Day: June 6, 2019

A thoughtful answer

~ osasuoviawe

A thoughtful answer is seen as an unintelligent or an untrue answer.

When an individual is asked a question, she is expected to respond immediately; as a sign of intelligence or a proof that what they are saying is true.

The Amygdala rules supreme.

Ignore the rule at your own peril, except of course, like some, you thrive in all times (including perilous times).

Or let us change this rule together. Get comfortable with a pause before a reply. Whether that pause is yours or from others.

Think about what you say, before (not after) you say it.

– Osasu Oviawe

The sacrifice and our belief

~ osasuoviawe

John 17:20-26
“I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
The glory which thou hast given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and thou in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them even as thou hast loved me.
Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me in thy love for me before the foundation of the world.
O righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee; and these know that thou hast sent me.
I made known to them thy name, and I will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

Homily:

The intercessory prayer of Jesus above, is to bring the words of John 3:16 to life.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life”

His sacrifice alone will not save us, we must also believe in the sacrifice.