today we've had some friends do our meetings. they go to our corps and they will be in next years session at the training college for the Salvation Army. tonights sermon made me think alot about things and about meself as a person. instead of my friends speaking they showed us a video of about 15 minutes long with an awful lot to think about.
i can't remember what the theme was but the sermon was about God having faith in us and us having faith in God and ourselves to be able to be like Him.
this was based on the time when Jesus was calling His disciples and he asked them to follow Him. now the video said (and its very true) that its hard to understand this if you don't know the background of the time. once it was explained i began to see it slighty clearer.
he said, in those times children at the age of 6 went to school to read and learn off by heart the Torah (the first 5 books of the Bible, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuternoomy). by the time they were 10 years old they new all these books off by heart. (thats saying something as i had to look up the names of the books).
at the age of 10, most children went off to learn their familiy trade or business. few of the 10 year olds went on to learn the rest of the old testament (34 books more than the torah). they did this until they were 15 years of age, and again only the best of these went to different Rabbi's to see if they could become a disciple. the Rabbi's would then ask many questions and if he thought they were good enough they would leave their families and friends to follow the Rabbi. personally i dont think id be able to do anything like that.
now when Jesus called Peter and His other disciples from the boat, it is now clear that Peter was not one of the best. he was carrying on his families trade, which means (not to be rude or anything) but he left school a while ago because he didn't do as well as the others.
This indicates to us that Jesus believes in us all, whether we're the best or not.
its quite a powerful thing. Jesus believes in me. I believe in Jesus. Jesus believes in me.
just something to think about.
Testing, Testing, one, two, one two...
12 years ago
1 comment:
Wow. I'm very impressed you can remember so much! I normally struggle to remember anything from meetings (something I'm trying to work on at the moment). The Nooma video (dust) was great wasn't it?! They're really useful - trying to buy the lot eventually. Glad it made you think!
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