Religion: Loving People in spite of it all!

Loving People in spite of it all!

Written by Greg Ryan

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movie “Finding Nemo”, came out Steve Jobs repparttar 148411

founder of repparttar 148412

Apple Computer company spent millions of dollars promoting it. Before a major push on merchandise Nike will sign a multi-million dollar contract with some sports star. Sometime soon you will see a major player in repparttar 148413

clothing industry hire a celebrity to promote their product before repparttar 148414

holiday rush. These companies think they have it figured out. How do they attract you to repparttar 148415

product or service they are selling? The packaging!!

Millions of dollars are spent on researching and packaging many products and services even before they hit repparttar 148416 shelves. If they can entice you enough, then they have a better chance to hook you into owning it. Many of us get repparttar 148417 product home and when we open it up and it doesn’t match repparttar 148418 expectations repparttar 148419 outside of repparttar 148420 box conveyed to us. Then in a short period of time we lose our interest become disappointed and put it on a shelf only to go try and find another to fore fill our desires.

Let’s say you have a child and they disobey you. Do you put them on a shelf and go have another or borrow one from repparttar 148421 neighbor. No. You still value them, accept them and love them. You accept them in spite of their behavior and actions at repparttar 148422 time. But why don’t we take that same type of thinking with adults we know? It doesn’t matter; friends, dating or married many times we love repparttar 148423 other person because of what they originally brought to repparttar 148424 relationship (the packaging, repparttar 148425 hype). However, once we get to know that person we realize that they have some things that don’t line up with our expectations of them or remind us of a past relationship that went sour. They don’t fit in our packaged box anymore. We even try to mold them to fit, and when they don’t we put them on an emotional shelf with an expiration date. In repparttar 148426 beginning we loved to be around repparttar 148427 other person more and were attracted to them because of who there were not in spite of who they are.

Seedtime and harvest

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Seedtime and harvest Gen.8:22(KJV) "While repparttar earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."

Luke 8:4-8(KJV) "And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:

A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by repparttar 148369 way side; and it was trodden down, and repparttar 148370 fowls of repparttar 148371 air devoured it.

And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.

And some fell among thorns; and repparttar 148372 thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.

And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear."

Luke 8:11-15(KJV) "Now repparttar 148373 parable is this: The seed is repparttar 148374 word of God.

Those by repparttar 148375 way side are they that hear; then cometh repparttar 148376 devil, and taketh away repparttar 148377 word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

They on repparttar 148378 rock are they, which, when they hear, receive repparttar 148379 word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

But that on repparttar 148380 good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard repparttar 148381 word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience."

The Lord Jesus Christ outlined repparttar 148382 parable of repparttar 148383 sower in repparttar 148384 second set of scriptures and his interpretation of it in repparttar 148385 third set of scriptures. The seed is repparttar 148386 word of God(Luke 8:11). The word of God is repparttar 148387 word of repparttar 148388 kingdom(Matt. 13:19). God himself is repparttar 148389 King of repparttar 148390 kingdom. God is repparttar 148391 sower of repparttar 148392 seed. The seed is good,having repparttar 148393 full potential to become a harvest for repparttar 148394 sower(Gen.8:22;Isa 55:11). There are several challenges that a natural seed has to face and overcome before it becomes a fruitful tree to be harvested. The sower has repparttar 148395 obligation to aid repparttar 148396 seed to overcome those challenges and become his harvest! Examples of such challenges with respect to destiny have been discussed briefly in 'An open door' and more elaborately in 'The viral war'. The word of God contains both his commands and his promises to mankind,and then classical examples of persons and nations that either received his word or rejected it. The greatest example for us in all generations is Jesus Christ:- Luke 24:44(KJV) "And he said unto them, These are repparttar 148397 words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in repparttar 148398 law of Moses, and in repparttar 148399 prophets, and in repparttar 148400 psalms, concerning me."

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