This is my first time joining Five Minute Friday, a community of writers who use a one-word prompt to write for five minutes with no planning or editing. Today’s word is “remedy.”
What is the remedy for all the hurting in the world today? The answer is Jesus. But is Jesus really the remedy or just an answer that Christians like to give?
Just imagine, if we all lived more like Jesus. Or only if Christians behaved more like Jesus…
We’d all be more compassionate, helping those that are hurting.
We would serve instead of asking to be served.
We would give our lives up even for those that betrayed us.
We would always speak the truth, from the most loving concerned places in our hearts.
Jesus isn’t just an answer we speak from our people-pleasing lips, he’s the answer that could remedy our own broken hearts.
Love knew no bounds with Jesus. If anyone had a right to criticize and judge, it would have been him. But instead he chose love, because he knew love was more powerful than any amount of shame and condescension.
But our rule-following hearts like to perform. So we try our best to be “good” then look down on those that can’t do it like us.
Jesus is the remedy for you. See how he can heal you before you try to “heal” others.
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Thanks for sharing. We don’t need to worry so much about what would Jesus do if we just paid more attention to what He did.
Yes, let’s be imitators.
Set yourself on things above….Yes. Deirdre FMF#3
Amen to that. Thanks for reading!
Natalie, first and foremost, welcome to the Five Minute Friday family.
And it IS a family; I’ve been here a few years now, and my posts have documented a long fall through a really vicious form of terminal cancer. The love and support I’ve gotten…well, without that, I think I would be long gone. These wonderful people have given love and hope, and what can I do but survive, to repay my debt?
I’ve also gained a bit of infamy in commenting in the form of Shakespearean sonnets…really bad ones. So without further ado…
Is the Christ the final answer?
Is He the place where we must go?
Gripped by pancreatic cancer,
sometimes I don’t really know.
There’s no money now for chemo,
like there was in the beginning;
like Dory in Finding Nemo,
I’ve just got to keep on swimming
through these waters cold and dark
against a quickly rising tide…
there’s a shadow of a shark!
But Someone great now swims beside
and in the wake of His strong fins
I know to die is, yes, to win.
I’m in the #1 spot on the FMF linkup, if you’d care to drop by.
Thanks for reading! I love your “bad” sonnet and I can’t wait to read more of them.
Welcome, Natalie. So wonderfully spoken. Great lesson to be had here. Blessings.
Visiting from FMF#5
Thank you for the sweet comment!