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John 12:23-28 (from the New King James Version)
23 But Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified. 24 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. 25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.
27 “Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify Your name.”
Then a voice came from heaven, saying, “I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.”
The verse that stands out in this passage is John 12:24: “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.” Jesus, the Son of God, came to this earth so He could die. Likewise, whenever someone dies, they have a legacy that follows them. The seeds they’ve sown in their lifetime bear fruit on and on long after their gone. I mentioned Keith Green and shared a song of his in my last post. Keith Green’s headstone at his burial site has this verse engraved upon it. His legacy certainly lives on and continues, 27 yrs after his death, to stir up the fire within people’s hearts to serve God with their whole being. I feel this was not a coincidence that I was reminded again of Keith Green’s music, tragic death, and legacy just within the last 2-3 weeks. Last night a young man my husband and I knew got shot in the head during a robbery attempt. He died this morning. He was a Christian, and he was only 22 years old. He touched the lives of a lot of people, sowing seeds so to speak. Pray that those seeds will grow and bring forth much fruit (grain), and that what the enemy meant for evil, God will use for good.
I’m going to end this post with these passages:
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
Romans 8:35-39
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:
“ For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Lately I’ve been reminded of who I am in Christ and of His love for me. I feel I must share this song with everyone.
I’ve been weary with daily life and the things of this world for several years, I’ve even dealt with depression, but over the last few days I’ve been listening to the music of Keith Green again for the first time in about 6 or 7 years. Once again I felt the Holy Spirit literally pouring out of the speakers, and the tough layers of skin, like bark, are starting to peel away from my heart. I will post more about what I’ve been going through in recent years when I feel ready, but for now, be blessed with this song. Keith Green made this demo shortly before his very untimely death in 1982 and it was never recorded in the studio. It made its way onto a video called First Love: A Historic Gathering of Jesus Music Pioneers that was a reunion of 1970s Jesus Music artists - they were the earliest players of contemporary Christian music.
Finally, 5-1/2 weeks after the power supply failed on my iMac G5 *again*, and almost a month after I sent in a defective power supply for a warranty replacement, I received the new part today and I’m happily working on my iMac G5 again. Due to poor communication on the part of the company I purchased the power supply from, I will no longer be doing business with them (my husband and I have purchased Mac parts from them several times for clients as well as ourselves). So we have to find another supplier of new parts for out-of-warranty Macs. Oh well. But I’m very happy to have my iMac back up and running, because that lil’ ‘ol G4 iMac is getting rather long in the tooth and it was neither powerful nor fast enough for me to efficiently get my work done.
Someone sent a link to this video via a homeschoolers’ list I subscribe to. This is an interesting role reversal. I’m not sure if I should laugh or cry at this one. Listen carefully to what the kids are saying about their parents.
Unfortunately Wordbook does NOT work in Facebook like I expected it to. It only posts a link to new posts to my wall and doesn’t display my feed in Boxes like the author said it’s supposed to. So I installed WPBook by John Eckman of Open Parenthesis instead. This plugin mirrors the most recent posts of my blog to Facebook and comments can be left from within FB and they also post to my blog site. This is just what I was looking for! WPBook by default shows the last 5 posts in their entirety and links the 10 most recent posts. I edited some of the plugin’s .php files to set my list of recent posts in Wordpress to the max of 15. I wish this plugin could show 50+ items like FB’s Notes does but WPBook is much better because users within FB can see my posts in their entirety and comment within FB and it’s like commenting on www.melodieshouse.com. You can also link to related posts, even if they’re old, and WPBook shows them in FB. I give WPBook a hearty thumbs up.
However, there’s a couple of things I’d like to see WPBook do in future updates. 1st, I’d like to see it post an update to the home page and wall whenever a new post is added. 2nd, I’d like to see the ability to view blog posts from a tab within my profile. Mr. Eckman, did you get that?
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“…unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone”
that was a reunion of 1970s Jesus Music artists - they were the earliest players of contemporary Christian music.
