The gift of forgetting

is a wonderful God-given ability that enables

us to manage our thought-life and go on

believing and praising God.

It's one of the key elements in forgiveness.

Without it the remembrance of all our 

failures and sins would destroy us.

There will be no remembrance of sin in heaven.

Love thinks no evil.

My Finnish Bible says,

"Love does not remember the evil

it has suffered."

I Corinthians 13:5

God has given us, not just a supernatural 

ability to forget, but also a permission to do so.

Without it we could never laugh again.

Are lies a convenient standard

 for the truth?

Lies of convenience save us out of trouble.

They help us to avoid conflicts, difficulties,

persecution. Paul calls them a fair-show in 

the flesh in Galatians 6:12.

Martyrdom has certainly lost it's heroic value

in today's Christian thinking and so have people's

characters lost their guts.

Lies of convenience are an attempt to avoid

something, a way to defend oneself from 

painful and unwanted consequences.

Yes, often the truth is extremely impractical

and complicated. It doesn't fit in every situation.

Some would say, the truth is old-fashioned.

This is a lie. He, the Truth, is the same

yesterday, today and forever.

Hebrews 13:8

Lies, even the white ones, have no future.

In long term they will always turn against us,

 if not in any other way, at least in effecting 

our character and trustworthiness as a person.

"A faithful man who can find?" 

Proverbs 20:6

The thought that a lie will become the truth, 

if you repeat it  long enough, is one of the worst

lies man has ever invented.

God desires the truth to the uttermost.

Psalm 51:6

He has not become more flexible nor

careless about the truth, that is the only 

thing that can help us to guard our freedom.

John 8:32

When you are not busy,

life doesn't stop.

All the sudden

 you have time to open your eyes

and appreciate the things that

 you've been neglecting, even escaping.

What a joy, not to go anywhere;

not to explain anything and not to 

try to fix anyone.

Is it possible?

A lot of people seem to think 
that it's impossible to live our lives
in perfect honesty, without hypocrisy.
Isn't it funny, that thought we all know, 
that no man can be sinless,
we all continue working hard on
giving an impression, that we are an exception.
Why is hypocrisy still so popular?
I think the greatest enemy of hypocrisy
is full confidence in God's love.
The fear of rejection leads us
to pretend and deceive.
Yes, we haven't been
 made perfect in love, yet.
I John 4:18

Borders 

are drawn for protection and control.

Man is not very good in it.

He is even worse when he is trying to fix the borders 

that God has drawn. 

When almost omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent

man tries to erase certain borders he actually ends up

building more of them.

In man's latest boom to erase the border

 dividing the genders,

he has created a new category, transgender.

In his scientific curiosity he wants to erase

 the border between

men and animals by growing human organs

 in animal bodies.

The result could be a dog with a human

 brain or a mosquito with the brain of Einstein.

The best animal activists in the

 near future might be the animals themselves.

Demons have always been interested in

 possessing a human body

and man has always been interested in

 leaving his body and it's limitations. 

We can only imagine how much this is going on 

in today's world's affairs.

God broke the greatest border between

 Himself and man by  becoming man.

He, who had drawn the border,

 is the only one who can cross it successfully. 

Jesus, the sinless God-man

 became our Savior.

I Timothy 3:16

Hey,

something's going on here.

This is the map of the New Chinese Silk Way

for commercial, cultural and touristic exchange.

From the Bible prophecy these roads don't

look very silky. The army of 200 million men

with a power to kill one third of the mankind

will be marching to the promised land in

the second part of the tribulation.

The stage is prepared.

Revelation 9:13-16

Revelation 16:12

Forgiveness

 is more expensive than money.

Anger and revenge are bad alternatives for forgiveness.

They widen the gap between people, best friends, even

between best believer friends.

God's answer to sin is not more severe punishment,

but forgiveness, always.

Forgiveness continues to be the greatest test in relationships.

Often the answer is simply to forgive more.

Forgiveness is not a period, it's a colon:

something meaningful follows.

New capacity to love, new motivation, joy, peace,

healing, new understanding, wisdom are all amazing

blessings born of forgiveness.

Man cannot do many things.

He cannot stop death.

He cannot reverse time, but

he can learn to forgive.

Good nutrition

is needed for our well-being.

In good nutrition consistency is important.

The diet must be balanced .

Even though there seems to be a lot of alternatives,

there are only a few things that are really nourishing.

“Why give money for that what is not bread?”

Isaiah 55:2

Obviously this applies to our body, soul and spirit.

Man is pneumapsychosomatic.

Without a good immunity system in all these areas we

become easily victims of our bad (often unintentional)

choices. Daily life gets out of hands into a destructive

routine. Bad habits settle in fast and firm.

Spiritual health seems to be the easiest to neglect.

It’s seldom mentioned in health programs.

It’s not natural for the fallen man.

Without spiritual nourishment man degenerates

gradually to a walking machine.

Spiritual fellowship with the Savior is the key to

our balanced well-being.

Jesus depended on that daily during his earthly mission.

“My food is to do the will of the one who sent me.”

John 4:34

Obedience is not a stressful following of instructions.

It’s a breakfast on the beach.

Often it’s a fantastic table set in the wilderness,

right before the eyes of our enemies.

Sometimes it’s a private dinner with

the one who really cares for you.

Rev.3:20