"All which we behold is full of blessings." Thus Wordsworth punctuates his faith and describes his journey as a lover of Nature.
A presentation of Samuel Godfrey George
Ads
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
The Little Black Boy - William Blake
The meaning and purpose of blackness according to William Blake presented by Samuel Godfrey George with his childhood images
Was It Easy For God To Be Jesus?
Jesus Christ had to learn obedience through suffering. He died a most terrible death on the cross. Do these facts indicate that it was easy for the God of heaven to be Jesus on earth?
Let The Followers Of Christ Not Condemn The World
Jesus Christ came into the world not to condemn the world but to save the world. He came to save sinners and to set the captives free. Why then are the followers of Christ quick to condemn those they perceive as sinners?
Ode On A Grecian Urn - John Keats
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is the sum of all knowledge that one can and should know in life.
John Keats is read by Samuel Godfrey George
John Keats is read by Samuel Godfrey George
P B Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind"
A poet is inspired by a force of Nature.
Samuel Godfrey George reads Shelley.
Samuel Godfrey George reads Shelley.
He Who Began A Good Work
After five years of speaking for God, I still hold on to the faith that He who began a good work in me will be faithful to complete it.
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Let Me Have Your Eyes
All my problems arise from my corrupt vision. That is why I desire the eyes of God.
Monday, 29 October 2012
Let's Forget About Ourselves
Let's forget our problem and fix our eyes on God. Let us worship and magnify Jesus Christ our Lord.
Saturday, 27 October 2012
The Thanksgiving
Samuel Godfrey George gives thanks to his God for filling his life with so much beauty.
The Voice - Samuel Godfrey George
From voicelessness to voice, from wordlessness to words and from death to life, Samuel Godfrey George has emerged to speak borrowed words in a borrowed voice to glorify the One whom he borrowed from.
Friday, 26 October 2012
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
1 Corinthians 13 - Love
A fifth anniversary special from "The Voice", a repeat performance of his reading five years ago
Monday, 22 October 2012
Burn Till Jesus Comes - Fifth Anniversary Of The Voice
Inaugurating the "Anniversary Edition" of 2012, Samuel Godfrey George presents the popular worship song, "Give Me Oil In My Lamp". As "The Voice", SGG has spent these five years spreading the love of God in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. He carries on his mission to bring Christ to those who do not know Him. Please pray that he continues to serve God.
Five Years Of Working For God - Samuel Godfrey George
Samuel Godfrey George reviews the past five years of his service to God on YouTube.
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Friday, 12 October 2012
Answered Prayers
The following videos present certain problems that were once in my life . These problems were later solved by God Who graciously answered my prayers and gladdened me considerably since that time.
Prayer for a New House
I have to move out of my old house. I need a new house. I ask God to provide me that house.
The Lord Will Destroy The Opposition
All who rage against me will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose me will be as nothing and perish. Though I search for your enemies, I will not find them.Those who wage war against me will be as nothing at all.
Prayer for a New House
I have to move out of my old house. I need a new house. I ask God to provide me that house.
The Lord Will Destroy The Opposition
All who rage against me will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose me will be as nothing and perish. Though I search for your enemies, I will not find them.Those who wage war against me will be as nothing at all.
Thursday, 11 October 2012
The Sayings of Samuel Godfrey George - September 2012
Don't be in a hurry
to express your heart. Wait a bit and then offer what is still left in you.
Even if your own
father and mother do not believe in you, you must still believe in yourself.
Every time I doubt the existence of God, I should think of how I was
led to meet my father just before his death. A most disturbing dream
impelled me to meet my father and do something uncharacteristic. I, who
was at loggerheads with my father nearly all my life, was finally moved
to apologize to him for my many faults. This humbling must have given
him some relief. It surely gave me relief from my guilt, which had I not
apologized would have been unbearable. He gave me his blessing before
the end. So every time I wonder whether God is real, I should ask
myself, "How did I meet my father just before his death? What made me
say the words that freed both of us from the yoke of discord? This
cannot be just a fortuitous event."
The best time to
pray for someone is right now. Praying for others is the hardest kind of
prayer. A human being is naturally self-conscious and self-centred. He promises to pray for others, but his prayers are usually
focused on his own needs. He must overcome this tendency in the strength of God
and become the lover that he is divinely designed to be. As a
lover he will discover that his prayers are most rewarding when they focus on
others, even those whom he has never met and from whom he has little hope of
ever receiving thanks.
Every time I want
to say something, I can say it immediately or say it later. If I say it soon it
may turn out to be not properly considered. If I say it later it may not be in
my memory clearly enough to be expressed in the way that it existed originally.
This is the difficulty in the making of statements.
To recognize the
limits of human understanding is more important in the exercise of human wisdom
than the persistent and well-intentioned striving to understand what clearly
lies beyond human knowledge. The human mind is amazingly capable of grasping
certain truths and still incapable of grasping certain other truths that lie
beyond what can be humanly reached.
Gratitude will be
my only response to everything that life throws at me. I have tried many other responses and none satisfy me as much as gratitude.
We will only learn
the hard way. That is the cost of knowledge.
From a bitter
disappointment precious learning proceeds. So swallow your bitter pill with an
attitude of hope.
Everything teaches
me. Even nothing teaches me.
I cannot express
every talent of mine. Not every talent can produce the benefit that I intend.
You cannot let
external factors dictate your work. You have to do what is required. You work
for One Who cannot be seen and at times cannot be felt in the deepest sense.
All that you have and will ever have is the inner conviction that you are
working for His Kingdom. This you should not doubt. And He Whom you work for
will provide for all your needs.
When a door closes another one will open. This is a divine principle. He who closes doors can also open them. Those who trust in God should believe in this.
Many are my foes.
But great is my force. For within me is God who is greater than the sum of all
my foes and fears.
There is a real and
unpleasant reason behind every fabricated and consoling reason.
God has given us
minds and mouths to express ourselves responsibly. What we say has potential to
construct or destruct others. So when we express ourselves let us do unto
others what we would have them do unto us.
Go to places where
few will see you. And give to those who will not thank you and give to them
when there is no one to see you.
I wrestled with God. The worst of me met the best of him. And
that is the greatest thing that happened in my life.
Everything needs to
be looked at from time to time, even things that seem to run well. Even in the
well-run machine there may be the rudiments of a most disruptive clog.
There is a beast
within me. And he is growing increasingly tame in the presence of a greater
One.
May God's will be
done. And that's enough.
One should notice that in life what happens is usually not what one wants to happen but something else than that. It is rare to find a case of a human being who willed something to happen unless he does so by force encroaching on and maybe even disrupting other people’s lives. Life is usually what happens rather than what is made to happen. A greater will than that of Man appears imposed on life events. In spiritual terms this will is imposed from above. It could be either God or the devil who imposes this will on the world. Those who are inclined to God want God’s will to be done on earth and the others desire the devil’s will consciously or not. Those who are not spiritual have no clue as to what moves this world. They should at least know that it is not they who move it.
One should not go out
to influence people. One should go out only to express one’s point of view.
That is all one can be reasonably expected to do.
A person should
exercise patience. Often in life one does not get one's way. A great deal of
hopeful waiting is thus required for a person to accomplish anything. The one
who is willing to give something valuable to the world should wait until his
offering is accepted and should even tolerate the possible rejection of what he offers.
Sometimes crazily
things work and sometimes crazily things don't work. It is crazy to try to
understand why things work. There is such a thing as timing, and those who
believe in God call it God's timing, to explain inadequately the seemingly
nonsensical way in which favourable tides enter one's life. For the deeper
patterns few will ever know if they could know.
I should not want to
write a book. I should want to inform the world.
You can only be what
you are made to be.
There is nothing that
a godly man can do apart from God.
When you can smile
with joy at a friend's success, you have indeed come a long way.
Sometimes we try and
do not get. Sometimes we do not try and get. That is the nature of the game.
There is a harvest of
righteousness that no man of God can be denied.
Those who come to you
so that you may go to them are not the ones to be entertained.
This is all a bit backbreaking,
this thing called doing good.
Do not expose too much
value at one time. The human mind is not equipped to deal with more than a
certain value.
Even the best of us
fail. Even the strongest weaken. Even the brightest fade. This is the frailty
of human beings.
Even if you think you
know something you know little. Humility is the only attitude appropriate to
knowledge.
What will I choose
to celebrate, the lie or the truth? This is the question that I need to answer
every day.
God is the truth. And he is an unpalatable truth to some.
Praise could be the
worst enemy to the growth of a man's soul.
When the world
celebrates you, can you emerge from its adoring gaze in one piece?
What is not noticed
now will not stay unnoticed forever.
We don’t know when and
how the work of God will impact a human being. But we do know that the work
that God does through his people will impact others at a certain time, even if
that work seems quite unprofitable today. For his work is a product of his
word, and his word shall not return to him without achieving its goal.
The need for God in my
life is very high. That is my blessing.
There is a moment of
despair even in faith. After a miracle doubt may still linger. This is what
happens when the visible interacts with the invisible, when Man set in his ways
reacts to God whose ways diverge so greatly, when the fickle human
contemplates the eternally constant divine.
The beginning is
never a good sight to human eyes. Yet to God's eyes it is the sign of wonderful
things to come.
You can give love
and still be rejected. You can speak the truth and still not be heard.
To do good one
should not be ashamed.
Knowing the
difference between reality and fantasy is important. Choosing reality over
fantasy is even more important.
The adverse
reaction of people will not impact the man of God who is speaking for his
Maker. People may respond favourably. Most often they may respond unfavourably.
And at other times there may be no response at all. But the work of God must be
done and will be done regardless of people's response.
Whatever you say
about it and however you say it and in whatever manner you present it, the
world will never satisfy the heart that hungers for God.
If you can mix
freedom and caution in the right proportion you have learned a great lesson
indeed. Such a mixture is arrived at after a great deal of experimentation,
after much failure and many undesirable accidents.
It is tough. But
you must go on. Let your mind not waver or be crippled by doubt. Believe in
what you have to do. See what you are planning to do even before you do it. See
in your mind the end of your journey long before you actually reach it. Walk on
when you really want to give up. Walk on especially when you want to give up.
We are
performance-oriented people with a fixation on visible performance. If the
numbers are not there then the performance has failed. We have no cognizance of
invisible and intangible things that happen as a result of what we do. So we go
by what we see, which may be less significant than what we do not see and thus
we completely ignore the invisible and utterly miss the point.
In my room there is
little space and I am grateful for it.
The right response
to repentance is forgiveness.
When an audience applauds together, it is impossible to savour an individual response.
"Thank you
Lord" is the simplest and the sweetest thing to say to God now and for evermore.
When miracles
happen, smile and receive them. Don't analyse and doubt them.
How you behave when
things don't go your way determines who you really are more than anything that
you ever accomplish.
The life of faith must
be lived on God's terms. Much as we like to know, God does not reveal
everything and generally seems to withhold information. This may be so to encourage
trust, for it is only through obedience and trust that a man achieves his
salvation.
I'd like to remind
myself that I am not working for human appreciation. If I am, I am quite lost
and certainly unworthy of my calling. I believe that I have been called by God
to speak for Him, to serve as His voice. As such my focus should be entirely on
connecting with God and expressing the thoughts that He places in me. I work
for God and for His pleasure only. This I must not only remember every
waking and sleeping moment, but also implement in practice all the time.
Terrible thoughts have
terrible consequences. Do not forget that you have to pay a price for what you
put in your mind. Mere thoughts can have great effects.
It may not be easy to
throw things away. But they can be thrown away. But it is extremely difficult
to throw people away. That could be hazardous to both the thrower and the
thrown.
One thing at a time,
and then you will not do many things wrong.
A life that is out of
joint with God will be under stress. And where stress is disease breeds. A life
that is in sync with God will be happy. And where happiness is health will also increase.
Don’t look at your
disease or disease-like symptom. Look at God who can heal any disease in your
body and in your mind. Focus only on the Healer and go to Him in confidence and
do not focus on your distressing disease.
Where God is disease
cannot reign.
I cannot let sin reign
in my mortal body and then wonder why I cannot spiritually ascend.
The knowledge of truth
is not enough. The practice of truth is what ultimately matters. This King
Solomon lamentably demonstrated.
I have learned the
hardest lessons, yet sometimes I barely remember them.
My love for God is
obvious. But there is another love in my heart, which is hidden deeply in my
soul. It is my love for godlessness. Every day I struggle to express one and
restrain the other. Some days the battle is intense and hopeless. On other days
like this one hope shines out as my love for God appears to be the inevitable
winner.
Display your best behaviour to your
family before you display it to others.
It is in carelessness
that selflessness is born. Carefulness is the inalienable quality of the
self-conscious.
Can I separate the
black from my white? Can my white be ever without its dark impurities?
True love emerges from
many heartbreaking failures.
If you think that you
have time to spare, then make your bed, clean your room, do something
profitable, just don't entertain harmful, evil thoughts.
Discard or at least
postpone indefinitely every desire that attempts to unseat God from the throne
of your heart.
It takes much
confusion to arrive at clarity.
Love will be our
home. Love should be our home. More important than anything else is that we
should love one another as we have been loved by God. We should love without
expectation and with the intent not to take but to give only what is good and
beneficial to another.
If you can truly
enjoy another person's work, when your own work goes unnoticed you have come a long
way.
Until you try you
will never find out.
Before Jesus died he
said to his disciples, "Love one another as I have loved you." Love
is the main theme of Jesus' teachings. Without love nothing is possible.
Without love nothing is worthwhile even if possible. Love is greater than faith
and hope. Those who love will always be first, will always enter God's rest
before those who have faith in God and yet are without love. So loving one
another without discrimination of any kind and expectation of any kind is the
best way to live.
The greatest
challenge every day is to be good to all people, especially to those at home.
Showing politeness to others, caring for others and gently tolerating the
shortcomings of others may pose a far greater challenge than any problem
that one is battling against.
Even if I say,
"I am tired and sleepy", I immediately feel tired and sleepy. Such is
the power of words over the mind. Let us then be careful about we say to
ourselves. Ultimately the mind accepts and acts on everything that is spoken to
it.
We are eager to
believe in the lies of the world and reluctant to believe in the truths of God.
Fear is the last
reason why you should go to God.
You triumph over
problems in the presence of those problems, not in their absence. So do not
today seek to remove your problems by force or try to run away from them in fear.
Neither way will you gain victory. You gain victory only when you live with
your problems and overcome them by knowing and studying them well enough for
them to lose their hold over you. When you know a problem and recognize why it
is a problem, you gain a degree of mastery over it.
“O Lord save me! Have
mercy upon me. I am a sinner struggling with my sin, I have no power over it
except what you have given me. Continue to empower me, O Lord. Help me obey you,
O Lord. Let me love what you love and hate what you hate. Apart from you I can
do nothing. Problems have come to strangle the joy out of my life. But I will
not lose hope. For my hope is in you. And nothing is difficult for you. Today I
lay down all my burdens at your feet, O Lord. Please do not despise my broken
and contrite heart.” This is the prayer that I say today.
Abstinence makes the
addiction grow stronger and not weaker as you may think. When you abstain from
something its power grows over you and you are consumed by a raging desire to
get back to what you ran away from. When you surrender to this impulse
eventually you realize that abstinence is not the solution but the complication
of a problem. There is no solution until you surrender to the problem and see
why it is a problem. Admit your vulnerability to the problem and analyse it.
Why should you be vulnerable to this weakness? What exactly do you seek in it?
Do you find what you seek? And if you do not and if you are still unsatisfied
after you fulfil your desire should you not seek fulfilment elsewhere? The
knowledge you gain by this will not free you from the addiction but it is the
first step to loosening its grip over you.
You can't lose hope
soon. You can't lose hope late. You can't lose hope ever.
Praise God all the
time they say, for that is the way to overcome the devil. But what sort of
praise is a formulaic and forced praise that is strategically aimed at getting
the best out of God? I know that it is right to give God praise. But one must
not praise God for the sake of getting something out of Him. That is what
flatterers do in the world to receive favour.
Why is one trying to predict the exact time when Jesus Christ will return to earth? He will
certainly not return when he is expected to return. He will come like a thief.
There is no use in predicting the day of His return. It is better to assume
that He could return today, and be ready to receive Him this very day.
The truth has many
facets, sometimes opposing ones. The hope that one finds in faith must be
counterbalanced with the hopelessness that is also felt in faith. Both hope and
hopelessness find expression in the Bible and mostly hope triumphs, but not
without a fierce struggle and such hope rarely emerges unscathed.
"Hope cannot hurt. A person can do no damage to himself by hoping",
it is said. But hope can hurt when it is placed in what is not true. A
person who harbours hope of this kind does more damage to himself than a
person without hope. Therefore, let it not be said that all hope is
good. Sometimes being without hope is more helpful than being with hope.
More than actions we need to examine our intentions and thought processes. Why are we doing what we are doing? What are our goals really? Are they the goals that we want to pursue? If not what should our goals be? This is the way to go.
Some truths that I
have accepted to be true may well be untrue. It is therefore important to
examine every truth, especially the most accepted. One must be willing to admit
the possibility that one could be wrong.
It will not qualify as
a miracle until you let it happen. Just don't make it happen.
After I satisfy my
flesh I can ponder the deep questions of the spirit. The flesh complements the
spirit. There can be no awareness of the spirit without the flesh. And there
can be no incentive in exploring the spirit if not for the impulse to break
free from the tyranny of the flesh.
There is a natural end
to every strong desire and that is the only way to end it.
It doesn't matter
how big your muscles are. If you feel like a loser, even a less muscular person
can beat you up.
It is okay to be a
sinner. But be an honest sinner.
I don't want to
please my friends. I want to try them to the utmost.
When you fail
repeatedly, you are not afraid of failure any more.
Where there is guilt, there is condemnation. Where there is
condemnation, there is worry. Where there is worry, there is despair.
Happy is the man who can lay aside his guilt. And there is no way to lay
aside the guilt except by giving it to him who is willing to take it
upon himself. And he is Christ.
There are two sides to me. One is the spiritual side that I reveal to the spiritually minded. The other is the fleshly side that agrees with the world. As long as one is in the world one should agree in certain vital respects with the world. One cannot stick out like a sore thumb at least not to a degree that repels people away from what one has to say. Even the spiritual man who communicates with the world has to convey his truth in a manner that is palatable to the world.
An obedient heart is
not a man-made thing. Obedience to God is the hardest thing, as God monitors
not only the outward man but also the inward. I have tried to obey God but I
have never succeeded beyond a few hours or days. Have I then tried in my own
strength? It should be so, for I cannot imagine God working in me so
inefficiently. Thus I conclude that the power to obey actually comes from God
and only He can impart it to Man.
No matter how evil
your heart is and how sinful you still remain, as long as there is desire in
your heart for God you have much to hope for.
Salvation is a work of God done in the
timing of God. And when He saves you you are indeed saved no matter how unsaved
you still feel. Let not feelings dictate your faith today.
Before I get angry
today may I know that God is my defender and that I do not have to express my
anger but only calmly convey my displeasure.
Working for God seems
utterly depressing at times, considering the absolute indifference of the world
to the message and also sometimes the indifference of God to the entreaties of
his messenger. This is not a rewarding job in the sense of the world. And this
is not a job for those who have no stomach for disappointment and disgrace.
If God works the way I
want him to work, then trusting him is no problem at all.
Have in excess what
you wish to avoid. Then you will certainly be able to throw it away like
rubbish.
I have two major
addictions in life. One is my addiction to God. I seem to have thrown
everything away to pursue my life for God and be a voice for Him. I have thrown
away job opportunities and incurred much debt in living this life dedicated to
Him. But along with this addiction is an older and deeper addiction to the
flesh. This addiction still remains awake in me despite many prayers, much
Bible reading and Christian service. God has not delivered me from this. There
could be a reason for this. One addiction has led to the other. Without the
hunger of the flesh there will be no hunger of the spirit.
Don't overdo
anything, even that which is good.
If I did it once, I
can do it again no matter how many times I fail in the middle.
Be thankful today
even for the beggarly gift.
I have failed many
more times than I have succeeded. Should I then expect to fail more than I
succeed in the days to come? That is not an unfounded expectation. However have
I judged success and failure correctly? Some failures may indeed be successes,
and some successes may not be such great things after all.
Those who fight the devil are wasting their time by focusing on him. The only way to defeat the devil is to love God and seek His presence always. When we are with God we are where the devil cannot harm us.
After slow and painful
progress supreme joy is felt.
You should know when
to stop something good before it becomes bad.
Just as I acquired my knowledge outside the school and the college I acquired my faith outside the
church.
At least I am
excited about my work. This will keep me going.
When we are not
satisfied with who we are let us think about who we used to be.
It is important to
connect with everyone, appreciate the good in everyone and in everything.
Celebrate the goodness
of your thought and pay little attention to its reception.
Whatever our reasons
if we give them to God He will refine them.
When people try to upset you don't give them what they are looking for. Give them the opposite of what they expect from you. Bless them with a smile and give them a few kind words. That will show them who they are.
Is the devil nervous when people carry or read a Bible? Carrying a Bible or even opening it should not make the devil nervous. Even the devil may carry a Bible and open it to read it. He has in fact read it better than any other human being. What truly scares the devil is the power of faith, by which a limited, weak human being begins to believe in an unlimited and almighty God as revealed in the Bible.
The mind makes a
big deal of what it doesn't have and what it cannot contemplate. That is why
abstinence can backfire and lead to greater addiction.
Until you've seen
it you think it's a big deal. But when you've seen it you know it isn't a big
deal. When you've seen it repeatedly it stops being such a big deal.
We should be more
concerned with our own faults than with the faults of others. For every fault
we may find in another there may be two in us, which we must attend to.
It is not important to
know that we serve. It is important to know why we serve. Why do we help others?
Why do we praise others? Is it to serve ourselves that we serve others? This
question must be answered every day.
The reason for all addictions is suffering. When suffering becomes intolerable to the human soul it looks for an escape and on finding it does not abandon it easily. In this troubled life human beings look for escape routes, even if they are only transient. A degree of escape seems absolutely necessary from the harsh realities and the terrible drudgery of life.
This morning, half
awake, I considered the addiction of certain Moroccan youngsters that I saw in
a movie. They were homeless children sniffing glue to escape from the harsh
realities of their life. That is when the realization came. All addictions
arise out of the desire to escape from the terribleness of life, even my own
addiction. We desperately want to escape even for a brief while and whatever
helps us do that we certainly do not want to abandon. We will cling to that. It
is our only hope.
It is a perilous
business, this business of correcting others. We will do better correcting our
own mistakes. More grace is required for that. Moreover, this is what
pleases God. He wants us to inspire others simply by the way we care about
ourselves.
What annoys me
interests me as much as what pleases me. I am committed to knowing what
threatens my peace and what weakens my resolve as much as I am committed to
knowing what encourages me and keeps me going. I want to be aware of my
weaknesses as much as I am aware of my strengths.
We are here to shine
our light on all, not just train our light on a select group. Jesus did not
come to save a select group of people. He came to save the entire world. So we
must go out into the world and love the world, every bit of it without any
expectation. When we love the world Jesus is alive in the world.
Let us read from
various sources. Let us view a subject from various angles. Let us consider
approaches that vary from ours. Whatever we think or do, let us not be
slavishly loyal to our own ways without considering other ways.
Let us consider the
repugnant so that we may know what is really repulsive. We should find out
whether the thing that we thought to be objectionable actually jars against our
sensibilities. More importantly we should find out if the things that we say we
like are truly what we prefer.
More than actions we
need to examine our intentions and thought processes. Why are we doing what we
are doing? What are our goals really? Are we doing something that we should
continue to do? If not how do we alter our intentions and thought processes?
This is a profitable line of enquiry.
Let me teach myself before I teach others. Let me read to myself before I read to others. Let me
attend to myself before I attend to others.
I have made many mistakes. I will study these mistakes, as God reveals them and correct them, according to the grace that he gives me. But I will not be worried about them and I will certainly not be upset that I have not reached a certain mark. The journey to God is still in progress, and the only reason for that is God himself. He keeps me going. He keeps me hoping. He keeps me fighting. I fight the impulse to slacken. I fight the impulse to turn away. It is God who makes all things beautiful, even the mess that I am.
If something seeks to master you, the
solution is not to run away from it, for it will always find its way back to
you. Rather you should study the impulse and through knowledge and personal
discipline control its expression. This is by no means an expeditious process.
Much time and patience will be involved. Many obstacles will have to be
overcome. Many times one may fall but every time one falls one should rise. And
this is the way to curb the instinct that seeks to possess you.
How is a son responsible for his father's
sins? How is anyone responsible for any other person's sins? Why should the son
pay for his father's sins? Why should anyone pay for any other person's sins?
The concept is burdensome and nonsensical to the human mind, yet this is a
theory in the religion that I believe in, a theory that violates the human
concept of fairness.
Fear is the last
thing a child of God must surrender to.
You must confront your fear before you
overcome it.
If it is difficult to trust God how can you
trust Man?
Happiness does not
lie in achieving perfection but in accepting imperfection.
Take care that you
do not read too much. Take care that you do not read too little.
You have not been
given a wife so that you may beat her when you are drunk. You have not been
given children so that you may be violent with them in your drunken rage.
Alcohol is not for the abuser who expresses his bestial rage by having an
excess of it. If you feel so angry you reveal yourself to be incapable of
handling difficulties in life. Be a man and accept responsibility for your own
failures. Don't hurt others for your own follies.
Some Christians
have made Satan the centrepiece of Christianity and the central character in
their melodrama of faith. In reality Satan is a lesser character in the Bible
hardly meriting mention in most of its pages. The obsession with the devil
reveals fear-mindedness and a lack of focus on God.
My addictions do
not subtract from me. They add to me. They make me what I am. And I like what I
am.
The undesirable
will stay alongside the desirable, just to show what the desirable is.
You can read the
entire Bible and still not know God.
The wheat and the tares have been allowed by God to grow together
till the time of harvest. This is the state of the world, as God has
allowed it. Good and evil will coexist until the time of separation. If
this is the condition of the external world, why should the internal
world be any different? Evil will coexist with good in the human heart
until God sees it fit to be removed in its entirety. Let no human then
attempt to do what only God can and will do.
I believe, yet I
question.
Thursday, 4 October 2012
The Flesh Leads To The Spirit
Are the flesh and the spirit really in conflict? Can one dispense with the flesh in the pursuit of the spirit? Can man ever be like God?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
How do we worship God?
Many people go to church to worship God. Denominational differences in Christianity may involve different styles of worship. But what ...
-
"My chief concern at this point, and the reason I have chosen to write this book, is for my fellow believers who are struggling with ...