Do Not Worry.

Coping with our challenging life situations depends not on our own wisdom or ingenuity. It depends on out willingness to release them to a loving and sufficient God, seeking His face to sustain us.

All of us like to feel that we have control. If you express anxiety or fear to your friend most of the time the response is, "Don't worry, it will work out all right." It means that everywhere we turn we are always told not to worry.

Don't worry because when you worry Bobby McFerrin says, "In your life expext some trouble. When you worry you make it double. Don't worry be happy."

What worries or concerns cause you to feel stress, anxiety or fear?

Forgiveness

Two months or so ago, one of my friends forwarded me a text message. It was a simple text message about a son who asks his father what forgiveness is. You might have received or read this message before and it goes something like this.

A little boy asked his father...

Boy: Father, what is forgiveness?

Then father smiled and looked straightly to his son's eyes.

Father: Son, it may not be the exact meaning of forgiveness that I can give. But I can say that forgiveness is like the fragrance given by the flowers when they are crushed.

Easter

This is the day when our saviour fulfilled his task. That was to save his people from the fire of hell. This was a great victory for all of us as God gave up his life to have us redeemed and shared the life with Him the way he intended it to be in the beginning. sad to say most people do not really understand the true meaning of this, it maybe because of ignorance but this is not a valid excuse. I pray that someday all of the people especially Christians would know and understand the message of christ's death, the message of love, the message of salvation, the message of reconcilliation, the message of being together again, of forgiveness, of acceptance, of peace, of victory and of harmony.

God Bless You, and may you continue to live in the presence of God, with God in your heart and in everything you do in life!


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Relationship With God

Being a Christian is not about keeping rules ang regulations, doing rituals or even going to church every week, but it is about entering a relationship with the one, living and true God. And becoming a Christian is by entering that relationship.

God made us himself and He created us to know and live for Him.

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.' - Acts 17:24-28

No Other Time But Now

One of the famous lines that I always think of is "There is no other time but now", I really have no idea who originally said this but for me, this seven-letter-word is enough to tell us that we should be doing something right now. Something meaningful and will benefit us and others from. I am always saying this to myself whenever I remember this line but my problem is I am still unable to practice it because of lots of stuff that fill my mind. Distractions and lack of self discipline are my main problems.

Being Jesus

Have you heard of the story about a young cowardly soldier named Alexander who served under the command of Alexander The Great, one of the greatest military leaders in history?. This young soldier was brought before the mighty general to face his punishment for his gutless actions.

Alexander The Great asked the young soldier, "What is your name, soldier?" "Alexander, your highness." the soldier replied. Enraged by his answer, the general asked the soldier again two more times to say his name aloud. But each time the same reply was given. after soldier replied the third time, Alexander The Great looked him straight in the eye and said with burning fury, "Soldier, either change your behavior or change your name."

In much same way, when we call ourselves Christians, we are taking on Christ's name. As the Alexander the Great story challenges, are living up to that name?

C.S Lewis once said that for every person you encounter in your day, you either lead them one step closer to heaven or one step closer to hell. Most of the people who need God's grace around the world will encounter you personally, the only question is which path are you going to lead them?

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Ecclesiastes 12

Remember your Creator
       in the days of your youth,
       before the days of trouble come
       and the years approach when you will say,
       "I find no pleasure in them"-
  before the sun and the light
       and the moon and the stars grow dark,
       and the clouds return after the rain;
  when the keepers of the house tremble,
       and the strong men stoop,
       when the grinders cease because they are few,
       and those looking through the windows grow dim;
  when the doors to the street are closed
       and the sound of grinding fades;
       when men rise up at the sound of birds,
       but all their songs grow faint;
  when men are afraid of heights
       and of dangers in the streets;
       when the almond tree blossoms
       and the grasshopper drags himself along
       and desire no longer is stirred.
       Then man goes to his eternal home
       and mourners go about the streets.
  Remember him—before the silver cord is severed,
       or the golden bowl is broken;
       before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,
       or the wheel broken at the well,
  and the dust returns to the ground it came from,
       and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher.
       "Everything is meaningless!


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