MSG of Hope

You ever had a person who called themselves your friend and in the good times you believed that to be true as well, but in the times when you really needed someone to call a friend you found that you were all alone and that person was not there for you at all, or they may have been there had they know you were struggling but you hesitated about contacting them out of fear of what they’d think of you?

I have realized that I am guilty of calling myself friends with people that I'm actually just casual acquaintances with. And realize I may use the term "friend" too loosely. 

I suppose it depends on your own definition of "friend" in order to evaluate whether someone truly is or not. Let's try to figure this one out...

This is Part 3 and the Final Episode of this series.

If you haven’t listened to Parts 1 or 2 of this series you may want to go listen to those first and then come back and listen to this one.

The commandments are  found in the Bible of course, in Exodus Chapter 20.
We read all 10 of them in Episode 1, discussed the first 4 in detail in Episode 2, and today discuss the last 6 commandments and talk a little more about what I understand they are telling us on how to love and treat others. 

This is Part 2 of a three part series.

If you haven’t listened to Part 1 you may want to go listen to Part 1 first and then come back to this one.

The Ten Commandments are found in the Bible in Exodus Chapter 20 which we read all Ten Commandments in Part 1 and now we are going to go over the first 4 of them today and talk a little more about what they are telling us and I will complete this 3 episode series with the remaining six commandments in which He instructs us on how to love and treat others.

Have you ever played with bubbles? When you were a kid did your parents buy you those little plastic bottles of party bubbles to play with?

Man, I loved those things - still do. 

The bubbles are so delicate and move so freely in the air, and when the sun bounces off them they were irridescent and you could see all kinds of beautiful colors in them as they spun and floated around you and it tickled me when one would brush against me and pop and I'd giggle with delight but I'd also hurry to blow more before they all popped. I wanted to keep those bubbles spinning in the air so I could watch them.

I was reminded of those amazing bubbles of delight this past weekend. Listen as I explain...

This is Episode #1 of a three (3) episode series.

The Ten Commandments are Found in the Holy Bible in the book of Exodus Chapter 20 which we read all Ten Commandments in Part 1 and in the following two episodes we will talk a little more about what they are telling us. 

To be the mother of an addict is not a rare thing anymore but rather quite common. It's sad that we often turn a blind eye to things until the mess get's so BIG you can't ignore or cover it up any more. Our world as a whole does this. We avoid things being “too real” for us to handle.

During the years we were initially forced to face the fact we had a member addicted to pills I felt very isolated. I didn't hear any of my friends discussing having this problem and as mentioned in my podcast titled “Got chains” I felt like I had a dark cloud surrounding me every day and thought we were the only ones that were being affected by addiction.

And I certainly didn't want to risk myself as the parent or my child being judged by others. As a mom you do all you can to protect your kids. I mean what kind of mother would I be to go around putting down my child by talking about bad things they were doing with other people? No, as a mother, my instinct was to protect my children from others and to guard them against people judging them, and If your a mother listening to this, you know what I'm talking about.

We are the glue that holds things together, guides, directs, nurtures and usually exude a very similar type of love that our brother Jesus (Yeshua) did-you know loving the unlovable and the sinner and our hope is that our children are liked and accepted by others and that as they go beyond the teenage years and approach adulthood we don't want their adolescent behaviors to follow them into adulthood. Because you know as well as I do, that people don't usually notice the good in you but they amplify and discuss at length with everyone they know any little dirty little piece of gossip they can find on you, especially in a small town.

Let's talk about this.

The one and only sign of Jesus's authenticity is that we will rise from the dead on the third day. 

For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 

WAIT?? ... How do you get three (3) days and three (3) nights from Good Friday to Easter Sunday morning???

We MUST have our days mixed up.  Let's see if we can (from the scriptures) figure this out. 

You ever wish you were powerful?

I know I have dreamed of what it would be like to be rich and famous and to have others work for me and me tell them what to do. 

I'm not sure why, but somehow I bought into the idea that my life would be great if I was powerful.

I think maybe TV had painted me a picture of what a powerful and successful life is supposed to look like. I had the impression powerful people don’t have any problems and nobody would dare step on them or their ego. 

Even though I don’t have that kind of power I know I still do everything I can to brace myself against life’s struggles. I protect myself as much as possible, and head out into the world every day with all the power I can muster. Trying to believe in myself and trying to convince myself I am self-sufficient and self-made and that I am in control of things.

But, deep inside I know this isn’t true. Instead, it's a lie I tell myself to make it through the day. I like to think I'm in control of things and my instinct is to deny the idea that actually I’m quite power-less!

Listen in as I explain.

In the church we attended growing up I was taught that the Old Testament (Torah) of the Holy Bible and the laws of GOD (Yeshua) didn't apply to us any more because after Jesus (Yeshua) came and died on the cross for our sins it negated those laws and that we are now under grace.

Lets look at what the Holy Bible says.