I have deliberately kept each contemplation relatively brief so that you can chew on it for awhile —and so that you aren’t bewildered and befuddled by too much to think on at once.
I have given you the choice of reading or listening to each contemplation; or you may even do both at once. You may do this directly on the website, but you also have the option to print and/or download each contemplation for use when you are not connected to the internet.
So that you won’t have to necessarily read this with Bible in hand or always referring to footnotes, I have included my Scriptural references in the text. But I know that can be a bit distracting when you just want to get the feel of what is being said. Except in cases where they must be read to get the sense of the text, I have used a grayish background color so that you can readily skip over them if you wish.
I am giving particular attention to the life and sayings of Jesus and have therefore kept His words in red. All these contemplations are based on the premise that because mankind was in such gross darkness, God descended and came into the world in which we live in the form of Jesus to bring to us the truth about Himself and about us and the nature of our relationship.
There are many other wonderful teachers of truth; but Jesus is the only one who conquered death —the only one who said that He could lay His earthly life (body) down and take it up again (John 2:19-21 (KJV) Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body. John 10:18 (KJV) No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.), the only one who took his bones with Him and also brought them back again (Luke 24:39 (KJV) Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have). Jesus, therefore, has the last word on any subject.
Colossians 1:18 (KJV) And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.