Thoughts for another day
August 30, 2010
Today's verse: 1 Jn. 2:17. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)
The world has many wonderful things for man; but they are diagonally opposite to what God has for him. Everything the world offers stands opposed to God because the world and all its objects are under the control of the one who has been given it for a while. But within the same world is also the dominion of God in the hearts of men, which is what we call the kingdom of God, not a physical place but the space reserved for God within man, more particularly in his heart.
The packaging of things in the world and the world itself is so attractive that man is prone to fall in love with them. There’re so many delightful things - beautiful people we may be attracted to, beautiful paintings, beautiful homes, serene surroundings, manmade attractions like parks, theme parks, huge aquaria housing the loveliest fish from around the world, and so on. Yet, they are fading and temporary things. Then there’s the mind of man which at one time is so brilliant making such discoveries as to stun human senses in a grand wow, but later this same mind goes and does such stupid things such as destroying life and degrading creation for money.
When we’re attached to these worldly things, God isn’t with us for God isn’t in the attractions of the world. Not that God isn’t bothered with us in the world, for sure He is concerned but He isn’t with us when we shift the fulcrum of our love from being centered on Him to worldly things! God gives us a long rope and doesn’t interfere. But someday, He yanks the carpet from under our feet so to say when we stay indulged in the world. But for those devoted to Him, God is their all. He reaches out and comforts; He knows that they don’t wish to live in the world but with Him as they understand the transitory nature of things in the world and the permanency of His things. So choosing permanency, they live eternal lives with their God who loves them and invites them into His home because they chose Him, whom they couldn’t see rather than the delightful things which they could see.
August 30, 2010
Today's verse: 1 Jn. 2:17. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)
The world has many wonderful things for man; but they are diagonally opposite to what God has for him. Everything the world offers stands opposed to God because the world and all its objects are under the control of the one who has been given it for a while. But within the same world is also the dominion of God in the hearts of men, which is what we call the kingdom of God, not a physical place but the space reserved for God within man, more particularly in his heart.
The packaging of things in the world and the world itself is so attractive that man is prone to fall in love with them. There’re so many delightful things - beautiful people we may be attracted to, beautiful paintings, beautiful homes, serene surroundings, manmade attractions like parks, theme parks, huge aquaria housing the loveliest fish from around the world, and so on. Yet, they are fading and temporary things. Then there’s the mind of man which at one time is so brilliant making such discoveries as to stun human senses in a grand wow, but later this same mind goes and does such stupid things such as destroying life and degrading creation for money.
When we’re attached to these worldly things, God isn’t with us for God isn’t in the attractions of the world. Not that God isn’t bothered with us in the world, for sure He is concerned but He isn’t with us when we shift the fulcrum of our love from being centered on Him to worldly things! God gives us a long rope and doesn’t interfere. But someday, He yanks the carpet from under our feet so to say when we stay indulged in the world. But for those devoted to Him, God is their all. He reaches out and comforts; He knows that they don’t wish to live in the world but with Him as they understand the transitory nature of things in the world and the permanency of His things. So choosing permanency, they live eternal lives with their God who loves them and invites them into His home because they chose Him, whom they couldn’t see rather than the delightful things which they could see.
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