Mark Can See Now!
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you.
I go to prepare a place for you And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:1-3)
MARK CAN SEE NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE. His first sight was a view of Heaven. Last month, Mark had his 68th birthday. He and his twin brother, David raced to be the first one born! Mark had some difficulty during his birth and ended up blind. David was there to see him off yesterday. Someone remembered their mother bringing them over to her house in white basinets. Yesterday, Mark’s life was celebrated at Sulphur Springs Baptist Church and at the Smith’s Cemetery. His favorite song was: “Every Day with Jesus.” I was privileged to play for the congregation to sing that in his honor.
AT THE AGE OF SEVEN, Mark gave his heart to God and asked Jesus to be his Savior and Lord. Mark loved to listen to his radio and never butted into conversations or complained. Everybody loved Mark. He was everybody’s favorite. That showed by the good number of people who came to honor him, even on a Monday at mid-day.
I HAVE MET A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE MAD AT GOD, usually because of the death of a child. The prophet, Jonah, was mad at God because He cut down a gourd that was shading Jonah from the sun and because He thought God was going to let Nineveh off the hook and not destroy them.
And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? (Jonah 4:9-11)
MUCH HAPPENS IN THIS LIFE THAT WE DON'T UNDERSTAND. We can understand the “what” a lot better than we can understand the “why.” God either causes or permits everything to happen that takes place, or else He would not be omnipotent, all-powerful. The greatest question appears to be: “Why do the righteous and the innocent suffer?” The answer to that question is given by Isaiah: For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:9)
Jesus’ disciples raised that question, one day. And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. (John 9:1-3)
THAT WAS A STRANGE QUESTION TO ASK JESUS. However, there was in those days a belief by some that there could be a reincarnation and that the man might have lived in another life, in another body. Jesus’ disciples had a lot of learning to do…. Just like us today. We have a lot of learning to do. Ω
Read Through the Bible in a Year
MAY 14, 2019 – TUESDAY
A.M. 2 Kings 9-11 P.M. John 5:1-24
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Good Verses to Memorize:
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you.
I go to prepare a place for you And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:1-3)
Song for Today:
Some Golden Daybreak+ (3:42) (Male Quartet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wme2XJ1YvbA
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