WOYWW: FEARLESS!

 From this picture...

to this!

I needed to draw Jesus as the Good Shepherd,

and I replaced the lady with a sheep.

 After all, we are all sheep!

  If we would like to be FEARLESS

then we would have to meditate, chew on,

read again and again and yet again, Psalm 23.

How can we fear anything at all,

if we know, absolutely know

from the bottom of our being

that the Creator of the Universe has our back?

"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall NOT want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: 

he LEADETH me beside the still waters.

He RESTORETH my soul: 

he leadeth me in the paths of 

righteousness for his name's sake.

Yea,THOUGH  I walk through 

the valley of the shadow of death, 

I will FEAR NO EVIL: 

for thou art WITH me; 

thy rod and thy staff they COMFORT me.

Thou PREPAREST a table before me 

in the presence of mine enemies: 

thou ANOINTEST my head with oil; 

my cup RUNNETH OVER.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me 

ALL the days of my life: 

and I will DWELL in the house of the Lord for ever."

 "It is easier for a camel to pass through 

the eye of the needle than for one who is rich 

to enter the kingdom of God." Matthew 19:24

There is an urban legend (which I wish were true) 

that this is about a small gate in Jerusalem 

called the "Needle's Eye" at the time of Jesus. 

It is so small that if a man on a camel 

were to pass through, 

he would have to get down, 

remove all the baggage from the camel 

and drag the camel through, 

kneeling on its haunches. 

So for a rich man to enter heaven, 

he would have to divest himself of his earthly goods, 

and kneel humbly before God.
But there is no such gate in Jerusalem 

in Jesus' time and so Jesus did not mean this.

He literally meant it was impossible 

for a rich man to get to heaven on his own merit. 

Wealth was a sign of God's favor in Jesus' time, 

and even today. 

So the disciples were astonished, bewildered, 

exceedingly amazed, dumbfounded, 

when Jesus flat out said that the wealthy had 

no chance, zilch, of going to heaven. 

"So who can be saved?" they asked.

Jesus then says it is impossible for men.

 It is not only impossible for the rich, 

but also for the poor. It is impossible for any one. 

Because we would have to give up not only our wealth, 

but also our children, our parents, our spouses, 

our lands, our work. Everything. 

We would have to put God first.

But Jesus does not leave us without hope. 

He said- "With God ALL things are possible." 

 In Ephesians 2:8 we read, "For by grace you 

have been saved through faith. 

And this not of your own doing, 

it is the GIFT OF GOD!" 

Whew!!!! See you in heaven!

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