Gobble Gobble!

Happy Thanksgiving you TURKEYS!  I am super thankful for this fall reading-blog journey.  I am even more thankful for the community that has "partic-a-related" (Steve made up that word years ago......EPIC) alongside me.  Thank you all for your discipline in reading and your hunger and thirst for righteousness.  It spurs me on to Jesus.

The last three chapters were again fantastic.  The women in the house of Simon the Pharisee has a particular special place in my heart.  From 2008-2012, I would use Bailey's insights in this story to teach the trainees about forgiveness, love, sin, the cross, faith, obedience, salvation, and peace.  While reading through the chapter, I revisited many faces and feeling in my mind from Tuesday nights in that seminar boat. I would quote Bailey and say, "Either Jesus is an outrageous egotist or he is THE unique agent of God who mediates forgiveness and is the appropriate one to whom a forgiven sinner offers thanks."

So this forgiven sinner (me) offers again, and again, and again.....thanks to Jesus this Thanksgiving for being the one and only Mediator for our sin!

Jesus I (we) love you, and to paraphrase your friend Peter, "Lord, what else is there in life outside of you? Who else is there to go to?  Lord, you have the words of eternal life....thank you for sharing them with us!" (John 6:68)

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

-Reid     

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