We can only change the world by the authority and permission given to us by God, isn’t that what Jesus did? “Who am I to think I could do anything without God?” Never; it wouldn’t even cross my mind. Too bad I couldn’t be so confident to say like Jesus to see me is to see the father(John 14:9) If wasn’t for sin in me, I could so boldly speak those words. But by grace given to me by God as his vessel I know I could be used and I am willed to surrender all for His glory.

Scripture declares that unless you be like a child you cannot enter the Kingdom of heaven(Matthew 18:3) The reason is to be like a child you have to be open and willing to learn, not having your own wisdom, but being pure and innocent. When you’re brought up in the  kingdom(Proverbs 22:6 train up the child in the way he or she should go: and when he is old, he or she will not depart) from a child the devil may try, but he has no power over you. You do have the ability to over come the world, because like Jesus and through him, we are given kingdom power and the devil knows it. John 5:4-5 Everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: or faith. Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the son of God.

We can change the world, but can’t definitely not do it by ourselves, we need the Lord.

 

What is the misinterpretation of God’s jealousy? It is believing that God is so insecure that he would be jealous of anything  about man or even the devil. If we are claiming that God is omnipresent, omnipotence, and omniscience, then it is not God who has the problem, we are the ones with the problem of misinterpretation of what being jealous means when it comes to God. Maybe the word to be use should not be jealous, but protective for our own good from anything that could cause us to turn away from him, like sin. God requires our commitment to him. After what happened to Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden nothing else in the world can be compared to him that would be good or as concerned for our wellbeing as he is. Because really, he is the only God there’s no other, but the rebellious angel the devil, who tries to be a God and misleading some of us free-willed humans against God.

People you have to consider this: God created everything even the devil. Even some things that God has created which is bad, according to our understand, is suitable for his own purpose. Take for example, Jesus wasn’t jealous of John the Baptist or his followers, because Jesus knew John was there to serve a purpose. Neither would he be jealous of all the attention that Paul the murderer got over his disciples he taught and walked with. Paul wrote so much in the New testament, that he surpassed  all the disciples writings and today is being quoted even more so than them. But remember it was Jesus who threw Paul off his horse and asked why was he persecuting him and then gave him all wisdom, knowledge and understanding in Acts 9:1-22. Remember in Mark 9:38-40 John told Jesus there was a man driving out demons in his name, and they told him to stop, because he doesn’t belong to their group. Jesus told them, don’t try to stop him, because no one who performs miracle in my name will be able soon afterward to say evil things about me. For whoever is not against us is for us. Jesus never once said anything about jealousy. After all God should be jealous of Jesus the man, who has so much more influence on humanity than him, because he walked and talk with them, fed, taught and did miracles for them, that even his name they call upon first in times of trouble.

What our problem is, is that we are trying hard to personify God as a human being with human emotions and thoughts (Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord). If God created everything, why would he be jealous of it? Jealousy is what the devil is all about, not God. The word jealous should never be use to describe God in my understanding of how God is towards us. Just to think of it, if he was anything like what we’ve interpret jealousy to be, we would be dead already, because we have a lot of things we give priority to before him.

 

 

John 19:1-2 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. And said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they smote him with their hands.

After Jesus resurrected, along came with his resurrection many changes that affected all of humanity in our thoughts, actions and our deeds. It touched us in a powerful way especially his disciples, those he performed miracles on and the ones who had witnessed it all. John 14:12-17 Jesus says whoever believe in him will do what he does and greater because he was going to his father (crucified). He said he will never leave us comfortless, and he prays the father will send us another comforter, the spirit that reveals the truth about God. The world cannot receive him, because it cannot see or know him, but we know him, because we believe in Jesus.

With this I am here to conclude that because of this knowledge that the world cannot receive the spirit of truth, I don’t think that they will be willing to receive this resurrection truth either. Every time I  heard someone say, “where in the bible does it say to pray the Rosary” I get angry, really angry. I was once ignorant like that myself about the Rosary and now that I know the truth, it cuts like a knife to hear anyone says anything against it. I do not agree with people that say if it is not in the Bible I don’t or won’t believe it. Come on people, there is so much in our lives that we believe in that has nothing to do with the Bible, Christians.

It is now be twenty-one years since I went on my retreat and learned about the Rosary, not by man, but by the Spirit of truth revealing it to me. All I did was what Jesus said, “ask and you shall receive,” and ask I did about the Rosary. I was told that the crown of thorns that Jesus wore on his head was the never ending torment of the mind which is what the circle represents and the thorns are the physical piercing pain of negative thought that would not stop or shut down, like a clock tick tocking away in your head. The torment of Jesus’s  mind all began in the garden of Gethsemane, the betrayal by Judas, the scourging at the pillar and all the hatred shown by the people towards him who cried out crucify him after all the good he had done for them; even some of his disciples, followers and even those he worked  miracles on denied him. Jesus was in a vulnerable position and being in that vulnerable position, the powers and principalities attacked him mentally and emotionally.  Doesn’t it sound a lot like mental illness?

Here is where whatever he was feeling transformed after the resurrection. He’d take on the thorns and transformed the thorns into roses (grace) for us. The meditation of the Rosary is grace for the mind and power to the spirit. The Rosary is not about worshiping the mother of Jesus, but the acknowledgement of her role in God’s purpose for the salvation of man. The Rosary is about Divinity that came upon Mary  and she conceived it. It’s about the conception, life and death of Jesus. The praying of the Rosary gives all glory and honor to God, not to the angels or man, only God himself alone. Luke 4:8 Jesus answered, “The scriptures says, worship the Lord your God and serve only him. Jesus never took honor for himself.