DAVID A. MCMILLEN

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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.

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REFLECTING ON JESUS

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By: DAVID A. MCMILLEN
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REFLECTING ON JESUS



CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW HARD IT WAS FOR JESUS' BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHEN THEY WERE GROWING UP.  WITH JESUS NEVER SINNING, DO YOU THINK MARY AND JOSEPH EVER COMPARED THEM TO JESUS?  IT WOULD ONLY BE HUMAN TO TO SO.  I CAN JUST SEE THEM TRYING TO GET JESUS IN TROUBLE?  JUST THINK ABOUT YOUR OWN SIBLINGS. NOW. THINK HOW HARD IT MUSTS HAVE BEEN FOR JESUS.

 

THE BIBLE DOESN'T MENTION TOO MUCH ABOUT ANY OF THE BROTHERS EXCEPT JAMES AND IT NEVER MENTIONS THE NAMES OF HIS SISTERS OR HOW MANY HE HAD.  THE OTHER BROTHERS WERE JOSEPH, JUDAS AND SIMON.  JAMES WAS NOT A BELIEVER UNTIL AFTER THE RESURRECTION AND BECAME PART OF A GROUP WHO PRAYED IN THE UPPER ROOM.  HE EVENTUALLY BECAME BIG IN THE JERUSALEM CHURCH.

 

A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE A PROBLEM BELIEVING THAT MARY HAD ANY OTHER CHILDREN BUT SINCE THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS HAD BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WHERE ELSE WOULD THEY HAVE COME FROM.  IF WE ARE GOING TO BELIEVE THE BIBLE, WE MUST BELIEVE ALL OF IT.

 

THIS WEEK WHILE REFLECTING ON WHAT IS COMING UP FOR JESUS ON FRIDAY, THINK BACK TO SEE HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS FOR HIM, AND HIS SIBLINGS.  FOR HIM, BEING REJECTED BY HIS OWN CREATION, MUST HAVE HURT HIM.  I AM SURE MARY AND JOSEPH HAD MANY PROBLEMS WITH ALL THE GOSSIP ABOUT HIM BUT IT CANNOT COMPARE TO WHAT WAS COMING UP ON FRIDAY.  JUST REFLECT ON HIS LIFE THIS WEEK AND THANK HIM FOR WHAT HE DID FOR US.  

 

GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

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