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Evening Thunderstorm by Evgeny Salnikov

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by Joshua Williams

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by Samuel Millan Jimenez

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For the New Year, 1981 - Denise Levertov

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Why did Jesus put mud in that guy's eyes?

You may wonder why Jesus would heal this particular man using dirt and spit, when as God he can clearly do miracles without the aid of any substance, and all his other recorded miracles were done without this process.

However, if you know the Bible it is possible to work out what this symbolises. This was a man born blind. When Jesus uses dirt here, he is making a symbolic reference to the creation of man out of dirt in the Garden of Eden. Jesus here proclaims himself as Yahweh, the God who made man out of dirt, by creating for a man this new part of his body which he never before had - unlike other healing miracles in which that person was somehow sickened, this one clearly symbolizes not mere restoration but a totally new creation. Therefore taking the water from his own body and the earth out of which man was originally made, Jesus shows himself to be the Creator by creating in the way that only God can, to give a man the new ability to see which he never before had, which symbolizes the creation of the new man at the rebirth of the believer, which is a work of God.

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The Agony in the Garden by Gustave Doré

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“My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.”

— Matt Chandler

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Matthew 28:6

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"you are enough" no. no we are not. none of us are enough. we are only enough by God's grace. Christ died for us, and considered us worth it, though. while we were yet sinners he died for us! he didn't wait until we were perfect to die for us. he made us perfect by dying for us. we're not enough, he makes us enough.

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