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Thursday, December 8, 2011 21:11:23
Posted By Nan

My apologies. I am frantically writing assignments and have not been able to write my midweek blog. I don't like to write it unless I have spent a lot of time in prayer and can take the time to write it and not rush it. Just can't manage the time to write it. I will endeavour to write one for Saturday.

May God bless you.

Nan

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Saturday, December 3, 2011 16:15:35
Posted By Nan

John 6:30-31
This verse is unbelievable. Fresh from Jesus feeding the 5,000, in an area where he has performed so many miracles the people follow him everywhere, they ask for a miracle to prove His credentials!
It appears that, over time, the Jews had forgotten that the Manna they ate in the desert came from God, not Moses. It appears they also felt his ‘little’ one off miracle of feeding 5,000 wasn’t as impressed as the feeding of the entire nation of Israel for forty years in the desert.
Of course they seem to have forgotten that their ancestors complained about the Manna at the time. Now, centuries later, they are devaluing the miracle of Jesus turning five small barley loaves and two small fish into enough food to feed 5,000 and leave twelve baskets of leftovers. Now this more recent miracle isn’t good enough.
Unbelievable as these people seem. I don’t think they are much different from the way we react to God. How often do we ignore the miracles He performs for us and refuse to see the truth of what He does for us? How often do we try to ignore the true gift of Jesus, our bread of life, and try to explain all he has done away or devalue it? Christmas is a good time to consider how we devalue Jesus. How many of us put the rituals of shopping, eating, holding pretty carol services ahead of the true miracle of our Saviour humbling Himself to come to earth as a tiny, vulnerable, human baby? How much to we forget that Christmas is all about the best gift of all? Eternal life through our Lord, that tiny baby whose birth we commercialise and hijack for our own ends.
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