#pontius pilot

[themackenzieboydchronicles]

Christ as Ecce Homo. (Behold the Man) by Italian artist Guido Reni.

[gracedman]

It is So True!

James 4:5–6 (ESV)

Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? But he gives more grace. Therefore, it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

  James 4:5–6 (AMP)

Or do you suppose that the Scripture is speaking to no purpose that says, The Spirit Whom He has caused to dwell in us yearns over us and He yearns for the Spirit [to be welcome] with a jealous love? But He gives us more and more grace (power of the Holy Spirit, to meet this evil tendency and all others fully). That is why He says, God sets Himself against the proud and haughty, but gives grace [continually] to the lowly (those who are humble enough to receive it).

 We all like to think we are of a certain kind of mind. One that is to be respected, listened to, and worthwhile in its contributions. But if we are not careful, we can slip into pride and then arrogance. God set himself up in a military fashion against the proud and haughty. He resists and shuts down those who think more of themselves than they ought to think. What this really means is that God is resisting the person who lives in subjectivity. Or according to their own weight and measures: their own personal feelings and values. An arrogant person lives by what they feel about things. Their feelings are their reality. They are dangerous. They can get swept up into the mood of a moment, the passion of the crowd, or the prince of the power of the air.

 Pontius Pilot had an encounter with Christ and said the following thing:

  John 18:37–38 (ESV)

Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.

 The empty hollow ring of a subjective man: “what is truth?” I know no such thing. I only know what I think and how I feel and that is all that matters. God resists such a person. He does so that we all may come to the place where we listen to his voice and find our truth in him. When man pursues his own utopian reality, attempting to live life on his own terms, God often steps in to frustrate the quest. He would have us find our truth in him. He resists the proud. But gives grace upon grace to the humble.

 Lord Jesus, we are so thankful that when we humble ourselves to your level, we find you there. Help us to live in the humility that pleases and receives the grace only you can give. Amen!!!

[caveofserpents]

Pulling Cupid's arrow from the skin, That's the wound where Love gets in.

Pontius Pilot, Yanking

[dropped-pencil]

our teacher told us about this priest that taught young kids about Jesus’ life and he had a diary he wrote on so one time he wrote about one of his students’ answer in a test i think he gave them and the flight to egypt was involved and since the kids were about second grade one of them wrote that Mary, Joseph and Jesus rode an airplane going there. you know who the pilot was?

PONTIUS PILOT

[frlinusclovis]

(Family Life International)

[commodifiedsouls]

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam is now the richest politician in America.

Well, it so warms my heart that Pontius Pilot was able to recover from that struggle that was Hurricanes Katrina and Ike, when he was forced to charge the state of Tennessee $5/gallon for his family's gasoline.