Happy – Three Minute Bible

I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am who I am.

Imagine that you have the ability to tell the future. By closing your eyes and concentrating on a question about the future, the answer comes to you. And it is always right. How would you use this power?

Some might use it to build a fortune in the stock market. Others might use the power for political gain. Still, others might want to impress their friends. But how would you do that?

If you wanted to convince people that you could predict the future the obvious thing to do is tell people what will happen tomorrow. When it happens as you predict, people will say … what?

Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

Cool! Okay, Jesus. I think I understand. Forgive people as you forgive us. (Even enemies!) Serve others in personal ways that glorify God. We disciples are not greater than our teacher.

Then Jesus adds, “you will be blessed if you do them.”

Sometimes things become so common that we lose sight of them. Have you ever noticed that? We have a grandfather clock in our house that BONGS on the hour and chimes on the quarter hour. If you have never heard it before it is quite noticeable. After hearing it for months it starts to fade into the background. Lately, after years of having the clock in the house, it has become invisible to me. Even trying to listen for it to chime is hard. I almost never hear it.

Then recently we had the clock mechanism serviced. It was taken out of the cabinet and moved to the clock shop where it waited its turn to be cleaned and serviced. Good clockmakers are hard to find so it had to wait several weeks before he even started working on it.

Do you know what happened?

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Convinced – John 13: 19

Blessed – John 13: 17