Common Sense

Recently I received an e-mail about an OBIT of the late Mr. Common Sense. I will give some of it here so you can get the gist of it:
  
     "Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. …He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to come in out of the rain; Life isn’t always fair; and maybe it was my fault….. His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. i.e. A 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student. It declined further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or aspirin to a student, but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
      Common sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses…Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
       Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. "

Just what is Common Sense that it could so easily slip away and so few notice?
Webster’s Dictionary definition is: "Ordinary good sense or sound practical judgment."

Here is what the Bible says about it, found in Jeremiah 10:23: "…It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps." To me this is saying it is just not in us to have sound practical judgment or ‘Common Sense’. Proverbs 16:3 gives us instructions on how to have this "Common Sense" however: "Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established." So when one stays close to the Lord, He will help our thoughts to be as with ‘Common Sense.’ If we will stay tuned in to the Lord, we will hear a word behind us say ‘this is the way, walk in it’. (Isaiah 30:21).

Our Lord will guide our steps, direct our path, protect us from harm when we establish our thoughts on Him, and he will give us ordinary good sense known as "Common Sense".

*Webster New World Dictionary
*From the heart of CC

Intervention

I just can not seem to stay away.  When God gives me a thought I love to write it down, and then as I look it over I think "I must share this"; so what better way than to put it in a 'blog'.  I am also changing the name to "Gens from the Heart".  Or maybe later I will think about something else, like "Gems from the Word".  After all, the gems I find are found in God's Word, and then he speaks them to my heart.

Recently I came across a new thought on the word "Intercession".  The verse is from Hebrews 7:25 (KJV):

       "Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him,

          seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them."

The word for 'intercession' in the Greek is 'intugehano'.  This word 'intugehano' actually means 'intervention'.  In the verse in Hebrews where it says Jesus is in heaven 'interceding' for us, he is actually 'intervening' for us.  He is coming between my sin and the Holy Father.

Our Father in Heaven cannot look on sin, yet he can look at me because He sees me perfect because Jesus 'intervened' for me.  He sees the perfection of Jesus, the Holy and perfect Son, because Jesus intervened and took the fall.  Because of Jesus, God the Father now looks beyond my faults, beyond my sin, and sees the one who 'intervened' now sitting at His right hand 'interceding' for this unworthy sinner who is saved by Grace.  What a God!