Silent Time

Did you ever have to leave everything behind?

Have you ever been in a situation where you had to leave everything behind?

The righteous person has an ultimate refuge

The righteous person has an ultimate refuge.

Not the person who regards oneself in arrogance as righteous or better than others.

But the person who finds righteousness by humbly relying on the grace of the Lord, ready to give up anything that hinders God’s blessing to unfold.

Feeling superior?

A quarrel with another person may easily stir in us emotions of feeling superior over the other person. We want to hit back and win the upper hand.

By contrast, Jesus gave the example of humility, grace, healing and blessing, e.g. by riding on a simple donkey rather than on a majestic horse.

“Open the eyes of my heart” – what does it mean?

“Open the eyes of my heart” – what does it mean?

What kind of good works shall we pursue?

What kind of good works shall we pursue?

In afflictions and trouble

In afflictions and trouble.

Do you continue to believe when you have to go through difficult times?

Whom does he call?

Whom does God call?

Too good or too bad?

Too good or too bad?

Actually, no one is too good, no one is too bad for the good news.

But we may easily feel either way and thereby miss the amazing and all-deciding grace that the Lord offers in his mercy.

What do you do with the word?

What do you do with the word?

A sense to be exercised

By nature we have 5 senses of the body and based on evolution we are quite good at using them: to see, to hear, to smell, to taste, to touch.

As a 6^th sense – are you good at distinguishing what is really good in the long term?

A sense to be exercised.