Silent Time

What is your major target for today?

Is it to be successful? To achieve something in work?

Or just somehow to come through the day?

If we put God first in our lives, then he will take care and will show us what is good for us and for others. In short, then God can bless our lives.

By contrast, if we give priority to something else, the day may take a course that we did not intent to go. The outcome might be the opposite of our targets, it might even be like a curse.

So let’s involve God into our practical daily lives and ask for his blessing. That is the best target we can set.

In our life as humans being, we can usually see only one way: for example someone might worry “if I loose this job, then there is no hope to find a new one”. And similar in many other situations.

But God also has other ways, that we can not imagine.

His words are spirit and life, even beyond the natural abilities.

So let’s put our trust in his word.

Do you sometimes feel weak in life?

As humans we have many kinds of weaknesses.

But there is one decisive strength.

We can be strong in the Lord.

God is stronger than any kind of negative and evil force. And God wants to give us power to overcome all those weaknesses.

How comes that by the time of Moses such amazing miracles happened?

For example: The whole people of Israel left Egypt and walked through the water. When the Egyptian troops tried the same, they drowned.

And how comes that at other times, so little happens? When we look at our own life, we might be disappointed in many regards.

How comes that difference?

Moses fully relied on the Lord alone as if he saw the invisible.

And you can put your faith in the Lord in the same way.

God still has the same power in our times and offers his help.

On what do you rely?

The Roman officer had understood, that in the military hierarchy it is important to obey to whatever the superior said. And that is how he had moved up the hierarchy, he was in authority now. The reason why he came to Jesus was because he was looking for help: for healing of his servant. And Jesus was willing to help. But the officer said “no, just give an order and my servant will be well”. The officer had understood that Jesus is in authority over all that tries to harm us, over evil spirits, over mental diseases and over sicknesses etc. We as weak average humans by ourselves might be lost in such situations, we might be overcome by such forces. But Jesus is stronger than all those things.

Do you involve the authority of Jesus into your life?

People have different abilities and talents. Some of them are found out only over the years.

The power of God is already available. Everybody can have access in prayer.

Do you at times also doubt the almighty power of God?

Especially when we do not notice anything about his might.

When it even looks opposite, as if God is weak.

When we look at the evil things going on in the world, for example when the devil confuses people that they hate and destroy each other. It looks as if God is weak.

But God is almighty. He is the creator of the whole universe.

Not only in theory, we can experience his power also practically.

The more closely we walk with the Lord, the more we understand how he intervenes and we learn to distinguish between the acts of God and the behaviour of people. The behaviour of other people is sometimes inspired by the enemy of God. Let's not get confused.

We may walk away disappointed, for example when we had expected too much from another person or from things.

In Jesus we find real fulfilment. And yet it is reported that a person walked away from him disappointed – how is that possible?

Jesus invited him. But his possessions had a higher priority in that young person’s life than God. Therefore he walked away rejecting the invitation.

Did you ever have to flee?

Sometimes God guides his people in ways that seem to be strange at first.

Saul had persecuted the people of God, he tried to eradicate the church. But on his way to Damascus he got converted and shortly after that, he began to preach, to proclaim Jesus as the saviour.

For what do you use your hands?

To bless others and to help them in their individual needs?

Or to act in selfishness and greed, destroying others or taking away their honour? Or to lift up things on a higher level than God, making them idols?

Human hands can do many things. They can do a lot of good but can also do a lot of evil.