Sorry everybody for not being able to respond to your
sms messages. I forgot my phone in Moldova and will be connected
with that number again only after the Budapest conference.
You can reach me at the church number +90 212 252 75 55
P.Matti Sirvio
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
peace beyond understanding
God made peace with us through his blood. Col.1:20
This is the great peace that passes understanding. Phil.4:7
It cannot be explained psychologically. It’s a description
of a spiritual relationship.
This peace is not a feeling. It’s God’s final choice.
Because of this great peace we can experience peace
in our inner man and in our relationship with others.
This peace should rule in our hearts always in every place.
II Thess. 3:16, Col.3:15
It’s compared with a river, always bringing life to wherever
it goes.
Without the testimony of this peace in our hearts every moment
in life would be another threat of a final failure.
Our message is the Gospel of Peace. Eph.6:15
This is the great peace that passes understanding. Phil.4:7
It cannot be explained psychologically. It’s a description
of a spiritual relationship.
This peace is not a feeling. It’s God’s final choice.
Because of this great peace we can experience peace
in our inner man and in our relationship with others.
This peace should rule in our hearts always in every place.
II Thess. 3:16, Col.3:15
It’s compared with a river, always bringing life to wherever
it goes.
Without the testimony of this peace in our hearts every moment
in life would be another threat of a final failure.
Our message is the Gospel of Peace. Eph.6:15
Monday, March 5, 2007
impossible neutrality
How can anybody be nobody!
This was my question to a friend who claimed to be neutral
in the matters of faith. This is one of the impossible facilities to man.
He cannot just disappear and stop existing.
When God is without partiality, neutral, it is because of his
greatness. When human terms are not enough to explain him,
we simply have to accept that God is God.
His neutrality never compromises with the truth.
A good example of man’s inability to be neutral is Pilate
who to the end tried to avoid the truth.
First he claimed to be culturally neutral.
He said to the Jews,” This is your problem. Am I a Jew?”
John 18:33-35
Then he claimed philosophical neutrality with his famous
agnostic question:” What is truth?” John 18:38
He was trying to be an observer only. This is a privilege
not given to any man. John 19:5
All his superficial acrobatics let him to a compromise.
He gave Jesus over to be crucified. Mt.27:24-26
At the end he was still claiming personal neutrality by
ritualistically washing his hands.
He said, “I’m innocent to this man’s blood.”
Yes, as a professional Roman officer, but not as
a representative of humanity.
We are all here, even if we never liked it.
This was my question to a friend who claimed to be neutral
in the matters of faith. This is one of the impossible facilities to man.
He cannot just disappear and stop existing.
When God is without partiality, neutral, it is because of his
greatness. When human terms are not enough to explain him,
we simply have to accept that God is God.
His neutrality never compromises with the truth.
A good example of man’s inability to be neutral is Pilate
who to the end tried to avoid the truth.
First he claimed to be culturally neutral.
He said to the Jews,” This is your problem. Am I a Jew?”
John 18:33-35
Then he claimed philosophical neutrality with his famous
agnostic question:” What is truth?” John 18:38
He was trying to be an observer only. This is a privilege
not given to any man. John 19:5
All his superficial acrobatics let him to a compromise.
He gave Jesus over to be crucified. Mt.27:24-26
At the end he was still claiming personal neutrality by
ritualistically washing his hands.
He said, “I’m innocent to this man’s blood.”
Yes, as a professional Roman officer, but not as
a representative of humanity.
We are all here, even if we never liked it.
Friday, March 2, 2007
those who compare and those who don't...
“Some think competition, we think partnership”,
was a slogan I heard in somebody’s business
promotion.
It’s a nice thought , but just like all man’s great
philosophical statements, it has a problem.
It actually is an expression of a competition that is
based on comparison.
Yes, I agree that comparison is one of the ways
of learning.
But to use comparison, as the means of measuring
a person’s life, will never give you the right results.
Comparing our own spirituality with an other man’s
walk with God, is absurd. God has chosen not to have
the same relationship with everybody.
Man is too unique for that, like the Russians say,
“he cannot be repeated”.
If we stay on the level of comparison, we’ll just
be more frustrated and most probably depressed.
You don’t have to be anyone else, but you.
Because if you were someone else,
who would be you?
“But they , measuring themselves by themselves,
and comparing themselves among themselves,
are not wise.” II Cor.10:12
Well, even Paul had hard time stating this
truth without comparison. It sneaks in so subtly.
was a slogan I heard in somebody’s business
promotion.
It’s a nice thought , but just like all man’s great
philosophical statements, it has a problem.
It actually is an expression of a competition that is
based on comparison.
Yes, I agree that comparison is one of the ways
of learning.
But to use comparison, as the means of measuring
a person’s life, will never give you the right results.
Comparing our own spirituality with an other man’s
walk with God, is absurd. God has chosen not to have
the same relationship with everybody.
Man is too unique for that, like the Russians say,
“he cannot be repeated”.
If we stay on the level of comparison, we’ll just
be more frustrated and most probably depressed.
You don’t have to be anyone else, but you.
Because if you were someone else,
who would be you?
“But they , measuring themselves by themselves,
and comparing themselves among themselves,
are not wise.” II Cor.10:12
Well, even Paul had hard time stating this
truth without comparison. It sneaks in so subtly.
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