Wednesday, December 4
The Best Part
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The Best Part

So this week, the song “Best Part” by Daniel Caesar featuring HER was on my mind because my neighbor upstairs was playing the song. I like the song; it has a beautiful melody and soulfulness to it that’s indeed capturing. There’s a part in the lyrics I like that says, “…where you go I follow, no matter how far.” Somehow it made me think of Mary in the bible. Mary of Bethany, the friend of Jesus, the sister of both Lazarus and Martha. We’d recently studied about her in bible class and in just about every passage you find her with Jesus, the love she has for HIM is undeniable. Mary loved Jesus. I was thinking specifically of Luke chapter 10:38-42. Jesus is in Bethany where Mary, Martha, and Lazarus lived. Jesus is speaking at their house and Mary sits at Jesus’ feet hearing and listening to ...
Chosen Vessel
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Chosen Vessel

The story of Saul on the road to Damascus to persecute followers of Jesus Christ is found in the book of Acts chapter 9. As the church began to gain momentum in the early days of its founding, antagonists rose up to quell the movement. One of the main of antagonists was a man by the name, Saul of Tarsus. Saul was a Pharisee, a Jew, a Roman citizen, and a possible member of the Sanhedrin. Saul’s mission to Damascus was one that would change his life in a way that even he did not expect. His initial encounter with Jesus Christ would leave him blind. A blindness that also indicates his previous ways of ignorance when he didn’t know Jesus Christ. Blind, he was eventually led to Damascus where he neither ate nor drank for three days. The Lord sends a disciple in Damascus by the name of Ananias ...