A Better Person
It's the pain and unpleasantness that helps us focus on what wrong needs to be righted, that injustice that needs to be rectified.
It's the pain and unpleasantness that helps us focus on what wrong needs to be righted, that injustice that needs to be rectified.
Because he lived as a man, human beings, people like you and me, know that he fully understands our experiences, our struggles, what we are going through.
We, like John, are not the source of God's light; we merely reflect the light.
He's asking what kind of life do you want to be leading when Jesus returns? What do you want Jesus to catch you in the act of doing?
Knowing that our future is secure is all we need to know to face the bleakness of tomorrow.
Christians must put their faith into action by resisting the seductions of their surrounding culture and helping the vulnerable in their midst.
We are responsible to use what God has given us, and the issue is not how much we have, but how well we use what we do have.
It seems as if the more we do, the more God gives us to do, and through the Holy Spirit we are provided with the resources to get the job done.
We have to stay focused on the fact that self-sacrificial love is not happy with injustice and that what makes us happy is confronting injustice and getting results.
We have to love God back and not disrespect him by the way we treat his creation, his great garden.