Silent Time

What is purity in heart?

Can anyone achieve it?

What is righteousness?

One could find long definitions and explanations.

A simple way to put it is: “to be put right with God”. And that is important, because God is the almighty, the highest being, the ultimate judge. Therefore it is important that we are put right with God. But how can we get right with him? After all, in the way we are, we all are not perfect, nobody can live up to the holy standards of God by oneself. But praise the Lord that it does not depend on our accomplishments and rather on what God himself has done for us. On that basis, we are fully put right with God, whatever we have done. This offer is available to everybody. Do you accept it?

Do you sometimes wish to live in a better world? Many times I would wish for that, but that is not the reality. We live in the world as it is with all its injustice and wrongdoing that is going on. Things are not perfect.

And yet there is advice how to find real hope and a positive outlook.

If something is really important to someone, the person will automatically talk about it. Just remember someone who was overwhelmed by a certain thing or matter, the person automatically talks about it. Imagine a child for the first time having visited an impressive amusement park – the child for sure will talk about it to everybody.

What are the things so important in your heart that you talk about it?

What are your circumstances of life? Can you live in freedom? Or are you bound or in chains or due to your physical condition cannot move freely?

Whatever your conditions of life are, let’s remember and pray for those who are bound in chains and suffering.

What remains permanently?

Many things come and go. Even things which appear to us as if they were of long term nature, yet one day they will be gone, same like ourselves.

What lasts permanently?

Throughout history it can be seen again and again: where injustice and selfishness gains the upper hand, the society will have tough times.

What is your motto of life, what do you aim for, what are your targets?

To get promoted?

To gain esteem?

Many things promise us happiness, for example the advertisement.

But if at all, the smiles last only for a while.

What gives us real contentment and inner joy? In order to answer that, we need to look first at the opposite: what takes away our joy? There are fears, sometimes subconsciously, that rob our joy. But all that has been overcome. Christ has won the victory!

Rejoicing in sorrow? Being happy despite problems – is that possible?

Often it seems as if only the healthy, wealthy and successful can be happy.

But if we dig deeper, we find out that it is not always like that, sometimes it is even opposite. Those who made the biggest career might not be joyful inside, while those who have only few possessions are often found more joyful, their hope is in the Lord.