Or when I’m writing and studying, I usually listen to quiet, relaxing music. It’s usually better for me to listen to my personal playlists or nothing at all. The same negative emotions emerge when I’m in the car listening to talk radio or radio DJs. If I watch or listen too often and too long to the news, with its panel of experts who talk (or yell) over other experts, I find myself becoming frustrated, agitated and anxious. "With the measure you use, it will be measured to you - and even more" (Mark 4:22-24). "Consider carefully what you hear," he continued. ![]() If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear. "For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. I can try to convince myself that what I hear doesn’t affect how I think and feel, but the reality is, it does.Īs Jesus said, we need to consider carefully what we hear: But this particular fellow seemed to think I (and everyone else in the coffee shop) needed to hear EVERYTHING he had to say.Īlthough this incident ranks extremely low on any list of First World problems, it does remind me of the importance of surrounding myself with things that are positive and uplift me. Actually, I didn’t need or want to hear ANY of it. I just didn’t need, nor did I want to hear, ALL of that "information" emanating from this self-appointed expert. My intention is not to be judgmental or over-sensitive. I finally ended up at a table in the far corner of the room. A one-sided conversation took over the room from a man who "knew everything about everything." It was impossible to tune out. ![]() They were excessively loud, so I moved to another table. Three men entered and sat down at the table next to me. After I got my coffee and settled in next to the window, I opened up my laptop to get a few things done while I waited for my friend. What is man, that the eternal Son of the living God became the Man Christ Jesus? For a time, He made Himself a little lower than the angels so that He could take upon Himself the form of a man and die to pay the price for our sin - and in so doing became our precious, Kinsman-Redeemer.It was raining, and Starbucks® was quiet. Soon, the Lord Jesus Christ will return to take up His God-ordained dominion over the works of God's hand, which were forfeited by they first man but which will be fully restored by the Second Man. He is Jesus Christ our Lord, and He has been crowned with honour and great glory - and today He is seated at God's right hand. ![]() The second Man (the last Adam) is the Lord from heaven, and by death He conquered the one that had power over death. The first man (the first Adam) was of the earth, and disqualified humanity from God's sovereign purpose. Nothing can halt the ultimate fulfilment of God's perfect plan. No wonder the Psalmist cried in astonished amazement: "W hat is man, that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man, that thou visitest him?"īut God in His grace had purposed that man should rule and reign over His creation, and nothing can hinder the decree of the Almighty. It was man and not animals, angels, or any other created being to whom God gave dominion over the works of His hand, and it was when man had been finally fashioned and formed by the hand of his Creator, that God pronounced that everything He made was " very good."īut man sinned and disqualified himself from his privileged position as God's chosen representative on earth, and the effects of sin continue to reverberate around the universe to this day. It was man that God formed from the dust of the earth, and it was into man's lifeless body of clay that the Spirit of God breathed the breath of life. It was man that God created in His image and likeness.
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