It is easy to hate. It is difficult to love. Those who are in Christ are called to do the difficult thing. The day before he died, Christ issued a new command to his disciples that they should love one another as he loved them. He was calling them to love to the point of sacrificing their lives for others. This is not only difficult but also impossible to all those who operate in the natural. But with God everything, even this kind of love, is possible.
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Friday, 29 March 2013
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
It Is Good To Struggle
May God delay His appearance. May the blessing come last. Then my life will last. Its meaning will not be lost.
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
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.
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Dismantle The Structures
I must break free from the lusts of this world, the lust of my flesh and the lust of my eyes. I must dismantle the structures that I have built for the worship of these lusts. And I can do this only in God's strength, the one and only God, the God of the Bible.
Sunday, 10 March 2013
How Great God Is!
In a beautiful natural setting what better response can a person produce except the response to praise and glorify God, the Maker of heaven and earth?
It Is Well With My Soul
A confident declaration of my wellness in the midst of my illness, this is my rock solid faith in the God of the Bible, the Christ who is the Saviour of all who believe in Him.
Saturday, 9 March 2013
Sexual Fantasies
Sexual fantasies are not beneficial as long as they turn us away from God's sanctioned path of marital sex. When sexual desire originates outside marriage and away from God's way it becomes unhealthy and retards a person's growth. However sexual fantasies are unavoidable especially to those who have strong sexual drives. These drives cannot and should not be suppressed but they should be controlled by God. A man who wishes to gain control over his sexual appetites must submit them to God who alone can put them in their place. It is God alone who can bridle the sexual desire by pointing that man to a greater desire, the desire to know and to be with God.
Friday, 8 March 2013
Thank You YouTube And Google
Without YouTube I will not be able to reach people in all parts of the world. And I thank Google Adsense for letting me earn from the advertisements that are placed on my videos.
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