Wayfaring Stranger

Joy -- 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10

[Wayfaring Stranger @acousticplayer]

The Light https://t.co/W8VFdBA8E3 1 Thessalonians 5:5

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The GOATs of all GOATs:

Lionel Messi
Joey Chestnut
Tom Brady
Bird Call Kid

[Wayfaring Stranger @acousticplayer]

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[Wayfaring Stranger @acousticplayer]

@Acuity314 @CageyFlow @iamrahstradamus Here's where I'm with you. Giannis is still top 5 when healthy and his 50 points in close out Finals game doesn't get talked about enough

[Wayfaring Stranger @acousticplayer]

@Acuity314 @CageyFlow @iamrahstradamus I think he was, the market just hadn't caught up yet. Coming into the WCF San Antonio was 38-3 in last 41 games Wembanyama played at least 15 minutes including the playoffs. That's half a season

[Wayfaring Stranger @acousticplayer]

@Acuity314 @CageyFlow @iamrahstradamus I didn't say GOAT. He's best player in the league right now. If you disagree that's fine. Wemby finished 3rd in regular season MVP and just dominated the series without home court advantage over the MVP so not a stretch to say the belt has been passed

[Wayfaring Stranger @acousticplayer]

@Acuity314 @CageyFlow @iamrahstradamus Wemby is the best player in the league bro. Defense counts too. He's about to take the title at 22 and he's not in his prime yet. Cope.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Galatians 4:4 looks like a transition verse.

“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son.”

If you read it fast, it sounds like a timestamp. But if read slowly, it is the most staggering sentence in the Bible.

‘Fullness of time’. Paul isn't saying God picked a convenient moment. He is saying God declared a moment complete. “The preparation is finished and everything I have been building across centuries is exactly where I need it to be”. God looked at human history and said: now.

Which forces the question. Why then? Why not a thousand years earlier, when Moses was fresh? Why not a thousand years later? What was so perfect about the first century?

I started looking into it and I have not recovered.

God needed a people with the theology. He spent 2000 years forming Israel; the covenant, the sacrificial system, the prophets, Isaiah 53 written seven centuries before Calvary, the framework of a coming Messiah who would bear the sin of the world. The Jews were shaped by wilderness, exile, and divine discipline, until the theological infrastructure for substitutionary atonement was fully in place.

But theology alone could not travel. God needed a language. Not a tribal dialect, but a universal tongue. So five hundred years before the Gospel, He let the Greek philosophers begin.

Heraclitus sat in Ephesus and concluded the universe was governed by an invisible rational principle. He called it the Logos.

The Stoics built on it. Philo of Alexandria stood at the intersection of Greek thought and Hebrew scripture and said the Logos was the mind of God in creation. For five hundred years, philosophy built a conceptual category it could not fill.

Then God sent a conqueror with no interest in theology. Alexander the Great wanted glory and empire. God let him want it. In satisfying his ego across three continents, Alexander Hellenized the ancient world and forged Koine Greek, the common tongue of the docks, markets, soldiers, and slaves. A language stripped of complexity, simple enough for anyone, universal enough for everyone.
The Hebrew scriptures were translated into it. The Septuagint was born. God used a pagan conqueror’s ambition to translate His own Word.

Then Rome came and paved the road. The Pax Romana. Piracy cleared. Stone highways stretching from Spain to Syria. A framework for movement the ancient world had never seen.

None of them knew they were collaborating.

Heraclitus thought he was doing philosophy. Alexander thought he was building a monument to himself. Rome thought it was building an empire for Rome. Not one of them understood they were stagehands. God was with Heraclitus in his pondering, with Alexander in his conquest, with Roman engineers laying stone, quietly requisitioning their work for a purpose none of them could see.

And then, when the covenant people were in place, the language primed, the roads built, and the category ready, when everything He had been quietly assembling was finally set, God stepped into the room they had unknowingly prepared.

John picked up his pen and wrote: “In the beginning was the Logos.”

Every Greek philosopher in the Mediterranean felt the ground shift. “And the Logos became flesh.” The category they spent five centuries constructing was not a principle. It was a Person.

The ‘fullness of time is not a timestamp’. It is God’s signature on a completed work. And the humbling thing is that this work was not built by saints. It was built by conquerors, philosophers, and emperors who thought they were writing their own story. God let them think that. And used every word. If this is not amazing then I don’t know what is.

[Fastbreak Hoops @FastbreakHoops5]

This might be the impressive things I’ve ever seen done on a basketball court.

[Wayfaring Stranger @acousticplayer]

This lifted my spirit

https://t.co/YGBLiCzKWn

[Wayfaring Stranger @acousticplayer]

@BrettSiegelNBA You can't be this naive. Read your tweet again. You're right about the teams 'battling hard' through three quarters. Smh

[Wayfaring Stranger @acousticplayer]

@Naam_Hi_Kafi_H Billie Eilish is the big winner in this opinion 🧐

[Wayfaring Stranger @acousticplayer]

@TrevorSheatz Trevor, I see that this is something you've shared repeatedly. Ask God to search your heart for any ulterior motive

Everyone else, please treat this couple with dignity and grace

Praise God for leaving the 99 to bring back the 1!

[Wayfaring Stranger @acousticplayer]

@TrevorSheatz Praise God for his redemptive work. No one is beyond His reach!
What is a bit uncooth about this approach is:
-- Scripture doesn't instruct us to boast in someone else's sin or share someone else's testimony, only our own, to the glory of God
-- the marketing company, it's sus

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@CoffindafferFBI Oops take it down ma'am

[Wayfaring Stranger @acousticplayer]

@CoffindafferFBI Soliciting donations for this is tacky

[🅝🅔🅡🅓🅨 @Nerdy_Addict]

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[dinosaur @dinosaurs1969]

in the 1700s they would’ve executed this guy for this

[Wayfaring Stranger @acousticplayer]

@suzi_craft @CoffindafferFBI @TVAshleigh Nanos can make a public statement someone is cleared and arrest them a day later. It holds no weight. There are examples of law enforcement doing this as a strategy

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as a Mongolian Horseback Archer... 😎

[Tony Reinke @TonyReinke]

Piper: “I have met people who cannot feel loved by God, it seems, unless their *own worth* as a person is the basis of God’s love for them. And therefore my whole theology is anathema to them. It makes me weep. The Bible does not teach that God loves us because of *our worth*. He loves us by sending his own Son to die for undeserving, ungodly enemies, thus *giving us worth* (Rom. 5:6–10). And that worth consists in the beauty of our conformity to his Son (Rom. 8:29). He loves us at the cost of the life of his Son in order to display the greatness of his grace in our beautification for his Son’s Bride. This is what it is to be loved for the glory of God.”