Don't Wait for Tomorrow

How often are we presented with opportunities to help others, but let them slip by?  Do we hesitate because we're unsure if we have free time or spare money enough to give?  Do we withhold the help because we decide that the beneficiary doesn't really deserve it, won't appreciate it, or will squander it?  Perhaps we feel like his or her problems are none of our business, or that we just don't want to "get involved."These are natural and commonplace feelings, but as believers in Christ we need to remember the terrible price...

Look Up

I still experience those moments when I reflect first about one thing and then another and suddenly realize that there is a very profound connection between the two. I recently had one of those moments involving two different passages of scripture. Right now, I have a great many things in my life that I have to deal with. Suffice it to say, whenever I begin to feel overwhelmed by life, there is one passage of scripture I always turn to and lean on. Philippians 4:13 (NET) - I am able to do all things through the One who strengthens me. The One, of course, is Christ. I cannot begin to count...

- GENERATIONS -

Isaiah 41.1"Who did and ran it all? He who from the beginning has called generations to existence, I, the Lord, the first, and with the latter myself. "     How many struggles and dilemmas we found in our generations. Each generation faces its challenges, each, elders, adults, youth and children, have nowadays to face their own problems often alone and isolated. God looks for all generations and says: "at that time, saith the Lord, I will be the God of all the generations of Israel, and they shall be my people." (Jeremiah 31.1)....

Cheer Up!

Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.(Matthew 14:27, Mark 6:50) Lately I've been rethinking my long-time penchant for following current events. News sources are overflowing with stories about the most unspeakable depravities, corruption, wars and crises, natural disasters, poverty, rampant disease, and so on. This is even reputed to be the year (supposedly according to ancient Mayans) that the world comes to an end. Even here in America we're confronted with widespread unemployment, political strife, social unrest, crime, and declining...

21ST CENTURY CITY OF REFUGE

In the book of Joshua 20:1-9, the scripture tells us of the implementation of a special provision made by God through Moses for the Israelites. The Provision is the assignment of some cities as a places of Refuge. Refuge for individuals who accidentally kill another and are fleeing from the "Avenger" of blood (someone who set out to take revenge for the death for his/her relation/friend etc). The city of refuge is the place of respite for the one who accidentally kill another so that he/she will have a chance to have a shot at justice and...

No one ever taught me how to love

“If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself,’ you do well.” -James 2:8   “No one ever taught me how to love.” Oftentimes we move through life, toiling and striving, meeting goals and achieving dreams, without ever really learning how to truly love those around us. Some of us, due to past experiences, have been crippled in the area of our emotions, and as a result find the concept of loving anyone outside of our immediate family an unattainable feat. Admittedly, it’s...

Heavenly Father Knows Best

Fathers have been on my mind a great deal lately. In my country, June is when Father’s Day is celebrated. In July, Independence Day is celebrated and we remember our Founding Fathers. Just prior to Independence Day a well respected actor passed away who played one of the most iconic father figures in the history of television. I have no doubt that the actor who portrayed this father was a fine man, but there is a difference between television and real life. In real life, family crises are never resolved in half an hour with everyone smiling and laughing until the next episode. Moreover,...

- Vision -

               A few days ago I heard a pastor to count in your message an illustration: caught a squirrel and left within a bowl with water. To survive, the animal struggled for three minutes and died. The same experiment was done with another squirrel, but now a lamp was placed on the basin. This time, in order to survive, the squirrel fought for three days. Know why this second took longer to die? Because there was a light.               We need to fight for our dreams...

Job 27 - Identity

Job 27.. And Job continued his discourse:  2 “As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice,      the Almighty, who has made my life bitter,  3 as long as I have life within me,     the breath of God in my nostrils, 4 my lips will not say anything wicked,     and my tongue will not utter lies.  5 I will never admit you are in the right;     till I die, I will not deny my integrity.  God is good. how many time people say thing to us making us give up of our dreams and plans...