Day 312 - Little baby Jesus

John 3:16
"And God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whomever believes shall not perish, but have everlasting life"

Day 271 - The source of all problems

When something goes wrong, and when relationships don't work out, it's most likely than the cause of the problems is within us than in others, however, in our view, the others are most likely to be the reason of our misery.

"How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."   Luke 6:42

When we get annoyed of someone or something, the problem and the solution are inside of ourselves, with God's help to let us see clearly and give us the courage to change our own behaviour so that the we will treat the outside better and so it will respond to our change.
It is easy to criticize, but very hard to take action. Only the Holy Spirit can act in us.
 
 

 

Day 267 - The Spiritless Church

I saw a quote the other day that said take the Spirit out of most churches and nobody will notice the difference. That's sad, really sad, the whole point of the death of Christ is that He died and left His spirit on Earth to dwell among us and give us the insights that Jesus wants us to have. It is through the Spirit that things happen, it is through the Spirit that we act in the church, and do the will of God.

If the Spirit is not present, there is no point in doing good acts, because God said, I will recognize you not for doing good things but for doing my will.

"Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" John 3:3

A murder can become blameless with Jesus pardon, but a little kind housewife, mother of children that gives food to the poor every month can go to hell if she doesn't do does things for Jesus and does not have the Holy Spirit with her.

The churches and it's Christians have become Spiritless, they go to church which is awesome, but their hearts don't belong to Christ, their lives are not led by the Spirit. How can they do God's will then?

- They can't.

Day 258 - Am I doing according to my calling?

What is my calling? - My calling is to put my wants and desires aside and do what God has told me to do. But what is it? - I have been called to do what I wouldn't do on my own, things for the Kingdom of Heaven, and those other things that are placed in our hearts when we lay down our lives to Christ.
I never wanted to get married, now I am; I didn't think of having children, now my heart is pulsing to do so; I can't stop thinking of adopting a child, the one that people wanted the least. Those type of things that I wouldn't do without the Holy Spirit telling me so, those are my calling.

When everybody else is occupied with their own things and their own wants and desires and all of a sudden you have this thing piercing your heart to do different, that's your calling.

Let's not avoid our calling, because that's what makes us holy and separated by Jesus Christ our Lord.

"You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?" declares the LORD Almighty. "Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house."


Haggai 1:9
 
"You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it."


This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways."

Haggai 1:6-7
 
"But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."

Matthew 6:33

Day 236 - Nothing is gonna hold me back

We all have at least once experienced the terrible taste of failure. Whether is a mean word we give to someone, a lie, lust, murderer, adultery, envy, it doesn't matter what, from the smalled to the most complex, we ALL HAVE SINNED AND WE ALL DO. That miserable feeling of failure takes over us and we try to look up but it seems like we are trapped in our own actions. We feel ridiculous.

The thing is, God knows it all. He knew those things and that's why He gave us The Second Chance. That's Jesus. All the sins that we fall for today, the ones we have fallen for in the past, and even the future ones, they have all been paid for with pure holy blood.

That doesn't mean we can get comfortable, actually it's the opposite way, we MUST live a life in a perpetual state of alert. We are not meant to be mastered by anything else other than The Holy Trinity.

To do that takes a lot of work, but trust me, it's worth it. It is so worth it to have the feeling of victory instead of the instant allure of sin and then the miserable feeling of failure. Because of Jesus we can say that nothing will hold us back, nothing has the power to trap us, nothing has the power to control us. We may fall, but our Lord continues to be the Holy Lamb of God. If Jesus doesn't condemn us, than no one can, neither the devil nor ourselves.

"Then Jesus came up and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me". Matthew 28:18

"The one who believes in Him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God." John 3:18