Sayings Of Samuel Godfrey George - May 2016, Part 1

May all mothers rejoice in their great ability to love. Their love is an expression of God's love for his children. May mothers continue to express love. May children be grateful for their mothers' love and celebrate their mothers every day.

I wish all mothers could be seen as friends by their children. But there are mothers who are not perceived like that. Many mothers are great care-givers and lovers without being intimately connected with their children. Many people are not comfortable with revealing their innermost thoughts and desires to their mothers and fathers. It is the rare parent who transcends the parental boundaries, and enters into the realm of friendship. It has been said that there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother. I will dare to say that there is a friend who sticks closer than even a mother.

Thank you God for my mother. Thank you God for all mothers. Thank you God for loving us so much, and we see your love in the love of our mothers.

I remember all mothers today. Every mother has done a lot for her child. Every mother has done a lot for her children. Mothers are the great care-givers of the world. Mothers are the great lovers of the world. There is no love in the world as sweet as mother's love. And we, the people of this world, should not fail to give thanks to our mothers, not only today, on Mother's Day, but also every day of our lives. We should give thanks to God for our mothers every day of our lives.

"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." The man who is believed to have written these words, himself departed from his father's teaching. Solomon was not half the man that David was. And David himself was half a man of God. Life is tough and treacherous. I would like to have had a child. I would have loved to hear my child call me "Dad". The privilege of hearing that alone is enough for me. Ultimately, the joy in parenting is about expectations. Expect nothing, and you may have everything. Expect everything, and you may have nothing. Be grateful for even the little things. Then nothing can upset you. But insist on everything being what you want it to be. Then everything can potentially disappoint you.

No joy is pure joy on earth. All joy is alloyed with sadness. All joy allows for heartbreak. So take care with joy. Enjoy with care.

A good day to all God's children. Whatever you are going through today, know this. God loves you. And he is with you always. So walk boldly and happily today.

Give thanks to God when you have to. In fact, give thanks to God always. Nothing is possible without him ever.

Don't focus on the offender. You show love. And love conquers all.

We should acknowledge our need of God every day. This is the meaning of weakness. And this is what Saint Paul was referring to when he said, "When I am weak, then I am strong." He meant that when he acknowledged his need of God, it prompted him to seek God, and God responded to him by granting him strength graciously. And since God's gracious help is always sufficient, Paul could triumph every time he was in trouble, because of his human weakness.

With God all good things are possible. Without God no good thing is possible.

We should be more concerned with our own faults than with those of others. For every fault we may find in another there may be two in us, which we must attend to.

Sometimes it takes just one prayer from one person, who does not believe so much. God particularly pays attention to the lost son's inarticulate pleading.

If you are living with an unbeliever, I think God wants you to stay with this person, so that you may learn to love him. You should love him despite his faults. You should accept him just as he is. You should be Christ to him. And maybe then he will believe.

God knows how to reach out to people. I hope the overzealous servants of God don't stand in the way of that. Even then, God will have his chosen ones.

The one you are worrying about may be closer to Christ than you think. Don't estimate the inner condition of a human. No person is equipped to do that. And one more thing. Don't believe that you are in a better place than someone. That kind of thinking will not please God.

You should not try to make anyone believe in Jesus Christ. You should show Christ in the way you live. And if people see Christ in you, and if they like what they see, they will go where you would like them to go.

Even Jesus Christ had to endure religious fools. There is little hope for the Jesus follower who wants to avoid that fate.

To say that a man does not belong to God because he denies God can be a misjudgement. Even I denied God once. Now I cannot deny him, even if I try. Some of us already belong to God without our knowing it.

There is a great danger of following Christ to the letter, without knowing his heart. And his heart is love. When you know his love, and receive it, in all your unworthiness, you will be transformed into a new person. That is a part of being born again.

The idea of being born again came from God. But the label "born-again Christian" came from Man. Spiritual birth is what takes us to God. Yet to classify ourselves as "spiritually born" could be an exercise in distinguishing ourselves from others. Such an attempt is both unnecessary and unhelpful. Everyone who belongs to God is born again.

Sometimes the best thing an ardent Christian can do for his unbelieving neighbour is to leave him alone.

Don't give up on anyone. For God will not give up on you.

Always aim to see the other person as God see him or her. Ask God to show you how. And learn to accept people just as they are. Learn to love the one you will normally hate. Learn to bless the person whom you will normally curse.

Don't try to change people to be like who you are. Accept them the way they are. And do your best for them. That is love.

True worship is to experience thankfulness and then express it simply without exaggeration and insincerity.

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."

When you have God living in you, you have nothing to be ashamed of. Where the Lord dwells is indeed a holy place. And he dwells in you. So don't be ashamed of what you find in yourself. The Lord can accept it. Why can't you?

Knowing my own weakness is crucial to my knowing where my strength comes from. And my strength comes from God.

My goal is this: as long as I am alive and am able, I will do whatever I can to bring out the good in me, as a tribute to God who points me to the good and for the benefit of those in the world who may need my good.

When we worry, we waste time and energy. Instead of worrying we could do something good that would bring benefit to our lives or to another person's life.

Is God waiting to punish people in this world? The answer to the question lies in the story of the prodigal son, which Jesus told in the Bible. This is the story of a man who longs for the return of his rebellious son. And when that son returns to his father defeated and repentant, that father is already waiting and ready to receive him and restore him to his position in the family. The forgiving father, brimming with gracious love, is the representation of God, and the sinful, prodigal son, who disgraced himself thoroughly, is the representation of the sin-ridden humanity. If the human father in Jesus' story could forgive his son, so could the divine father forgive every human child, who returns to him with a heart laden with remorse.

It is perilous, 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.

We should be more concerned with our own faults than with those of others. For every fault we may find in another there may be two in us, which we must attend to.

Sometimes it takes just one prayer from one person, who does not believe so much. God particularly pays attention to the lost son's inarticulate pleading.

If you are living with an unbeliever, I think God wants you to stay with this person, so that you may learn to love him. You should love him despite his faults. You should accept him just as he is. You should be Christ to him. And maybe then he will believe.

God knows how to reach out to people. I hope the overzealous servants of God don't stand in the way of that. Even then, God will have his chosen ones.

The one you are worrying about may be closer to Christ than you think. Don't estimate the inner condition of a human. No person is equipped to do that. And one more thing. Don't believe that you are in a better place than someone. That kind of thinking will not please God.

You should not try to make anyone believe in Jesus Christ. You should show Christ in the way you live. And if people see Christ in you, and if they like what they see, they will go where you would like them to go.

Even Jesus Christ had to endure religious fools. There is little hope for the Jesus follower who wants to avoid that fate.

To say that a man does not belong to God because he denies God can be a misjudgement. Even I denied God once. Now I cannot deny him, even if I try. Some of us already belong to God without our knowing it.

There is a great danger of following Christ to the letter, without knowing his heart. And his heart is love. When you know his love, and receive it, in all your unworthiness, you will be transformed into a new person. That is a part of being born again.

The idea of being born again came from God. But the label "born-again Christian" came from Man. Spiritual birth is what takes us to God. Yet to classify ourselves as "spiritually born" could be an exercise in distinguishing ourselves from others. Such an attempt is both unnecessary and unhelpful. Everyone who belongs to God is born again.

Sometimes the best thing an ardent Christian can do for his unbelieving neighbour is to leave him alone.

Don't give up on anyone. For God will not give up on you.

Always aim to see the other person as God see him or her. Ask God to show you how. And learn to accept people just as they are. Learn to love the one you will normally hate. Learn to bless the person whom you will normally curse.

Don't try to change people to be like who you are. Accept them the way they are. And do your best for them. That is love.

True worship is to experience thankfulness and then express it simply without exaggeration and insincerity.

Celebrate your mother while she is still with you.

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."

When you have God living in you, you have nothing to be ashamed of. Where the Lord dwells is indeed a holy place. And he dwells in you. So don't be ashamed of what you find in yourself. The Lord can accept it. Why can't you?

Knowing my own weakness is crucial to my knowing where my strength comes from. And my strength comes from God.

My goal is this: as long as I am alive and am able, I will do whatever I can to bring out the good in me, as a tribute to God who points me to the good and for the benefit of those in the world who may need my good.

When we worry, we waste time and energy. Instead of worrying we could do something good that would bring benefit to our lives or to another person's life.