Thankful for reminders of faith...

 Romans 11:2 - God did not reject his people, whom he first recognized.  Do you not know what the scripture says in connection with Elijah, as he pleads with God against Isreal?  "Jehovah, they have killed your prophets, they have dug up your altars, and I alone am left, and now they are trying to take my life."

My first reaction reading this is I'm thinking, why would people do that? Why would anyone kill prophets and dig up altars? And I have this aversion to it. And then I remember, sometimes, not always, but sometimes when I am saturated with the world and worldly worries when I first step into church and I see Jesus hanging on the cross my initial feeling is what is this? Why are we worshipping Jesus on the cross and is this praising a man being crucified?  But as I continue to worship, and pray I am reminded of the deeper things of the spirit and the reasons why we all are actually there, why I am there.  Because on the outside it looks a certain way but to those who have faith and who believe, and who understand the things of the spirit and of God, that view holds a deeper meaning, one that is a deep bowing down, a receiving of grace and a reminder that we are not left in the sin of the world.  God gives us this way, a way of forgiveness, compassion, mercy and love but it is only in that sacrifice that we can feel such love and that we can feel connected in such strength of spirit and faith. 


Relating to the deeper things of spirit - Corinthians 2:9 "But just as it is written: "Eye has not seen and ear has not heard, nor have their been conceived in the heart of man the things that God has prepared for those who love him." For it is to us that God has revealed them through his spirit, for the spirit searches into all things, even the deep things of God."


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