Blessed are you God creator of the world! I am reading a book right now, "Sitting at the feet of Rabbi Jesus", and it has really challenged me to see Jesus as he was as a first century Jew. Its hard sometimes to get past the very long haired Jesus with a lamb on his shoulders always smiling, or the picture of him being crucified. Many artists rendering of what Jesus looked like are what we have in our minds instead of really painting the picture of who He was and is (The son of the one and only God). Granted I am not saying that He was not happy or did not smile, and I am definitely not negating the cross and what He did through the cross. Only that it is amazing to dig into His history and see some of the things that were common in His time, the traditions that He actually was a part of. I would strongly recommend the book to anyone that is interested in learning more about His roots and His upbringing and about the culture that He was born in. One thing I really learned about was blessing and how Jews were raised up learning about blessing (thanksgiving) and would give thanks in the smallest of things to God. Here is an example: They would give a blessing to God for waking them with the crow of a rooster because he gave the rooster the ability to differentiate day from night, or when they would open there eyes in the morning because He has given site to the blind. So it is very interesting to look at what Paul was saying in many of His letters when he says, give thanks in everything (He was raised up Jewish and that would have been part of His daily life, but greater than that is that He was a disciple of Jesus Christ and followed after His teaching and how he lived His life (always giving thanks to the Father). Blessed are You Lord for you Have the Words of Life!
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