Mar 31 2009

Work

There is a top ventriloquist in Las Vegas who tells of his father’s insistance that everyone join the ministry. The son said he tried and fought to please his father but did not suceed in anything other than entertainment. He said he has a calling to make people laugh. The father never spoke to his son again.
There is one spirit, the bible says, but many gifts. The bible also says the church is like a human body where all parts are different, fufill different functions, but still is one body. The Korean church demanded everyone to teach, but it is not everyone’s gift or calling.
“Whatever you do, do it heartedly, as to the Lord and not to men.” Collosians 3:23 We all must work somewhere, and that is our mission field. Everything we do is service to God. “God makes no distinction on what is spiritual and secular.” All is God’s work.


Mar 30 2009

WWCD? 4

Driving to work she thought about all she had to do tht day, that week. Primitive man had free time, she had none. Primitive man had tribal ties, she only had her mother in Iowa, and “The Neanderthal”, who would visit with Adam twice a year.
When she got to work “Mr. Peanut,” as everyone called him because he was always snacking on shelled peanuts, waved to her. She didn’t fit in there or most places she went, except the forest preserve. Mr. Peanut always greeted her. He talked to her in the breakroom about a month ago She was readng a book on Eve, the first woman, the mother of us all. She explained we were all linked to a woman from east Africa about 150,000 years ago. Mr. Peanut smiled broadly then raised his finger and said, “Tigres and Euphradies. Eve came from the Tigris and Euphraides region.”
“What?”, she asked.
“The Bible says we origionate inbetween the Tigres and Euphradies region.”
“Oh. Yeah, Right.” she rolled her eyes. She had heard that when she was young, but not since. She reminded herself that, because of Eve, we all come from a very small gene pool that migrated out of Africa, so we are all from the same 10,000e 10,000
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Izbrano poglavje ne obstaja! Štetje svetopisemskih vrstic se začne z 1! Vrstica 0 ne obstaja!

people- we are the same family. It was a joyous, freeing thought. She looked at all people as her family somehow. Even Mr. Peanut here, and the Clarks.
Mr. Peanut could relate to her in a way. Some time before they talked about her yearning for our origional pure state.
“Yeah, ” he said, “The garden of eden, everyone wants that.” It comforted her in a way.

mr_peanut


Mar 29 2009

Right Fear

God says fearing God is the beginning of wisdom. If you meet a tiger or lion in the wild you have a natural fear of it. So if you met God you would have an awesome respect and fear for him.
On the other hand we should not fear the Lord as he is first coming to save the world, not judge it. God seaks us to save us.
When God created man and he rebelled, in the garden of eden, he said, “I heard your voice and I hid myself.” It was because he had sinned. Sin is separation from God wih guilt and fear of punishment. We fear sin and death, which are our enemies. Jesus conquered and saved us from both. So we should not be afraid.


Mar 28 2009

WWCD? 3

She wound up selling shoes all day over the phone. She didn’t even like shoes. Primative man didn’t wear shoes… well maybe neanderthals wore skins on the ice floes, but they were so tough it wasn’t like they had to. Shoes, hell, who really care about shoes.
Homo erectus, she mused to herself while dropping her son off at school, migrated from africa throughout the whole world, and that was without “The Outdoorsman”, her companys best selling boot. My God, she thought, what was she doing with her life?
Driving to work she grumbled about her sorry, unfufilled state. Sure she had tried, for three years she applied throughout academia for any type of related position. Then she got pregnant, then two years later, “The Neandethal”, her ex-husband, (at least he looked like a neanderthal then,) left her and Adam, her son, “to find himself”, and pursue a career in ceramics. Good gol darn luck, she thought, and good riddence. She had no choice but to get a job immediately wherever she could.
Then one day she had an epiphany- if she worked in research or archeaology, she still wouldn’t be living her dream. She wanted to LIVE like a cavewoman, and that would take a plan. So she bided her time saved and planned for her and Adam to escape.


Mar 27 2009

WWCD? 2

Linda met her son downstairs for breakfast. He grabbed a pop tart and turned on a cartoon. In the wild, she thought they would chew on last night’s kill, watching the sunrise over the veldt, like Lucy, the earliest human-like find of fossilized bones.
Or, on the other hand, she would jump ahead tens of thousands of years to two million years BCE, and they were homo habilus. They would scavenge food and harvest old kills together. She would be the first of the species to create tools- in this case a fork into a scavenged left-over omlete.
Homo habilus cohabitated with many varietys of apemen… just like the many species of neighbors she had, (especially the Clarks across the street). She, however had learned to adapt, like homo habilus, to many different situations. She had learned to adapt, and could handle the rowdy Clarks, raising her son alone, and working outside her field, (Anthropology, of coarse), in Customer service.


Mar 27 2009

Hearing His Voice

I read of a man who visited Israel and watched a shepard call his sheep out of a pen of many sheep. Only his sheep came out towards him. They had learned their master’s voice. Jesus says His sheep hear his voice and follow Him.
I also read of a man who was frustrated at some believers around him who said they knew what God wanted from them; they heard God’s voice. He thought this was impossible and they were crazy, but slowly they taught him and showed him how to listen to Jesus through finding relevant scripture and following the slightest inclinations of Jesus’ heart. He found he too could know God’s word personally for him.
May we follow the “still small voice” within God’s heart.


Mar 25 2009

Like A Shadow

Jesus is always with us. In up times and down He is there. Jesus says if you are ashamed of me before people, I will be ashamed of you in my kingdom. That is not quite the same, but I’m sure it feels ike abandonment.
There are times we don’t feel Jesus’s presence- long droughts of doubt and lack of connection. However by faith He is there. “I will never leave you or forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5Hebrews 13:5
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5 Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”


Mar 24 2009

Pure Heart

Believing and obeying the word of God purifies our hearts. Daily reading of the word cleanses mind and heart. It points out sins to confess, renews our relationship with Jesus. It also purifies to follow God’s inner spirit. “God blesses the pure of heart, for they will see God” Matthew 5:8Matthew 5:8
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8 Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.


Mar 23 2009

Forgive

God forgives us, and we are to pick it up and accept it. We are to forgive others. I carry a bunch of rage against my old church fo selling Korean culture as the only way to be christian. I still struggle with forgiving them over and over.
How many times are we to forgive? Seven times seventy, Jesus says. We are also to forgive ourselves. Living in forgiveness frees us from guilt and shame.


Mar 22 2009

Dont Worry

Worrying is a choice. Jesus says don’t worry as God tkes care of the birds and clothes the lillys of the field so how much more us. It may come on automatically so we think it is not a choice, but it is.
I know a man who worrys excessively; my father. He must enjoy it on some level, or maybe it is a long standing habit. But Jesus says trust God and don’t stimulate that part of the brain. “Do not worry about your life.” Matthew 6:25Matthew 6:25
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25 Therefore, I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?