Time for class again!
Hello everybody!
It is your friendly neighborhood Joseph again. I wanted to share just a little bit of what you may find interesting or not, but I hope it at least makes you a little happier. I am in a New Testament class at BYU and I want to share what I learn over the next few months from it. It's tough do this sometimes. I feel I get disconnected in many ways as time goes and I tend to get lazy. This disconnection can come to mean me feeling disconnected from God, which in the short run doesn't seem bad, but in the long run can be extremely depressing. But I read some today in the New Testament that can relate to that, and really to all of us.
I read in John 1 today in verse 10-11. It speaks of Christ being in the world; "He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not." Can we even really imagine what that means? I think we all know how it feels to not be included, like not chosen for a dodgeball game until last or something dumb like that. But imagine going home and your family doesn't even know who you are. Or going back to old friends who don't even acknowledge you. Isn't that one of the most painful thoughts? Christ understands all feelings we ever have, but this one he clearly knew quite a bit. He literally made all of us, and most of the world doesn't even care! Yet he still works hard for us, and did work the hardest any of us have.
I hope we all remember the One who had His own reject him in the worst kind of way. But we can show we won't do this just by remembering Him in our interactions with each and every person around us, who in reality are all ones of our own as well.
It is your friendly neighborhood Joseph again. I wanted to share just a little bit of what you may find interesting or not, but I hope it at least makes you a little happier. I am in a New Testament class at BYU and I want to share what I learn over the next few months from it. It's tough do this sometimes. I feel I get disconnected in many ways as time goes and I tend to get lazy. This disconnection can come to mean me feeling disconnected from God, which in the short run doesn't seem bad, but in the long run can be extremely depressing. But I read some today in the New Testament that can relate to that, and really to all of us.
I read in John 1 today in verse 10-11. It speaks of Christ being in the world; "He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not." Can we even really imagine what that means? I think we all know how it feels to not be included, like not chosen for a dodgeball game until last or something dumb like that. But imagine going home and your family doesn't even know who you are. Or going back to old friends who don't even acknowledge you. Isn't that one of the most painful thoughts? Christ understands all feelings we ever have, but this one he clearly knew quite a bit. He literally made all of us, and most of the world doesn't even care! Yet he still works hard for us, and did work the hardest any of us have.
I hope we all remember the One who had His own reject him in the worst kind of way. But we can show we won't do this just by remembering Him in our interactions with each and every person around us, who in reality are all ones of our own as well.
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