9 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 As long as it is a day, we must do the works of him who sent me. The night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” John 9
I sat momentarily inside my Town and Country van watching the babbling brook before me. My hands were on the steering wheel and a Christian music 8 track tape was in the player. I turned off the engine, grabbed my bible, journal and writing instrument and got out walking toward the old oak tree to recline in the comfort of its shade.
My mind began to drift to all the things I was thankful for in life. My mind recalled the prayer I prayed as an 18-year-old high school senior at a little old country church in the Minnetonka Mills, Minnesota. I remembered those words because they were the seeds that like this oak tree I sat beneath grew. As a young guy who had struggled, those words were the life blood that gave me a new purpose and a reason to live.
"Dear God, I realize I am a sinner separated from you. I can never reach heaven by my own good deeds. But you have made provision for my sin. Right now I place my faith in Jesus Christ as God's Son who died for my sins and rose from the dead to give me eternal life. Please forgive me of my sins and help me to live for you. Thank you for accepting me and giving me eternal life."
I sat and pretended I could hear the songbirds singing, and the robins singing, I was born with a hearing impairment and though I wished I could hear those crisp clear sounds, I know that God had a different plan for me.
I was reminded of God's plan from those words in John :As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.
Through those words, I was reminded that each of us enters the world with some imperfection, but God specializes in using our imperfections to give hope to imperfect people.
Then I reflected on this thought: Man's solution to the human condition is diabolically opposite from God's solution.
In Exodus, King Pharoah worship many false gods and enslaved the Jewish people, while placing inhumane conditions on them. Moses, with the help of Aaron, went to Pharoah and through a series of plaques tried to get Pharoah to release the Jewish people from the bonds of slavery, but each time a plague occurred the king's stubbornness prevailed which translated to even harsher conditions on the slaves.
It wasn't until the final plague when Pharoah lost his first born son (the Jewish people were told that if they placed the blood from a lamb on their doorposts they would escape the judgment of God on their households.) This blood on the doorpost was representative of the actual blood of Christ yet to come when he would be called the Lamb of God.
I was reminded by this story in Exodus that man's ideas on how to deal with the human condition is opposite of God's ideas.
I reflected on the evils of Margaret Sanger who's dislike for the undesirables created the groundwork for the future mega machine known as Planned Parenthood. Her views on the things she believes poisons mankind later became part of the mainstream thinking that would cost the lives of millions of children. Sanger's follower's attempted to placate those fears with ideas that could have been easily crafted by the most polished of speech writers.
Again, it was a reminder that this woman's response to the human condition is opposite what God's response.
This website put out by black genocide has informative information regarding how and why this thinking got into our mainstream media:. http://www.blackgenocide.org/planned.html
Because of Margaret Sanger's crusade against blacks and the disabled, millions of unborn have lost their livesss.
A powerful movie entitled Marta 21 of which powerfully reveals the truth about man's wayward notions about race, about children with disabilities, and about their worth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HshhtiNm2Kc
Again, man's ideas about what to do about the human condition are opposite God's ideas.
In 1 Samuel 16 we get a glimpse of why God chooses to see not what man sees, with these words,"
7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
The man is all enamored by the athleticism of other's or the number of tassels on their cap, but those are outward things that do not get at the heart of man.
Take, for example, Adolph Hiter, who perhaps is the most hated man in history for what he did to millions of Jewish people, the disabled, and other undesirables at the time. Hitler came with flourishing words, easily crafted by the most skillful speech writer. Some of his quotes are below.
".Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice." Adolf Hitler
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." Adolf Hitler
"The discovery of the Jewish virus is one of the greatest revolutions that has taken place in the world. The battle in which we are engaged today is of the same sort as the battle waged, during the last century, by Pasteur and Koch. How many diseases have their origin in the Jewish virus! ... We shall regain our health only be eliminating the Jew.”
"The law of selection justifies this incessant struggle, by allowing the survival of the fittest. Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.”
The problem was that millions of fellow German's hit hard by the great depression, believe what he said and made the Jewish person the scapegoat for their misery.
Again, man's response to a human condition is opposite of God's.
In John I read these words15 When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.”
Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”
16 Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”
He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”
Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.”
17 The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”
Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.”
Jesus said, “Feed my sheep., "
Jesus made it quite clear in this illustration that we must take care of people, not dispose of them like Margaret Sanger or Adolph Hitler or any present or future leaders might propose.
It is clear that the' least of these' is held up to the highest level of esteem by God and that God had a plan for their lives as well, not simply those born without physical or intellectual blemish.
I pause from my writing to notice several butterflies fluttering by with one momentarily resting on my right shoulder as though God wanted me to notice the beauty of nature.
I was reminded that just as there are people with evil intent in this world, there are much more with the heart for God doing positive things that make a difference in lives of so many, and that we as Christian's do make a difference.
The winds were starting to pick up where I sat,and as I looked off on the horizon I noticed rain clouds moving in. I decided to close with a word of prayer thanking God for making me the way I am and using me as a vessel to encourage others who might be struggling with self-doubt.
In the end, God's ways are always best. He knows our hearts and he alone can give us a purpose for living.
I was reminded of God's plan from those words in John :As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.
Through those words, I was reminded that each of us enters the world with some imperfection, but God specializes in using our imperfections to give hope to imperfect people.
Then I reflected on this thought: Man's solution to the human condition is diabolically opposite from God's solution.
In Exodus, King Pharoah worship many false gods and enslaved the Jewish people, while placing inhumane conditions on them. Moses, with the help of Aaron, went to Pharoah and through a series of plaques tried to get Pharoah to release the Jewish people from the bonds of slavery, but each time a plague occurred the king's stubbornness prevailed which translated to even harsher conditions on the slaves.
It wasn't until the final plague when Pharoah lost his first born son (the Jewish people were told that if they placed the blood from a lamb on their doorposts they would escape the judgment of God on their households.) This blood on the doorpost was representative of the actual blood of Christ yet to come when he would be called the Lamb of God.
I was reminded by this story in Exodus that man's ideas on how to deal with the human condition is opposite of God's ideas.
I reflected on the evils of Margaret Sanger who's dislike for the undesirables created the groundwork for the future mega machine known as Planned Parenthood. Her views on the things she believes poisons mankind later became part of the mainstream thinking that would cost the lives of millions of children. Sanger's follower's attempted to placate those fears with ideas that could have been easily crafted by the most polished of speech writers.
Again, it was a reminder that this woman's response to the human condition is opposite what God's response.
This website put out by black genocide has informative information regarding how and why this thinking got into our mainstream media:. http://www.blackgenocide.org/planned.html
Because of Margaret Sanger's crusade against blacks and the disabled, millions of unborn have lost their livesss.
A powerful movie entitled Marta 21 of which powerfully reveals the truth about man's wayward notions about race, about children with disabilities, and about their worth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HshhtiNm2Kc
Again, man's ideas about what to do about the human condition are opposite God's ideas.
In 1 Samuel 16 we get a glimpse of why God chooses to see not what man sees, with these words,"
7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
The man is all enamored by the athleticism of other's or the number of tassels on their cap, but those are outward things that do not get at the heart of man.
Take, for example, Adolph Hiter, who perhaps is the most hated man in history for what he did to millions of Jewish people, the disabled, and other undesirables at the time. Hitler came with flourishing words, easily crafted by the most skillful speech writer. Some of his quotes are below.
".Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice." Adolf Hitler
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." Adolf Hitler
"The discovery of the Jewish virus is one of the greatest revolutions that has taken place in the world. The battle in which we are engaged today is of the same sort as the battle waged, during the last century, by Pasteur and Koch. How many diseases have their origin in the Jewish virus! ... We shall regain our health only be eliminating the Jew.”
"The law of selection justifies this incessant struggle, by allowing the survival of the fittest. Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.”
The problem was that millions of fellow German's hit hard by the great depression, believe what he said and made the Jewish person the scapegoat for their misery.
Again, man's response to a human condition is opposite of God's.
In John I read these words15 When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.”
Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”
16 Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”
He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”
Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.”
17 The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”
Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.”
Jesus said, “Feed my sheep., "
Jesus made it quite clear in this illustration that we must take care of people, not dispose of them like Margaret Sanger or Adolph Hitler or any present or future leaders might propose.
It is clear that the' least of these' is held up to the highest level of esteem by God and that God had a plan for their lives as well, not simply those born without physical or intellectual blemish.
I pause from my writing to notice several butterflies fluttering by with one momentarily resting on my right shoulder as though God wanted me to notice the beauty of nature.
I was reminded that just as there are people with evil intent in this world, there are much more with the heart for God doing positive things that make a difference in lives of so many, and that we as Christian's do make a difference.
The winds were starting to pick up where I sat,and as I looked off on the horizon I noticed rain clouds moving in. I decided to close with a word of prayer thanking God for making me the way I am and using me as a vessel to encourage others who might be struggling with self-doubt.
In the end, God's ways are always best. He knows our hearts and he alone can give us a purpose for living.
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