Does it mean the world is corrupt or the world is the wickedness? Whatever our view, the evidence remains all around that there are evil all around us. It was the worms inside that Herod that eventually destroyed and killed him with absolute corruption; the Angel struck king Herod dead (Acts 12:20-23). However, we are not of this world: “We know that we belong to God even though the whole world is under the rule of the Evil One. We…
D. L. Mayfield said: “Xenophobia is the opposite of hospitality. It means “fear of the stranger.” It’s in the very air we breathe: it’s built into our mortgage contracts, our Constitution, our foreign policy, our immigration system, and the speeches that elect our politicians. The fear of the other is so strong and so systemic that it might take something more than a good dinner party to upend it.”
Have you read from Proverbs 19:3 that the heart of a fool frets against the Lord? Put it this way: God aimed at us to be at peace with Him, but because of rebellion (both inherited and chosen), we are in many ways against the Lord. The foolish man or woman has no peace in God; their heart frets against the Lord. They are angry and perhaps bitter against God for their crooked way. In other words, fools will try to blame…
Walking in the vanity of mind usually lead to a fruitless journey, perhaps leading to a failed deserted walk! Our walk with Christ is not with the vanity of mind (Ephesians 4:17). However, we have a calling: “to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.” (Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV)….
In the use of words, we need meaning to those words before usage! For example, the word “freedom”; Viktor E. Frankl said: “Freedom is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibility. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.”
Yes, a massive eliminator! Have you not heard that laziness destroys? On the off chance that an individual is given leadership over an enormous bequest and remnants it through defacement and inside and out pulverisation, it is anything but difficult to consider them to be a great destroyer. However, if a similar individual permits it to fall into dilapidation and pointlessness through disregard and apathy, they likewise are a great destroyer – they just did it another way—sluggishness wrecks. Vandalism…
Yes, you must be a new person if you are not one already! What? Yes, a unique individual; a person reborn to walk with God in righteousness and true holiness. Scripturally put: “Let the Spirit change your way of thinking and make you into a new person. You were created to be like God, and so you must please him and be truly holy. We are part of the same body. Stop lying and start telling each other the truth.” (Ephesians…
William H. Williamson said: “Vocation is not evoked by your bundle of need and desire. Vocation is what God wants from you whereby your life is transformed into a consequence of God’s redemption of the world. Look no further than Jesus’s disciples – remarkably mediocre, untalented, lackluster yokels – to see that innate talent or inner yearning has less to do with vocation than God’s thing for redeeming lives by assigning us something to do for God.”
Yes, it’s all about what is inside you that will sustain you! Have you ever heard that the spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness? (Proverbs 18:14). Even in sickness? Could there be a link between peace and the working of your immune system? Can peace within help people to heal quickly even after a prolonged infection attacked? I once read that many who labored long under illness have felt sustained – sometimes miraculously so – by the…
You will do well to listen real good and doing things well. “Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires. So get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives, and humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts, for it has the power to save your souls. But don’t just listen to God’s…