Shall we expect another Christ? (Messiah?) That is the question asked in the midst of disappointments and loneliness. No person at all times lives up to his or her highest level. Saints often fail in that very grace which was their most striking characteristic. In the Old Testament, for example, Moses in his meekness, smashed the tablets of the Law; Elijah, failed in his courage, when he ran from Jezebel. In the New Testament, Peter in his intense love, when he denied the Lord Jesus Christ; John the Baptist had heard in prison the works of Christ Jesus, but he also heard how the Lord Jesus Christ ate with publicans and sinners.

Moses made his way back down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, tablets inscribed on both sides, inscribed on the front and of the back. These tablets were the work of God, and the writing on them was God's writing engraved on the tablets. Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting. 'There is the sound of battle in the camp', he told Moses. Moses answered him:

'No song of victory is the sound,
no wailing for defeat this sound;
it is the sound of chanting that I hear.'

As he approached the camp and saw the calf and the groups dancing, Moses' anger blazed. He threw down the tablets he was holding and broke them at the foot of the mountain. He seized the calf they had made and burned it, grinding it into powder which he scattered on the water; and he made the sons of Israel drink it. - Ex. 32:15-20 -

When Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had put all the prophets to the sword, Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, 'May the gods do this to me and more, if by this time tomorrow I have not made your life like the life of one of them!' Elijah was afraid and fled for his life. He came to Beersheba, a town of Judah, where he left his servant. Elijah himself went on into the wilderness, a day's journey, and sitting under a furze bush wished he were dead. 'Yahweh' he said 'I have had enough. Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.' Then Elijah lay down and went to sleep. - 1 Kin. 19:1-4 -

Simon Peter said, 'Lord, where are you going?' Jesus replied, 'Where I am going you cannot follow me now; you will follow me later.' Peter said to Jesus, 'Why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.' 'Lay down your life for me?' answered Jesus. 'I tell you most solemnly, before the cock crows you will have disowned me three times. - John 13:36-38 -

Simon Peter, with another disciple, followed Jesus. This disciple, who was known to the high priest, went with Jesus into the high priest's palace, but Peter stayed outside the door. So the other disciple, the one known to the high priest, went out, spoke to the woman who was keeping the door and brought Peter in. The maid on duty at the door said to Peter. 'Aren't you another of that man's disciples?' Peter answered, 'I am not.' Now it was cold, and the servants and guards had lit a charcoal fire and were standing there warming themselves; so Peter stood there too, warming himself with the others. - John 18:15-18 -

As Simon Peter stood there warming himself, someone said to him, 'Aren't you another of his disciples?' Peter denied it saying, 'I am not.' One of the high priest's servants, a relation of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, 'Didn't I see you in the garden with him?' Again Peter denied it; at once a cock crew. - John 18:25-27 -

Likewise, ordained priests, (included Bishops, Cardinals, Pope) laity and those whom God loves, frustrated in what they believed to be their mission to identify the Lord Jesus Christ, ask for 'another Christ.' The same true of His Mystical Body: "Are you the Church founded on the Rock, or shall we look for another?" Shall we accept what has endured, or shall we look for "another."

Truly, the Lord Jesus Christ knew as God what John the Baptist's design and thought was, and Christ Jesus put it into his hearts to send the messengers when He was working miracles. The Lord Jesus Christ true answer to John the Baptist's questions.

Then Jesus gave the messengers their answer, 'Go back and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind see again, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, the Good News is proclaimed to the poor and happy is the man who does not lose faith in me. - Luke 7:22-23 -

And happy is the man who does not lose faith in me. - Luke 7:23 - Paraphrase: "And happy is the man who does not find me a stumbling block." This sound easier to comprehend. It was evident that John the Baptist was thinking the Kingdom of God "comes with observation" instead of through a slow, quiet stage of leaf and bud and full grown fruit. To paraphrase the Lord Jesus Christ answer:

It is because God, I do not follow your method, way, and thought that I am He. Your method, way, thought was drastic, uncompromising, prejudice and judicial. You are expecting God to act now the way I will act at the end of time, when I will sent down fire from heaven and consume them, and thrown them alive into the fiery lake of burning sulphur.

When I come into the threshing floor I see not only wheat but human chaff that can be salvaged and saved. Bring to Me sinners and those who want to be save, and I will make them think of My Passion rather than their passions; lead to Me those who believed God is dead, and I will show them how dead they were by bringing them to life. I shall not break prison bars, but shall teach prisoners to be resigned to My will, for I, too, shall be in prison. I shall not shorten the life of 'old fogey' - people who bore everyone - but I shall teach them how I have been bored with them, yet love them just the same.

The seeming heedlessness of My divine power is never loveless, never an unwise delay. The faith and love I require is not when there is money in the bank, but when there is bankruptcy. The evidence that I am He is not so much in what meets the eye, but when people in their hearts feel the need of God.

"Happy the one who does not find me a stumbling block." - Luke 7:23 -

("Happy the one  who does not lose faith in me.") - Luke 7:23 -

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-25 -