Let them thank Yahweh for his faithful love,
for his wonders for the children of Adam! Psalm 107:21
Jesus tells us: There is nothing – and no one – in this world that is perfect.
Jesus describes: Things break, friends let you down, and even your parents lose their cool sometimes.
Jesus states: Only I am perfect. And I love you perfectly – always.
Jesus guides us: Let your body, mind, and spirit relax in that fact. Be awed by the vastness of My Love for you. It is wider than any continent, longer than any road, higher than any mountain, and deeper that any ocean. This vast Love is yours – forever!
Jesus invites us: The best possible response to My Love is thankfulness. Thank Me for loving you, for being your Savior, and for taking care of you. Then just watch to see how much I bless you.
Psalm 107:21 1 Peter 5:7; Ephesians 3:16-19; Study Notes
Footnotes Psalm 107:21-22; Each time God’s people cried to the Lord, he listened to them. “Let us give thanks for His love”.
Passage 1 Peter 5:7; unload all your burden on to him, since he is concerned about you.
Footnotes 1 Peter 5:7; Anxiety implies some distrust of God’s providence, but also some kind of belief that we may be able to manage better for ourselves; we are exhorted, especially in time of danger, simply to do what we know we ought to do, and to be unheeding about the rest.
Passage Ephesians 3:16-19; In the abundance of his glory may he, through his Spirit, enable you to grow firm in power with regard to your inner self, so that Christ may live in your hearts through faith, and then, planted in love and built on love, with all God’s holy people you will have the strength to grasp the breadth and the length, the height and the depth; so that, knowing the love of Christ, which is beyond knowledge, you may be filled with the utter fullness of God.
Footnotes Ephesians 3:16-19; The knowledge and experience of Jesus’ love surpasses all that could ever be imagined. We shall not find it through books and study and transcendental meditation. It will be freely given to us, on God’s initiative, on the way of love which Christ made himself the model and the center.
The inner self, in the Greek tradition, is the soul or the mind. In it, the action of the Spirit brings a strengthening to which the dwelling of Christ in the heart is linked (for the Semitic culture the heart is the source of personal being). Christians are required to grow by the intervention of divine “power” through the Spirit in order to be founded in faith and charity. To know the Love of Christ is to be possessed by it, to be transformed into it; it is participation in Christ through the link with Him. It is not a “knowledge-possession”; it is a “knowledge-gift” in a growing mutual self-giving and belonging.
THE WORLD…we see history
TO AMERICANS, OSAMA BIN LADEN WAS THE MOST WANTED MAN IN THE WORLD, A MURDEROUS MADMAN WHO ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, SLAUGHTERED 2,977 PEOPLE.
Born March 10th 1957 Died May 2nd 2011.
The Event
Yet Bin Laden to some in the Middle East and elsewhere, he was Islamic prophet of retribution. The spoiled son of a billionaire Saudi builder with ties to that kingdom’s royal family, bin Laden was radicalized in 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, an attack he viewed as an affront to Islam. Seeking to drive out the infidels, bin Laden raised money for the resistance and formed the militant organization al-Qaeda. By 1989, the Soviets had left Afghanistan, but when Iraq invaded Kuwait the following year, the Saudi government invited America to set up bases. Bin Laden, who abhorred the United States’ support of Israel, considered America’s presence in the birthplace of Muhammad as blasphemous.
Among other atrocities, it spurred the simultaneous 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, which took the lives of 224, and the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, which killed 17. But what bin Laden is most remembered for and changed the world forever came on a beautiful, clear late summer day in 2001 on the east coast of the United States. On September 11, 19 of his acolytes hijacked four passenger jets and plowed them into the two World Trade Center towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
NAVY SEALS SWOOPED IN ON BLACK HAWK HELICOPTERS, AND KILLED THE AL-QAEDA LEADER
The mass murder led to a U.S.-led coalition that expelled the Taliban from power. It also turned the already secretive bin Laden into a phantom menace. The United States intensified its hunt for him in the shadows and eventually, surveillance led to a heavily fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. There, on May 2, 2011, Navy SEALs swooped in on Black Hawk helicopters, and killed the al-Qaeda leader. His burial at sea followed traditional Islamic procedures.
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