The Sayings of Samuel Godfrey George - February 2013

You can't love God and be afraid of him.

Do I have to overcome certain things every day? Some things can be overcome at one stroke. Many things will have to be overcome repetitively. In such cases what is overcome today may come back tomorrow. You will have to overcome it again. And you cannot overcome it without the Spirit of Christ living in you. Through Him alone you can conquer difficult, ingrained things. Trust in Him and believe that as He helps you overcome those things every day He renders them increasingly less potent as you successively overcome them.

Yes, Jesus was more human than I thought he was.

Don't be desperate to know people. Be desperate to know God.

If I fail to rejoice today I fail to live.

God is good. He has granted us this beautiful day. Let us spend it joyfully and gratefully, mindful in prayer about each other's problems.

You must learn to be patient. You must learn to be calm. You must learn to trust in God. You must learn not to think about anything else.

There is no use in sweeping the undesirable things under the carpet. You must review and discuss every unsavoury thing with God. And you must submit every unsavoury thing to God for He alone can transmute it into something good.

There are parts in my brain that think diseased thoughts. So can I cut them out of my body? My hands have sinned. My eyes have sinned. Can I cut them out of my body? No, I must go on just as I am, with disease and health intertwined in me. A day will indeed come when a new glorious inoffensive body will be given me.

If you know the heart of God you will not be afraid of Him.

Christ was never here to condemn the world but to save the world. And he saves the world by love and by accepting it just as it is. The people who were with him will not be suitable companions to most of us even today. Yet that is how Jesus lived and that is how the followers of Jesus should also live.

We may not differ in the crucial aspects of Christianity at least in my eyes. But where you see a difference that makes you separate yourself from me I see only diversity, a mark of the human race, which will continue to resist homogeneity. I maintain that differences should not drive us apart but bring us together.

As a Christ follower I am a representative of Christ in this world. I represent Christ best by conveying his love and his acceptance of people from all backgrounds regardless of race, nationality, culture, religion, ideology and sexual orientation. Christ conveys God's love for all people and accepts them just as they are. As a representative of Christ I must display this acceptance and love of the Lord Christ. Rather than force people to accept Christian doctrines of faith, I must show them the love of God, which is expressed in Christ.

This is the danger of thinking. A man's thoughts are not God's thoughts.

I shall regard you with love no matter how you regard me. And this love is not from me but from another who lives within me.

I am a work of God. I am His child by adoption. Born of a Hindu, I am now a servant of Christ. I swore to serve Him in a childhood dream when He appeared as a train of fire raging across the sky. For a while in my life I lost my way. I became an unbeliever and a hater of God. I ridiculed belief and all believers in God. Now I am a believer in God myself and I laugh at what I used to be, an ignorant, ill-informed child.

"Is that biblically sound?" That's not as important as asking, "Is that my love of God speaking?" What really matters is the love of God working in us and through us. And we must touch someone with love today.

All that I am saying this morning is "Thank you Lord". That is all I want to say the rest of my life.

I have tasted the joy of mixing with ordinary people. These days I spend time mostly with people from economically underprivileged groups. I feel a blessed connection with them.

To love is to look beyond a difference at a similarity that cannot be ignored.

Trouble humbles a man. So trouble is good.

I am neither an evangelist nor a prophet nor a pastor nor anything requiring a title before my name. I seek God. And God seeks me. And I speak about how desperately I cling to him. It is in fact the song that I have been asked to sing continually.

Let's not be in such a hurry to get there. Let's savour this imperfect and troubled moment for we will not be here again.

One fire must overwhelm the other. The fire in your heart may not be put out. But the fire in your soul should rage till it makes the other fire seem like nothing.