La entrada triunfal de Jesús en Jerusalén (véase también Marcos 11: 1-10; Lucas 19: 28-40; Juan 12: 12-19). Jesús envió a dos discípulos, diciendo: "Entra en el pueblo que está enfrente de ti, y encontrarás un burro atado y un potro con ella. Desátalos y tráemelos. Si alguien te dice algo, dirás , 'El Señor los necesita' e inmediatamente los enviará ".
Jacob, son of Isaac was the sort of character that companies would love to have as one of their top executives. Energetic. Lots of initiative. Aggressive. Few scruples. Not one to take “No” for an answer.
Trouble comes. I’ve seen bumper stickers with the same idea but a much cruder phrase. Whatever our preparations, trouble will come, often when we least expect it. People of an earlier generation often made plans and added two letters, d.v. – deo volente, God willing.
La parábola de los trabajadores en la viña. "El maestro respondió: 'Amigo, no te estoy haciendo mal. ¿No estuviste de acuerdo conmigo en un denario? Toma lo que es tuyo y sigue tu camino. Deseo dar a este último tanto como a ti. ¿No me es lícito hacer lo que quiero con lo que tengo? ¿O tu ojo es malvado porque soy bueno? Así que el último será el primero, y el primero el último. Para muchos se llaman, pero se eligen pocos ".
Sometimes life throws us curve balls that we had not been expecting, and when that happens, whew, we know for sure that our parents were right. Life is not fair at all.
The woman replied, “my husband ran off with his floozy secretary. He didn’t want anything from our marriage – I could keep everything but the Corvette. He wanted me to sell that and send him the money. Which is precisely what I am doing. $100.”
Perdona 70 x 7 (18: 21-22). La parábola del siervo implacable (18: 23-35). Pedro dijo: "Señor, ¿con qué frecuencia pecará mi hermano contra mí y lo perdonaré? ¿Hasta siete veces?" Jesús le dijo: "No te digo hasta siete veces, sino hasta setenta veces siete".
I am surprised when God makes a covenant with Jacob, because Jacob is pretty much a scoundrel. But God didn’t rebuke Jacob. He didn’t tell him to mend his ways. He simply began to promise him blessings.
"Si tu hermano peca contra ti, ve y muéstrale su culpa entre tú y él solo. Si él te escucha, has recuperado a tu hermano. Pero si él no escucha, llévate uno o dos más, eso ante la boca de dos o tres testigos se puede establecer cada palabra. Si se niega a escucharlos, díselo a la asamblea."
Jacob’s elevator went all the way to the top. It appeared to him in a dream. What he saw was not really a ladder but a ziggurat, a large stairway extending into the heavens. For Jacob the stairway symbolized the presence of God, hope for the future, and that life would be a slow, hard, climb.