Saturday, April 11th, 2009
There is a saying that goes: “show respect where respect’s due.” Which makes intuitive sense. If someone does something amazing, we naturally show our respect. However, there is a thought that has been going through my mind for the last few days – which goes along the same lines:
Giving glory, where glory is due.
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
“Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my Exceeding Joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise Thee, O God my God.” - Ps. 43:4
“The joy of the LORD is your strength.” - Neh. 8:10
“Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation; and uphold me with Thy free Spirit.” - Ps. 51:12
I’ve been really humbled and broken this term. But as Good Friday approaches, I just wanted to write and reflect on something I was reminded of last Sunday – which is the Mercy and Justice of God.
From God’s mercy, mankind was redeemed. The weight of Jesus’ salvation is sometimes lost on words, or even human emotions.
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
- C. S. Lewis
Friday, December 12th, 2008
“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups – porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:
“If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.
Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups… And then you began eyeing each other’s cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live.
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us.”
God brews the coffee, not the cups………. Enjoy your coffee!
“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.”
Live, Love and Laugh – then leave the rest to God.