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Our Work – A Gift From God

Posted in Don Meyer, God's Calling, Martin Luther King, Quotes, Satisfaction, Work on September 1, 2010| Leave a Comment »

“Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.” – Psalm 104:23

“Though we may not always understand the circumstances or hardships that we will face, our attitude should be one that says: ‘No matter what I am going through today, this work that I am in is a gift from God'” – Don Meyer1

“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– fritz

1 – Elim Bible Institute’s Bell Tower, Spring 2009, Finding Satisfaction in Your Work, pg 10

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>Proof reality is more than physical

Posted in God, Ideals on June 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »

>Some reject the notion of anything real which can’t be experienced in some way by one of our five(5) senses. God is, therefore, discounted as either non-exist or unknowable.

Beginning with this thought as a “given” there is little due diligence on their part to investigate if it’s factual and they are unaware their acceptance of the very idea, itself, proves it wrong.

Dallas Willard put it this way:

“Your thought or your wish for for a candy bar or for success in your profession is a trivial example of something you are sharply aware of and can describe in some detail. But you do not touch or smell it, nor would stronger light or glasses enable you to “see” it better. It simply does not have the characteristics revealed to the physical senses. And that is no objection to it, for if it had such properties it would not be a thought or a wish. This observation is associated with the fact that a thought or wish is not localizable in space” The Divine Conspiracy, page 91

If there are some things knowable, describable, and acceptable without the five senses, why not others?

One could say ideas, wishes, and intentions can have no life of their own, if that is so who keeps and promotes the ideas of freedom in the midst of bondage, democracy in the midst of dictatorships, or love in the midst of indifference? If these can persist outside our current experience, why can’t something or someone else?

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” – Jesus (Revelation 3:20)

Something to ponder for today.

-fritz

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God needs no explanation

Posted in Explanations, God, tagged , , on June 7, 2010| Leave a Comment »

God and Satan talk in the Bible and it looks like a giant chess game with Job’s family as the pawns. In the garden God calls to Adam, “Where are you?”, but doesn’t he already know? Joshua is told by God to leave no survivors; where is the love and mercy in that?! People are offended by these and other scriptures, sometimes wanting nothing to do with God because if it.

There are explanations, sure, and we are quick to provide, but this surfaces an important fact about our Heavenly Father – God doesn’t try to explain Himself.

Our culture demands explanations. From presidents, employees, preachers, parishioners, parents, children, in public and in private, to others and to ourselves we feel explanations must be given; they don’t have to be true only plausible.

God doesn’t play along!

Jesus was (and is) constantly misunderstood; at one point losing all but his closest disciples because of it. His response was not, “Wait, let me explain!”, he kept loving and obeying the Father. He later put it this way,

“ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep … My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me” – John 10:26-27 (KJV)

True, we are not to blatantly disregard the feelings of others but we shall be misunderstood no matter what we do. We are not to waste time defending and explaining, but keep loving and serving Christ, always ready to explain our hope which sustains us. (1st Peter 3:15)

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