As I had started reading in earnest His Word from 1995 (when my wife was miraculously healed from having only 2 hours sleep for 7 months) I have grown to love Him more and more. In recent time His thematic connections assure me that it is almost impossible NOT to understand Him. This is certainly not a force fit of a round peg in a square hole but a systematic approach covering much if not all of the 16 Major Themes I mentioned yesterday. It is liken to our nursery rhyme learnt as toddlers which we most often cannot forget.
Today we will all realize that none of us are perfect except Him therefore we need to be thankful for our day of salvation and the many who had prayed for us to know Him as Lord and Savior and eventually the Lord Himself giving us as the increase into His Kingdom so that none of us can boast of that effort.
The fact that all mankind enter this world as sinner slips our mind once we are saved and are growing. Therefore reflecting on an imperfect man falling even if from God's very own Breath makes a lot of sense as there is only ONE who is PERFECT! This will "force" us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling and accepting also the measure of faith given by Him.
The placement of a new HEART brings about the renewing of the mind. The reconstructed reasoning mind at an appropriate age will then cause our mouths to confess our faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. This cannot happen in babies but as parents, we can expose them to our faith so that they will one day personally do the same for themselves.
So these connections are written by John, the Lord's beloved disciple whose Bible is the Old Testament which includes the first 5 books from where all if not much of what his writings are derived. For that matter, every author, with the exception of the DIVINE (who is the source), cannot write anything other than what they have read or heard from the DIVINELY approved sources. Now you can see why THEMATIC connections make sense!
Enjoy HIM!
1 comment:
This is interesting. Never saw the parallel of OT and NT until now. Keeping in mind that the placement of a new heart brings about the renewing of the mind.
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