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MONDAY THOUGHT 2/15/10

February 15, 2010 on 12:37 pm | By John Ingrisano | In Faith & Forgiveness | No Comments

Why I Can’t Do Miracles

Christ could cure diseases, break a loaf of bread and feed thousands, drive out demons and forgive sins.  He asked nothing in return.  I don’t think he ever made a buck or got carried around in a four-slave sedan chair.    

If I had those powers, I’d have the cure for cancer named after me, take a dollar bill and make myself a super-billionaire, marshal those demons – and everyone else – into a cult of adoring followers, and make sure everyone knew I held the power to decide everyone’s fate. 

My point:  Not that I’m so darn human, but that Christ is so darn incredible for not doing any of those things.  Instead, asking nothing in return, he allowed Himself to be humiliated, tortured and murdered, and all for our sakes.  That’s a God and a man I can admire. – jri

“Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus

            Who, being in very nature God,

                        did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

             but made himself nothing,

                        taking the very nature of a servant,

                        being made in human likeness.”

                                               -         St. Peter

                                                         Philippians 2:5-7

 

Please pray for all who struggle and suffer in this world, for those who would gladly trade their abject miseries for our minor discomforts.  God bless.

John Ingrisano

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February 15, 2010