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.

she was very disappointed when I told her that God knows all things

dynamic faith

God is not stagnated but dynamic, yet never changing.
That means that all his goals and pleasures are in himself.
He doesn’t look for other sources of inspiration.
“That God may be all in all…” I Cor. 15:28
He has no needs , no surprises and no disappointments.
Yet, he is “ abounding in goodness and truth “.Ex.34:6
He has made us for his pleasure and it’s obvious that his
personal relationship with each one of us matters to him
very much. He is not just God in general, but one who has time
to number the very hairs of our head. Matthew 10:30
This is not wishful thinking. This is love.
Jesus told that God continues to work. John 5:17
What is God doing today?
He said in John 6: 29, “This is the work of God , that
You believe in Him whom He sent.”
Faith is God’s activity today.
Everything works by faith.
Even the smallest detail in our life depends on faith.
Outside of faith we look ugly and dangerous.
Even though God doesn’t need man’s help in anything,
He has chosen to “depend” on man’s faith decisions
and prayers. II Cron.7:12
This makes our faith dynamic and interesting.

it was so quiet there

the Moldova conference

in the deep forest of Moldova at the Transnistrian border

pastor Mihail and Mary from Brasov visiting Moldova