One day over a year ago, I was sitting with our granddaughter and she began to sing a little tune: “Down by the bay, where the watermelons grow.” I’d never heard it before, so I looked it up online. I found it among a half-hour video with lots of fun songs. Eventually that song collection became one of our favorites, even playing it when driving to and from her home in our car [yes, we have our very own car seat just for that purpose].
That reminds me of finding joy in the Lord and singing in our hearts each day. Jesus was full of joy and wanted us to have that joy too.
The Devil likes to make up terms to push his ideas. “Gender dysphoria” is a made-up name for people who don’t believe they are what God made them to be. I’ve taught language for years, and “gender” used to be a term only used for classifying nouns, adjectives, and participles. It has nothing directly to do with sex. God made “men and women,” as Jesus said in Mark 10:6: “But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.” People who deny God and his creation, deny their own bodies:
I cannot but in wonder stand
People worship “God” all over the world, and have done so since Adam and Eve first breathed on the Earth. But the True God sent His ONLY-BEGOTTEN SON to give us access to know God directly as our Father. There is NO OTHER WAY than Jesus Christ, our Lord. He was both the Son of Adam and the SON OF GOD, and is now LORD OF ALL. The Scriptures are clear that it is only THROUGH JESUS that we are saved, filled with holy spirit, and have eternal life.
This morning it was 25 below zero with the wind in our little part of Northwest Idaho. Overnight, our hot water pipe froze. When the repairman came, he was doubtful if he could help.
Communicating is what life is about. Yet how I talk to our two-year-old granddaughter, one of my middle-school students, or my wife is very different. God communicates with us even more personally through His Word. He had people filled with his spirit write it down [II Peter 1:21]. It came in human form as God’s Son, who made known his Father [John 1:14,18].
Jesus is the Son of God. That is what he said of himself in the Gospel of John [5:25; 9:39; 10:36; 11:4; 19:7].