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The Scoop on Jesus

Posted on by shannonrainwater

If I were to ask you “Where is Jesus”? How would you answer? Would you say “He’s there when I need him.” or “He is in Heaven making interseccion with the Father”?

What I were to tell you that these answers are correct and wrong at the same time.

When we examine Psalms 110 we see that there seems at first a contradiction.

Psa 110:1 A Davidic psalm.

The LORD declared to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies Your footstool.” 2 The LORD will extend Your mighty scepter from Zion. Rule over Your surrounding enemies. 3 Your people will volunteer on Your day of battle. In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, the dew of Your youth belongs to You. 4 The LORD has sworn an oath and will not take it back: “Forever, You are a priest like Melchizedek.” 5 The Lord is at Your right hand; He will crush kings on the day of His anger. 6 He will judge the nations, heaping up corpses; He will crush leaders over the entire world. 7 He will drink from the brook by the road; therefore, He will lift up His head.

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This passage is a Psalm of David proclaiming the Preistly King. The Israelites knew that they were supposed to be a nation that had a preistly king instead of haveing a nation full of preists and a king. Jesus also recognized this passage and quoted this passage more than any other. The event described also has already taken place. Which is the point of this writing.

The contradiction seems to be that how can the Lord declare to my Lord? If we look closely we see that the first LORD is in all capital letter signifying that this is the Father speaking to the Son. By the way this is an Old Testament proof for the Doctrine of the Trinity. The Father says to the Son or Jesus as we know, “Sit at my right hand”. It is common in most places that the place of honor is at the right hand. I said earlier that this event has already taken place. Have you figured out when yet? This event took place 40 days after the resurrection. Jesus was invited to sit at the right hand of the Father right after he ascended into heaven.
God the Father also promised to make his enemies his foot stool. In the tradition of ancient warfare, the losing king would bend to all fours so that the victorious king could put his feet on the back of the losing king. Also in this passage, there is mention of a scepter signifying that Jesus would be a victorious ruling King.
All this being said, I ask you again. “Where is Jesus?” It still blows my mind when I sit and ponder this thought. When Jesus was crucified His body was broken. I mean broken. Mel Gibson’s movie “The Passion”portrayed Jesus literally being broken. But Jesus arose from the dead. He did not get another body, he did not simply dispose of his earthly body and made a heavenly one. No, he arose in the same form as the disciples knew him as. Jesus is in heaven in the flesh. The same body as was when he was crucified. And he is sitting at the right hand of God RULING as KING of KINGS. He is not a little magic that I pull out to make me “feel” better when I need him. He is not something I pray to get something I wan tor to get me out of trouble.
Have you ever visited a king? How about THE KING? When you think of Jesus as KING, you tend to treat Him a little different. Think about this, when you pray you have an audience with the KING of kings, the creator of the universe, the sustainer of life. Even since I really recognizing that Jesus is currently ruling as KING, my prayer life and my worship has changed.
And that is the scoop on Jesus.

Where have I been??

Posted on by shannonrainwater

Maybe this could better be titled “Confessions”. For the past couple of years I have been wanting to write. I just wanted to be able to put my thoughts on paper. I have struggled with the motivation, the time, and the ability to control being scatterbrained. This is my attempt and effort to correct this.
I have always struggled with finding the time to do things that I should do. I should be writing a paper for school when I am watching TV. I should be cleaning the house when I am watching TV. I should be reading my Bible when I am getting that extra hour of sleep (because I was up late watching TV). I think you get the picture. The common thing here is that I watch too much TV. I can’t blame it all on TV. I also like to play video games on my computer. Sometimes I get a little motivated to write something and I either check my email or I go to a site that gives me cheat codes for a game that I haven’t conquered yet. I get distracted and never get to the task that I originally set out to do. It’s that way when I try to read my Bible. I take it out and find something else to do with it. What I mean is that I will think of other ways to do my duty of reading God’s word and never get to the task at hand. I have developed plans to read and then write a commentary on what I have read but I sometimes do not read until it is bedtime and I’ll be sleepy when I am done.
Think I’m a slacker yet? or does this sound familiar?
When I am watching a show on TV and hear an interesting fact or something that strikes my interest, I will look it up on Wikipedia. I know that Wikipedia is not always accurate and that it is written by anyone, but there is some good stuff on there. I get so caught up following a rabbit trail that it is hours before I realize that I need to be doing something else. However, I could turn that research motivation into something useful. It is that I do this so that I can know more about a subject or a person. This is the exact reason we should read the Bible. Since God has written an autobiography and we say that God is so mysterious, why not read His autobiography and see what He says about Himself. It is no surprise that He tells us that this is the way that He communicates His thinking into the WHY of events and ideas. He tells us why He created man. He tells us why do bad things happen to good people. He especially tells us why we need Him. And best of all He tells us that He loves us. How does He tell us all these things you ask? Well you are just going to have to read the book to find out.
OK, here is the real purpose of today’s post.

1. I am going to read my Bible:
I don’t mean that I am going to have a plan. I am simply just going to open it and read. I may even look in the concordance and pick a topic that has been on my mind. (or if I get enough feedback I may even pick something that is on your mind.)
How much and for how long is going to depend on what the Holy Spirit is leading me to do.

2. Pray:
This is an area of worship in which I am lacking tremendously. I have heard the saying that is almost cliche now that “The family that prays together, stays together”. My wife and I pray at meals and most times it is a canned prayer. I think this offends God and I ask forgiveness. My prayer life is not where it needs to be. From what I understand it is that when we read the Bible it is God speaking to us and when we pray it is us speaking to God. From some of my classes in college this is what is known as communication. It is a two way conversation. Certainly I am NOT putting God in a box and saying that He only communicates to us through the Bible. I know that He speaks to us in many other ways. My goal is that I need to change the way I pray and the frequency.

3. Write what I read:
I think once I get into the habit, I’ll write more of these blogs. I do want to concentrate on writing on the things that I have read in the Bible and on the topics that I have received. But I need to have…
4. Feedback:
Feedback is the gauge as to what I direct my blog. I want to know what people think on these topics. Good and Bad. I am human and therefore under the curse so I do make mistakes. I do want this to be like a conversation. This is another reason why I have named this Breakfast with God. In order to have loads of feedback I need …
5. More people to read this blog:
Please send this link to all your friends. If what I write is your daily devotion then please tell others about it. I am constantly trying to improve this blog to cater to more people.

Thank you for reading today. I hope today has been an encouragement.

If you have any suggestions on how to improve this blog or you have any comments PLEASE do so. I would love to hear from you.

Regrets

Posted on by shannonrainwater

Have you ever done anything that you have regretted?
I have plenty of times. But, later I realize that God has had a plan this whole time. I can not imagine just relying on my own judgment. I sure am glad that I can rely on the Holy Spirits guidance.
Today I had an interview with another school. I really want this job. The principle seems nice and he kind of said that he wants me but he wishes that I had more experience. I wished I had more experience also but what can you do? How else do you gain experience?
I have to remember to pray for His will to be done, not mine. I can pray that my will becomes His will. This is how I think that God want us to make our requests known to Him. We pray that our will becomes His will and when we are in tune with Him, we desire what He desires.
Have I confused you yet???
Let me explain it this way. We become his children by accepting the sacrifice of His one and only Son. When we are His children we become a part of Him. His desires are our desires and our desires are His. If we desire that perfect job then God wants it for us also ONLY if it is part of His plan for us. Should we still ask in earnest for it to be done?? Of course!!! But we know that if our request is not met then we know that our Father knows what is best for His children and that He has something so much better than we could dream.

I want this job badly. But I will not be too disappointed if I am not selected. I know that God’s plan will ultimately be better. Sure I’ll be upset for a while until I get over it. And I will get over it.