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be brought to him and when he came near he asked him 41 what do you want me to do for you he said lord let me receive my sight 42 and jesus said to him receive your sight your faith has made you well 43 and immediately he received his sight and followed him glorifying god and all the people when they saw it gave praise to god luke 18 35 43 what really grabbed my attention with this reading today was the blind man s reaction after gaining his sight he glorified god this is something we can take for granted god s favor all too often we are showered with graces and we never even give it a second thought how often do we stop to thank god for all he has given us i know i have been particularly bad about this maybe this new year is a chance for me to be better 3 comments filed under selected sunday scriptures december 25 2019 9 00 pm merry christmas merry christmas to all of my readers may you find joy in this time even if otherwise all seems darkness 16 for god so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life 17 for god sent the son into the world not to condemn the world but that the world might be saved through him john 3 16 17 3 comments filed under christianity november 10 2019 9 00 pm selected sunday scriptures 156 it has been quite a while since i ve post a lack of imagination drive and general business led me to let this blog whither i would rather not keep it that way at least not too much and so here is another scripture post the first passage is from the book of samuel 9 but the people refused to listen to the voice of samuel and they said no but we will have a king over us 20 that we also may be like all the nations and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles 21 and when samuel had heard all the words of the people he repeated them in the ears of the lord 22 and the lord said to samuel hearken to their voice and make them a king samuel then said to the men of israel go every man to his city there was a man of benjamin whose name was kish the son of abi el son of zeror son of beco rath son of aphi ah a benjaminite a man of wealth 2 and he had a son whose name was saul a handsome young man there was not a man among the people of israel more handsome than he from his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people 1 samuel 8 9 9 2 i have been thinking lately about how what people want is not necessarily what is best for them and so while scanning scripture i came across this it is interesting that the handsomeness of saul merited multiple mentions not just once plus the mention of his height as well it got me thinking about how saul must have looked very much like what israel imagined a king would be tall handsome probably covered in muscles he would have been a very imposing and masculine presence and yet of course god sees what us humans do not or perhaps what us humans do not want to see and this of course is part of the message here as is explained not much later when we are first introduced to david 6 when they came he looked on eli ab and thought surely the lord s anointed is before him 7 but the lord said to samuel do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature because i have rejected him for the lord sees not as man sees man looks on the outward appearance but the lord looks on the heart 8 then jesse called abin adab and made him pass before samuel and he said neither has the lord chosen this one 9 then jesse made shammah pass by and he said neither has the lord chosen this one 10 and jesse made seven of his sons pass before samuel and samuel said to jesse the lord has not chosen these 11 and samuel said to jesse are all your sons here and he said there remains yet the youngest but behold he is keeping the sheep and samuel said to jesse send and fetch him for we will not sit down till he comes here 12 and he sent and brought him in now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome and the lord said arise anoint him for this is he 13 then samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers and the spirit of the lord came mightily upon david from that day forward and samuel rose up and went to ramah 1 samuel 16 6 13 now it is interesting because david too was handsome and yet that was not the reason why he was chosen he wasn t chosen because he looked the part of a king but because as faulty as he was david would always return to god when the time came david always repented unlike many of his descendants even the ones who started out good of course david was also very young at the time as well and so probably wasn t anywhere near the masculine presence of saul we see here how we must be careful about judging by appearance ultimately it is character and heart which matters one might have both and be unattractive or have them and be attractive as well the israelites unfortunately never really lost this trait even to the time of jesus they did not understand so it was well that isaiah prophesied thus who has believed what we have heard and to whom has the arm of the lord been revealed 2 for he grew up before him like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground he had no form or comeliness that we should look at him and no beauty that we should desire him 3 he was despised and rejected by men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised and we esteemed him not isaiah 53 1 3 6 comments filed under selected sunday scriptures august 4 2019 3 00 pm selected sunday scriptures 155 i have been feeling somewhat forlorn lately and while reading through scripture i couldn t help but get drawn in the by the story of joseph he is someone i can empathize with given his life was filled for a long time with suffering first we have his being sold into slavery 12 now his brothers went to pasture their father s flock near shechem 13 and israel said to joseph are not your brothers pasturing the flock at shechem come i will send you to them and he said to him here i am 14 so he said to him go now see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock and bring me word again so he sent him from the valley of hebron and he came to shechem 15 and a man found him wandering in the fields and the man asked him what are you seeking 16 i am seeking my brothers he said tell me i pray you where they are pasturing the flock 17 and the man said they have gone away for i heard them say let us go to dothan so joseph went after his brothers and found them at dothan 18 they saw him afar off and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him 19 they said to one another here comes this dreamer 20 come now let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits then we shall say that a wild beast has devoured him and we shall see what will become of his dreams 21 but when reuben heard it he delivered him out of their hands saying let us not take his life 22 and reuben said to them shed no blood cast him into this pit here in the wilderness but lay no hand upon him that he might rescue him out of their hand to restore him to his father 23 so when joseph came to his brothers they stripped him of his robe the long robe with sleeves that he wore 24 and they took him and cast him into a pit the pit was empty there was no water in it 25 then they sat down to eat and looking up they saw a caravan of ish maelites coming from gilead with their camels bearing gum balm and myrrh on their way to carry it down to egypt 26 then judah said to his brothers what profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood 27 come let us sell him to the ish maelites and let not our hand be upon him for he is our brother our own flesh and his brothers heeded him 28 then mid ianite traders passed by and they drew joseph up and lifted him out of the pit and sold him to the ish maelites for twenty shekels of silver and they took joseph to egypt genesis 37 12 28 then we have his temptation and the price he paid for rejecting sin now joseph was taken down to egypt and pot i phar an officer of pharaoh the captain of the guard an egyptian bought him from the ish maelites who had brought him down there 2 the lord was with joseph and he became a successful man and he was in the house of his master the egyptian 3 and his master saw that the lord was with him and that the lord caused all that he did to prosper in his hands 4 so joseph found favor in his sight and attended him and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had 5 from the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had the lord blessed the egyptian s house for joseph s sake the blessing of the lord was upon all that he had in house and field 6 so he left all that he had in joseph s charge and having him he had no concern for anything but the food which he ate now joseph was handsome and good looking 7 and after a time his master s wife cast her eyes upon joseph and said lie with me 8 but he refused and said to his master s wife lo having me my master has no concern about anything in the house and he has put everything that he has in my hand 9 he is not greater in this house than i am nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself because you are his wife how then can i do this great wickedness and sin against god 10 and although she spoke to joseph day after day he would not listen to her to lie with her or to be with her 11 but one day when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house 12 she caught him by his garment saying lie with me but he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house 13 and when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled out of the house 14 she called to the men of her household and said to them see he has brought among us a hebrew to insult us he came in to me to lie with me and i cried out with a loud voice 15 and when he heard that i lifted up my voice and cried he left his garment with me and fled and got out of the house 16 then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home 17 and she told him the same story saying the hebrew servant whom you have brought among us came in to me to insult me 18 but as soon as i lifted up my voice and cried he left his garment with me and fled out of the house 19 when his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him this is the way your servant treated me his anger was kindled 20 and joseph s master took him and put him into the prison the place where the king s prisoners were confined and he was there in prison 21 but the lord was with joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison 22 and the keeper of the prison committed to joseph s care all the prisoners who were in the prison and whatever was done there he was the doer of it 23 the keeper of the prison paid no heed to anything that was in joseph s care because the lord was with him and whatever he did the lord made it prosper genesis 39 then when joseph might have finally gotten out of prison he was denied at first 20 on the third day which was pharaoh s birthday he made a feast for all his servants and lifted up the head of the chief butler and the head of the chief baker among his servants 21 he restored the chief butler to his butlership and he placed the cup in pharaoh s hand 22 but he hanged the chief baker as joseph had interpreted to them 23 yet the chief butler did not remember joseph but forgot him genesis 40 20 23 joseph had to endure two more years in captivity before he was finally freed from his unjust imprisonment given this i suppose when i look at my life i don t really have all that much to complain about or at least it doesn t add up to what he endured valuable perspective 7 comments filed under selected sunday scriptures july 21 2019 3 00 pm selected sunday scriptures 154 i have been in a somber mood lately and this passage from the book of wisdom inspired some deep but troubling thoughts 12 let us lie in wait for the righteous man because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions he reproaches us for sins against the law and accuses us of sins against our training 13 he professes to have knowledge of god and calls himself a child a of the lord 14 he became to us a reproof of our thoughts 15 the very sight of him is a burden to us because his manner of life is unlike that of others and his ways are strange 16 we are considered by him as something base and he avoids our ways as unclean he calls the last end of the righteous happy and boasts that god is his father 17 let us see if his words are true and let us test what will happen at the end of his life 18 for if the righteous man is god s son he will help him and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries 19 let us test him with insult and torture that we may find out how gentle he is and make trial of his forbearance 20 let us condemn him to a shameful death for according to what he says he will be protected wisdom 2 12 20 i wonder if there is a corollary in life between how righteous someone is and how much he or she will suffer in life i mean there is always suffering in life sometimes good people suffer a lot and sometimes bad people suffer a lot but at the same time i think that those who are really good people seem to suffer more looking through the people i know in my life and others i have read accounts of i just see that as a thing suffering and righteousness are just connected i am also reminded of this passage from the gospel of john 18 if the world hates you know that it has hated me before it hated you c 19 if you were of the world the world would love its own but because you are not of the world but i chose you out of the world therefore the world hates you 20 remember the word that i said to you a servant d is not greater than his master if they persecuted me they will persecute you if they kept my word they will keep yours also 21 but all this they will do to you on my account because they do not know him who sent me 22 if i had not come and spoken to them they would not have sin but now they have no excuse for their sin 23 he who hates me hates my father also 24 if i had not done among them the works which no one else did they would not have sin but now they have seen and hated both me and my father 25 it is to fulfil the word that is written in their law they hated me without a cause 26 but when the counselor comes whom i shall send to you from the father even the spirit of truth who proceeds from the father he will bear witness to me 27 and you also are witnesses because you have been with me from the beginning john 15 18 27 the world will always hate those who belong to god it makes sense to me that the closer one is to god the more the world would hate you perhaps my readers will feel like chiming in and offering their thoughts perhaps there are some other passages from scr...