And please consider that God can
create only good and Jesus, His Son, can do only good. The thing is if you do ask for something that
God and/or Jesus cannot do, just ask Them to use all for Their good, for Theirs
is the greater good.
Please consider the Bible story where Jesus used God, the Father’s
good earth to cure a blind man. “Having
said this, he spat on the ground, made a paste with the spittle, put this over
the eyes of the blind man, •and said
to him, ‘Go and wash in the Pool of Siloam*[Footnote omitted] (a
name that means ‘sent’). So the blind
man went off and washed himself, and came away with his sight restored.” John 9:6-7*
The thing is God, the Father may sometimes consider, perhaps a little
too much for our good, what we have against His good earth and being here. And in His most Human of All Beings way lets
us know where we stand with Him.
Please consider the television show, “Jeremy Wade’s Mighty Rivers
S01-E01 The Ganges,” which premiered on April 8, 2018 on the Animal Planet television
station. Mr. Wade, a biologist and avid
fisherman, was doing some research on the River Ganges in India. He visited the Holy City of Varanasi, revered
by Buddhists and Hindus. Mr. Wade began
his research on the Ganges River at Varanasi by testing a sample of the river
water, which proved to be full of e coli material, that is, full of human
waste. According to the documentary, for
religious reasons, 50,000 pilgrims bathe in the Ganges River at this spot each
day. And the very holy Buddhists and Hindus
are deeply offended when someone notes the contaminated condition of the river
water.
In the documentary, Mr. Wade was stopped by a Holy Man of the City who helped others purify themselves in the River and requested that Mr. Wade also purify himself. Because Mr. Wade follows the customs and practices of the places he visits, and because he did not wish to offend the people of this place, he agreed to follow the Holy Man and the strict ritual of purification which accompanies bathing in the Ganges. Mr. Wade completely immersed himself three times in the River. He then had to take three drinks of water from the River, swallowing each drink completely. After he had done these things, Mr. Wade commented that he felt quite refreshed. And he added that time would tell if he suffered any ill effects from drinking the water. (None were reported during the remainder of the show.)
The thing is God, the Father, the Most Human of All Beings, is
still caring for His good earth and in particular the human beings who are
living on it. And so carefully and
quietly that we almost don’t notice. The
thing is no matter how hard we try, human beings just can’t seem to destroy
what God has created. The most
horrifying thing is we keep trying to mass destroy each other.
Please consider God’s good
earth. The thing is we are in God’s
world, that is, the physical world we live in, meaning the bricks and stones
which comprise the walls of a prison, all are made with God’s good materials
from the earth. The thing is we would
not ordinarily consider bricks or dirt, etc. to be alive. Jesus said, “• . . . have you never read what
God himself said to you: •I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac
and the God of Jacob? [Footnote omitted] God is God, not of the dead, but of the
living.’” Matthew 22:31-32*
The
thing is when human beings start to upset the balance of life, especially where
you are now living, the best way to get back at them is to say the “Prayer
Guaranteed To Quiet a Human Being”. I use it often, especially when walking in New
York City or walking past a jail or prison in any city. It’s also a helpful prayer to say when you
have to say “Good morning” to someone who may have gotten up on the wrong side
of the bed (and you don’t really want to say “Good morning” to anyway).
The
thing is there is no such place as a Catholic, Jewish, Baptist, Muslim,
Christian, etc. Heaven. The occupants of
Heaven are souls who were once in human beings living on the earth.
Heaven
is populated with souls, and the thing is if we can’t live with each other here
on the earth, then how on earth can we live with each other in His Heaven. Now is the time to put some thought into
Eternity and to ask Jesus before we die, how to settle our accounts with Him so
that our souls can go right back home to His Heaven.
The
thing is if you want to know why you are here in this world, you must ask your
father and your mother, for it is they who worked with God, the Father to bring
you here.
*All Biblical quotations are taken
from The Jerusalem Bible, Copyright © 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton,
Longman and Todd Ltd. and Doubleday, a Division of Random House, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America March
2000 First Doubleday Reader’s Edition.
Copyright Bernardette Grant, 2019 All Rights Reserved
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