Tag: power
The fact that we can find God’s presence in the absence of all else makes it even more profound.
It’s interesting, on a Sunday afternoon errand, I discovered two sheep that moved into the area. “They are Dorper sheep”, their ninety-year-old owner informed me. He’d wanted a pair of Dorper sheep since he was a little boy. The sheep keeper leaned heavily into the saddle of his field-weary four wheeler and adjusted the cannula that fed oxygen to his failing heart. “Sheep are born looking for a place to die.” It was a startling sentence, especially as I considered the myriad of scriptural implications.
“As they approached Jerusalem and came to the Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of His disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there,…
They had traded faith in a living God for faith in a created thing.
Somehow, Jesus managed to subdue His flesh nature. He overcame opposition from sinners; He resisted the pull to become a sinner Himself.
The disciples may have been prodding for a miracle and that was awful close to Pharisee-Herod tactics.
This season of social distance offers a unique opportunity to come close to the God who sustains us all.