Be like a river...

"He who believes in Me... out of his heart will flow rivers of living water" (John 7:38).

A river is victorious, persistent, going steadily on its course; it reaches places its source never knows. A river does not in itself benefit from its own water, but plants and other living creatures as well as man are benificiaries. Be like a river today!

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JOY

Today.... wrap a rainbow of joy in your heart, let the sun paint a smile on your face, remove all clouds of doubt and fears, and savor God's gift of a BEAUTIFUL day!

Dying to self...

1 Cor 10:16 : Am I willing to die, to be broken bread and poured out wine for Christ?
Before bread can be broken, the grain of wheat must be broken, kneaded, baked at high heat. Before the wine can be poured, it must be trodden, processed...

Unchanging God...

Let us rejoice in the knowledge:
“Jesus Christ (the Messiah) is (always) the same, yesterday, today, (yes) and forever (to the ages)”. (Heb 13:8, Ampl.)

Jesus Christus is gister en vandag dieselfde, en TOT IN EWIGHEID!!! Amen, ja amen daarop.

Keeping up with the Jones's?

The drudgery of life has been compared with a rat-race. Sometimes we talk about "keeping up with the Jones's" if one talks about competing with one's fellow men. God's word also has something to say about the matter:

Jer 12: 5: "If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
12:1-6 When we are most in the dark concerning God's dispensations, we must keep up right thoughts of God, believing that he never did the least wrong to any of his creatures. When we find it hard to understand any of his dealings with us, or others, we must look to general truths as our first principles, and abide by them: the Lord is righteous. The God with whom we have to do, knows how our hearts are toward him. He knows both the guile of the hypocrite and the sincerity of the upright. Divine judgments would pull the wicked out of their pasture as sheep for the slaughter. This fruitful land was turned into barrenness for the wickedness of those that dwelt therein. The Lord reproved the prophet. The opposition of the men of Anathoth was not so formidable as what he must expect from the rulers of Judah. Our grief that there should be so much evil is often mixed with peevishness on account of the trials it occasions us. And in this our favoured day, and under our trifling difficulties, let us consider how we should behave, if called to sufferings like those of saints in former ages.

Finding rest...

I talked to somebody today, who works at an institution for people with addictions. I told him that most people's cravings are caused by a restlessness. I told him about the truth of this saying of St Augustine and how it can comfort people in their fight against addictions:

"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”

Jesus Christ can fulfill the emptiness, the void, that people are trying to fill up with all kinds of stuff : recognition, status, food, money, pain killers, etc.