Ember G Writes

Hello again, I hope you have had a good day/afternoon/evening, whatever the time zone is for you. In my last post I spoke about my mental burn out/health. Let’s just say I haven’t had a good week, things in work have been crazy and I have been completely exhausted.

Maybe I’m being overly sensitive because it’s almost Christmas and I’m tired or maybe because of what I am working through in therapy, you know making my triggers more visible? Anyway, I have started to spiral a little bit and so I haven’t been in work for a couple of days. I’m feeling a bit up and down, I’m anxious about letting people down so I haven’t managed to make myself go in to work due to worrying about doing something wrong or letting people down.

I keep thinking that I am going to be back out of a job or work. It’s only a matter of time, right?

Be positive, stop worrying, that won’t happen. These are the things I keep being told but I can’t just turn off the anxious thoughts at the minute. BUT I have been really delving into my Bible again, I mean like really being IN the word.

A couple weeks back my church had there 100 year jubilee, I know, incredible right? 100 Years! There was a guest speaker who used to come to my church before he moved, let me tell you, the man knows how to preach! I made so many notes, like 5 pages.

His preach was talking about the good Samaritan, now most people of heard the story but if you haven’t you can find it in Luke 10:25-37 of the Bible. He (the preacher) made so many points about how we can misinterpret the story, even the obvious bits. In context, the Samaritans where a really hated group of people amongst the Jews/Israelites, like detested.

Yet, Jesus made the Samaritan the “hero” of the story if you will.

You know who became more hated than the Samaritans? Jesus. He came to replace the Priests (descendants of the 12 tribes of Israel aka the leaders) He came to replace the Levites (descendants of the tribe of Levi who where head worshippers aka worship leaders) and he became the Samaritan, the most hated. When I processed that, my brain kind of imploded. I have never read that story with that lens.

When Jesus talks about how “the priest and Levite crossed over to the other side of the road” well, I was thinking of you know a dusty path on flat ground, BUT In Luke 10:30, it says “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho”. If you google The Jericho Road, the route it is a literal cliffs edge. So essentially, Jesus made the first why did the chicken cross the road joke.

It was supposed to be a comedic tale, but it had a hard and deep meaning behind it. There was multiple different scriptures used in the preach, including Ephesians, which is a letter written by Paul while imprisoned (you know, in jail) anyway it is written to the church in Ephesus (modern-day Turkey).

I started re-reading Ephesians with a different lens and understanding. Reading it-while also reminding myself Paul was in prison but writing so much encouragement and instruction to people elsewhere. He didn’t know if it would be his last letter or if it would be the first of many (four in total). I studied the letter and annotated, explored – even googled.

Paul never gave up sharing his faith, trusting in God or sharing truth. I then started on Philippians (a letter written to Philippi, which is modern day North Macedonia) in my Bible, it has little sections of study and I read this one line of it and I cannot stop thinking about it, so I am sharing it!

It says “In Christ, I have all I need. And, friends, so do you.”

It is based on what Paul says in different words in Philippians 4:10-23. I absolutely love it. What a way to speak into someone’s life? I highly doubt Paul knew that his words would be written in a book for all eternity and for thousands of generations later, or even the fact that the simple phrase is so easy to apply to the everyday. Even thousands of years later, but you know who did?

God.

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