As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Most do not realize that the word particle is German in nature, and it has nothing to do with science in particle beams or weapons, but the world particle is a word which in German means crumbs.
In the biography Life of Luther there is a testimony of the life of a man in which nothing came easy. Martin Luther was born of peasants. His father eventually gained employment in a mine, and though young Martin, named after a saint in the Catholic religion, he had not any helps in life.
For most of Martin Luther's early life, he literally had to sing for his supper. The correct term would be beg, as he and the other boys, although provided with shelter and education, were left to fend for themselves and that meant daily taking to the streets and begging for bread, or singing at doors until some rich person fed them.
That resonates a great deal with me and the donations which the few real Christians afford me, while the majority listen to the song and keep their doors locked.
Luther's education was one which was typical German, He was beaten quite severely by his parents. His father beat him so bad in one instance the child he fled him an avoided him until the parent won the child over again. His mother once drew blood from Martin when he took a single nut.
At age five at Mansfeld his parents who did adore him, sent him for education and would carry the boy there or have him carried the distance on days of inclement weather.
There he learned the Commandments, the Creed and the Lord's Prayer, as he was instructed in reading, writing and the principles of Latin grammar.
The schoolmaster once beat Luther one morning 15 times as harsh treatment was the discipline of this Vatican led nation.
While at school he was taught to be terrified of Jesus, and to cling to the Virgin Mary to pacify the wrath of Christ to obtain mercy for him. It would require years to undo the Vatican programming this young child was programmed by.
His father, at age 14 sent Luther to secondary school at Magdeburg which was a high school. It was here that begging fed Luther, as his parents were so poor that no provision could be offered. For years the young Luther begged daily at the doors of the rich for a particle or crumb of food, and it was all accomplished with singing.
At Magdeburg, the teenager went down with a raging fever, and for some reason the adults would not allow him to drink water. On a Friday though when all went to church, Luther crawled to the kitchen, drank a pitcher of water, dragged himself back to bed, and passed out, to awaken well.
With only begging available at Magdeburg, Luther left after one year and became a student at Eienach. Here the begging was the same. His poverty moved him to thoughts of leaving the school and to return home to work in the mines with his father, but God smiled on this child at this point and at the door of Frau Cotta, she took him in, in finding favor in her eyes, and from that point on Martin Luther was fed, and could invest himself completely in his studies, instead of begging.
The Frau Cotta's who have been good to TL and myself here are most appreciated. Luther never forgot his "woman who ministered to him:" and later took her child into his own home while he was at school. One woman in true Christian kindness provided for a boy who would change the entire world. What if that woman had not been the Good Samaritan and Luther had worked the mines instead? Even with the great Protestants, the bondage of the Vatican would not have been broken if God had not raised someone up in Germany.
Luther delighted in the Latin school at Eisenach, and he excelled magnificently. His new schoolmaster in John Trebonius had the greatest nurturing and love for his students. Luther was given the honor of giving the welcoming address to Professor Trutvetter of Erfurt. He did such an excellent oration that the Professor commended young Luther and told the schoolmaster that this boy was special and to prepare him for University and to send him to Erfurt.
At 17 years of age, 12 years in school from age five, Luther began his journey to University. The son of peasants, a boy who begged for bread in the streets. A character building cross which Luther endured even with the ponderous burden of popery which scolded him, that he was a worthless as the pauper he was.
One thinks of the particles, those crumbs of bread to hungry children. The story from Jesus of Lazarus in the Bible eating the crumbs off the rich man's table with the dogs who licked his sores. How in the end Lazarus was in Paradise and the rich man in hell. How in Luther's calling, he set free the world from popery in it's murderous enslaving regime, by giving the Word of God in the Gospel to the People as Christ had over 1500 years before, as the greatest militant Christian leader the world has ever witnessed.
This was not the end of Luther's transformation by God's Holy Spirit as tortured in spirit at Erfurt with Vatican dogma, he found no rest, and looked to the cloister of St. Augustine, and joined them after lightning almost struck him dead.
He was once again at Augustine sent out to beg for alms in the streets. Though the music and leisure inside appealed this all troubled the young man's soul. Three years later by God's moving, Frederick of Saxony, the Elector founded a University at Wittenberg, and it was here charged at Augustine that the finest young men were to be sent, and the finest of them all was Martin Luther, who now became a Professor, and upon this stage and teaching platform with the real Gospel flowing into Luther, the Reformation began with one man, which would change the world.
Luther would still be threatened by Rome, hunted by Rome, stalked for death by Rome, but here the world changed, all from a particle, a crumb, which became a meal at Frau Cotta's table.
For all the miracles Jesus performed, people forget that Jesus still required His daily bread, as he was not turning stones into loaves. The Ministry of Christ was one of women ministering to His needs. Just as Martin Luther was ministered to by Frau Cotta and later by the Elector Frederick the Wise.
Luke 8:3
And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.
Mark 15:41
(Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.
It must be the most amazing of honors to be in Heaven and acknowledged, not to lord it over Christ, but for people to know they provided for Jesus when He was here delivering the Salvation of the Gospel. To be Frau Cotta or Elector Frederick and with joy know that you were the ones God chose to minister to the needs of a man that God would work through to bring the world back to Christ.
It is all the lessons of particles and crumbs.........and those later rewarded with crumbs in Heaven, and those who provided meals and a stage being rewarded by God banquets and mansions, instead of those particles.
agtG
