BUT A POOR REFLECTION: Next Sunday in Church!

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Next Sunday in Church!

What if your pastor could download your memory and show your thoughts and secret desires on a big screen in church next Sunday? Scary thought, uh? Let's be honest about it. Read my mind here.

3 comments:

Rodney Olsen said...: I don't think anyone would ever speak to me again. :)

It's a constant struggle, with Christ's help, to bring our thoughts and desires under God's control.; 1/27/2007 11:48 pm
Art said...: Yeah, I think we're all in the same boat here! (Including the pastors:) Assuming we could download and display their thoughts too:O

Someone once told me to never do anything that I wouldn't want the entire world to know about. I can't say I've always followed that advice to a 'T" but the thought of it alone has definitely made a positive impact on my decision making!; 1/29/2007 8:23 am
Paul said...: Thanks, guys! I had to think about Paul's words in Romans 7:21,25 -"So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!" Amen!; 1/29/2007 10:05 am

God loves us

Have you ever wondered why God gives so much? We could exist on far less. He could have left the world flat and grey; we wouldn’t have known the difference. But he didn’t. He splashed orange in the sunrise and cast the sky in blue. And if you love to see geese as they gather, chances are you’ll see that too. Did he have to make the squirrel’s tail furry? Was he obliged to make the birds sing? And the funny way that chickens scurry or the majesty of thunder when it rings? Why give a flower fragrance? Why give food its taste? Could it be he loves to see that look upon your face?

Max Lucado - He Chose the Nails

Sadhu Sundar Singh

I do not condemn theologians wholesale, but it is unfortunately the fashion in Western thinking to doubt and deny everything. I protest this tendency. I never advise anyone to consult theologians, because all too often they have completely lost all sense of spiritual reality. They can explain Greek words and all that, but they spend too much time among their books and not enough time with the Master in prayer. It is not that I oppose all education, but education without life is certainly dangerous. You must stop examining spiritual truths like dry bones! You must break open the bones and take in the life-giving marrow.

Oswald Chambers

In the Bible clouds are always associated with God. Clouds are the sorrows, sufferings, or providential circumstances, within or without our personal lives, which actually seem to contradict the sovereignty of God. Yet it is through these very clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith. If there were never any clouds in our lives, we would have no faith. "The clouds are the dust of His feet" (Nahum 1:3). They are a sign that God is there. What a revelation it is to know that sorrow, bereavement, and suffering are actually the clouds that come along with God! God cannot come near us without clouds— He does not come in clear-shining brightness. (Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, July 29th)