In this day and age, when people fly off the handle into angry rages at the slightest annoyance or inconvenience.
People seem to "see red" easily and all the time!
Well, I want to see red everyday!
The words of Christ written in red!
I realized that if that is how we all "saw red" every day....we wouldn't be "seeing red" when things go wrong, or not our way.
📖 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ” Matthew 4:4
📖 “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Luke 6:37-38
📖 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:37-40
Jesus even has words about "seeing red"
📖Anger
You know our ancestors were told, “Do not murder” and “A murderer must be brought to trial.” But I promise you if you are angry with someone, you will have to stand trial. If you call someone a fool, you will be taken to court. And if you say that someone is worthless, you will be in danger of the fires of hell. So if you are about to place your gift on the altar and remember that someone is angry with you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. Make peace with that person, then come back and offer your gift to God. Matthew 5:21-24 (CEV)
📖 If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you. Luke 6:29-31
📖 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. Matthew 6:14-15
Jesus came to this earth, to walk as a man ..so that we would have an example, a teacher to follow, He dealt with the same things we deal with. God could have just continued meeting on mountain tops or burning bushes etc. But there was a plan to save us from our own self-destruction and punishment for our sin.
Jesus's example included His punishment, persecution, and death as a criminal.
Which all culminated in the one act that sets His life and death apart from all others. He rose three days later, as a form that could walk and talk and be touched, as well as sit and eat with those who loved Him. But He also had all of the heavenly power to walk through walls and doors, to ascend into heaven.
While Jesus was being beaten and tortured for our sins, He did not get angry...He did not "see red" instead He spoke words worthy to be written in read.
📖 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up his clothes by casting lots. Luke 23:34
When He was hanging on the cross in the last moments of His life, STILL being ridiculed, He didn't get angry, again He spoke words that would some day be written in red!
📖 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!” But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.” Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom” Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” Luke 23:39-43
When He rose He could have been indignant when the disciples were hiding and Thomas was doubting, but no..
📖 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.” Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” John 20:19-29
If you have access to a "red letter" Bible read what you can of His words!
If you don't it is a great exercise to read through the gospels and highlight or under line all of Christ's words in red.
When Louis Klopsch thought that it would be a good idea to publish bibles this way, it was because he believed in the importance of Christ's words.
"The idea for the red letters in Bibles is attributed to Louis Klopsch, owner and editor of Christian Herald magazine. On June 19, 1899, Klopsch was writing an editorial for the magazine when he read Luke 22:20, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.”
Klopsch realized these were the words of Jesus at the Last Supper when our Lord instituted the observance of Communion. And knowing that blood is red, he asked himself, “Why not a red letter Bible with red words to be those of Jesus?” After encouragement from his minister, Klopsch sought the help of eminent Bible scholars from America and Europe to submit passages that should be written in red. In the November 1901 issue of the Christian Herald, a large advertisement offered red letter Bibles to readers. The first printing, on his own press, numbered 60,000 copies. These quickly sold, and the presses had to run “day and night to supply the demand.”
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All the words in the Holy Bible are important!
📖 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17
Every word is important in our walk, but sometimes it is nice to easily see the teachings of Christ, easy to see what He had to say, easier to See Red"!
🙏My prayer is that you choose to see red every day! Not the anger but see what Christ has for you in His words and BELIEVE.❤️
Go ahead and watch and listen
