12 And there was much complaining among the people concerning Him. Some said, “He is good”; others said, “No, on the contrary, He deceives the people.”
In reading this, I'm both touched and saddened. I truly feel sorry for those who cannot recognize Jesus, the Christ, when they see Him. How one is so very blessed to recognize and know Him. Yet others are blind to this revelation of God. It shines so true to our world today. How so many are yet unable to recognize Christ, and even deny Him when they see Him. And how blessed we are to have received His truth and get to know Him. Let's pray for those less fortunate, in hopes that one day they may find this precious treasure to cherish.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
John 5
44How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God?
(In German it is not the praise but the honour.) Jesus came not for his own sake. He, before he came to earth, did not need to descend. He neither lacked in glory nor in power or anything else. He came because we lack (in pretty much parts). He came because of his godly love and to give us eternal life so that we are saved from the judgement.
24"[...] whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned[...]
And in the judgement he also will not accuse us before the father
45"But do not think I will accuse you before the Father.
But somehow it is stillhard for human to accept him by comming to him
40yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
or to make efford to obtain his pleasure, praise and attension. People prefere to be acepted by human, being which are just like them. Is this the reason why it is more likely to desire human praise? Does this kind of temorary praise seem more easier to obtain and more real to us? I think you could say so. It really aquries faith and faith to belive that Jesus as a almighty God is there and that we can be a pleasure to him. That we are able to do good and that God is willing to accept and to support while we are improving. He does not want to condenm people but he would love to bless them.There are many ways to obtain the praise of God but you haveto be willing to put efford, time and energy into this process. But maybe not the process but the beginning is the hardes part. Because the loose of human prais may let us hesitate
John 12: 42Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not confess their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue; 43for they loved praise from men more than praise from God.
So why should we desire for mans praise rather then for Gods? Is it not better to be acceptable and liked before God than before man?
(In German it is not the praise but the honour.) Jesus came not for his own sake. He, before he came to earth, did not need to descend. He neither lacked in glory nor in power or anything else. He came because we lack (in pretty much parts). He came because of his godly love and to give us eternal life so that we are saved from the judgement.
24"[...] whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned[...]
And in the judgement he also will not accuse us before the father
45"But do not think I will accuse you before the Father.
But somehow it is stillhard for human to accept him by comming to him
40yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
or to make efford to obtain his pleasure, praise and attension. People prefere to be acepted by human, being which are just like them. Is this the reason why it is more likely to desire human praise? Does this kind of temorary praise seem more easier to obtain and more real to us? I think you could say so. It really aquries faith and faith to belive that Jesus as a almighty God is there and that we can be a pleasure to him. That we are able to do good and that God is willing to accept and to support while we are improving. He does not want to condenm people but he would love to bless them.There are many ways to obtain the praise of God but you haveto be willing to put efford, time and energy into this process. But maybe not the process but the beginning is the hardes part. Because the loose of human prais may let us hesitate
John 12: 42Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not confess their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue; 43for they loved praise from men more than praise from God.
So why should we desire for mans praise rather then for Gods? Is it not better to be acceptable and liked before God than before man?
John Chapter 8
1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 Now early[a] in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them.
Jesus showed us a good example in term of how to balance our spiritual life. Jesus went to mountain and then he went to the temple. The implication of go to mountain in today’s spiritual life is equivalent to go to spiritual convocation, theological course, seminars or something similar where we have the chance to cultivate our spiritual level. Most of the seminars, convocations are held in church where we are expected to devote all of our time to pray, study bible of GOD, pray and have fellowship with brothers and sisters. Surely, those kinds of activities are very good for our spiritual improvement. Thus if you have chances to attend theological courses, make the most of it.
Secondly, regarding go temple. Jesus wants us to go to church, work for GOD and serve GOD.
All in all, GOD wants us to have a good balance of our spiritual life. Have time for us to self cultivation and also spare time to serve GOD.
2 Now early[a] in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them.
Jesus showed us a good example in term of how to balance our spiritual life. Jesus went to mountain and then he went to the temple. The implication of go to mountain in today’s spiritual life is equivalent to go to spiritual convocation, theological course, seminars or something similar where we have the chance to cultivate our spiritual level. Most of the seminars, convocations are held in church where we are expected to devote all of our time to pray, study bible of GOD, pray and have fellowship with brothers and sisters. Surely, those kinds of activities are very good for our spiritual improvement. Thus if you have chances to attend theological courses, make the most of it.
Secondly, regarding go temple. Jesus wants us to go to church, work for GOD and serve GOD.
All in all, GOD wants us to have a good balance of our spiritual life. Have time for us to self cultivation and also spare time to serve GOD.
John Chapter 7
37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” 39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing[g] in Him would receive; for the Holy[h] Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Here in chapter 7 Jesus told us that He provides the living water to those who believe in He and in chapter 6, Jesus also mentioned about bread of life which is He. Jesus said that whoever comes and believes to Him shall never hunger and thirst again. In sum, Jesus told us that our spiritual satisfaction comes from spiritual and drinking. The bread of life is the word of GOD and the living water is the Holy Spirit. This means, in order to be spiritually fulfilled, we have to continually pursue the bread of life by constantly studying the word of GOD and persistently praying in spirit.
Here in chapter 7 Jesus told us that He provides the living water to those who believe in He and in chapter 6, Jesus also mentioned about bread of life which is He. Jesus said that whoever comes and believes to Him shall never hunger and thirst again. In sum, Jesus told us that our spiritual satisfaction comes from spiritual and drinking. The bread of life is the word of GOD and the living water is the Holy Spirit. This means, in order to be spiritually fulfilled, we have to continually pursue the bread of life by constantly studying the word of GOD and persistently praying in spirit.
John chapter 6
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John Chapter 6
5 Then Jesus lifted up His eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward Him, He said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread, that these may eat?” 6 But this He said to test him, for He Himself knew what He would do.
This is what I like from the book of John. By reading the book of John thoroughly, we are assured that our GOD is the almighty one. If something unexpected happened in our lives, just treat it as a test from GOD for us, just like Jesus tested Philips. GOD knows what He will do and He will solve the problem just like in this story. GOD tests us because He want to know whether we can restrain the test or not.
However, after received grace from GOD, our faith shouldn’t only base on the physical sign and grace that GOD has shown to us. Jesus doesn’t expect this kind of relationship from us (v. 27). This kind of relationship is not strong enough and can be broken easily. We can see the example from this chapter, in verse 15, it’s written that those people after seen the sign of Jesus wanted to make Him king, nevertheless, in chapter 66, we can see that many of those disciples followed Jesus no more. Those disciplies gone because the reason they followed Jesus solely based on the physical bread. Their faith has no foundation, their faith is not based on Jesus Christ's teaching. This is why our faith should be rooted in good and solid foundation so that we will abide in Him forever.
John Chapter 6
5 Then Jesus lifted up His eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward Him, He said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread, that these may eat?” 6 But this He said to test him, for He Himself knew what He would do.
This is what I like from the book of John. By reading the book of John thoroughly, we are assured that our GOD is the almighty one. If something unexpected happened in our lives, just treat it as a test from GOD for us, just like Jesus tested Philips. GOD knows what He will do and He will solve the problem just like in this story. GOD tests us because He want to know whether we can restrain the test or not.
However, after received grace from GOD, our faith shouldn’t only base on the physical sign and grace that GOD has shown to us. Jesus doesn’t expect this kind of relationship from us (v. 27). This kind of relationship is not strong enough and can be broken easily. We can see the example from this chapter, in verse 15, it’s written that those people after seen the sign of Jesus wanted to make Him king, nevertheless, in chapter 66, we can see that many of those disciples followed Jesus no more. Those disciplies gone because the reason they followed Jesus solely based on the physical bread. Their faith has no foundation, their faith is not based on Jesus Christ's teaching. This is why our faith should be rooted in good and solid foundation so that we will abide in Him forever.
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