Tuesday, February 28Combat
Meet the Lover. Meet the Accuser.
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posted by Graciana@Home at 2:42 am
Monday, February 27So long to prayers
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him. Matt 6:8
God’s hearing and answering prayer imply no change of character -no change in his principles of action. Indeed, if you ask why He ever answers prayer at all, the answer must be, because He is unchangeable. Prayer brings the suppliant into new relations to God's kingdom; and to meet these new relations, God's unchangeable principles require him to change the course of his administration. He answers prayer because he is unchangeably benevolent. It is not because His benevolence changes, but because it does not change, that He answers prayer.
I found my faith time and again hung in a kind of skeptical suspension. Wary, confused, questioning. I see that, despite all the devotional intimacies, Jesus grew more remote. He became an object of scrutiny. Disturbing revaluation. =S Yet I am so drawn to Jesus, irresistibly, because He positioned Himself as the dividing point of life, my life. Sometimes I accept Jesus’ audacious claim without question. Sometimes, I confess, I wonder what difference it should make to my life that a man lived a thousand years ago. Can I resolve this inner tension between doubter and lover? I learned the beautitudes only to find self unable to make sense of it. Let alone live by them. So long, sweet Jesus?
God’s hearing and answering prayer imply no change of character -no change in his principles of action. Indeed, if you ask why He ever answers prayer at all, the answer must be, because He is unchangeable. Prayer brings the suppliant into new relations to God's kingdom; and to meet these new relations, God's unchangeable principles require him to change the course of his administration. He answers prayer because he is unchangeably benevolent. It is not because His benevolence changes, but because it does not change, that He answers prayer.
I found my faith time and again hung in a kind of skeptical suspension. Wary, confused, questioning. I see that, despite all the devotional intimacies, Jesus grew more remote. He became an object of scrutiny. Disturbing revaluation. =S Yet I am so drawn to Jesus, irresistibly, because He positioned Himself as the dividing point of life, my life. Sometimes I accept Jesus’ audacious claim without question. Sometimes, I confess, I wonder what difference it should make to my life that a man lived a thousand years ago. Can I resolve this inner tension between doubter and lover? I learned the beautitudes only to find self unable to make sense of it. Let alone live by them. So long, sweet Jesus?
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posted by Graciana@Home at 3:04 pm
Saturday, February 25In the school of trust
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham Green, The Ministry of Fear
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posted by Graciana@Home at 4:06 pm
Friday, February 24Body of Christ
Asked self often this question lately, even as I've rolled dutifully out of bed each day. Or perhaps rolling out is the thing of the past. Perhaps the question now becomes the answer: Why bother with church. No question mark. People do leave church, more than a few times now I think of doing the same too. But deep in my heart I know I need to look deeper at what the church is really about. How to get out from scepticism to wholehearted participation in the church, and to weigh the church's human failings against its compelling excellencies as the body of Christ. I am a believer, but also a self-confessed non-belonger, if i could coin such a word. How to be a believing belonger I need to learn.
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posted by Graciana@Home at 3:51 am
Hi...
I really enjoy reading ur blog. I hv left church building for some time now. Only attending a cell group, now & then. I found an article that might be a blessing to u.. here it is... Going To Church.
P.S. do u mind if I put the link to ur blog on mine?
Thanks .. God blesses and leads u always.
I really enjoy reading ur blog. I hv left church building for some time now. Only attending a cell group, now & then. I found an article that might be a blessing to u.. here it is... Going To Church.
P.S. do u mind if I put the link to ur blog on mine?
Thanks .. God blesses and leads u always.
Hi =)
Browsed through yours too, enjoyed it and was edified.
Sure, link is absolutely fine.
God be with you too ya.. =)
Browsed through yours too, enjoyed it and was edified.
Sure, link is absolutely fine.
God be with you too ya.. =)
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: 7:39 pm Wednesday, February 22Alone
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Matt 6:6
Practice hiddenness. Praying and doing things only you and God know about. No practice will assist saints to live in genuineness and sincerity effectively such as this. Consider solemnly God’s omnipresence in our days, deeds, and thoughts. Someone with dignity looks upon none but God to be most feared. Pass the time of our sojourning here in reverent regard of the Lord.
Matt 6:6
Practice hiddenness. Praying and doing things only you and God know about. No practice will assist saints to live in genuineness and sincerity effectively such as this. Consider solemnly God’s omnipresence in our days, deeds, and thoughts. Someone with dignity looks upon none but God to be most feared. Pass the time of our sojourning here in reverent regard of the Lord.
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posted by Graciana@Home at 9:41 am
Tuesday, February 21The day the sky fell
The day the sky fell
Only half-listening
No, ears went dead
Mind only plays one thing on repeat
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posted by Graciana@Home at 9:54 am
Deceit
And when you prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their own reward.
Matt6:5
Dishonesty. A hypocrite is aggravated to mislead others, but in reality attempts to deceive himself and, ridiculously, God too. A hypocrite is reluctant to acknowledge own limitations and failings, and puts on mask to appear better than the actual fact.
B.K. original sermon
Dishonesty. A hypocrite is aggravated to mislead others, but in reality attempts to deceive himself and, ridiculously, God too. A hypocrite is reluctant to acknowledge own limitations and failings, and puts on mask to appear better than the actual fact.
B.K. original sermon
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posted by Graciana@Home at 2:21 am
Saturday, February 18For a fervency in spirit
Praise waiteth for Thee, O God, in Sion; and unto Thee shall the vow will be performed. O Thou that hearest prayer, unto Thee shall the flesh come. Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, Thou shall purge them away. Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto Thee, that he may dwell in Thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of the house, even of thy holy temple. By terrible things in righteousness wilt Thou answer us, o God of our salvation; Who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea.
Psalm65:1-6
Praise unto the Lord! O Thou that hearest prayer, give me the spirit of prayer. Amen!
Psalm65:1-6
Praise unto the Lord! O Thou that hearest prayer, give me the spirit of prayer. Amen!
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posted by Graciana@Home at 4:53 am
Friday, February 17Giants
If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. Adore A.W.Tozer, C.G.Finney, John Owen.
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posted by Graciana@Home at 7:24 am
More calling
I want to see God's hand much more clearly in this matter. I want to be led to more circumstances where I can bow down before Him in prayer, seeing the real present and pressing needs of souls of the Lord in R.C. congregation. If this was mere emotion and enthusiasm, I entreat God to take away every thought of it. If this is not from Him, let me rejoice, even if it meant bringing the whole plan eventually into nothing. If it is from Him, then do not let me fail in this. Let me see that it is not a vain thing to trust in a living God, examine my heart repeatedly so I could still say that His glory is my chief aim. Let me boast in the Lord before the sons of men.
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posted by Graciana@Home at 4:30 am
Tuesday, February 14Do the real thing
To do the real thing by praying. Another indication of pure heart is great prayerfulness. Such saints pray a great deal. They have things they desire for others. Subjects of prayer, always present and pressing. Literally ‘praying always’ when they are awake. And I have sometimes thought, when they are asleep also. Sweet hour of prayer, endless conversation with God, This I pray for.
Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer!
That calls me from a world of care,
And bids me at my Father’s throne
Make all my wants and wishes known.
In seasons of distress and grief,
My soul has often found relief,
And oft escaped the tempter’s snare,
By thy return, sweet hour of prayer!
Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer!
The joys I feel, the bliss I share,
Of those whose anxious spirits burn
With strong desires for thy return!
With such I hasten to the place
Where God my Savior shows His face,
And gladly take my station there,
And wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!
Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer!
Thy wings shall my petition bear
To Him whose truth and faithfulness
Engage the waiting soul to bless.
And since He bids me seek His face,
Believe His Word and trust His grace,
I’ll cast on Him my every care,
And wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!
Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer!
May I thy consolation share,
Till, from Mount Pisgah’s lofty height,
I view my home and take my flight.
This robe of flesh I’ll drop, and rise
To seize the everlasting prize,
And shout, while passing through the air,
“Farewell, farewell, sweet hour of prayer!”
Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer!
That calls me from a world of care,
And bids me at my Father’s throne
Make all my wants and wishes known.
In seasons of distress and grief,
My soul has often found relief,
And oft escaped the tempter’s snare,
By thy return, sweet hour of prayer!
Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer!
The joys I feel, the bliss I share,
Of those whose anxious spirits burn
With strong desires for thy return!
With such I hasten to the place
Where God my Savior shows His face,
And gladly take my station there,
And wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!
Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer!
Thy wings shall my petition bear
To Him whose truth and faithfulness
Engage the waiting soul to bless.
And since He bids me seek His face,
Believe His Word and trust His grace,
I’ll cast on Him my every care,
And wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer!
Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer!
May I thy consolation share,
Till, from Mount Pisgah’s lofty height,
I view my home and take my flight.
This robe of flesh I’ll drop, and rise
To seize the everlasting prize,
And shout, while passing through the air,
“Farewell, farewell, sweet hour of prayer!”
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posted by Graciana@Home at 4:21 am
Wednesday, February 8On the point of forgiving
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Matt5:7
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment. James2:13
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. Ephesians4:32
“The Christian congregation meets as a community that acknowledges that it lives by the amazing grace of a boundless kindness. Contemporary society speaks much about 'human rights.' It is uncomfortable with "charity" as something which falls short of "justice," and connects the giving of thanks with an unacceptable subservience. In Christian worship the language of rights is out of place except when it serves to remind us of the rights of others. For ourselves we confess that we cannot speak of rights, for we have been given everything and forgiven everything and promised everything, so that (as Luther said) we lack nothing except faith to believe it. In Christian worship we acknowledge that if we had received justice instead of charity we would be on our way to perdition. A Christian congregation is thus a body of people with gratitude to spare, a gratitude that can spill over into care for the neighbor. And it is of the essence of the matter that this concern for the neighbor is the overflow of a great gift of grace.”
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment. James2:13
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. Ephesians4:32
“The Christian congregation meets as a community that acknowledges that it lives by the amazing grace of a boundless kindness. Contemporary society speaks much about 'human rights.' It is uncomfortable with "charity" as something which falls short of "justice," and connects the giving of thanks with an unacceptable subservience. In Christian worship the language of rights is out of place except when it serves to remind us of the rights of others. For ourselves we confess that we cannot speak of rights, for we have been given everything and forgiven everything and promised everything, so that (as Luther said) we lack nothing except faith to believe it. In Christian worship we acknowledge that if we had received justice instead of charity we would be on our way to perdition. A Christian congregation is thus a body of people with gratitude to spare, a gratitude that can spill over into care for the neighbor. And it is of the essence of the matter that this concern for the neighbor is the overflow of a great gift of grace.”
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, courtesy of A.K.
“How shalt thou hope for mercy, rendering none?” Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.
“If I have no forgiveness, I have no message at all.” Sam Moffat, a missionary in China, of Communist persecutors.
Lately I have been asked to forgive. Achingly difficult, and it is never completely satisfying. Nagging injustice remains. Wounds still cause pain, and the memory still lives. Remnants of hurt, I found myself pulling away from human contact and unable to trust myself and others. I have to approach God again and again, to yield the residue of what I thought I have committed to Him long time ago. His grace begins and ends with forgiveness. His love alone makes it possible for me who loves poorly to practice love empty of self-seeking. Again and again, if I care to listen, I hear the loud whisper, that I did not get what I deserved. I deserved punishment and got forgiveness. I deserved wrath yet got love. It was unfair. Grace, however, is not about fairness.A cease-fire between human beings with own selves and others depends upon a cease fire with God.
“How shalt thou hope for mercy, rendering none?” Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.
“If I have no forgiveness, I have no message at all.” Sam Moffat, a missionary in China, of Communist persecutors.
Lately I have been asked to forgive. Achingly difficult, and it is never completely satisfying. Nagging injustice remains. Wounds still cause pain, and the memory still lives. Remnants of hurt, I found myself pulling away from human contact and unable to trust myself and others. I have to approach God again and again, to yield the residue of what I thought I have committed to Him long time ago. His grace begins and ends with forgiveness. His love alone makes it possible for me who loves poorly to practice love empty of self-seeking. Again and again, if I care to listen, I hear the loud whisper, that I did not get what I deserved. I deserved punishment and got forgiveness. I deserved wrath yet got love. It was unfair. Grace, however, is not about fairness.A cease-fire between human beings with own selves and others depends upon a cease fire with God.
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posted by Graciana@Home at 8:18 am
Tuesday, February 7Prayer
For all my former companions to start caring about things of eternity, to have concerns about their souls, to consider Bible for its blessed content.
Thanks to I.S. for sharing her joy in seeing her colleague begin to wonder of the things of God. =)
Thanks to I.S. for sharing her joy in seeing her colleague begin to wonder of the things of God. =)
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posted by Graciana@Home at 3:39 am
Monday, February 6Be this the course
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Matt5:6
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Isaiah 5:1-2
Is it that longing irrepressible? After having learnt of something of own weakness, after having tasted exceeding bitterness and repulse of sin? This state of mind is not merely conviction, no, it is not remorse, nor sorrow, nor a struggle to obtain a hope or to get out of danger. What is it that this soul craves? It is an important condition that the mind should have somewhat clear apprehensions of the thing needed and of the means of obtaining it. Effort cannot be well directed unless the subject be in some good measure understood. I must by all means see what this is before I can intelligently seek it and hope to gain it. The seemingly mystical and unmeaning ‘abiding in Me’, ‘God in us’, 'Holy Spirit that dwelleth in you’, this blessing of fullness we must always ask. And believe. All promises imply full supply. Often a need for great perseverance there is. This, is to be the course of things, so long as we remain in the flesh, and perhaps, forever. All are making progress, but God. No end to the disclosures to be made, nor to the truths to be learnt. Suppose that somewhere in the lapse of eternal ages, there is a point where nothing remains, not another point to be inquired after, another fact to be investigated, Alas, what a blow to the bliss of heaven. Here in the depth of Word, here is that far better than all you seek. Come and eat ye what is good.
Be by this means I am filled as I have not often been as yet.
Isaiah 5:1-2
Is it that longing irrepressible? After having learnt of something of own weakness, after having tasted exceeding bitterness and repulse of sin? This state of mind is not merely conviction, no, it is not remorse, nor sorrow, nor a struggle to obtain a hope or to get out of danger. What is it that this soul craves? It is an important condition that the mind should have somewhat clear apprehensions of the thing needed and of the means of obtaining it. Effort cannot be well directed unless the subject be in some good measure understood. I must by all means see what this is before I can intelligently seek it and hope to gain it. The seemingly mystical and unmeaning ‘abiding in Me’, ‘God in us’, 'Holy Spirit that dwelleth in you’, this blessing of fullness we must always ask. And believe. All promises imply full supply. Often a need for great perseverance there is. This, is to be the course of things, so long as we remain in the flesh, and perhaps, forever. All are making progress, but God. No end to the disclosures to be made, nor to the truths to be learnt. Suppose that somewhere in the lapse of eternal ages, there is a point where nothing remains, not another point to be inquired after, another fact to be investigated, Alas, what a blow to the bliss of heaven. Here in the depth of Word, here is that far better than all you seek. Come and eat ye what is good.
Be by this means I am filled as I have not often been as yet.
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posted by Graciana@Home at 5:23 pm
In the case of young converts
I cannot rest till I find God. I saw the promises. I will shut up. I will not stop seeking till I should find.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God. Psalm42:1
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God. Psalm42:1
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posted by Graciana@Home at 1:41 pm
Sunday, February 5The right grand subject
Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the land. (Matt 5:5)
But the meek shall inherit the earth. (Psalm37:11)
Meekness does not care about the reformation of manners or the transformation of personalities of their own sake. How would meekness call attention to the glory of God?
"What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert—himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt—the Divine Reason. We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table." G.K.Chesterson.
I ought not to take myself too seriously. Myself is apt to be my master.
But the meek shall inherit the earth. (Psalm37:11)
Meekness does not care about the reformation of manners or the transformation of personalities of their own sake. How would meekness call attention to the glory of God?
"What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert—himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt—the Divine Reason. We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table." G.K.Chesterson.
I ought not to take myself too seriously. Myself is apt to be my master.
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posted by Graciana@Home at 3:19 am
Saturday, February 4Studying, preaching and growth
I did not understand the joy that believers have in seeing any sinner to care and become interested in the things of God. Pg 15
I was growing in faith and knowledge of Jesus, but I still preferred reading religious books instead of the Scriptures. Pg 21
I prayed often and generally with sincerity. But if I had prayed more earnestly, I would have made much more rapid progress in my faith. Despite my slowness to grasp spiritual principles, God showed His great patience towards me. Pg 21
..that Holy Spirit explains the Scripture to us, and help us to preach the Word. The Lord enable me to put this aspect of the Holy Spirit to the test by laying aside my commentaries and almost every other book and simply reading the Word of God. Pg 27
Simplicity in expression and plain speech are of utmost importance. The teacher should speak so that even children and people who cannot read may be able to understand him, as far as the natural mind can comprehend the things of God. Pg 34
The expounder of truth of God speaks for God and for eternity, not to please those with literary taste. Pg 34
Neither eloquence nor depth in thought makes a truly great preacher. Only a life of prayer and mediation will render him a vessel ready for the Master’s use and fit to be employed in the conversion of sinners and in the edification of saints. Pg 35
George Muller, the Autobiography
I was growing in faith and knowledge of Jesus, but I still preferred reading religious books instead of the Scriptures. Pg 21
I prayed often and generally with sincerity. But if I had prayed more earnestly, I would have made much more rapid progress in my faith. Despite my slowness to grasp spiritual principles, God showed His great patience towards me. Pg 21
..that Holy Spirit explains the Scripture to us, and help us to preach the Word. The Lord enable me to put this aspect of the Holy Spirit to the test by laying aside my commentaries and almost every other book and simply reading the Word of God. Pg 27
Simplicity in expression and plain speech are of utmost importance. The teacher should speak so that even children and people who cannot read may be able to understand him, as far as the natural mind can comprehend the things of God. Pg 34
The expounder of truth of God speaks for God and for eternity, not to please those with literary taste. Pg 34
Neither eloquence nor depth in thought makes a truly great preacher. Only a life of prayer and mediation will render him a vessel ready for the Master’s use and fit to be employed in the conversion of sinners and in the edification of saints. Pg 35
George Muller, the Autobiography
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posted by Graciana@Home at 5:15 pm
Resolution
"The Lord richly made up to me the little I had relinquished for His sake." pg 19
"Although I was very ignorant and weak in faith, I long to win souls for Christ. Every month I circulated about three hundred missionary papers, distributed many tracks and wrote letters to some of my former companions in sin." pg 19
"Every morning from six until eight I prayed and read the Scriptures. After the evening prayer, my communion with God was so sweet that I would continue praying until midnight. Then I would go to a brother's room, and we would pray together until one or two in the morning. Even then, I was sometimes full of joy that I could not sleep." pg 27
George Muller, Autobiography
"Although I was very ignorant and weak in faith, I long to win souls for Christ. Every month I circulated about three hundred missionary papers, distributed many tracks and wrote letters to some of my former companions in sin." pg 19
"Every morning from six until eight I prayed and read the Scriptures. After the evening prayer, my communion with God was so sweet that I would continue praying until midnight. Then I would go to a brother's room, and we would pray together until one or two in the morning. Even then, I was sometimes full of joy that I could not sleep." pg 27
George Muller, Autobiography
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posted by Graciana@Home at 2:39 pm
Essential duty
Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Matt5:4
Only those who mourn with godly sorrow will be comforted. And there is only one way to give anxious sinners real comfort. Do not try to comfort anxious sinners with false notions, better suppress our false sympathy and tenderness and let the naked truth cleave them asunder. When a sinner is distressed and in agony, God is ready to comfort him. He is not comforted, because he refuses to be comforted. We need not think to be more compassionate than God. And to give sinners false comfort is, in fact, cruelty.
Only those who mourn with godly sorrow will be comforted. And there is only one way to give anxious sinners real comfort. Do not try to comfort anxious sinners with false notions, better suppress our false sympathy and tenderness and let the naked truth cleave them asunder. When a sinner is distressed and in agony, God is ready to comfort him. He is not comforted, because he refuses to be comforted. We need not think to be more compassionate than God. And to give sinners false comfort is, in fact, cruelty.
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posted by Graciana@Home at 11:56 am
Friday, February 3Enough
Far too much genocide readings today. Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong. Depressing. =P I cannot be more acquiescent with Hamlet, "Madness in great ones must not unwatched go." Act 3 Scene 2.
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posted by Graciana@Home at 4:24 pm
More twisted
Hitler considered himself religious, but had only contempt for organized religion and the teachings of the church about Jesus. Hitler had his own private view of Jesus, that of an economic revolutionary and Jew hater. So in some twisted sense Hitler thought he was acting in the tradition of Jesus. If the question is, 'can someone read the New Testament and then go off and do horribly bad things? then the answer is yes. If the question is 'was Hitler in the tradition of mainstream Christianity' then the answer is no.
"When a man gets to the point of identifying himself with Jesus Christ, then he is ripe for an insane asylum."
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posted by Graciana@Home at 2:26 pm
Twisted
We need more than patience to face people with twisted, perverted, tortured, weird logic.
Yesterday after almost 4 hours of Anne Frank's diary the movie I attempted to delineate the mindset of Hitler and the Nazis, to reveal the logic that was the source of the Holocaust. The concept of the Final Solution of Jewish problem was a collective project and coherent structure of thoughts, and it was consciously undertaken and profoundly significant to many persons. Much to my disturbed surprise.
I should seek to uncover the fantasy that was the source of Hitler's perception of reality.
But now whom should one trust in order to understand his ideology? Diaries are great, but he did not keep one. His own autobiography, Mein Kampf (My struggle), is known to misrepresent events, filled with glorified inaccuracies, self-serving half-truths and outright revisionism, thus is problematic. His speeches are discounted immediately since they were designed to manipulate rather than to inform.
How to know someone who had the astuteness, the ability to lie, twist, cheat and flatter, one who has learned to lie to his conscience with conviction and to dissemble with candor?
"I was convinced that of all the millions on whom the Hitler Myth had fastened itself, the most carried away was Adolph Hitler, himself." Howard K. Smith
Clever observation.
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posted by Graciana@Home at 8:42 am
Good for truly good reason
Blessed are the poor in spirit.. Matt 5:3a
We are good for good reason. Good because we see our own utter emptiness by nature of everything good, and of any tendency to that which is good, that nearly the whole power of the sensibility continually tends towards selfishness. We are blessed because we are nothing, to know and do nothing of ourselves, and instead to have and need HIM for everything - for breath, for grace, for faith, for fullness, to have and need HIM in all and all.
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posted by Graciana@Home at 4:20 am
Thursday, February 2Good for good reason
A row of rather competent movies these few days. Memoirs of a Geisha, Anna Karenina, Diary of Anne Frank, The man in the iron mask. Everything changed, I was knocked out of my complacency. Could not stop regretting, how could I remain ignorant all these while. There are some stories everyone should know. I still do not know many. =( Very disheartened now.
Labels: Literature, Movies
posted by Graciana@Home at 2:19 pm
Blessedness is more than happiness
The Beautitudes: Blessed are.. for they will.. Matt 5
Blessed is the man.. whose delight is the law of the Lord, and in His law doth he meditate day and night. Psalm 1:1,2
Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near. Rev 1:3
This blessedness God promises is more than happiness, a statement that has nothing whatever to do with my personal opinions or emotions. A happiness where I am not talking about myself at all, where the only thing I am saying about myself is that I submit to the law, where it is where I stand, where that is the only Reality, because it truly is. It is far past finding my thoughts in directions, far past the trivialities of how I feel, delivered from a vague preoccupation of myself and my own concerns, and to be turned to His word. It is where I bind myself to the promises, where now is the happiness and every step of the journey matters and is gladness in itself, because the reason to endure being the promise itself. If I do believe in these promises, what little things will not be taken care of? because what is not little by comparison?
"Every step leads you closer to home." A.K.
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posted by Graciana@Home at 3:54 am
Wednesday, February 1Two dear ones
I.S. is feeling miserable. And I am sad for her too. Pray only God's word guides her. Ratio reasons and rebels, and feelings are the least dependable things in the world. Trust His word only. A note of a lighter tone, D.T. is well in HK. He has got his permanent address. 144 Pokfulam Rd, University Hall Rm C8. University of HK. I am glad he feels at home there, with his aunt around and all. =)
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posted by Graciana@Home at 12:45 pm
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