Help!

Emergencies look different later.

 We survived, most of the time,

 even without fast interference.

 Emergencies lose their power

 to produce action as time goes on. 

In a way emergencies are a fight against time.

Some things never happened because 

the call of emergency was ignored.

"The harvest is past, the summer has ended,

 and we are not saved."

Jeremiah 8:20

This is a sad testimony: 

One season of hope after another had passed,

 but the looked-for deliverance never came, 

and now all hope is gone.

As someone said,” Hope is a good breakfast, 

but a bad dinner.”

Calls for help are a test 

for our true interest in the work of God.

Some things will never happen unless

we respond.

If you don't

If you don't learn to think ,

 others will think for you and

most probably ruin your capacity

 to grow as a healthy spiritual person.

If you don't learn to choose,

 the world will choose for you

and ruin all your future opportunities.

If you don't learn to forgive,

 you'll miss most of the opportunities 

to see the work of God in life.

The Evil of Goodness

We should not underestimate

 the evil of man's own goodness.

It has an appearance of love for justice and fairness,

but in reality it is deceitful,

selfishly calculating and a cruel enemy of God.

It, human goodness apart from God, deceives a person

to be almost save. Often this place of "almost saved"

keeps people eternally separated from God. Many have 

gotten married to almost saved people and woken up

later in the bitter reality of another kingdom.

Own goodness is one of the most difficult things to give up.

It always leads to self-righteousness and hypocrisy.

It will be the uniting power of the mankind's

last revolt against God.

Romans 7:18, Psalm 16:2

Boredom

Without a living relationship with God 

there is no escape from it.

Man can engage himself with endless businesses and other

activities , but there is no continuing excitement in time. 

The ever hunting shadow of the grave cannot be avoided.

The earthly joys on their best are just running sands that 

mess up our lives.

We were made for heaven.

Only heavenly values and eternal purposes

can keep our souls continually inspired.

Once you've heard from heaven,

nothing from the earth impresses you.

Why do we ask "why"?

It's frustrating to be involved with the work of God

without a spiritual motivation.

God's answer to our "why" question is not always

so well-defined, but it always ends up connecting us

with His own character.

We do things because of who He is.

We put off our old man for "His body's sake";

we step out from our selfish orientation for His sake.

The riches of His person, Jesus Christ, are our daily

inspiration and motivation.

We ask why, because we want to know Him more.

"Think of him... lest you become weary and

discouraged in your souls." 

Hebrews 12:3

Is it possible?

A lot of people seem to think

 that it is impossible to live our 

lives in perfect honesty, without hypocrisy.

Isn't it funny that even though we all know

 that every man is a sinner and 

 no man can claim sinlessness,

 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

What is it?

I don't know what it is,
 but he came to sell it early every morning and

he seemed to know what he was doing.

China is amazing.

I just returned from one week trip to Yunnan 
and spent the days in awe

of the movement of God among this great nation.

They have so many things,
 including spiritual particularities,

that we have never even heard about.

God bless China!