Month: December 2017

The word impossible means “not able to occur, exist, or be done” or “very difficult to deal with” according to google. According to Luke 1:37, “Nothing is impossible for God.” At the risk of alienating the PC crowd, I will continue.

There was a woman six months pregnant who was told by an angel, a virgin had conceived a miracle child. Do you believe in miracles? I do. Miracles happen all of the time but do we just dismiss them as someone’s imagination? As an Engineer, I can prove some things as forces within our human understanding. As a person of faith, I choose to believe that we are all on this earth for a purpose much greater than our human understanding. The revelation of a miracle may escape our understanding but does not eliminate its existence.

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and that you had time to reflect on your existence. I also hope you celebrated the story of the miracle of the birth of Jesus Christ. Every year we are subjected to the commercialization of Christmas and the naysayers  who claim its a hoax. We are given alternatives to Christmas by the crowd of doubters but I hope you remain strong in your faith. After all, no one invokes a name other than God in a life ending crises. Nothing is considered impossible from His perspective.

Pray for continued miracles in your life. May your New Year be filled with hope.

T

As we prepare for the most joyful time of the year, recognize that many of us are not so joyful. Perhaps, we have lost a loved one during this time of year. Perhaps, our relationship to a loved one is on rocky ground or have been destroyed in its entirety leaving us depressed. We may even think why should we be thankful when we are so depressed? The highest suicide rate is not during the winter months but occurs during late spring or early summer. That fact does not stop us from feeling sad when we hear of tragedies affecting families forever. During this festive season, let us remember the reason for the season. Put the past behind you and look forward with good thoughts to a brighter future.

Maybe we should try to consider a Godly perspective instead of a human one. Perhaps, we should examine everything carefully that happens to us and hang on to what is good. Perhaps, we should avoid every kind of evil. I encourage you all to read more in 1 Thessalonians 5 starting at verse 16 through 24. If we prayerfully consider all of our decisions, before we make them, perhaps we can avoid the trauma of our poorly thought out decisions. It is not as bad as we think. Don’t suppress the guidance of the Spirit but lean on your faith and be thankful.

As we remember, Christ in our Christmas celebration, first coming as a little baby into a dark world, let us consider His second coming and our decisions. If bad decisions have impacted us in the past, good decisions we make today will ensure a brighter future. In all things give thanks!

T

A day is measured according to where you exit. If you live on earth, we have approximately 24 hours in a day. What if you live on Mars? You would have an extra hour. How about if you lived on Neptune? You would loose about 8 hours from your day. If you lived on Venus, you would have over 5,800 hours more each day. Get the picture?

Sometimes we loose patience especially in this instant messenger world we live in today. Have you considered that a day is measured according to each of our perspectives on where we are in life? What if you were given a day to live? How would you spend it? I believe life is too short to spend it in anger or conflict with another.  In 2 Peter 3 starting at verse 8, we are given a new perspective of a day. A day is like a thousand years according to the Lord. He is not slow to keep his promise as some may think of the concept of slowness. Instead, he is patient towards us and does not want any of us to perish but to change our hearts and lives. We are warned that the day of the Lord will come like a thief. Therefore, we should not miss a single hour, minute or second in acting according to His will. Like John the Baptist, we should prepare the way knowing we are not worthy, but willing to be used. How are we used? The how will be revealed in due time but the why is to help soften hearts and lives to seek forgiveness while there is time. If we are expecting one day we will begin to change, then we are being set up for failure. If we act now, we can rejoice in victory ourselves as well as those who will be turned by our actions. A day is limited no matter how we measure it.

T

Eyes give us the ability to bring into our world images that we can then relate with our other senses such as our ability to smell, hear, taste or touch. Eyes are specific organs our bodies use to enable the sense of sight. Eyes utilize light to make vision possible. The heart is an organ that beats involuntarily about 60 times per minute at rest but can reach higher numbers when active. If the heart fails to beat, our bodies fail. We can live without eyes but not without our heart. But have you ever considered eyes of your heart?

Ephesians 1:18, offers a pray that the eyes of our heart process sufficient light to have the image of hope for God’s call. This image offers us an opportunity to join together with Christ or as verse 23 explains his body, the church. Marriage is the union of two people as humans define it but it is also a combination of elements. The concept of marriage between Christ and his church (us) is widely understood. So when we consider the eyes of our heart as our soul and the combination of our soul with others, we have the fullness of Christ, who fills everything in every way. We have weaknesses and we have strengths, but when we are combined with one another for good, the weakness are diminished and our strengths become much stronger.

In Matthew 25, Jesus will separate the sheep from the goats. Sheep represent those who have received sufficient light through the eyes of their hearts to become one with Christ. Goats represent those who remain defiant to the needs of others and only care about themselves.  From verse 31, the sheep saw the hungry, thirsty, strangers, naked, and those in prison as the body of Christ who were weak and needed to be strengthen. Whereas, the goats ignored the same groups and paid the eternal price.

If we have done it to the least, we have done it to Him. Give thanks everyday.

T