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Wednesday 11 June 2014

Help Someone Or Leave Him Alone

Praying not accompanied by giving is not good enough. We are commanded to love one another as Christ loved us and He loved us by giving Himself to us, which is the ultimate kind of giving. Prayer must bring forth love and giving. Anyone who merely prays without giving is not truly praying and also not fully obeying the commandment to love another as oneself.

One promises to pray for someone when one fails to help someone. This could be a genuine case of inability or it could be a polite excuse for not helping someone. Helping is troublesome. It always involves cost that not many are willing to pay. Of course prayer is also help, but it must be sincere in order to be so.Help. Do not advice. Help. Do not compliment. When a man needs help, just help.When a man needs help the best thing one can do for him is to give him help. Any other thing no matter how well-meant it may be is quite useless.
Feed someone. Or just leave him alone.
You don't lecture about the need for conserving food to the one who is hungry. You just feed him.

Don't call me "son" and fail to act like my mother. Don't call me " a great prophet" and fail to give me your immediate attention.
When a desperate young man came to me several years ago and asked me for help, I'm grateful that I didn't send him away with only a prayer. When my own uncle requested me for help at a time when no one would trust him, I'm grateful that I didn't send him with only my tears and prayers. Yesterday when I met a needy person on the road, I'm grateful that I didn't leave her only with my blessings. I'm grateful to God that He made me give on every occasion, for giving is better than receiving and is better than only praying without giving.

I certainly appreciate the one who does not even bother to look in the direction of a needy person than the one who approaches him with pious love and many spoken blessings without actually doing one practical thing to meet his need.
To care about something and to do nothing about it is not caring at all.


- Samuel Godfrey George

God In Sam - My New Computer Is Born

My new computer is already born in my heart. Once I labelled a certain phase in my work, "God and Sam". In that name I now see a detachment. My new computer will herald a new era of oneness between me and my God. That is why I have christened it "God In Sam". I have not bought it yet. I don't even have the means to buy it as of now. But I know that this computer is on its way into my life. God will surely bring it into reality. I know this. And I thank God in advance for it.

Samuel Godfrey George, 09 June 2014

The Voice Goes On

It is June in 2014. After seven breathless years of God-serving and nearly 3000 videos on YouTube, my voice has ceased to speak publicly for God, and my video camera has taken its longest break yet. It is my hope that my voice will speak again, and when it does it will not be the same any more.

Before my computer, Sam's Notebook, ceased to function totally, I had a dream. I was in a church, a familiar church, attempting to read the words of the hymn, "Abide With Me." But for many reasons I couldn't read the hymn. And many of these reasons had little to do with me. The hymn book didn't seem right. Then the microphone failed. Then I moved to the other side of the aisle for some strange reason. Later I wanted to return to the side where I was originally, and there was a man blocking my way. When I arrived at this side, it seemed all right for me to read. But when I started to read the lights went out. And then they came back again. So I tried once more. But the hymn book again failed me. So I decided to recite the words from memory. But I couldn't get past the first few lines, as my my memory failed me. Finally I decided to abandon the reading of the hymn and decided to speak about it. All the while the congregation seemed to wait patiently for me. And that really surprised me. So I started off this new approach with a few jokes and the audience smiled appreciatively. Wow, I still had my audience after all that time of waiting and experimenting! And they were waiting for me.

This makes me confident that those who want to hear my voice will wait for me. I don't know when I will start broadcasting video messages again. But according to the aforementioned dream, I will broadcast again but in a different manner. This is a promise from God to me. And I don't doubt it.

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