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>Abraham’s Blessing – Fame

Posted in Fame, tagged , , , on November 17, 2010| Leave a Comment »

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“Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house … and I will … make thy name great …” – Genesis 12:1-2

Fame was one of the six-fold promises of “Abraham’s Blessing” and that certainly happened for our hero. The name, Abraham, is almost synonymous with faith.

Fame is one of the promises passed down to the followers of Christ1 – not the superstar, “name on everyone’s lips”, kind of fame but fame where it counts – with God.

“And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever” – Daniel 12:3

Jesus told his disciples “your names are written in heaven.”.2 And not just them, everyone who has accepted Jesus Christ as Lord was hand-picked by God, himself.3 That means me!

When God and all of heaven knows your name for eternity – that’s real fame!

– fritz

1 – Blog Post – November 8th, “Abraham’s Blessing Like a Football“
2 – Luke 10:20
3 – Ephesians 1:5

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Love makes its own choice

Posted in Hymns, tagged , , on August 30, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Time, like an ever rolling stream,

Bears all its sons away;

They fly, forgotten, as a dream

Dies at the opening day.

– Hymn: O God, Our Help in ages Past, Isaac Watts

I don’t know why my wife loves me; she probably couldn’t tell you, either. It is God’s gift to her and me we can enjoy but not explain.

Love is that way – it chooses its own objects of affection. Our part is to accept it, or not.

God’s Love for us is like that, too. Why he would choose such an unlikely candidate, who is only here for a brief moment, is beyond my cognitive powers. Mine (and yours) is to respond with a “Yes!” or move on.

“In him we were also chosen … to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” – Ephesians 1:11, 3:18b-19

Love doesn’t tolerate, it chooses.

– fritz

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Some things are just, simply beneath us!

Posted in Explanations, tagged , on January 27, 2010| Leave a Comment »

“That..God…may give you the spirit…that ye may know…what is the exceeding greatness of his power..which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named…in this world…(and)…in that which is to come: and hath put all things under his feet…” – Parts of Ephesians 1:17-22 (KJV)

Those in Christ have no problem believing that Jesus is now above all authorities, powers, and kingdoms, both good and evil, but it is the next verse we need to understand!

God…hath quickened us together with Christ…and hath raised us up together, and hath made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus” – Ephesians 2:4-6 (KJV)

If Jesus is seated next to the Father, with all dominions under his feet, AND we are seated with him then, obviously, we would have God’s ear and are also above those same dominions. We are NOT the victims of our circumstances, but the victors.

Maybe this is why Paul describes himself, in Ephesians 3:1, NOT as a prisoner of Rome (where he happened to be in chains) but, instead, a “the prisoner of Jesus Christ…“. It wasn’t the guard keeping him there, it was Jesus. For grins, read Acts 12:1-25. Paul happened to be in Jerusalem at the time and saw it all happen.

Never again shall I say I am doing well under the circumstances! I am doing well over those circumstances for I am seated with Christ.

– Fritz

Patrikin – Related through The Father (God): Depends on what the meaning of "is" is.

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