Sure Foundation

When small worlds collide, 

they burst into pieces and return back to the dust.

There are no victories, just painful memories of

the ancient glory.

Our strength should not come from other people's

failures and our future should not be built on the 

ruins of others' failed ambitions.

May God reveal his grace to us today so that we 

would see beyond the easy, fast shortcuts and

continue building  on the invisible and immeasurable

foundation of God's word.

Nothing less will stand the whirlwinds

of these intimidating times.

It hasn't changed 

Luke 1:5-7

Zacharias and Elisabeth did everything right,

walking in all the commandments

and ordinances of the Lord blameless,

but they had no child.

They learned together with the rest of us that

God's favor just cannot be earned.

We are eager to believe that the gift of salvation

cannot be earned, but we struggle when it comes

to continuing dependency on him for everything 

without any own merit.

This gift never changes to a salary.

calling evil good and good evil

Isaiah 5:20

 Man's own ability to discern good from evil has become his

greatest hindrance in learning grace. His own knowledge just 

doesn't agree with grace. 

Judgment seems always more right to him.

Grace can be experienced only through trust.

If I don't trust in God's goodness, I will never give in to grace.

Grace looks often wrong. 

If grace will not be accepted as the most needed skill in human

relationships, people will end up ultimately destroying one

another in the name of justice. Nobody will be left to stand.

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge."

 Proverbs 1:7

It sets us on the right track, but it doesn't itself define our purpose

in the details of life.The living will of God is revealed in our

interactive relationship with God.

It's an important filter for the flood of information from the worldtube.

The fear of God is not our goal, but the means to know him.

The Holy Spirit teaches us to fear God and to agree with his will and design.

One of the characteristics of the worlds political leadership today is the

absence of this fear in their vocabulary. People with power fall

constantly into this temptation, to think that they are above God's order.

It's the old, satanic "I will" syndrome.

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Setting Our Minds

To think, that spiritual thinking is an alternative for our daily

life-style, is a dangerous mistake.

It's not an alternative.

It's the only way to survive in living faith.

Col.3:2 encourages us to set our minds on

those things which are above.

Setting our mind is  a chain of right decisions that require 

a lot of studying and mental efforts.

It has nothing to do with our likes or dislikes.

Once we do it we start realizing how different God's reality

is compared with all the world's attractions and noise.

Thinking with God is amazing.

It's out of this world.

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