SIFTING ANYONE?
Luke 22:31-32
31 "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat; 32 but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned again, strengthen your brothers." NASU
** satan wants to sift each one of us as wheat! Here Jesus tells Peter that he will fall under the pressure of satan’s sifting basically saying that not only has satan demanded permission but that God has given him this permission because He says that “after you have turned again (repented), strengthen your brothers.” So we know that if we fall we should use that fall to strengthen others that could be going thru difficult temptations and trials. The greatest thing is to know that Jesus is praying for each one of us that “our faith may not fail.” I love Him so much! He has done great things for us, He has done great things for ME!
posted by Dave McAlister @ 8:17 AM
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Thanks P.D. - I needed to hear this today as I have been in quandry about whether or not to call someone to encourage them. I will make that call in a few.
Last night there was a discussion at Uturn about Moses and whether he knew all along he was a Hebrew and why did he pick a particular time to kill the Egyptian who was harassing his brethren. I went home and thought about it and remembered reading that Moses's father and mother were both from the tribe of Levi. Of course the tribe of Levi had not yet been chosen by God to be priests, but perhaps his parents were god fearing. Also, his mother nursed him for Pharoah's daughter (after she found him in the basket), so my thoughts are that his mother had several years to instill compassion and mercy for others, which are things he may not have had instilled in him otherwise if he had been completely raised in the Pharoah's household. And that made me remember Proverb 22:6 "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."
What Moses learned from his mother while he was very young (caring about others), stayed with him and when he was grown these things manifested.
Hmmmm?
Have a great day!
Roxanne
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