From: "Phil Rembleski" <PHIl@rescuechurchofchrist.org>
To: "1111RESCUEMEMBERS"
Sent: Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 6:22 AM
Subject: 7-27-21 THOUGHTS
7-27-21 THOUGHTS
Gal 4:4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
After all of history, and God’s guiding history for his own purposes,
the TIME CAME, IN HIS MIND, TO BRING MESSIAH!
A Quote... "Hamlet's BlackBerry" by William Powers... in a chapter on Seneca, finds timeless advice. “Lucius Annaeus Seneca was born at the time of Christ in Cordoba, Spain, an outpost of the Roman Empire... Seneca thought the great job of philosophy was to offer people practical advice on how to live more deeply and constructively. He came of age in a time of tumult; the Rome he lived in was being transformed by a new connectedness. An empire that stretched over millions of square miles was being connected by new roads, a civil service, an extensive postal system. And there was the rise of written communication. Writing, says Mr. Powers, was a huge part of the everyday lives of literate Romans: "Postal deliveries were important events, as urgently monitored as e-mail is today." Seneca himself wrote of his neighbors hurrying "from all directions" to meet the latest mail boats from Egypt.
As written language began to drive things, Mr. Powers says, "the busy Roman was constantly navigating crowds—not just the physical ones that filled the streets and amphitheaters but the virtual crowd of the larger empire and the torrents of information it produced." [August 20, 2010 article by Peggy Noonan in the The Wall Street Journal]
Part of “the fulness of times” was that information could now, more than ever, be moved to all corners of the earth. THE GOOD NEWS COULD BE SPREAD WITH EASE!
Listen to “THE KIND INTENTION OF HIS WILL!”
Eph 1:5-11 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight 9 He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him 10 with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him 11 also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,
My Prayer:
O God, thank you for your kind intention toward us from the beginning. Your love, and grace, and mercy have been lavished upon us with might and power. We thank you, and praise you. You have blessed us beyond our imagination, beyond our capacity to comprehend. We bless your great name O Lord. In Jesus name Amen