I am so blessed. My sister, Debbie took me out to Perkins today for a belated birthday brunch, which was delicious. Thank you, Debbie! And yesterday I went to my sister, Beth's house for a bit and her granddaughter, Lyla came up to me and said, "Razzi, (a nickname) I have a question for you." So I asked her what the question was and she replied, "Can I have more okra?" I laughed, I was so thrilled! I told her, "Yes, Cupcake would have LOVED how much you and Devlin (who despises most vegetables) love okra!" It broke my heart a little that Jerry didn't live long enough to know that two of his adopted grandchildren, love okra- something he loved so much. He would have loved sharing it with them and knowing ten year old Lyla even enjoys cooking it herself for everyone! It does my heart good to share the okra with her, I haven't been able to cook it again just yet, too many emotions come up for me to even try. Crying over okra… crying over missing my love, no one loved okra as much as he did, no one. I am blessed to have a lifetime of wonderful memories to sting my eyes with tears. Each salt tinged trail slipping down my cheeks will be well traveled and welcomed. God is good.
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'How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.'
Jesus was confronted by the Jews in the temple, they asked such a telling question. Basically insisting our Lord to stop playing games and just let them know if He was the promised Messiah. The thing is, and Jesus tells them this… that He'd already told them and they didn't believe Him.
Today so many people have access to the truth yet they still choose not to believe what they hear. They dance around all over the truth and still refuse to believe. They don't want to hear Jesus' voice, they want to follow a voice pleasing to their ears speaking things they like and nothing more. If anything Jesus says interferes with their lives they twist things around until they are following their made up Messiah and not Jesus at all. We have to hear Jesus' voice. We have to follow Jesus.
'Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.' John 10:25-29
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Joh 10
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings. And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him? Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
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