Showing posts with label ...in living in HIS words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ...in living in HIS words. Show all posts
Mark the day where people will WALK for a very good cause.
People from all over the world have been
extending help since the big disaster hit the Philippines in 2013. It
affected millions of lives and it is not over. The severe loss and damage
the calamity brought continues to pain the victims of this tragic event and the
brethren of the Iglesia Ni Cristo feels the intense need to share further with
the World Wide Walk to happen on Saturday, 2nd of February 2014.
Be part of this simple but effective way
of giving not just monetary assistance but a heartfelt empathy to the young and
the old that lost love ones, homes and almost – their ALL.
What difference does it make if you will walk to have a good
functioning heart and walk with us in the WWW and have also a big blessed
heart?
How hard will it be to use up this one day to be within groups of
people sharing smiles knowing you have a common cause?
Why not do what you usually do of exercising those bones and muscles,
getting the vitamin D that you need, strengthen your heart and lungs WITH
ME? WITH US?
Know
that this is yet another Memory to Keep.
Join the Worldwide Walk for the Yolanda Victims and be part of history.
There comes a time when we meet people who is mighty passionate of their beliefs and just don't know how to respond to their "misleading" queries, and we end up being quiet but thoughtful. There also are instances in our life that we sit and look around us, and is thoughtful. Early this morning I received this pretty interesting email message from a friend and I can't help but share it with you guys. The very popular belief of Science in the non-existence of God and the firm hold of believers in faith.
Now do you agree with me that this is worth a read?! And I know you are also itching to share this with others...so do so...just link me to it okay (wink!). Let us help others to KEEP THE FAITH. Continue to expound on things to increase knowledge. This student loves learning...he actually turned out to be the famous Albert Einstein.
AN ATHEIST AND A BELIEVER
An Atheist Professor of Philosophy speaks to his Class on the Problem Science has with GOD, the ALMIGHTY.
He asks one of his New Christian Students to stand and . . .
Professor : You are a Christian, aren't you, son ?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor : So you Believe in GOD ?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD Good ?
Student : Sure.
Professor : Is GOD ALL - POWERFUL ?
Student : Yes.
Professor : My Brother died of Cancer even though he Prayed to GOD to Heal him.
Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill.
But GOD didn't.
How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
( Student is silent )
Professor : You can't answer, can you ?
Let's start again, Young Fella.
Is GOD Good?
Student : Yes.
Professor : Is Satan good ?
Student : No.
Professor : Where does Satan come from ?
Student : From . . . GOD . . .
Professor : That's right.
Tell me son, is there evil in this World?
Student : Yes.
Professor : Evil is everywhere, isn't it ?
And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student : Yes.
Professor : So who created evil ?
(Student does not answer)
Professor : Is there Sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness?
All these terrible things exist in the World, don't they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor : So, who Created them ?
( Student has no answer )
Professor : Science says you have 5 Senses you use to Identify and Observe the World around you.
Tell me, son . . . Have you ever Seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor : Tell us if you have ever Heard your GOD?
Student : No , sir.
Professor : Have you ever Felt your GOD, Tasted your GOD, Smelt your GOD?
Have you ever had any Sensory Perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Professor : Yet you still Believe in HIM?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn't exist.
What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my Faith.
Professor : Yes, Faith. And that is the Problem Science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
Professor : Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as Cold?
Professor : Yes.
Student : No sir. There isn't.
( The Lecture Theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events )
Student : Sir, you can have Lots of Heat, even More Heat, Superheat, Mega Heat, White Heat,
a Little Heat or No Heat.
But we don't have anything called Cold.
We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is No Heat, but we can't go any further after that.
There is no such thing as Cold.
Cold is only a Word we use to describe the Absence of Heat.
We cannot Measure Cold.
Heat is Energy.
Cold is Not the Opposite of Heat, sir, just the Absence of it.
( There is Pin - Drop Silence in the Lecture Theatre )
Student : What about Darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as Darkness?
Professor : Yes. What is Night if there isn't Darkness?
Student : You're wrong again, sir.
Darkness is the Absence of Something…
You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light . . .
But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and its called Darkness, isn't it?
In reality, Darkness isn't.
If it is, were you would be able to make Darkness Darker, wouldn't you?
Professor : So what is the point you are making, Young Man ?
Student : Sir, my point is your Philosophical Premise is flawed.
Professor : Flawed ? Can you explain how?
Student : Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality.
You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a Good GOD and a Bad GOD.
You are viewing the Concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure.
Sir, Science can't even explain a Thought.
It uses Electricity and Magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one.
To view Death as the Opposite of Life is to be ignorant of the fact that
Death cannot exist as a Substantive Thing.
Death is Not the Opposite of Life: just the Absence of it.
Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your Students that they evolved from a Monkey?
Professor : If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir?
( The Professor shakes his head with a Smile, beginning to realize where the Argument is going )
Student : Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and
Cannot even prove that this Process is an On - Going Endeavor,
Are you not teaching your Opinion, sir?
Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher?
( The Class is in Uproar )
Student : Is there anyone in the Class who has ever seen the Professor's Brain?
( The Class breaks out into Laughter )
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's Brain, Felt it, touched or Smelt it? . . .
No one appears to have done so.
So, according to the Established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that
You have No Brain, sir.
With all due respect, sir, how do we then Trust your Lectures, sir?
(The Room is Silent. The Professor stares at the Student, his face unfathomable)
Professor : I guess you'll have to take them on Faith, son.
Student : That is it sir . . .
The Link between Man & GOD is FAITH.
That is all that Keeps Things Moving & Alive.
Now do you agree with me that this is worth a read?! And I know you are also itching to share this with others...so do so...just link me to it okay (wink!). Let us help others to KEEP THE FAITH. Continue to expound on things to increase knowledge. This student loves learning...he actually turned out to be the famous Albert Einstein.
There are times that I sit at a park and look around me...I see people of different age hurrying along doing their normal day to day activities. I observe them portraying different stations in life with their wardrobes or even the way they carry themselves. Everything seems in order. The world seems peaceful.
But the media discloses how bad the world turned out to be. They make you witness crime after crime that sometimes you can hardly cope up. You cannot begin to imagine such a thing can be done nor can you swallow the fact that you are within the same circle as these animals that God actually created to be human beings. They come up with various ways to raise themselves above others, ways to intentionally harm others, ways to use another for their own benefit regardless of who, how, when, where and why they do so. From rich and powerful individuals to poor and lowly commoners...they have their own ways of being ruled by the devil.
I know of someone who shamefully used her power to her own advantage. She unwittingly dangled her name to probable disgrace when found out but she was blinded by vanity, by money. She failed to care for the teachings, she ignored what is right, she disregarded the norms of the society. She and her family may have enjoyed the fruit of the dishonesty for a few months but now is paying the debt with humiliation and damage in reputation for the deed cannot stay unknown. No secret can be left hidden for so long, there always is a leak.
The wicked will do everything to succeed, they will use everything and say anything to win. And they usually target the weak, and abuse the righteous. It is truly sad when I have heard that the Brotherhood we so value at church had been breached yesterday. A brother was deceived into believing that he is helping another brother in need. He was misled with a sorrowful story of a child who recently had died of Dengue and the father needing cash for paying of debts. He was told of one lie after another. Deceiver "Michael Reyes" even entered the church premises being
introduced to many other brethren saying he is from another locale, this and that, then pretended to bring our brother and his family to a place to pay the debtor with part of the cash as payment to a non-existent laptop only to find out hours after that the supposed office door is actually a car park exit. These types of crimes are known in varying classifications depending on their style, "budol-budol gang", "dugo-dugo gang", "akyat-bahay gang"...probably differently called in different languages but they all are the same - CRUEL, SELFISH, SINFUL, ROTTEN, EVIL!
Purely EVIL!
But the media discloses how bad the world turned out to be. They make you witness crime after crime that sometimes you can hardly cope up. You cannot begin to imagine such a thing can be done nor can you swallow the fact that you are within the same circle as these animals that God actually created to be human beings. They come up with various ways to raise themselves above others, ways to intentionally harm others, ways to use another for their own benefit regardless of who, how, when, where and why they do so. From rich and powerful individuals to poor and lowly commoners...they have their own ways of being ruled by the devil.
I know of someone who shamefully used her power to her own advantage. She unwittingly dangled her name to probable disgrace when found out but she was blinded by vanity, by money. She failed to care for the teachings, she ignored what is right, she disregarded the norms of the society. She and her family may have enjoyed the fruit of the dishonesty for a few months but now is paying the debt with humiliation and damage in reputation for the deed cannot stay unknown. No secret can be left hidden for so long, there always is a leak.
The wicked will do everything to succeed, they will use everything and say anything to win. And they usually target the weak, and abuse the righteous. It is truly sad when I have heard that the Brotherhood we so value at church had been breached yesterday. A brother was deceived into believing that he is helping another brother in need. He was misled with a sorrowful story of a child who recently had died of Dengue and the father needing cash for paying of debts. He was told of one lie after another. Deceiver "Michael Reyes" even entered the church premises being
introduced to many other brethren saying he is from another locale, this and that, then pretended to bring our brother and his family to a place to pay the debtor with part of the cash as payment to a non-existent laptop only to find out hours after that the supposed office door is actually a car park exit. These types of crimes are known in varying classifications depending on their style, "budol-budol gang", "dugo-dugo gang", "akyat-bahay gang"...probably differently called in different languages but they all are the same - CRUEL, SELFISH, SINFUL, ROTTEN, EVIL!Purely EVIL!
I find myself ducking as if toppled over by big boulders each time I hear someone directly bad mouth another or say a foul word towards me or another person. It may not always be something wholeheartedly meant but all the same affecting in some way. Some says it's just an expression, even to some just creating laughter around. All the same, they were bad words that we know that should not be uttered in front of a child...and for me, even in front of adults.
Rationale would be...why say it at all?
Maybe people just got used to hearing them more and more each day that it became so natural for the ears already. But vulgar words are still vulgar. It still is not appropriate to be heard if you wanted to be respected nor would you want to be measured lesser than another. Sophisticated people looks less sophisticated with one foul word out of his mouth, gentleman looks less of a gentleman, a lady less of a lady...so on and so forth. Why lower yourself down with such words when you can level up without them?
God made us to worship Him. God gave us voices to sing for Him and to praise Him. He allows words out of our mouth not to slander, to bad mouth, to say foul words...BUT to utter words that will make us worthy of speaking at all. Let Him not think otherwise for He might take that gift of talking from you!
Rationale would be...why say it at all?
Maybe people just got used to hearing them more and more each day that it became so natural for the ears already. But vulgar words are still vulgar. It still is not appropriate to be heard if you wanted to be respected nor would you want to be measured lesser than another. Sophisticated people looks less sophisticated with one foul word out of his mouth, gentleman looks less of a gentleman, a lady less of a lady...so on and so forth. Why lower yourself down with such words when you can level up without them?
God made us to worship Him. God gave us voices to sing for Him and to praise Him. He allows words out of our mouth not to slander, to bad mouth, to say foul words...BUT to utter words that will make us worthy of speaking at all. Let Him not think otherwise for He might take that gift of talking from you!More and more each day, we encounter people and deeds that causes us to hold back on trusting others. From minor lies to wide range scams, name it, man knows it.
Most recent that many have heard of is the defective drywall that has been installed all over US that is known to be the "Chinese Drywall". They are now in houses, condo's, and even offices that has been investigated to emit gas that causes corrosion of metal coils and wiring and other items with metal components that is both harmful and dangerous. You're probably one of the thousands having problem concerning it...if so, see this http://www.chinesedrywallproblem.com to assist you.
The world is truly getting filthier by the minute, and not just physically with all the garbage and pollution we see around us, but as well as spiritual decay of the mankind. Are we really on the verge of losing the battle of saving the world? Are we really on the road to destruction? Most likely! And this time there will be no Noah's Ark to give us hope of being saved from being perished on this earth because the Almighty promised not flooding the world ever again. Instead, next time around it will be fire. Next time around it will be the end. Either it's heaven or hell.
With the way man are living, the choices made...it's not surprising anymore to read in the holy scripture that those who will be burnt forever will be as many as the sand in the ocean. BUT THEN there is still hope. God is merciful, and so why don't we stop what the greater many does. Stop the lying, stop the need for personal gains,...stop prioritizing worldly goods over what is morally right! WE KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG, we just insists the wrong to be right by measuring the percentage of those seeing it to be right over those who still believe it to be wrong as God says it to be wrong! Why not follow the one who will judge you to either have eternal life in heaven or eternal life burning in hell??? It's not too long now, don't be caught up with this short life lent us here on earth...you may not make it to the door!!!
Most recent that many have heard of is the defective drywall that has been installed all over US that is known to be the "Chinese Drywall". They are now in houses, condo's, and even offices that has been investigated to emit gas that causes corrosion of metal coils and wiring and other items with metal components that is both harmful and dangerous. You're probably one of the thousands having problem concerning it...if so, see this http://www.chinesedrywallproblem.com to assist you.
The world is truly getting filthier by the minute, and not just physically with all the garbage and pollution we see around us, but as well as spiritual decay of the mankind. Are we really on the verge of losing the battle of saving the world? Are we really on the road to destruction? Most likely! And this time there will be no Noah's Ark to give us hope of being saved from being perished on this earth because the Almighty promised not flooding the world ever again. Instead, next time around it will be fire. Next time around it will be the end. Either it's heaven or hell.
With the way man are living, the choices made...it's not surprising anymore to read in the holy scripture that those who will be burnt forever will be as many as the sand in the ocean. BUT THEN there is still hope. God is merciful, and so why don't we stop what the greater many does. Stop the lying, stop the need for personal gains,...stop prioritizing worldly goods over what is morally right! WE KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG, we just insists the wrong to be right by measuring the percentage of those seeing it to be right over those who still believe it to be wrong as God says it to be wrong! Why not follow the one who will judge you to either have eternal life in heaven or eternal life burning in hell??? It's not too long now, don't be caught up with this short life lent us here on earth...you may not make it to the door!!!
A very popular question that is amusing... but for me is NOT a question supposedly.
WHICH COMES FIRST: THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG?
The moment this question has been raised, I instantly knew the answer...CHICKEN! It's as simple as ABC don't you think? Just look back on the Story of Creation. God created animals, and these animals were the first to lay eggs. Never was it told, "and God created eggs" to which hatched and out came Adam, (or the animals).
Just a thought to share today ;)
Personally, I prefer and salute individuals who are more into proper behavior than their pride. In this sense I am speaking of considerations and reconcilliations to misunderstandings without needing to raise it to the authorities.
But whether we like it or not, NOT everybody thinks that way. They need to let their voices be heard, they need to make sure that they are proven right. That maybe they felt that they were belittled, they were taken into for granted, or that they felt degraded or something. And so they seek companies to assist them in making sure they settle everything the right way. Legitimate complaints like the The March Group Complaints are easily solved this way, than any other.
We are asked to "Love thy neighbors", but at this time and age where life is getting filthier by the minute, we tend to simply shy away from people who we believe do not have the heart to do that. Unfortunately we are in the world where we mingle with different people. At work we have to be with them, in our neighborhood we simply are among them....and there we witness how these people do their thing, handle complaints in a way that the authorities get a good grip at the complainant and the other party and in the end make everything smooth flowing on both parties.
But whether we like it or not, NOT everybody thinks that way. They need to let their voices be heard, they need to make sure that they are proven right. That maybe they felt that they were belittled, they were taken into for granted, or that they felt degraded or something. And so they seek companies to assist them in making sure they settle everything the right way. Legitimate complaints like the The March Group Complaints are easily solved this way, than any other.
We are asked to "Love thy neighbors", but at this time and age where life is getting filthier by the minute, we tend to simply shy away from people who we believe do not have the heart to do that. Unfortunately we are in the world where we mingle with different people. At work we have to be with them, in our neighborhood we simply are among them....and there we witness how these people do their thing, handle complaints in a way that the authorities get a good grip at the complainant and the other party and in the end make everything smooth flowing on both parties.
Most recently, we've been hearing of devastating news on lost lives, left with nothing homes, and differing trauma's due to encountered disasters in life. Some man-made and some natural disasters that people have no control over.
Life is simply getting more and more difficult to live as the days wore on. Is this a sign of the end? May it be religious belief or scientific notion...the world is being put to great test; the people with their faith and nature for its long existence.
Look back centuries ago, and its not as it is this century. Look back decades ago, and it is not as it is this decade. Look back the past years, and it is not as it is this year!!! TODAY is a lot different from yesterday. IT IS HIGH TIME THAT WE BE AWARE, IT IS HIGH TIME THAT WE BE MORE CONCERNED.
Tsunami's, Hurricanes, Storms...there's just way to many of them. The question is HOW COME THEY ARE ALL COMING WAY TOO FREQUENT NOW? AND EVEN IN PLACES WHERE IT NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE?
Personally, I believe them to be part of our existence. But it also is a poke to us, a reminder that we have no control over our lives. That there is a higher power who can take away anything at any time. THAT WE HAVE TO PLEASE HIM AND NOT JUST OURSELVES because we need Him to put us where we can continue living. That soon, the end of time is to come and none can help us save ourselves, we will be helpless, as we are whenever these calamities strike us.
Life is simply getting more and more difficult to live as the days wore on. Is this a sign of the end? May it be religious belief or scientific notion...the world is being put to great test; the people with their faith and nature for its long existence.
Look back centuries ago, and its not as it is this century. Look back decades ago, and it is not as it is this decade. Look back the past years, and it is not as it is this year!!! TODAY is a lot different from yesterday. IT IS HIGH TIME THAT WE BE AWARE, IT IS HIGH TIME THAT WE BE MORE CONCERNED.
Have you heard of some shakes the world had a few weeks/months back?
Central Canada 5 magnitude Earthquakes on June 23, 2010
South-Western china 7.1 magnitude Earthquake July 2010
Central Chile 6.5 magnitude Earthquake on July 14, 2010
Christ Church New Zealand 7.2 magnitude Earthquake on September 4, 2010
...these are a mere few of the innumerable shakes that is being recorded daily. These are just amongst the many surprises the world over is being affected with. From North to South, East to West there are earthquakes that results to death, injury, anguish, disturbance, damage....
What of the Flood around the globe?
Philippines typhoon Ondoy Flood - 2009 Metro Manila devastation
Pakistan Flood in August 2010 - 1384 death / 1680 injured
China Flood in June 2010 - 365 death / 147 missing
Tennessee, USA Flood in May 2010 - historic, USA flood
Forest fires?
Quebec, Canada in May 2010 - 2000 evacuated
Russia -in August 2010 - $670 Million worth damages
Tsunami's, Hurricanes, Storms...there's just way to many of them. The question is HOW COME THEY ARE ALL COMING WAY TOO FREQUENT NOW? AND EVEN IN PLACES WHERE IT NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE?
Personally, I believe them to be part of our existence. But it also is a poke to us, a reminder that we have no control over our lives. That there is a higher power who can take away anything at any time. THAT WE HAVE TO PLEASE HIM AND NOT JUST OURSELVES because we need Him to put us where we can continue living. That soon, the end of time is to come and none can help us save ourselves, we will be helpless, as we are whenever these calamities strike us.
I missed the outside world…and it is just now that I can say just how much I missed it. This is when the phrase “knowing nothing gives you no reason to miss something” phrase. But enlightenment surely gives you the reason to. This probably is my way of saying that being in the hole way to long made me forget that life is more than nice to miss living it.
Oh yes, I was content with the day to day living I had for the past five years, though at first I was almost adamant to leave my happy-go-lucky living. It was not easy giving up being free, and do everything and anything I’d like to do. But, hell, I knew I was being way too happy then that I even crossed some boundaries. Thank God He shook me before it was too late. I was put back on track…and now more on the right path.
They say that experience makes you the wiser…TRUE. Years ahead of others gives you ample opportunity also to learn a great deal more thus now can be more able to go with the right decisions, you have more control over your emotions and can maturely measure personal preference over what is appropriate.
Two words: GROWTH AND MATURITY. Not just physically, but emotionally, mentally and even spiritually.
I’m lucky that I did…because not everybody does. Next thing to beat then will be the trials and temptations to test your achievement. Not everyone who KNOWS follows what he knows. I guess what I have over others is my sturdy faith…because that alone pushes me harder onto the right path.
Oh yes, I was content with the day to day living I had for the past five years, though at first I was almost adamant to leave my happy-go-lucky living. It was not easy giving up being free, and do everything and anything I’d like to do. But, hell, I knew I was being way too happy then that I even crossed some boundaries. Thank God He shook me before it was too late. I was put back on track…and now more on the right path.
They say that experience makes you the wiser…TRUE. Years ahead of others gives you ample opportunity also to learn a great deal more thus now can be more able to go with the right decisions, you have more control over your emotions and can maturely measure personal preference over what is appropriate.
Two words: GROWTH AND MATURITY. Not just physically, but emotionally, mentally and even spiritually.
I’m lucky that I did…because not everybody does. Next thing to beat then will be the trials and temptations to test your achievement. Not everyone who KNOWS follows what he knows. I guess what I have over others is my sturdy faith…because that alone pushes me harder onto the right path.
There are times in my life that I just cannot decide what to do. Decisions that needs a whole lot of thinking, like choosing the best choice between two job offers. That no matter what weighing I do, they come out the same.
And it is in this instance that more than any other time, I let God decide and control it for me. And ALWAYS...I end up having the best. Just as that job offer mentioned above which had been my concern 8 years back. That after 6 months of job hunting I finally got hired to this restaurant as a manager. It's not far from my place and a good stepping stone to practicing in a career directly related to my course (which is Nutrition and Dietetics). Just as suddenly a well known tertiary hospital that not everybody gets past HR calls me up for an interview. The very day that the restaurant told me that I have to decide is the day also that I am to do a physical exam in the hospital. It's a "sure hire" to a 50/50 passing after a medical and final interview. Job offers are not frequent and most of the time applicants grab right away whatever is dangling before them. But for me, the hospital will be giving better salary and compensation. I went to the nearest place of worship and asked God's guidance. He made me take the risk...I decided to call the restaurant and tell them I will decide tomorrow. I was not given a choice. That feeling of failure did not last because I was hired at the hospital, and reached the peak of my career for the 8 years I worked there.
Now, I am yet again in this INDECISION. Do I accept the offer in this Call Center that I applied and passed months ago, put up the food cart business I was forever planning to or continue on with my started wedding/event coordinating plan? I have so many constraints that I have to consider and have complained to God about...
And it is in this instance that more than any other time, I let God decide and control it for me. And ALWAYS...I end up having the best. Just as that job offer mentioned above which had been my concern 8 years back. That after 6 months of job hunting I finally got hired to this restaurant as a manager. It's not far from my place and a good stepping stone to practicing in a career directly related to my course (which is Nutrition and Dietetics). Just as suddenly a well known tertiary hospital that not everybody gets past HR calls me up for an interview. The very day that the restaurant told me that I have to decide is the day also that I am to do a physical exam in the hospital. It's a "sure hire" to a 50/50 passing after a medical and final interview. Job offers are not frequent and most of the time applicants grab right away whatever is dangling before them. But for me, the hospital will be giving better salary and compensation. I went to the nearest place of worship and asked God's guidance. He made me take the risk...I decided to call the restaurant and tell them I will decide tomorrow. I was not given a choice. That feeling of failure did not last because I was hired at the hospital, and reached the peak of my career for the 8 years I worked there.
Now, I am yet again in this INDECISION. Do I accept the offer in this Call Center that I applied and passed months ago, put up the food cart business I was forever planning to or continue on with my started wedding/event coordinating plan? I have so many constraints that I have to consider and have complained to God about...
- I asked before for a job - I heard of openings for the position I want to apply at
- It's too far our place - I was told of a nearby hospital needing the same.
- The salary is not pleasing and so I asked for a call center - I was called by call centers in the metropolis
- I believe the time travel will take too much of my time to still have quality time with my daughter - just as suddenly I saw in a newspaper ad of an opening in a mere 30minute away mall.
- I passed but then put them on hold...and asked God for a home-based job - he made my 4 blogs PR3, opportunities poured in
- months passed and I felt incomplete being just home all the time, again I'm reconsidering...how about a weekend job. A photographer friend suddenly got pleased with the info I gave to help him with his weddings and advised me to be a wedding coordinator.
- Again, it's not so easy to put it up and start on with it, I need capital to go with my perfect plan. I don't want to do something less than my perfect plan. I met a new friend working at a call center and she's earning a lot. I was reminded of my pending application. But then I have no trustworthy companion to leave my 4 year old daughter to (not the mere 17 year old she plays with) - suddenly a friend knocks on my door asking if I need a 30 year old care giver.
- This afternoon...I was thinking real hard again. Will I call the call center and ask if my application is still open?! The phone rang and Cristy of the call center office is asking if I'm still interested in the position!
Isn't it obvious? God is paving the way to whatever I am asking!!! And He is helping me, pushing me to it. And so this afternoon I decided that He will not let anything untoward happen to my kid while I am away working and I will again reach the pinnacle of success because it is the most powerful that I am close to, that in one call He will be there.
HOW COME I AM THIS LUCKY, you ask? I'll let you in my secret, because almost 5 years ago I became acquainted with the real God...and since then have left the old me, became someone He wants me to be and continuously serves Him as He wants to be served. Read more of my SPIRITUAL HEALTH articles and know what I'm talking about ;) I tell you, this is not the only time that such happens...almost everytime I ask His help, He is there for me! Honest!
Let the blessings in your life be a reminder of all the goodness in you. That there be a Holy Fear for it all to be taken away from you by the Higher Power who has given them to you in the first place.
It is not bad to acquire things of this life, but it’s they way of having them that matters and of the change in you when you have them. Will it be your world, the material world, or just be an incentive to living your life the right way? Let your earthly possessions not blind you from taking the right path, and instead be an inspiration to continue doing what is right for more of these blessings to share to others.
LIFE IS SO SHORT and so people love to say “enjoy it while it last”. Yes, there is no harm doing so if nothing or no one gets hurt with it. Thus, seeing people have the riches they deserve and still are the one closest to God makes me proud of them. They serve as motivation to others. And their flaunting it to others is even encouraging; to poke others into being like them.
I see them wearing immaculate clothes, driving beautiful cars with chrome trim and living in big houses…and still spends quality time serving and pleasing the Lord. They deserve it. Do we?
I cannot accept anyone saying that “Man is the highest form of animal”. I am not an animal, I am human! Thankfully, science books decided to change this to “Man is the highest form of creature”. I know I am a special creation of the higher power. I am not to be classified as any other because everything else were made for me. The night and day, the sky and sea, the animals and plants…they are all created for man, and I am glad to be referred to as man and not an animal.
Therefore, it also is a big insult to be told that I came from MONKEYS! Apes, if you want to call it the way they do…still, they are animals with hairs, ticks and squeaks. I can accept that ONLY if babies born today will be apes before they turn into human form. This theory of evolution, I believe, is mere beliefs or studies that have been proven through words of respected people. They are believed to be geniuses because they founded something others did not, but the measure is through their words alone.
How can one be more genius than the Creator Himself saying HE CREATED MAN as man and not as animal then became man?
The last days they say will be filled with evilness. Destructive forces will be around us. Things we never thought possible before will be possible. Boundaries will be crossed, acceptance to unacceptable will happen, evilness will prevail over goodness. Is it the “last days” already?
Before our very eyes we see the world living in sin. The love for oneself is greater than loving good. Murders by the numbers done in a snap, unfaithfulness surmounting to lust evident with the changing of partners, hunger for power and wealth waves off reason to be fair to life; STILL man claims to love God. Chants and prayers uttered, but they take the path which proves easier to follow. Wherever and whoever let’s them continue on with their preferred way of living, that’s who they say is the TRUTH. They purposely blind themselves to the right track to everlasting life. They are deaf to what is right, pushing themselves to believe that they will be misled if they listen.
TIME IS RUNNING OUT. We see the signs. We see how it was when the Ten Commandments were shown to the Israelites and they chose their doom. We see how people did not believe Noah’s plea to ride the right boat. Are we at it again? What do we do this time?
We are concerned with our health, we are concerned with our family…but the truth is, there is a far greater thing we should be concerned about –OUR LIFE AFTER!
People nowadays are overly focused on worldly things. Yes, it is not easy to live in this world; and it is not vanity that we take care of each other and of earning for a living. IT IS A NEED, but it is imperative that we put something above it all, and that is our FAITH.
Earthy life is so short, and everlasting life is infinitely long. Therefore, we must find a way to outlive this short life but strive harder to continue on to the everlasting life. There is but one way to it and that is our Lord Jesus Christ and God’s words through his teachings.
But…are you sure you are being taught the right teachings? Is it God’s commandment as is written in the bible or man-made but “according to them” to be God’s wishes? Where in the bible can you find Purgatory? Where is it written in the bible that there are more than ONE God? Did it ever say that one should pray one prayer over and over with meaningless words? Is there such a thing as baptizing an infant? Whose teaching is it that man should refrain from eating meat, or from marrying?
Remember that God has instructed us to follow His words to which are ALL in His book, the Bible. Anything not in it is not His, for He has foreseen that everything in the bible is suffice for man to reach Eternal Happiness.
Look left, look right…everyone is having their own trials to deal with. We have different problems to solve, but we have one solution to it…
Man is a mere creation. That no matter how knowledgeable we get, no matter how rich we get, we still cannot make it or our own. Because there is someone up there who can get us out when we cannot breathe anymore. And that no matter how hard the ordeal is, the peace within can still make us the winner. That’s our escape route, the understanding that we are not alone. And with one call, He can make us believe once again that we are just passing through this life, and what’s more important is the life after. That after all these pain will be a prize no greater than any other…A PERFECT LIFE WITH HIM.
PRAYERS!
Man is a mere creation. That no matter how knowledgeable we get, no matter how rich we get, we still cannot make it or our own. Because there is someone up there who can get us out when we cannot breathe anymore. And that no matter how hard the ordeal is, the peace within can still make us the winner. That’s our escape route, the understanding that we are not alone. And with one call, He can make us believe once again that we are just passing through this life, and what’s more important is the life after. That after all these pain will be a prize no greater than any other…A PERFECT LIFE WITH HIM.
As I wake up in the wee hours of the morning with just the birds coming out of their nests, the rooster cocking in a far distance, and the sound of peace fading away…I am reminded of how the world is turning out.
If years ago I hear a few groans and grants, now I hear weeping's and complaint’s. If then I hear a murder or two, now I hear mass graves and clan problems. It’s not simple crimes anymore that moves people, as if the bigger and weighty, the better. I remember when we preserve lives of the animal kingdom, when we are so much concerned with the perishing of an animal…but now even the highest of the kingdom is being violated, killed or mutilated. The stench of evilness in every corner of the globe is getting stronger and stronger; the prophesy getting obvious in our lives.
Man is changing into beasts. Just as God Himself revealed in the bible, that the love of most will grow cold because of wickedness (Matt. 24:12). It seems that it is getting evident by the minute. In fact I almost do not want to watch the news because one tragedy after another just adds pain in my heart. In wonder I stare at the destruction, man-made and natural calamities alike. Try as I might to believe that there is still time left to change; I see it futile to hope. The End is coming. Apostle Timothy have written in his book about the “Godlessness in the Last Days” and in 2Timothy 3:1-4 he have enumerated what I see with my own two eyes, “There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure than lovers of God”…these things that more than half of the world population is becoming or presently is.
Prayers, prayers, prayers…the only chance we have, to be given a little more time to try and proclaim God’s words and invite others to at least have peace within their family, or within themselves; a chance for more people to GO BACK to the way of the Lord, the way to SALVATION.
We are all kids in the eyes of our parents, and being an adult does not exclude us from that. They love us today as much as they did when we were young. They miss having the right to cuddle us, pamper us and guide us. And it is but proper to NOT take that right to being a parent to us away from them.
There are times that we see sons and daughters treat their parents unkindly, or even badly. It’s not an excuse that they are old or senile or have deteriorating reasoning for us to take advantage of their frail minds and bodies.
We should in fact, take care of them and show them more that we love them; that somehow in return for all the love and care they selflessly gave us in our early years. And how do we do that?
BE RESPECTFUL at all times. Not only on how we speak to them, but also by valuing their opinions, advices and decisions.
BE RESPONSIBLE to have the life our parents hope for us to have. They give their all to provide for yes just so we will have a bright future. Let it not be a futile effort by throwing it away by taking vices, not studying hard and having peers that will lead you astray. We should be responsible enough to have a good life and in return be able to take care of them in their twilight years.
BE UPRIGHT by keeping God’s commandments all of these are ways to having a good foundation to a sturdy life.
BE PRAYERFUL because this will give assurance to parents that you are in good hands; that God will take care of you even in their passing…in addition to God blessing you each day.
“I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God”? (John 20:17)
This HAS always been a confusion to me, on how our Lord Jesus Christ stresses out of this higher being that He believes in, that He will go to…or simply another existence that is NOT Him. That when I was raised to believe that Jesus and that God He talks about in third person all the time is one and the same, it left me asking “How can that be?” This is one of the questions I asked the elders and those that have the authority to answer me that time, BUT it all ends up with them telling me to “just believe because it is something so powerful for mankind to comprehend”. Is that so? But God Himself said that EVERYTHING is written in His book: the Bible.
How can our Lord Jesus (and His apostles) keep telling us and writing down that Jesus and God is NOT one and the same, and man saying otherwise? If Jesus talks to the Father saying “Now this is eternal life: that they may know You, the One True God, and Jesus whom you have sent” (John 17:3), will we contradict Him by saying that there is Three and not One? That the “knowledge of truth” that Apostle Timothy tells in the “Instructions on Worship” is NOT precise?
“For there is ONE God and ONE Mediator between God and men, the MAN Christ Jesus” (1 Tim. 2:5)
That the bible to which God himself said to be complete and suffice forgot to mention that there is another God beside the One True God, our Father? That God’s very 1st Commandment of having “No other God’s before me” is NOT as it is, and that He was not able to specifically say…no other God’s before me and my other persona’s?
We all believe that our Lord Jesus Christ was sent to save us, but not all believe His EVERY word (I truly wonder why?!). And NOT believing in His words connotes NOT believing in God’s words because so many time did Jesus said that it is not Him but that of who sent Him. Just as in this verse, “For I gave them the words You gave me” (John 17:8) when He was once praying to the Almighty God.
We are not kids anymore to just take in what our parents and elders say. We have the ablity to rationalize and to decide what is right and wrong. BUT WE CANNOT DO SO UNTIL WE HAVE THE FACTS LAID DOWN BEFORE US. That in every comparison there is the existing truth and falsehood; there is the right and the wrong; there is the “what was led for us to believe” and “what we decide to believe”. Stand tall and look into your left, into your right…then decide which path to take.
LIKE IN THIS INSTANCE ~ There is only ONE TRUE GOD
and that is our Almighty Father!
And there is the ONE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MAN
and that is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!
This is the TRUTH from the very words of God!
LOOK…for you might be missing the ONLY right way.
It is never too hard to give a nice word because it feels a lot nicer to know that you made someone happy with it. But of course, it’s different when you say them from the heart or just so you can get something out of saying it…just as it is when you say something that is far from nice; when you blurt out something to intentionally hurt someone, or to embarrass purposely.
Anyone feeling positive with such deed have a black heart. That something inside is eating you up until it consumes you all reflecting outside, in your daily living and even in your external façade. Be reminded that someone up there see’s you no matter where or what name you hide to.
It’s pitiful to hear such tongue lashings, or read such nasty words. The person where it is coming from is most pitiful since it connotes one thing, that that person is either lacking attention, have not been taught good manners probably with parents not caring or having none as well, or simply too evil to enjoy the discomfort of others.
That is why NICE WORDS always represents NICE INDIVIDUALS. They are those that are selfless, given with a pure heart, at peace with their life and who they are, full of love from love ones and friends that they obviously have because that person gained it with the nature that she or he is.
So, don’t be frugal with NICETIES. And do away with tainted words.
“Who am I to suggest, I am but a secretary”. ”I cannot beat somebody as popular as that”.
These are common bits and pieces of things I hear from people who do not believe in what they can do, or of who they are in the society. Is it insecurity? cowardice? In these instances that I remember “David and Goliath”. The little David, not even a man yet, versus the giant warrior Goliath. A bible story that have possibly been written to push us up when we are on the losing battle with our self-worth. For us to be David and believe that we can do something other bigger man cannot because we have a God. That Goliath may be way out of our league, but his size is small in comparison to our faith. And that we will be guided as to what best to do like David was guided of using a sling-shot not the ax or blade that will be far too small as to Goliath’s gigantic one.
NOTHING is greater than God’s power. Believe and live pleasing Him, He will never let you down.
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