Ten Word Wednesday 7

One actually has to be pretty old to remember these.

May This Bird of Paradise

Brighten Your Day.

Judge Jesus

In John chapter five we read

²² For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son:
²³ That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent him.
²⁴ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
²⁵ Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself; so has he given to the Son to have life in himself;
²⁷ And has given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
²⁸ Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
²⁹ And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
³⁰ I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which has sent me.

Herein Jesus established the fact that all judgment is given by the Father to him.  It is Jesus and Jesus alone who determines an individual's fitness for eternal life, or if he be condemned.

The escape from condemnation is simple and clearly stated by the Master in verse twenty-four:  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. --John 5:24

Do not allow yourself to be one who hears these words from Christ the Judge:   Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:---Matt. 25:41

 Sunset 

April 2 

April Showers

Sweet April showers
Do spring May flowers

--Thomas Tusser 1557  

                         Good Points of Husbandry

Or as we always said, "April showers bring May flowers."

As I was thinking of wishing you a pleasant April to come, this and the succeeding twenty-nine days, I recalled a little song we sang when I was in elementary school.  Why we were taught such things, I cannot fathom, but there it is, stuck in my mind.



Rosy Betsy, blue eyed Molly, Molly
April is the time for folly, folly
Blackbird's shouts ring round and round
While Jenny Wren is building in the Willow.

Put off your cloaks of grey and brown 
Run in you green shoes out of town
Run in the meadow up and down
While Jenny Wren is building in the Meadow.

 What nonsense that you learned in school is still stuck in your head?

May your flowers be bright and your feet be dry.  Happy April Days!