I thank GOD for giving me HIS heart for the lost. For HIS compassion. For HIS power in prayer. For HIS answers to our asking. For HIS love that casts out all fear. For HIS love that covers a multitude of sins. For HIS love that is unconditional. And for HIS love that laid down HIS life for me. And HIS laid down life that gave me eternal life.
And what an honor to lead the lost, broken and lonely to the Way, the Truth and the Life.
I once had a jigsaw of 2000 pieces. It made a beautiful scenery when put together. The first time I opened the box i was all overwhelmed with so many tiny pieces. It didnt make any sense. The hues and small details on each piece seemed so different and independent of each other. I looked at the picture on the box: a blue sky with light cotton clouds, a meadow with daisies that blended together and i wondered how am i ever going to put the picture together. Discouraged I put the puzzle away.
Then one cold rainy day, I took the box out and got down to doing it simply because I had nothing else to do. One piece after another fell into place. And then soon it was almost done but only a few pieces missing. More pieces found its place and the picture looked more complete. And then what joy I felt when I placed the last missing piece and completed the jigsaw.
We see broken lives shattered into a zillion pieces. And from the looks of it we'd never understand how they'd have the beautiful life JESUS came to give them. In our natural abilities we cant understand how GOD's love can deliver them. But we take the first step of faith and share GOD'S love with them (prayerfully). And slowly we see the many pieces of a broken life put together and becoming more and more beautiful. The Bible says 'LORD YOU know all things. No plan of yours can be thwarted.' Our lives find perspective only when we find HIS perspective for our lives.
What is more rewarding than to see a heart turn to CHRIST ! A heart turned to GOD is a life changed....
Like Anthony Bonner said: The greatest trophy - a changed life !
Lets get real for a second here. The Judao-Christian god is named Yahweh. He's a moral monster who endorses slavery, killing people who eat shellfish, and the subjugation of women. Apparently he performed massed genocide on multiple occasions (if you accept the bible as a historical document...which pretty much no historian in their right mind does).
ReplyDeleteJesus is a fictional character comprised of stories by a small Jewish cult who wanted to combine popular religious beliefs in the Roman empire with the traditional Jewish "god". The Jesus story is actually a retelling of an old Sumerian story about the goddess Venus, also retold (preceding Christianity) in both Thracian and Roman cultures as the stories of Zalmoxis and Romulus.
Its so true Plakilla i experienced that myself and am i know many around me with the same testimony.
ReplyDeleteI read this some where A girl who received a book from a young man, read it and said, “What a tiresome book!” The young man said, “Did you notice who wrote it?” She looked at the front page and saw that her lover was the author. She began to read it again, and at the end she said, “I never read a greater book.” What made the difference? Her relationship to the writer. Look at God. Is He good or evil? It all depends on whether you are single in heart. If you look at Jesus, you may see Him either as a deceiver or as a Savior. What makes the difference? Your attitude, your eye.
Keep blogging am sure many get blessed reading your blog.