Refreshing Our Spirits With Scripture

5.9- Jesus loved people and that is why He pushed evil away from them.   There is evil that seems so pure and arrogant, conceited and self-righteous. Jesus didn’t see “us” versus “them”.   He saw each individual.   We labed.   Vikings or Victims.   Whore, sluts or princess.   Numbskulls and nincompoops. Nerds or jocks.   It’s simply a labeling process for too many of us.   Not Jesus. Luke 18. 9  And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt: 10  “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11  The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12  I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’ 13  But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast

5,8- School is not just sitting in front of a video screen.   School is the social relationship with respected, knowledge and wisdom filled adults and joyful co-learners whether peers or adults.   In school we meet new people with new ideas very different from our family and this opens up new ways of thinking and new ways of living a better life. Jesus is the ultimate teacher.   He moved about and his “rounds” included exposure to all kinds of dangers, not isolation from danger.   His way of life and healing and teaching pleased the Father in heaven. Mark 1. 16  As He was going along by the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net in the sea; for they were fishermen. 17  And Jesus said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” 18  Immediately they left their nets and followed Him. 19  Going on a little farther, He saw [ l ] James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were also in the boat mending the