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Day 290, or October the 17th. Positively the

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best you can do. Our thoughts today come from

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Luke chapter 7, verse 32. They are like children

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sitting in the marketplace and calling out to

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each other, we played the pipe for you and you

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did not dance, we sang a dirge and you did not

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cry. Now the big picture surrounding this verse.

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Luke tells us more about Jesus' ministry in Galilee.

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Keeping the Sabbath as well as the other laws

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of Moses is very important to the Jews, so Luke

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records Jesus' teaching on this. Some great preaching,

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including the Beatitudes and other parts of the

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Sermon on the Mount, are also found in this Gospel.

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Luke records the raising of a widow's son from

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Nain, too. I visited this village, and everything

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in it points to this amazing miracle. After two

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thousand years, it has nothing else to say. Significantly,

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Luke is the only gospel writer who tells us about

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it. In fact, Nain is not mentioned anywhere else

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in the whole Bible, yet it remains intact as

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a village in an ever-changing Middle Eastern

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world. And now today's action step. Have you

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ever met anyone who was totally contrary? You

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comment on the good weather and they say, it's

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not that good. You approve of action just taken

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by the government or your church leaders and

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they immediately tell you all the reasons it

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will fail. Well, Jesus met them too. And he told

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them they were like children who rejected John

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the Baptist because he had a strange diet and

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lived in the wilderness. Then when Jesus ate

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and drank with lots of different people, they

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rejected him because he was a winebibber. For

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some people, the only good idea is the one they

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have. Anyone else's are simply there to be picked

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at and criticized. This sort of negativism can

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destroy. Try thinking of a positive comment when

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you hear something new rather than simply attacking

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it. I don't mean being a yes person, but I mean

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being a builder up rather than a knocker down.

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Try imitating Christ today and reject your negative

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thought. Thank you.