Feb 21 - NO BACON!

Thank you Jesus, if for nothing else, for making it OK for us to eat Bacon!:) OK I appreciate the fact that I don't need to do all those different sacrifices and live by old testament laws, that I'm saved and am heading to Heaven for all eternity as well but would NOT enjoy my short time here on earth if I couldn't have Bacon a staple diet product at Deer Camp! In the old testament the Lord was handing down the laws to Moses for the people about which animals could be eaten, including locusts, crickets and grasshoppers.....yuck.....but not Pigs. The pig has evenly split hooves but does not chew the cud, so it is unclean therefore not OK to eat.

The Lord says "For I, the Lord, am the one who brought you up from the land of Egypt, that I might be your God. Therefore, you must be holy because I am holy."

"These are the instructions regarding land animals, birds, marine creatures, and animals that scurry along the ground. By these instructions you will know what is unclean and clean, and which animals may be eaten and which may not be eaten." There were a lot of them so if your into having a Camel sandwich with a side of seagull with some Gecko for dessert....have at it! I'm just going to stick with the bacon:)

In the new testament today, Jesus goes back to the other side of the lake where the large crowd had gathered and a leader of the local synagogue pleaded with Jesus to come lay his hands on his dying daughter and make her well. Jesus went with him and all the people followed all crowded around him when a lady that had been bleeding for 12 years touched his robe and was immediately healed. Jesus realized that healing power had gone out from him so he asked "Who touched my robe?" His disciples asked "Look at this crowd pressing around you. How can you ask, 'Who touched me?'"
The frightened woman, fell to his feet and told him what she had done "If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed." he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over." So there's one big miracle Jesus performs just through the girls faith!

Jesus finally gets to the house the girl was laying lifeless (she died before they arrived) he's brought only Peter, James, and John with him. He saw much commotion and weeping in the house. Jesus says "Why all this commotion and weeping? The child isn't dead; she's only asleep." The crowd laughed at him so he kicks them out. He tells the girl "Little girl, get up!" and she gets up and walks around! The family is totally amazed.....as they should be. I've never experienced a miracle of such magnitude directly in my life, but by what Stovall just went through last week with his heart and Josh's daughter Riley who wasn't suppose to live just turned two! God's miracles are all around us we just need to be willing realize that's what they are and not try to explain them off as something else! Yes bad happens too, we can't see or understand God's master plan, does that make His miracles any less incredible?? I don't think so....well, at least, That's the way I see it...