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April 28

Yet through childhood, youth, and manhood, Jesus walked alone. In His purity and His faithfulness, He trod the wine press alone, and of the people there was none with Him. He carried the awful weight of responsibility for the salvation of men. He knew that unless there was a decided change in the principles and purposes of the human race, all would be lost. This was the burden of His soul, and none could appreciate the weight that rested upon Him. Filled with intense purpose, He carried out the design of His life that He Himself should be the light of men.

          Desire of Ages, page 93 from the chapter, 'Days of Conflict'

Jesus had a plan for His life. It was well expressed in Luke 4:14-21, you ought to read it. Although the text comes from the Old Testament we have to guess that Jesus put some thought into the statement,

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
    because he has anointed me
    to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
    and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
    to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.’”

If you ever wondered what Jesus did in the early hours of each morning you might consider that Jesus was working on his mission statement.

     I would guess that Jesus got so much done because he had a plan.

     Have you got a plan?

     More country music, 'A house of gold' is the choice this time. The song is by Lloyd Snow, he doesn't appear to have much of a web presence! Please click on the picture to listen.


     Assume you can do no miracles. You might even assume that you have no spiritual gifts, though of course you do. Now reconsider the words from our reading, “None could say that He had worked a miracle”. Jesus spent thirty years simply being a faithful church member and did no miracle.

     What we do find is that Jesus healed without using miracles. “His words had a soothing balm.”

     It is Sunday today. You might choose to do an act of random kindness today, on the other hand you might also decide that you are going to heal somebody today with some soothing words. To do that make a simple plan.

     The first element in the plan is for you to invite the Holy Spirit into your life. The second element is to choose the person you would like to heal. The third element in your master plan is to work out the words – and then finally go out and use those healing words to do something special.