Silent Time

Can we avoid obedience?

What comes to your mind with regard to obedience?

We may not like it and spontaneously have negative associations.

But let’s think about it more deeply.

Against whom do you bear a grudge in your heart?

Against whom do you bear a grudge in your heart?

As humans we easily nurse hatred against others.

But that easily ends up in a vicious cycle of revenge and bitterness.

God offers to set us free of all that.

Good persons and evil persons

Do you tend to categorize people?

Care - and the birds in the air

Care.

And the birds in the air.

For whom do you care?

Having 2 bosses at the same time

Have you ever been in the situation of having 2 bosses? One might expect you to go left, the other one might request you to go right. Whom do you follow?

The hidden hopes

The hidden hopes – what do you long for, possibly without anyone knowing about it?

We may look forward to an end of persecution.

We may desire times of rest and sufficient sleep.

We may long for an end of pain and in many other regards may hope for better times.

God knows everything, also our sighing and hidden hopes.

Shall we give advantage to the poor or to the great?

Shall we give advantages, preference and special concessions to those who are disadvantaged?

Or shall we favour those, who are great? To the successful?

Shall we give amenities, privilege and special treatment to anyone?

Who is trustworthy?

Who is trustworthy?

The foundation

The foundation to build upon.

The wall of fire that protects

We may know it from cartoons or trick-movies: against the attacks of the evil enemy, the superhero sets up a wall of fire that defends and protects.

Do you also look for such a wall of fire?