Good Morning Girls
Read Luke 5:33-39 SOAP Luke 5:34-35
Jesus uses parables to illustrate the impossibility of opposites coexisting harmoniously. First, people would never fast at a wedding, since it is obviously a time of celebration. Secondly, you can't patch an old garment with a new piece of fabric. Thirdly, you can't put new wine in old wineskins. All of these examples were meant to say, "You cannot mix the Old Covenant and Pharisaical traditions with the new gospel of Jesus."
The Jews were unreasonably clinging to what was antiquated and even abolished by Christ. Sacrifice and priests were no longer required for access to God. Oh, how I wish our Catholic friends could understand this. We no longer need a mediator to reach God because Jesus Christ IS that mediator! We can boldly approach the throne alone with our prayers. Jesus came to completely replace the old laws and traditions, not add to them.
Along another note, Jesus often compares the Christian life to the relationship between a bridegroom and his bride. Our new life in Christ should be marked with love and joy, not liturgy and stoic procedure. May be let our lives be characterized by this instead of tradition.
Good Morning Girls
ReplyDeleteOur soap today sparked some heavy thoughts on how blessed I am to live a Christian life and be born in a nation to where I am free to do so and I should never take Jesus and my life for granted. Take the women and children in Afghanistan, they have no rights or no freedom and according to operationworld.org they are often married off below the age of 16 and no thoughts of education. If we don’t get together in prayer or things such as this sad is our case as Christians.
Lord I pray for all the people of these nations, that you would deliver these people from such oppression, everyone should have the right to choose, but how will they even know if someone doesn’t go to them or help them in some way. Lord I am praying for that girl that’s being forced into a life of shame in the red light district in Asia or that mother who has to allow her daughter to be married even at the age of 12 and the little girl that has to do such things in Afghanistan. Help them Lord, deliver them send people into those nations that will spread the gospel so that your kingdom will be glorified. Thank you for this nation I live in of freedom and forgive me for taking something as small as the right to choose for granted.