What's the big deal?
You say Jesus is alive again, so what?
That was a long time ago.
What's your proof there buddy?
I'm sitting in Arby's drinking coffee and watching the rain. I'm remembering different events in my life—the morning I was in Waffle House and I looked at my plastic Casio watch. (I found a blog entry I wrote about it):
'Wednesday July 25, 2007 after our Vineyard service, Patsy and I were to take Tammy and Clay R. to see the backyard at the house we hope to buy. (The view was nice at night.) We're waiting with them at the skating rink parking lot with two of their boys. The boys are there to meet some of their friends. Charlie R. is 11 (I think) and out of the blue he asked me, "Mister Jim has God being doing anything lately?" Patsy says, "Tell him about your watch." "Charlie, late in June I'm reading a book one morning at the Waffle House. (The book was Tortured Wonders) I stop and start to note the date in the margin. I look at my old Casio DataBank watch, which is digital, and it reads '6-40- -' (no year). Man, my watch has finally had it. I'm able to reset it and it corrects itself to '6-20-07'. I tried to make the watch show '40' again or '- -' for no year. It only showed real dates. I make a note in the margin listing both dates. I try looking up anything I can in the Scriptures that would involve 6:40. I had counted 40 days from June 20th. Nothing seems to connect. I call my wife and tell her about it. She thinks it is spiritual and wished I had brought the watch home and showed her. 'Sorry. It didn't seem that important only interesting."' Charlie and S. P., 14, start working on a meaning. A few minutes later S.P. says, "Mister Jim, I think it is exactly what the watch said: June 40th. Let's see... That would be... July 10th." Patsy leans up in the seat and says, "Isn't that the day you saw the cloud on top of the mountain and drove up there and the house was for sale?" "Yes, it was." She leans up again. "How about photocopying the passage in the book you were reading when you dated it 6-40- - ." I checked the book the next day. In the next paragraph after I had dated my first reading for the day with 6-20 and also 6-40- - author Rodney Clapp writes on page 170: "...Our real home is a destination, the renewed heaven and earth." He continues to write about home here and our heavenly home.
What do you think?
I think that after 19 months of asking for direction 'validation' came. It comes after we had moved on what we thought and felt was the thing to do. We had peace but no noticeable word from the LORD. But He had spoken. He had already giving a token sign on June 20th about July 10th.
In the Bible donkeys talk and axe heads float. In my life plastic watches give prophetic words.'
You say Jesus came back alive and ate some fish with his disciples—that seems so normal in this supernaturally natural life.
- Jim
