19 Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. [d] I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. 20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. 21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year." 22 When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.
Getting down a couple tools to work on the Harley I thought..
'and there's the ‘fork’ in the road..'
I put the wrench on the filter,
thinking of Gods Love, caring for Ishmael.
.
( hmm..and a whole mess of gentiles.)
and it is always Gods will...
... even that One died for all our sins.'
36"Abba,[a] Father," he said, "everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will."
how by yielding to Gods will, the fork in the road came back together in One..
..how Jesus became Ishmaels' descendants'...(and our) ultimate 'Filter'
well, those thoughts lasted for a moment..and I found myself in a familiar situation…
another 'mess' in the garage.
so.. I pass along this 'insight'...
'removing an oil filter, while looking out the garage door thinking about Ishmael..
is not the best reciepe for hitting the catch pan with the waste oil..'
the waste oil, dark with disposits, now draining into the repositioned catch pan...
...I looked at what I caught on my hands and thought..
sin.
if it was this clear to everyone...our sin...just dripping off our hands..maybe..
our need of an ultimate 'Filter' would be more ...tangible..
I rolled my hand over, and regarded the contaminated oil..and thought…
if our need was this evident ..and someone brought me the News of a Filter that IS the only one I will ever need..
..One that would that will take all of that filth, and purify my oil..forever..
...yeah, it would be hard to imagine...and sure.. to want it, it helps to know about your own dirty oil..
but... just how quickly I would accept it ..this 'Filter'..
would not be because of the idea of it ....but the evidence.. of the Filter.
in the ‘messengers’ own pure oil.
As we Go, knowing a Filter that is just to unbelievable to be true.. remember..
Prayer....is everything… in ‘seeking‘ that it is His will to be done.
38Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest
for it is only He that gives the Gift. this 'Filter'
how that with Him..it is Today.
but without Him.. it is just someday.
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