Posted in Confidence, Eternity, Expectations, Explanations, Faith, God's Will, tagged 1st John 5 on November 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Some think the best we can hope for is to live the best we can then find out later if it was good enough.
The Bible says God intends something better than that.
My purpose in writing is simply this: that you who believe in God’s Son will know beyond the shadow of a doubt that you have eternal life” – 1st John 5:13-15 (Message Bible)
If God wants us to know we have eternal life, why be satisfied with guessing?
— fritz
Posted in Expectations, God's Plan, God's Will, Heaven, tagged Revelation 05 on September 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
[T]hey sung a new song, saying, Thou … hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. — Revelation 5:9-10
Too often we act as if this present world and time are the only ones God has in mind for us.
Not So! We won’t be sitting in heaven somewhere eating bon-bons and playing harps when all this is over, we’ll have work to do! Stop thinking we are all headed to some non-physical existence and begin to notice the scriptures about a tangible future that God is moving us toward.
Sound Bite: We are only in phase one!
Prayer: “Jesus, help me to get and stay on board with your training program; learning all I can, growing all I can, knowing you have a greater purpose for me than right here and now. Amen.”
— fritz@langgang.com
Posted in Anthony Bloom, Expectations, Holy Week, Quotes on April 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »
We would never cry “Crucify Him!” But haven’t we?
Holy Week commemorates the events leading to Christ’s resurrection. Long ago the same people who greeted Jesus with excitement and, “Hosanna!”, later cried “Crucify Him!” – Why? Failed Expectations. They expected immediate political deliverance – what do we expect? Anthony Bloom, former archbishop in the Russian Orthodox Church, said in his Palm Sunday message on April 4, 1993,
How many are those people who have turned away in hatred from Christ because He has disappointed one hope or another.
I remember a women who had been a believer for all her life and whose grandson died, a little boy, and she said to me, “I don’t believe in God anymore. How could He take my grandson?” And I said to her, “But you believed in God while thousands and thousands and millions of people died.” And she looked at me and said, “Yes, but what did that do to me? I didn’t care, they were not my children”
He goes on to say,
[S]omething happens to us in a small degree so often that we waver … when something which we expect Him to do for us is not done, when He is not an obedient servant, when we proclaim our will, He does not say, “Amen,” and does not do it
So we are not so alien from those who met Christ at the gates of Jerusalem and then turned away from Him.
What do you do when God doesn’t meet your expectations?
– fritz
Read Metropolitian Anthony’s whole message here.
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