On June 23, 1973 the young lady pictured in the thumbnail (Jane Smith) gave me a birthday card. The card has been an inspiration for these many years, and today sits on my desk reminding me of how I should live each day. The poem written by Helen Steiner Rice is entitled “I’ve Never Seen God.”
I’ve never seen God but I know How I feel,
It’s people like you
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The first thing to notice in the story found in Genesis 22 is Abraham’s response to God’s call. God calls his name, “Abraham”, and Abraham responds, “Here I am” which is an expression of unconditional availabiltiy.
The second thing to notice is what God says next. The original text shows us that the wording God uses is not a command, but a request. “Please take your son, your only son, the son that you love”…. This reminds us of His first command to Abraham, when He told him to leave his country, the land of his relatives, the home of his father. But this time He is not insisting, but He’s asking.
The third thing to notice is that this is the very first time the word “love” is used in the Bible. Many times the first mention of a word is key to unlocking its meaning in the broader picture of the Bible. The idea of love comes first in this concept; a father’s willingness to sacrificing a beloved son on Mount Moriah, and the love mentioned is the love of the father for the son.
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Very good story and excellent relation to scripture.
This morning when I walked in the door I smiled. When I looked over at my table there sat Pless Sanders. Pless is quite the unusual guy. He only comes in every few months or so. He is a bricklayer by trade. I think he is in his 60s. He is one of the funniest people that I have ever been around. He’s the kind of fellow that a person like me can really get going. When I say get going, I mean get going. I don’t think that you can believe but maybe one word out of ten that he speaks. But boy is he full of tales.
The funniest thing about him though, is not his tales, but Pless is a singer. He will sing at the drop of a hat. A dollar bill put in front of him and you’re certain to get a few songs. This morning after prodding him I was only able to get him to sing a few partial songs. So I pulled out my dollar and that is all that it took. I asked him to sing to the females that were in the coffee shop at the time. Pless walked over to the front counter and began singing ” Today I Started Loving You Again”. He doesn’t have a bashful bone in his body. Naturally the people that walk in are wondering what in the world is going on. There are the snickers, grins, and laughs on every persons face, and a few whispers. After a couple more songs and he took a rest. It was a hilarious and fun time.
Pless is a very unique person. I seriously doubt that most people have ever seen anyone like him. I know I haven’t. Pless is unique, but so am I, and so are you. God has formed each of us just as we are for His glory. David wrote in Psalm 139: 13-17 “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully an wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in ithe depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!”
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George Blaurock
A man that they could not silence
1525 – ANABAPTISTS IN SWITZERLAND ARRESTED AND BURNED AT THE STAKE FOR REFUSING TO BAPTIZE THEIR CHILDREN IN THE EARLY 16TH CENTURY – George Blaurock was arrested on February 7, 1525, along with Felix Manz and 24 other Swiss Anabaptists for refusing to have their children baptized. He was held for a week in the Augustinian cloister and then released. On Nov. 6 he was rearrested and placed in chains. On the 18th he was sentenced to imprisonment in the New Tower, to be kept on a diet of bread and water. On Jan. 5, 1527, the day of Felix Manz’s glorious martyrdom, the following report is given of Blaurock: His hands were bound, his body stripped to the waiste, and he was made to walk along the street, while being beaten with rods until the blood flowed from his wounds. When he was finally released, as he left Zurich, he shook the dust from his blue coat and shoes as a testimony against his persecutors. Blaurock a man of conviction who could not be silenced continued for two years to carry on the work of the Anabaptists in Switzerland. On September 6, 1529, when he was the pastor of a small flock of believers in Tyrol, Blaurock was burned at the stake. The little church’s former pastor had also been burned three months prior. Blaurock had been born in Bonaduz, a village in Grisons, Switzerland in 1491. He was therefore only 38 years of age when he was called home to meet the Lord Jesus.
Dr. Greg J. Dixon, from: This Day in Baptist History Vol. I: Cummins Thompson /, pp. 51.
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