lowly He sets on high, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
--Job 5:11, NIV
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Betty Louise
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"This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing it."
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same goes for me. Thanks
betty
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Luk 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
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Carol Swenson
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This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing it.
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Job511
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A little boy was selling newspapers on the corner, the people were in and out of the cold.
The little boy was so cold that he wasn't trying to sell many papers.
He walked up to a policeman and said, 'Mister, you wouldn't happen to know where a poor boy could find a warm place to sleep tonight would you?
You see, I sleep in a box up around the corner there and down the alley and it's awful cold in there for tonight. Sure would be nice to have a warm place to stay.'
The policeman looked down at the little boy and said, 'You go down the street to that big white house and you knock on the door. When they come out the door you just say John 3:16, and they will let you in.'
So he did. He walked up the steps and knocked on the door, and a lady answered. He looked up and said, John 3:16.' The lady said, 'Come on in, Son.'
She took him in and she sat him down in a split bottom rocker in front of a great big old fireplace, and she went off. The boy sat there for a while and thought to himself: John 3:16 ... I don't understand it, but it sure makes a cold boy warm.
Later she came back and asked him 'Are you hungry ?' He said, 'Well, just a little. I haven't eaten in a couple of days, and I guess I could stand a little bit of food.'
The lady took him in the kitchen and sat him down to a table full of wonderful food. He ate and ate until he couldn't eat any more. Then he thought to himself: John 3:16 ... Boy, I sure don't understand it but it sure makes a hungry boy full.
She took him upstairs to a bathroom to a huge bathtub filled with warm water, and he sat there and soaked for a while. As he soaked, he thought to himself: John 3:16 ... I sure don't understand it, but it sure makes a dirty boy clean. You know, I've not had a bath, a real bath, in my whole life. The only bath I ever had was when I stood in front of that big old fire hydrant as they flushed it out the lady came in and got him. She took him to a room, tucked him into a big old feather bed, pulled the covers up around his neck, kissed him goodnight and turned out the lights. As he lay in the darkness and looked out the window at the snow coming down on that cold night, he thought to himself: John 3:16 ...I don't understand it but it sure makes a tired boy rested.
The next morning the lady came back up and took him down again to that same big table full of food. After he ate, she took him back to that same big old split bottom rocker in front of the fireplace and picked up a big old Bible.
She sat down in front of him and looked into his young face. 'Do you understand John 3:16,' she asked gently. He replied, 'No, Ma'am, I don't. The first time I ever heard it was last night when the policeman told me to use it.' She opened the Bible to John 3:16 and began to explain to him about Jesus. Right there, in front of that big old fireplace, he gave his heart and life to Jesus. He sat there and thought: John 3:16 -- don't understand it, but it sure makes a lost boy feel safe.
You know, I have to confess I don't understand it either, how God was willing to send His Son to die for me, and how Jesus would agree to do such a thing. I don't understand the agony of the Father and every angel in heaven as they watched Jesus suffer and die. I don't understand the intense love for ME that kept Jesus on the cross till the end. I don't understand it, but it sure does make life worth living.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
I do Love God. He is my source of existence. He keeps me functioning each and every day. Phil 4:13
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The lowly He sets on high, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
--Job 5:11, NIV
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