BUT A POOR REFLECTION: Outstretched arms

Saturday, February 03, 2007

Outstretched arms

I don’t want to be just an admirer. I want to be a true follower.

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4 comments:

Katrín said...: Hi! I have a question for you :)

If you could spend a day with any person from the Bible, who would it be and why?

-Katrín; 2/05/2007 11:20 pm
Paul said...: Well, Katrín, the religious correct answer is Jesus, of course! But if we are talking about human beings like you and me, I would like to spend a day with Paul. I do want to hear about his mission travel experiences and I want to know where and how it all ended. Tradition tells us that Paul died as a martyr, and I don't want to have all the bloody details - but I do have some questions about the final episode of his life! I would also like to know about that thorn in his side and I would like to talk with him about WOMEN (and the strange / difficult things he writes about them...) So, that's my honest answer today. Maybe tomorrow I will change my mind! I would like to meet Moses (tell me about that walk right through the sea!), have a chat with Job and Salomon (about philosophical issues), have an interview with Joseph and Daniel (about staying faithful under pressure), sing along with my friend David and make some more poetry with him (Psalm 151, 152, 153 etc Hallelujah!). Does that answer your question? :-); 2/06/2007 12:13 am
Paul said...: PS I don't like fishing, otherwise I would have opted for a day at sea with Peter and the other guys!
A night with femme fatale Delilah sounds very tempting too - but this is not an option I guess. An other practical problem is that my own wife will not like this and I would also like to avoid a confrontation with our big friend Samson (and I don't want to wake up with a bold head like that poor guy). Btw Delilah means: "[One who] weakened or uprooted or impoverished" - that's the kind of girls men should avoid at all costs.; 2/06/2007 10:00 am
Katrín said...: yes, thank you :) I was just curious, because I've thought about that sometimes myself... whom I would like to spend a day with. And like you I think Paul is at the top of my list at least if I could only pick one ;)

-Katrín; 2/06/2007 11:45 pm

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)