New & Old Treasure. Julie Teariki-Tautea
he got nearby, he viewed the city and wept over it, saying: “If you even you had discerned on this day the things having to do with peace but now they have been hidden from your eyes. Because the days will come upon you when your enemies will build around you and fortification of pointed stakes and will encircle you and besiege you from every side. They will dash you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave a stone upon a stone in you because you did not discern the time of your being inspected.” Luke. 19. 41-44.
And taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to feel grieved and was troubled. Matthew. 26. 37. After looking around at them with indignation being thoroughly grieved at the insensibility of their hearts he said to the man: “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out and his hand was restored. Mark. 3. 5. So, he sighed deeply in his spirit and said: “Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly I say no sign will be given to this generation. Mark. 8. 12.
When Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her weeping he groaned within himself and become troubled. John. 11. 33. Then Jesus after groaning again within himself came to the tomb. It was a cave and a stone was lying against it. John. 11. 38.
They now came to Jerusalem. There he entered the temple and started to throw out those selling and buying in the temple and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the benches of those selling doves, and he would not let anyone carry a utensil through the temple. Mark 11: 15.
Jesus had an emotional rage of anger for doing the wrong things at the temple. Temples are not places to sell goods for material gain. He was angry for the right reason and that the temple was meant to be a temple of worship. Contemplating the emotional experiences of Jesus can help us understand how much he can relate to our emotional turmoil. “ For we do not have high priests who cannot sympathies with our weaknesses but we have one who has been tested in all respects, as we have but without sin, Hebrews. 4. 15. In times of our emotional suffering, our Lord will give us time to come to terms with all our emotional grief, and through his Holy Spirit and words, he will pull us through. We should have spent time with him in prayer, reading his words of encouragement to give us insight into a positive strength.
God’s Plan for Painful- “Emotion:”
The world seems full of joy. Not for all and even Godly and Christ believers we strive and hope for the best with one another or with the LORD and Christ Jesus as our source of faith and hope. We see the unfairness of the rich and powerful people who are enjoying every wicked deed they do, and amid all course.
God also intervene and put some rich and powerful people to fight the wicked ruler. Besides rich and powerful people appearances often are deceiving. We tend to think they are living a good happy and successful life than those of us living a low life or grassroots class, we may think that we are not successful and happy; the rich are the ones we should be looking up to but honestly, it may not be it. Wherever we are we must make use of the best of it, be the high or low life we must strive to make it even in life and leave another day.
Jesus said: Most truly I say to you, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be grieved but your grief will be turned into joy. When a woman is giving birth, she has grief because her hour has come but when she has given birth to the child she remembers the tribulation no more, because of the joy that a man has been born into the world. So, you also now you have grief: but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will question at all.
Most truly I say to you if you ask the Father for anything, he will give it to you in my name. Until now you have not asked for a single thing in my name. Ask and you will receive so that your joy may be complete. John. 16.20-24. What Jesus meant was that every grief and sorrow will pass away, and joy will come, therefore you should know that your sorrow and grief will not only pass away in time, but it will give way to joy. You shouldn’t hold on to grief and sorrow and depression of life for, so long.
Jesus was going to be crucified and nailed on the stake and he knows the pain of losing a loved one and someone closer to them. At the end of his conversation, he reaffirms them to ask for help by praying to the father, so that their joy may be complete. In other words, allow enough time for your grief and sorrow to pass away, and it’s okay to reflect with wishful thoughts and remembrance; but don’t hold on to painful hurts for too long, it has a side effect of reactions, attitudes or behavioral impact; or it could become the psychotherapists work to painstakingly remove the effects of the past pain. Jesus is saying:
For instance, if asking in Jesus' name for peace, joy, and strength, no one will take his promise of peace, love, joy, and strength away from you that is a promise. Jesus reaffirming, and instructing his promising words has helped me a lot in my journey.
Now and then, I would come across those painful moments or seasons of life, losing a loved one and close family and friends. I allow the adversaries of life’s moment to pass by me, it may take days, weeks, or months and then I pray LORD’ help me with your strength and love to carry on in Jesus Christ's name.
When we are in that season of adversaries everything stops your normal daily routine or schedules changes, bible reading, praying and going to church or other social activities becomes weak, your family and friends will be there to carry you through but only for a short time, they will by now all move on with their lifestyles and responsibilities, so as individuals we must pick up from where we left off with our normal daily routine. Through all our negative emotions God will compensate us with positive emotion for our grief to change into rejoicing.
The mixed emotional experience of Mary Magdalene and the other Mary, who went to the tomb of Jesus with grief and sorrowful emotion, but what happens next in the tomb brought fear and confusion but in the end, they joyfully ran outside.
The Angel of the Lord meat them and said to them; do not be afraid! With that their reaction as follows: “So quickly leaving the memorial tomb, with delightfulness and great joy, they ran to report to his disciples. Matthew. 28. 8. Firstly, they were walking with sorrow and sadness because going to a tomb is not a happy moment. Secondly, they were afraid because they thought they saw a ghost, imagine after death their reaction was fear, thirdly after the Angel spoke to them they ran out with joy, that Jesus is alive as said he would be. Read another example of how the LORD turns sadness into Joy.
The Jewish communities celebrating Purim: To commemorate and remember the time of sorrow turned into joy: “Because on those days the Jews rested from their enemies, but their grief was changed to rejoicing and their mourning to a day of celebration. They were to observe them as days of feasting and rejoicing and as a time to send portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor.” Esther. 9. 22.
CHAPTER TWO
Anxiety:
Anxieties are feelings of worry or worrying about something, it's a strong wish to do something or an extreme apprehension. The bible contains scriptural words such as fear, afraid, anxieties, anxious, fret, frightened, and terrified.
Divine provision for Anxiety: “All of these words have been part of human existence since sin entered the world through Adam.” The following reading from Genesis: Relating to afraid, fear, and anxiety “Consequently the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was something desirable to the eyes, yes the tree was pleasing to look at. So, she began taking of its fruit and eating it. Afterward, she also gave some to her husband when he was with her and he began eating it.
Then the eyes of both were opened and they realized that they were naked. So, they sewed fig leaves together and made loin coverings for themselves. Next, they heard the voice of Jehovah God as he was walking in the garden about the breezy part of the day, and the man and his wife hid from the face of Jehovah God among the trees of the garden. And Jehovah God kept calling to the man and saying to him: “Where are you?” Finally, he said: “I heard your voice in the garden, but I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” Genesis. 3: 6-10. The first reaction was out of fear that made them hide from God by covering themselves with leaves. God is almighty and powerful to see through their fear and hiding place.
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