Thursday, September 4, 2008
lack of words
When a person cannot find right words to express his will
or feelings he ends up using wrong words or
just a strange behavior.
Inability to communicate in acceptable ways sometimes
leads people to unsocial, hermit like behavior.
Who wants to be publicly embarrassed again and again?
The lack of right words is a very common reason for
personality clashes and relationship problems.
It’s sad when a child is not taught to converse, but just to
obey blindly or is taught by computers to react to everything
with pang, uh and …
We should be on the alert when we see people’s vocabulary
being reduced to some kind of international cartoon language,
no sentence structures, no meaningful dialogs, just animalistic
noise that is written down with a couple of bold letters.
If we don’t use words we start loosing them.
We forget their meaning.
The lack of words leads to deeper darkness.
People in darkness don’t want to talk.
The most important missing word in this world is the word “Savior”.
Missing that word is more serious than forgetting your own name.
or feelings he ends up using wrong words or
just a strange behavior.
Inability to communicate in acceptable ways sometimes
leads people to unsocial, hermit like behavior.
Who wants to be publicly embarrassed again and again?
The lack of right words is a very common reason for
personality clashes and relationship problems.
It’s sad when a child is not taught to converse, but just to
obey blindly or is taught by computers to react to everything
with pang, uh and …
We should be on the alert when we see people’s vocabulary
being reduced to some kind of international cartoon language,
no sentence structures, no meaningful dialogs, just animalistic
noise that is written down with a couple of bold letters.
If we don’t use words we start loosing them.
We forget their meaning.
The lack of words leads to deeper darkness.
People in darkness don’t want to talk.
The most important missing word in this world is the word “Savior”.
Missing that word is more serious than forgetting your own name.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
attention!
Lies lead us to fight wrong battles.
We cannot loose our salvation , but we can easily loose
our concentration and our vision.
Yes, people are busy. It’s often considered as a sure sign
of productivity and importance.
What are people so busy with?
I looked at the companies around us.
One of them is in advertising business, working long hours
with the goal of reaching people with “whatsoever” messages.
Another company is selling insurances, making money from
people’s fears and insecurities.
Then there is a dancing school, soccer association and
the innocent looking old lady at the street corner selling
flowers, cheating busy people with tripled,
every day changing prices.
Yes, people are busy.
This battle is all about attention.
He who gets our attention, gets our time.
The battle for time is real.
If we ignore this battle saying that there is no conflict,
we have believed a lie.
If we think that we can fight this battle in our own strength,
we live in a lie. Acts 3:12
If we end up fighting people, especially other believers,
we have believed a lie. Eph.6:12
God has filled our history with opportunities to glorify him.
Every second is another invitation to give our attention to
those things that really matter.
Time is for Eternity.
We cannot loose our salvation , but we can easily loose
our concentration and our vision.
Yes, people are busy. It’s often considered as a sure sign
of productivity and importance.
What are people so busy with?
I looked at the companies around us.
One of them is in advertising business, working long hours
with the goal of reaching people with “whatsoever” messages.
Another company is selling insurances, making money from
people’s fears and insecurities.
Then there is a dancing school, soccer association and
the innocent looking old lady at the street corner selling
flowers, cheating busy people with tripled,
every day changing prices.
Yes, people are busy.
This battle is all about attention.
He who gets our attention, gets our time.
The battle for time is real.
If we ignore this battle saying that there is no conflict,
we have believed a lie.
If we think that we can fight this battle in our own strength,
we live in a lie. Acts 3:12
If we end up fighting people, especially other believers,
we have believed a lie. Eph.6:12
God has filled our history with opportunities to glorify him.
Every second is another invitation to give our attention to
those things that really matter.
Time is for Eternity.
Monday, September 1, 2008
God's attraction love
It’s not difficult to believe that God loves us with
a pity love. We are wretched and miserable.
Could it be , that God would also love us with an
attraction love? If that is true, it changes everything
in our attitude towards him.
The Psalmist seems to be inclined to think this way
when he marvels about the creation of man.
“Who is man, that you are mindful of him?” Psalm 8:4
In other words, “what makes man so attractive to you,
that you continue loving him disregard of the endless
times that he has disappointed you.”
Are we after all God’s best creation?
We have all the reason to believe so.
Why would he otherwise continue teaching and hearing and
caring for the fallen man? Doesn’t he see that we are
hopeless?
Hopeless as we might appear,
we were still made for God’s glory and it looks like he
doesn’t appreciate it more in anything else but in us.
He looks at man and He sees himself in him.
He looks beyond our faults and sees our indisputable value.
He receives a strike from us and he turns his other cheek.
His compassion love kept him on the cross.
His attraction love will bring him back.
a pity love. We are wretched and miserable.
Could it be , that God would also love us with an
attraction love? If that is true, it changes everything
in our attitude towards him.
The Psalmist seems to be inclined to think this way
when he marvels about the creation of man.
“Who is man, that you are mindful of him?” Psalm 8:4
In other words, “what makes man so attractive to you,
that you continue loving him disregard of the endless
times that he has disappointed you.”
Are we after all God’s best creation?
We have all the reason to believe so.
Why would he otherwise continue teaching and hearing and
caring for the fallen man? Doesn’t he see that we are
hopeless?
Hopeless as we might appear,
we were still made for God’s glory and it looks like he
doesn’t appreciate it more in anything else but in us.
He looks at man and He sees himself in him.
He looks beyond our faults and sees our indisputable value.
He receives a strike from us and he turns his other cheek.
His compassion love kept him on the cross.
His attraction love will bring him back.
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