"BOXHOLDER, PLANET EARTH"
Father, glorify thy name. John 12:28, R.S.V.
In my mailbox I found a little brown package labeled "Boxholder, Route 1." Inside was a sample of shampoo and a flier describing its virtues. The product's name was unfamiliar; in a few minutes I had all but forgotten about the sample. It wasn't until discovering I was low on shampoo that I remembered and decided to make use of it. Retrieving it from the "odds and ends" drawer, I stepped into the shower.
I had done what thousands of consumers have done. Not only had I tried a new product; I actually found myself weighing its potential. That was exactly what the promoters wanted. And really, what better way to introduce to the public an unknown product? Whether they knew it or not, their methodology was not only a good idea, it was God's idea first! Wrapped in the coarse swaddling cloth of a peasant woman, Jesus was delivered to this world, a sample of God. He is often forgotten and tossed aside into the "odds and ends" drawer of our minds, then one day we find our supply of life's stability running low. And we remember...
However, there is something incredible about this Sample: it fits all needs! Coming to show us the Father, Jesus desired that God's name be glorified, honored, and extolled (John 12:28, Amplified). Crying out, "I need someone stronger than I am!" I learn I have as my strength El Shaddai (the Almighty). "No one sees or understands me!" and I discover "El Roi" (the Seeing God). Spinning in a world of no absolutes, I find solid ground in Adonai (Lord, Absolute Authority). It has all been "home-demonstrated" in the person of God's own Son.
"It was there from the beginning; we have heard it; we have seen it with our own eyes; we looked upon it, and felt it with our own hands; and it is of this we tell. Our theme is the word of life. This life was made visible; we have seen it and bear our testimony; we here declare to you the eternal life which dwelt with the Father and was made visible to us....Here is the message we heard from him and pass on to you: that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all" (1 John 1:1-5, N.E.B.).
God, the I AM--the Way, the Truth, the Life, Bread, Water, Rest. Righteousness, Peace. Whatever we need. God has named Himself! Therefore, "I shall not want."
Father, glorify thy name. John 12:28, R.S.V.
In my mailbox I found a little brown package labeled "Boxholder, Route 1." Inside was a sample of shampoo and a flier describing its virtues. The product's name was unfamiliar; in a few minutes I had all but forgotten about the sample. It wasn't until discovering I was low on shampoo that I remembered and decided to make use of it. Retrieving it from the "odds and ends" drawer, I stepped into the shower.
I had done what thousands of consumers have done. Not only had I tried a new product; I actually found myself weighing its potential. That was exactly what the promoters wanted. And really, what better way to introduce to the public an unknown product? Whether they knew it or not, their methodology was not only a good idea, it was God's idea first! Wrapped in the coarse swaddling cloth of a peasant woman, Jesus was delivered to this world, a sample of God. He is often forgotten and tossed aside into the "odds and ends" drawer of our minds, then one day we find our supply of life's stability running low. And we remember...
However, there is something incredible about this Sample: it fits all needs! Coming to show us the Father, Jesus desired that God's name be glorified, honored, and extolled (John 12:28, Amplified). Crying out, "I need someone stronger than I am!" I learn I have as my strength El Shaddai (the Almighty). "No one sees or understands me!" and I discover "El Roi" (the Seeing God). Spinning in a world of no absolutes, I find solid ground in Adonai (Lord, Absolute Authority). It has all been "home-demonstrated" in the person of God's own Son.
"It was there from the beginning; we have heard it; we have seen it with our own eyes; we looked upon it, and felt it with our own hands; and it is of this we tell. Our theme is the word of life. This life was made visible; we have seen it and bear our testimony; we here declare to you the eternal life which dwelt with the Father and was made visible to us....Here is the message we heard from him and pass on to you: that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all" (1 John 1:1-5, N.E.B.).
God, the I AM--the Way, the Truth, the Life, Bread, Water, Rest. Righteousness, Peace. Whatever we need. God has named Himself! Therefore, "I shall not want."
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