JESUS used pictures...

another way to empower your words is to use pictures. JESUS was the master at this.

one time HE sat down with a religious leader by the name of nicodemus. HE was trying to picture for him the fact that CHRISTianity didn’t mean “doing better.” it meant starting over. HE couldn’t get it across so finally HE said this to him in john 3.3 (lb) with all the earnestness I possess I tell you this. unless you are born again, you can never get into the kingdom of GOD.

born again. we use that phrase a lot of different ways today. what it meant originally was just a picture. JESUS said it means starting over, having a new life. that’s what it means to know ME. JESUS, again and again throughout HIS life, used pictures to help people see things they hadn’t seen before.

one guy was talking with a friend who was saying, “i know i have problems but i don’t feel like working on them because i see people who have a lot worse problems than i do.”

and the guy told his friend, “it’s like this. let’s say you’re in quicksand up to your waist and some other people around you are in quicksand up to their neck. does that mean you’re not going to try to get out of the quicksand? in fact, if you do get out of the quicksand, maybe you can help them too.” a picture can help you to see something that you haven’t seen before.

just a thought from the front porch...