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Gerry Gutierrez' Update
Food for Sunday in case you are not fed from the Pulpit. “Blessed eyes.” What good are the eyes if you cannot see with them? Jesus who said, “In secret have I done nothing,” speaks
openly about the secrets things of God that belongs to God only but
the Son reveals it to the child like in heart and to their children and their
children’s children so they might walk in the light of what their blessed
eyes have seen and their ears have heard. With contrite heart but hopeful predisposition I made echo of the
words of Jesus spoken about the secret things of God two thousand years ago in
Matthew 13:10 to 17. 10The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the
people in parables?” 11He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of
heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12Whoever has will be given more, and they will have in abundance.
Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 13This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though
seeing, they do not see; Though
hearing, they do not hear or understand. 14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. 15For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise
they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’ a 16But blessed are your eyes because they
see, and
your ears because they hear. 17For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed
to see what you see but did not see it, and to
hear what you hear but did not hear it “Hide and go seek is not a game but a sober reality.” Let us order our thoughts. Jesus said, “No one knows the Son but
the Father and no one knows the Father except the Son and whosoever the Son
chooses to reveal.” It seems to me that what we know of God the Son is only possible
if God the Father reveals Him to us in the same way the only way to know God
the Father is if God the Son chooses to reveal him. Heaven came down in glory in light on midnight and heaven was lift
up in glory back to heaven in Easter by Resurrection and Ascension. Let us pray that we might be able to see with our own
blessed eyes that which many in the Old
Testament longed to see and did not see, longed
to hear and did not hear it. As my son Nathaniel reminds me every chance he has that. “We live
in the era of Grace and not in the era of longing for grace as if Jesus did not
come to revealed the Secrets of the kingdom of God”. In the parable of the sower, the farmer went out to sow, ”HIS
SEED”. By the grace given to me by our generous, compassionate and loving
God I am confident that by grace and through faith I will at death enter into
heaven as gain because for me to live is Jesus. I am not ashamed of the seed of “God the sower” that was planted
in my heart and my letters are the fruit of that divine seed. I declare to be nearer to death as never been before but as a
wounded witness of Jesus I still want to testify with what is left of me that,
“To live is Jesus and to die is gain”. My personal two cents worth
of testimony is, “I have the grace and peace of our Lord who has
removed fear from my heart and has given me assurance to where I am going and
the amazing certainty that I will arrive there because of Jesus my savior and
Lord.” This was “another small voice that cries in the wilderness of our
generation” to prepare the way of the Lord! Gerry Gutierrez. PS. My grand children will one day eat my "cooking" from
my Webpage perugerry.com
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