Hey everyone! Hope all is going well for y’all! Right now my group and are getting back into the swing of things and hopefully all will be right as rain soon. We started back into our colonias and internships… apparently everyone missed us! We also started doing our WOW stuff in our new colonia that we now live in. Its pretty sweet… we have met quite a few people who speak English and even though we were told people are a little more closed up than our colonias we visit, the people we have met in our new colonia are quite friendly. Hopefully God will open doors, to new friends and families and hearts, that he wants us to minister to here.
What else… Oh! We have a couple of lovely ladies who have come down from Ohio to help teach us about internal healing. Sounds good to me (if you wish to see, read my old blog A 3 year old’s birthday party, painting a room, fighting for my heart and coming home for Christmas, it talks a little bit about an experience I’ve had already down here.)! I can’t wait to see what they have to say about all this! Its kind of exciting!
Lately, I’ve also been doing some commentary reading as I walk through the book of Luke. Its pretty cool what God has opened my eyes to about his word and about this man’s perception and depiction of the ministry and life of Jesus. One of the things that I’ve have been stuck on lately is this: In chapter 7 Jesus is dealing with a sinful woman at the house of a Pharisee who after coming in just breaks down and weeps on Jesus’s feet, cleans his feet with her hair, kisses them and pours oil on it. He tells her, “Your faith has saved you, go in peace.” He then says this again to another woman who was suffering from bleeding for 12 years and after touching his clothes was healed. Here’s the thing I don’t get… maybe its my mind trying to over scrutinize the issue but its this: the term “Go in peace” was actually used back in biblical times by Rabbis as they were sending off a corpse after finishing a ceremony and it was ready to be buried. Usually the term used to the living was “Go into peace”. Why didin’t Jesus just say it that way? I don’t get it…
As I was typing the above paragraph I just remembered a few verses I read a while back, Romans 6:1-10:
1What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. 5If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. 6For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with,[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. 8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
Therefore when he looked at those women and because of them expressing their faith in different ways to them he did not see actual living human beings but corpses harboring sanctified souls, corpses housing the true daughters of God in them. Interesting eh? So… until the next blog post, hope all is well with you and your families and I leave you with the remainder of this little lesson from the bible in Romans 6:11-14:
Jeanne 😉
Jeanne, Thanks for the insight. I have learned something new. I never knew that “Go In Peace” was used for the dead, very interesting. Our old selves have died, AMEN!
Thanks for this Jeanne – I appreciate it.
Missing you and praying for you! Much love and peace. 🙂