We who serve the Lord or God that we serve?
Maybe we consciously say that "we who serve the Lord" but unconsciously and in fact, we require in order to serve our Lord. This may often occur in our prayers, as we are more often asked than to give thanks and in the end we have become accustomed to it that makes us to be selfish, because as if we make a list of our needs to God and hope that the need was met , while we just sit quietly and wait.
Maybe we also do it in prayer meal, such as "God Almighty, we ask Thee ......, and we remembered to others who have not received food, would you give thanks also to them so they can eat ", is good if we say" Thank you O God for the blessings you have given us, presumably through Thy blessing, we can bless others in accordance with our capabilities ". In the prayer Jesus taught to give thanks to God in everything and ask what's become of our needs and when we get it then we can help others in accordance with the capabilities we have.
Book of Mark, written in the 60's AD by John Mark, a background that believers are treated cruelly by the people and many of them tortured and even killed under the reign of the emperor Nero. According to tradition, among the Christian martyrs in Rome that there Apostles Peter and Paul. The purpose of writing the book of Mark is to strengthen the faith of believers in Rome, and encourage them to suffer for the Gospel faithfully, confronting them with the life, suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus, their Lord. Based on the purpose of writing the book of Mark, at this time we are required to be able to strengthen the faith and memderita sake of the gospel. Therefore, there is a miraculous thing we must realize:
1. Continue to struggle
When we do not normally do an activity such as exercise in the morning, may we feel our bodies are exhausted and several hours later began when sleepy sleepy, so we will begin to blame the sport in the morning and would not want anymore to exercise in the following days. Similarly, when we when we know the word of God that we should do, at first we will do but what if we feel that we are doing that just bother us as by giving money or maybe give food when we see homeless people who are starving.
Some things we may think is easy to do but in reality it is very difficult to do. We may think that loving others is easy to do at the moment we have a surplus, and find it hard when we're short. If we are aware of what we set to ourselves, we actually have defined the terms to run the word of God is "love" because we have been dominated by fear and that fear does not have a need and we also have forgotten that our life is a gift and everything we have is because God has entrusted her to us to be a blessing to others.
2. Changing perceptions
Relatives / i in the love of God, when we may be unwittingly begin to think that the word of God should we do with our requirements by making the word "but", as we are giving "but" not to lack, or "but" when the excess. Words and assumptions about the "but" has made us like a glass filled with water so that we can not be filled by anything else, but to be able to listen to the words of God, we must always be filled with His Word all the time. How can we make love if we can not be filled by anything else?, Glass can be likened to our body that has been filled with thoughts, assumptions, while the mood is full of emotion that can be likened to mud. Thus, if we really want to do the word of God to love, first we willingly discard the entire contents of the glass and give ourselves to God and entrust ourselves to God cleanse and IA fills us again with His Word.
When we are filled by God then we will be glass that will not be full. God will always guide with us and entrust us to be able to realize that when we're given is short and gives too much even though we feel we lack is the excess because then we will be able to appreciate the blessings of God and would never say shortages.
3. Looking at the way God
In all our activities, we may often encounter hesitancy in determining and selecting the best, especially for themselves. Perhaps we often forget to reflect on choices in prayer and menggumulkannya, maybe we should just ask my friends about what is best for us. When we are experiencing confusion, we should get out of personal opinion and the opinions of others and take the middle road.
Middle of our street is our trust in God. Belief makes us will be headed toward a better and become better. With confidence we will be able to appreciate others as any existence because God created man is good. Belief in God also can make us survive in this struggle, at the time suspected of doing good while, at the moment of hate damaging want to destroy us but trust in God to make us forgive them because this is our advantage.
The downside for us is our inability to love others as they are, whereas for others of our weakness is our inability to match and exceed the abilities of others. God has changed our weaknesses into strengths and strengths in life, because "with God everything is possible". Therefore, brothers / i who loved God, let us look back at who we are in our hearts and we are, who we are for others, and who we are before God?. If we are aware of who we are then we would certainly want to be thankful for what God gives us, we will be more easily position the hands on for the needy, and we will not feel deprived because that's our advantage as children of God.
Maybe we consciously say that "we who serve the Lord" but unconsciously and in fact, we require in order to serve our Lord. This may often occur in our prayers, as we are more often asked than to give thanks and in the end we have become accustomed to it that makes us to be selfish, because as if we make a list of our needs to God and hope that the need was met , while we just sit quietly and wait.
Maybe we also do it in prayer meal, such as "God Almighty, we ask Thee ......, and we remembered to others who have not received food, would you give thanks also to them so they can eat ", is good if we say" Thank you O God for the blessings you have given us, presumably through Thy blessing, we can bless others in accordance with our capabilities ". In the prayer Jesus taught to give thanks to God in everything and ask what's become of our needs and when we get it then we can help others in accordance with the capabilities we have.
Book of Mark, written in the 60's AD by John Mark, a background that believers are treated cruelly by the people and many of them tortured and even killed under the reign of the emperor Nero. According to tradition, among the Christian martyrs in Rome that there Apostles Peter and Paul. The purpose of writing the book of Mark is to strengthen the faith of believers in Rome, and encourage them to suffer for the Gospel faithfully, confronting them with the life, suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus, their Lord. Based on the purpose of writing the book of Mark, at this time we are required to be able to strengthen the faith and memderita sake of the gospel. Therefore, there is a miraculous thing we must realize:
1. Continue to struggle
When we do not normally do an activity such as exercise in the morning, may we feel our bodies are exhausted and several hours later began when sleepy sleepy, so we will begin to blame the sport in the morning and would not want anymore to exercise in the following days. Similarly, when we when we know the word of God that we should do, at first we will do but what if we feel that we are doing that just bother us as by giving money or maybe give food when we see homeless people who are starving.
Some things we may think is easy to do but in reality it is very difficult to do. We may think that loving others is easy to do at the moment we have a surplus, and find it hard when we're short. If we are aware of what we set to ourselves, we actually have defined the terms to run the word of God is "love" because we have been dominated by fear and that fear does not have a need and we also have forgotten that our life is a gift and everything we have is because God has entrusted her to us to be a blessing to others.
2. Changing perceptions
Relatives / i in the love of God, when we may be unwittingly begin to think that the word of God should we do with our requirements by making the word "but", as we are giving "but" not to lack, or "but" when the excess. Words and assumptions about the "but" has made us like a glass filled with water so that we can not be filled by anything else, but to be able to listen to the words of God, we must always be filled with His Word all the time. How can we make love if we can not be filled by anything else?, Glass can be likened to our body that has been filled with thoughts, assumptions, while the mood is full of emotion that can be likened to mud. Thus, if we really want to do the word of God to love, first we willingly discard the entire contents of the glass and give ourselves to God and entrust ourselves to God cleanse and IA fills us again with His Word.
When we are filled by God then we will be glass that will not be full. God will always guide with us and entrust us to be able to realize that when we're given is short and gives too much even though we feel we lack is the excess because then we will be able to appreciate the blessings of God and would never say shortages.
3. Looking at the way God
In all our activities, we may often encounter hesitancy in determining and selecting the best, especially for themselves. Perhaps we often forget to reflect on choices in prayer and menggumulkannya, maybe we should just ask my friends about what is best for us. When we are experiencing confusion, we should get out of personal opinion and the opinions of others and take the middle road.
Middle of our street is our trust in God. Belief makes us will be headed toward a better and become better. With confidence we will be able to appreciate others as any existence because God created man is good. Belief in God also can make us survive in this struggle, at the time suspected of doing good while, at the moment of hate damaging want to destroy us but trust in God to make us forgive them because this is our advantage.
The downside for us is our inability to love others as they are, whereas for others of our weakness is our inability to match and exceed the abilities of others. God has changed our weaknesses into strengths and strengths in life, because "with God everything is possible". Therefore, brothers / i who loved God, let us look back at who we are in our hearts and we are, who we are for others, and who we are before God?. If we are aware of who we are then we would certainly want to be thankful for what God gives us, we will be more easily position the hands on for the needy, and we will not feel deprived because that's our advantage as children of God.
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