Empower your Day in Just Seconds
Grantley Morris
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Frankly, the average Christian has weird ideas of what it means to be truly spiritual and divinely favored. The holy Son of God, of course, is the most Spirit-filled, not-of-this-world, apple-of-Gods-eye person ever to wear human flesh and yet not even he floated on some sort of spiritual equivalent of a drug-induced haze that insulated him from the devastating emotional intensity of lifes blows. Far from being granted super-human power to endure, the divine miracle worker failed even to drag his cross the required distance. Despite what some seem to think, we are not called to be less human than our Holy Lord. Thousands of Christians must slip on blindfolds whenever they meet such Scriptures as: Mark 14:33-34 . . . he began to be deeply distressed and troubled. My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death, . . . Luke 22:42,44 Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done. . . . And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground. Hebrews 5:7 During the days of Jesus life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death . . .
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