Who is like Him?

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I heard the tragic news around four-thirty on Friday and
was up until 2:00 AM Saturday morning.  I went to bed and
awoke at around 8:30 AM, and as is my custom, read a
chapter from the New Testament.  I start from the beginning
and read through to the end and then read backwards some
times and sometimes start over.
I also read the Old Testament through at least once a year
(When I can).  The morning I awoke after the tragic news
was delivered, I opened my Bible without even thinking
about it and these words 
JUMPED off the page at me:

John 14, "1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in
God, believe also in me.

2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not
so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.


3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come
again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there
ye may be also. 

4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. 

5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou
goest; and how can we know the way? 

6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the
life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 

7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also:
and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. 

8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it
sufficeth us. 

9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you,
and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen
me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us
the Father? 

10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the
Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not
of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the
works. 

11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in
me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. 

12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me,
the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works
than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. 

13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do,
that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 

14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. 

15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 

16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you
another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 

17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive,
because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know
him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 

18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 

19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but
ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. 

20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye
in me, and I in you. 

21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is
that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my
Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to
him. 

22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that
thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?


23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he
will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we
will come unto him, and make our abode with him. 

24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the
word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent
me. 

25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present
with you. 

26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the
Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things,
and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have
said unto you. 

27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as
the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be
troubled, neither let it be afraid. 

28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come
again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I
said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than
I. 

29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that,
when it is come to pass, ye might believe. 

30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince
of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. 

31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and
as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let
us go hence. 

I cannot begin to explain the effect these Words from my
Lord had upon me.

I attended church on Sunday.  I couldn't go to Sunday
School but came in while a sister was testifing about how
God had saved her by allowing a tire that was on fire to
burn through and let the air out slowly, she was going 70
and in killer traffic.

I gave the testimony God had given me about how I was hurt,
oh how I am hurt, but that God had done all He could do to
save my mom and dad and that it was too late for them.  I
said that God had come and put on flesh and hung on a tree
that they might be saved.  They refused this.

I asked "Who can lay anything to God's charge?" 

There was more but I can't repeat it.

I then asked a Sister to sing "I go to the Rock."

The choir then sang a song called "Stand" during which the
Lord led me to stand and weep.

My pastor then preached a sermon, the sixth in a series. 
His text?

John 14:1-6......

Jesus:
14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. 

Me:
Lord, will You Glorify thyself in me?

I am not worthy of the honor my God does me!!

Timothy Litteral
472 Grant St.
Marion Ohio 43302
brotim@gte.net
http://members.tripod.com/~trlitteral