God Sent An Angel Today

God, you know my heart and thoughts.

I know this angel is sent by you

the minute she told me she felt Spirit-led to come by.

Thank you my Father,

You always never fail to show up

or do something when I needed it;

Even when I didn't share with you much,

you perceive my thoughts and feel my heart.

Thank God for you my dear dear friend,

who always stood by me and keep watch over me.

I am loved.

Where did it ALL go wrong?

It is with deep burden and sadness that I've been hearing (tho it's been ongoing for a long while) of how within a church, people are seemingly "judging" how or why the other brother/ sister serves, the agenda behind and so forth; spiritual leaders who talked behind others' back without first finding the truth by going directly to the brother/ sister and seek clarification.

How or should I ask WHY did these happen in Christian community? What's God's ultimate purpose for His people? Isn't it to love one another? So what is loving one another? Isn't it to encourage, spur, correct and rebuke, all to be done in love? Has the world thwarted these words that is so clearly stated in the Bible, or human nature out of their own agenda? And WAIT, didn't God say so CLEARLY in His words "Do not gossip", on how "only foolish people would cause dissension"?

Why should one question about one's service to God if he/she just wants to reach out to the needy and do what is missing in the light of building up (strengthening) the body of Christ? Shouldn't we be looking at the fruit of the service that comes out from one whereby lives are touched, transformed and souls are saved?

Yet, so often, Christians are so caught up in the battlement and tension within the body of Christ (church) that precious, limited TIME is wasted instead of doing WHAT OUGHT TO BE DONE.

The crux of the above could easily be sum up by James 3:3-6, 9-18:-

When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
 But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.

Does your being (speech and action) display earthly or Godly wisdom? Which of the wisdom would you DESIRE to have my dear brothers and sisters?

If it is God's wisdom you desire, I pray that you will join me in prayer to proclaim EVERY word mentioned in God's wisdom and CONSCIOUSLY apply them in our daily lives. Carve them upon our hearts today.

Make this a resolution for 2011.

God bless.

God doesnt comfort us to make us comfortable; He...

 comforts us to make us COMFORTERS.

Read 2 Cor 1:3-11

Encouragement of the day:
The comfort God has given us
He wants us now to share
With others who are suffering
So they will sense His care.

(Taken from Daily Bread devotion, Dec7 2010)