SO HERE WE ARE ON THE LAST DAY OF THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD - APRIL 1ST 2013.
NO THIS IS MOST CERTAINLY NOT AN APRIL'S FOOLS DAY!
HERE IN CALGARY IT IS SUNSHINE, MILD, WITH A FEW PUFFY WHITE CLOUDS.
IT HAS BEEN AN ESPECIALLY BLESSED SPRING FEAST. IT WAS A BLESSING TO GO OVER WHAT ALBERT BARNES WROTE IN EXPOUNDING PSALM 22 IN HIS BIBLE COMMENTARY. I'VE HAD HIS GREAT ONE VOLUME NEW TESTAMENT COMMENTARY FOR MANY DECADES, BUT ONLY IN THE LAST TWO YEARS DID I BUY HIS ENTIRE BIBLE COMMENTARY. SO HIS EXPOUNDING OF PSALM 22 I HAD NEVER SAT DOWN TO READ UNTIL THIS PASSOVER SEASON. A WONDERFUL EXPOUNDING, NOW UP ON MY WEBSITE FOR ALL IN THE WORLD WHO WILL, TO READ AND ALSO BE BLESSED BY THIS GREAT PSALM ABOUT OUR SAVIOR.
IT HAS BEEN A BLESSING TO GO THROUGH EVELYN BENCE'S BOOK "SPIRITUAL MOMENTS WITH THE GREAT HYMNS." AND SO PUT MANY OF THEM WITH THEIR STORIES ALSO UP ON MY WEBSITE. STILL GOT 4 OR 5 MORE YET TO UPLOAD IN THE REMAINING HOURS OF THIS 7TH [AND HOLY DAY] DAY OF UNLEAVENED BREAD.
I'VE BEEN ABLE TO WATCH SOME FINE 3D NATURE FILMS WITH MY NEWLY PURCHASED 3D TV. THE CREATION OF THE LORD, THE WONDERS OF IT ALL, JUST BLOWS WAY THE SILLY IDEAS OF EVOLUTION, WITHOUT A GOD.
WATCHING THE "TEN COMMANDMENT" MOVIE ONCE MORE WAS INSPIRING, HOW THEY MADE IT WAS INSPIRING. THE TRIBE OF JUDAH WAS PART OF THAT EXODUS, PART OF THE WHOLE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL. IT REALLY DID ALL HAPPEN, THE JEWS HAVE PRESERVED THAT IT DID - HANDED IT DOWN TO US AS REAL HISTORY. THERE IS A GOD; HE DID CALL MOSES TO LEAD THE PEOPLE OUT OF EGYPT; HE DID GIVE ISRAEL THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. AND AS HE DOES LIVE, AS HE DID CREATE THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE; HE WAS ABLE TO INSPIRE MOSES TO WRITE THOSE FIRST 5 BOOKS OF THE BIBLE. INFACT HE WAS QUITE ABLE TO INSPIRE MEN TO FAITHFULLY WRITE THE BOOKS OF THE ENTIRE BIBLE - GOD BREATHED AS THE APOSTLE PAUL PUT IT.
WITH THIS FIRST MONTH OF GOD'S CALENDAR, WITH THIS FIRST FEAST OF THE LORD - WELL ACTUALLY TWO FEASTS - PASSOVER IS ONE, FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD THE OTHER, WE START THE SCARED CALENDAR OF GOD, WITH 5 MORE FEASTS YET TO COME.
AND WHAT GREAT MEANING THEY HAVE.......IT IS REALLY THE PLAN OF SALVATION FOR ALL WHO HAVE EVER BEEN FROM THE TIME OF ADAM AND EVE.
I'VE ENJOYED WATCHING SOME OF THE DVDs I HAVE FROM THE "HISTORY CHANNEL" ON THE UNIVERSE. WHAT IS OUT THERE IN THE UNIVERSE; THE DISTANCES IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE; THE POWER AND MIGHT; THE WORKING OF GRAVITY, THE BILLIONS OF GALAXIES, THE BILLIONS OF STARS, PLANETS, MOONS, IN THOSE GALAXIES, IS MIND-BLOWING; THE ADMITTANCE NOW BY THE SCIENTISTS THAT THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE HAD A BEGINNING, A BIG BANG AS THEY CALL IT, PROVES THERE IS A GOD, THOUGH MOST OF THEM STILL DO NOT WANT TO ADMIT IT; IF THEY DID THEY WOULD HAVE TO ADMIT HE HAS THE POWER TO WRITE HIS WORD TO US, TO TELL US HOW WE SHOULD BE LIVING - WHAT IS SIN AND WHAT IS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
AND THAT TAKES ME BACK TO WHEN I WAS 5 YEARS OLD AND TO MY PARENTS. BORN IN A SMALL VILLAGE IN SOUTH WALES, THERE WAS WITHIN A LITERAL STONES THROW, COUNTRYSIDE....A FIELD, TREES, BIRDS, RIVER, GRASS, BUSHES, FLOWERS, BEESE ETC. I WAS FASCINATED BY IT ALL, FROM THE TIME I COULD WALK OUT INTO IT. AT AGE 5 WE MOVED TO NORTHERN ENGLAND, AND MY PARENTS SENT ME TO A CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL. THE FIRST DAY THERE WE WERE ALL GIVEN A KJV BIBLE. MY FIRST LESSON WAS ..... "WE SHALL OPEN THE BIBLE" SAID MY TEACHER, "AND WE SHALL READ GENESIS CHAPTER ONE." AND THERE THE TEACHER READ, "IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH....."
OH THAT WAS IT FOR ME......YES IT MADE SENSE TO ME, ALL THAT I COULD SEE AROUND ME IN NATURE.....A MIGHTY SOMEONE HAD TO HAVE CREATED IT ALL. FROM THAT DAY ON I KNEW THERE WAS A GOD, IT WAS JUST THAT SIMPLE, YES A CHILD COULD SEE IT. AND LATER WHEN INTRODUCED TO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.....THAT WAS SIMPLE ALSO. WHY I THOUGHT IF THE WHOLE WORLD WAS OBSERVING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, WE WOULD HAVE A BEAUTIFUL WORLD OF LOVE, PEACE, JOY, EVERYTHING THAT IS GOOD.
I PRAY YOU CAN HAVE THE MIND OF A CHILD. JESUS SAID WE MUST, FOR IN ATTITUDE OF MIND HE SAID "UNLESS YOU CAN BECOME AS LITTLE CHILDREN, YOU SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD."
I PRAY FOR ALL YOU THAT USE MY WEBSITE, THAT YOU WILL BE AS CHILDREN, WANTING TRUTH, LOVING TRUTH; FOR IF YOU DO, YOU WILL FIND IT ALL FOR YOU IN THE HUNDREDS OF STUDIES I HAVE UPLOADED FOR YOU TO GROW IN GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE OF GOD THE FATHER AND HIS SON CHRIST JESUS.
AS I LOOK BACK OVER MY LIFE, I CAN TRULY SAY, I HAVE BEEN BLESSED NOT ONLY IN MY PHYSICAL LIFE, BUT ESPECIALLY IN MY SPIRITUAL LIFE. WE ALL HAVE VARIOUS DEGREES OF PHYSICAL BLESSINGS IN OUR PHYSICAL LIFE, SOME MORE SOME LESS; BUT I PRAY YOU CAN ALL SAY YOU HAVE BEEN AND ARE BEING MIGHTILY BLESSED IN YOUR SPIRITUAL LIFE. JESUS SAID YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE.
MAY YOU INDEED BE FREE!!
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