Forgiveness doesn’t excuse the offense
Forgiveness excuses just the offender
Forgiveness is unbearable when done in the flesh
Forgiveness is biblical when done from God’s mercy
Forgiveness is hard when you expect an apology
Forgiveness is Christ-like when you extend grace.
Forgiveness says:
You are bigger and better
Than what you did against me
I choose to see you over the sin
God’s forgiveness says:
Your new identity is in me
I see you and not the sin
My ultimate sacrifice at the cross sets you free
Forgiveness sets you free!!
Let’s embrace it!!!
Jun 18, 2021
Jun 18, 2021 at 9:39 AM UTC
We must let go of everything
Oh no!
But it is the best thing
Oh no!
We experience what we don’t understand
In order that we find ourselves
Where God wants us to be
At a precise time
Is there not an easier way?
Oh no!
Would we go on our own?
Oh no!
Worry is the very best attempt
To try and control the future
Do we know what it holds?
No but we try
The unknown is far too abstract
Oh yes!
We want to absolutely see first
Oh yes!
Letting go is very much like
Free falling but without the security
Of the parachute on our back
So we panic big-time
Why not then just trust Him?
Yes but …
Why not then just trust Him?
Yes but …
If only we could just understand
Abandoning our craving for total control
We would benefit in so doing
And find such freedom!
Such freedom!
Jun 16, 2021
Jun 16, 2021 at 4:16 AM UTC
Let go and … trust
We must let go of everything
Oh no!
But it is the best thing
Oh no!
We experience what we don’t understand
In order that we find ourselves
Where God wants us to be
At a precise time
Is there not an easier way?
Oh no!
Would we go on our own?
Oh no!
Worry is the very best attempt
To try and control the future
Do we know what it holds?
No but we try
The unknown is far too abstract
Oh yes!
We want to absolutely see first
Oh yes!
Letting go is very much like
Free falling but without the security
Of the parachute on our back
So we panic big-time
Why not then just trust Him?
Yes but …
Why not then just trust Him?
Yes but …
If only we could just understand
Abandoning our craving for total control
We would benefit in so doing
And find such freedom!
Such freedom!
Jun 16, 2021
Jun 16, 2021 at 4:10 AM UTC
Is life materialism and health?
Or is it success and fame?
Or comfort, security and money?
What’s the meaning of life?
A few bask in immoderate luxury
Others just struggle to exist…
Surrendering to God is key
Discovering and apprehending the Lord’s way
Brings satisfaction, joy and peace
But existing with divine disappointments
Ever trusting and believing beyond hope
Is only meaningful to God
Life is worshipping the Lord
Giving Him all of our lifetime
For it’s all about Him
In a moment of time
Life will be turned upside down
Will we be truly ready?
May 26, 2021
May 26, 2021 at 1:27 AM UTC
On this journey of life
We make many encounters
Working colleagues who desperately need the Lord
Conceited family members sensing no real urgency
Fair weather friends looking for some hope
And because of their lot in life
Are desperately unhappy
Bitterness trying to hide behind their eyes
Shame disguising and portraying itself as pride
A plastic smile covering tears of sadness…
Oh, Lord help me
To reach out to them
There are my brethren in the Lord
Who, for some unknown reason, despise me
Ignoring me, slighting me, gossiping, finding fault
Lord? Why my dear brothers and sisters?
It really hurts…
There’re dangerously treading the line of judgment…
“I know your wounds and your concerns
But leave them in my loving care…”
Will you reach out to these too?
My precious daughter, my precious child
I have chosen you for a special task
I know it has its hardships
But keep going…
May 15, 2021
May 15, 2021 at 3:05 AM UTC
God
God in eternity was alone
Alone the Almighty began creating
Creating the multitude of angels
Angels watching the heavens unfolding
Unfolding the scroll of His beauty
Beauty resplendent in the garden
Garden of Eden sheltering Adam
Adam left to his devices
Devices leading this world astray
Astray and hence the fall
Fall necessitating a true mediator
Mediator provided by our Lord
Lord Jesus Christ our saviour
Saviour reconciling us to Himself
Himself becoming the ultimate sacrifice
Sacrifice inciting our heartfelt communion
Communion with a loving God
God crying out for fellowship
Fellowship
Apr 24, 2021
Apr 24, 2021 at 1:47 AM UTC
Out you go!
Let your God rescue now! Ha! Ha!
Oh, dear Lord
Don’t let me die of cold in Siberia!
I walk in the snow for many hours
What is this I see afar off?
A big polar bear walking towards me
Picks me up in his two front paws
“Am I your lunch?”
“What happened to you?”
“I was thrown out of a helicopter
I will not stop preaching the Gospel
Whether to my neighbours
Or to prison colleagues
No matter the cost”
“The journey will be many hours long
My little man, you need to rest”
I sleep, what else can I do?
In his warm den
I now sleep on
Morning breaks and the bear is gone
Too tired, too surprised and too stunned
I wait for fate
What will happen now?
I hear a noise
At my feet he drops a bag
“My little man, here is your food”
“Thank you, dear Lord for this meal”
For three more days
It’s the same pattern
“Time to move on, my little man!”
Picking me up we set off again
For an unknown destiny
He puts me down
“Farewell my little man!”
A forest afar off and people talking
I approach and tell them my story
“We have to be crazy to believe
But come and see
And you will understand”
A row of twenty bags of lunches
All hanging neatly on the wire fence
“One always went missing
The past three days
We believe your account”
My Little friends
Don’t despise the workings of the Lord
He can use the pet rabbit next door!
Or the robin in your back garden!
So watch out!
He may even choose to use you!
A true story told me by a Romanian pastor
(except for the talking polar bear!)
Apr 17, 2021
Apr 17, 2021 at 2:11 PM UTC
Stand still and let God move
Your severe trial will undoubtably lead
To the creation of something new
It is in this quiet crucible
Of your personal and private sufferings
That your noblest dreams are born
And God’s greatest gifts are given
In compensation of what you’ve been through
And just like Martha and Mary
Sometimes Jesus will wait three days
Or three years even thirty years
If it means at the end
Of that time God will be glorified
And to be used by God
Our own effectiveness needs to DIE
We must FAIL in our strength
We have to LOSE complete control
And to be totally CONSUMED by Him
We cannot see in a tempest
God won’t be sensual in it
He won’t appeal to our senses
(They add to to our comfort)
He’ll make us uncomfortable in our storm
We’ll never understand what suffering is
Unless we can understand God’s love
Serenity is not the absence of pain
But His awesome presence in it
And what wonderful peace ensues from it
It is staying with the breaking
That will bring that final breakthrough
Untold agony will lead to victory
It is not what we do
But what we become that is vital
God will show up on schedule
Your severe trial will undoubtably lead
To the creation of something new
It is in this quiet crucible
Of your personal and private sufferings
That your noblest dreams are born
And God’s greatest gifts are given
In compensation of what you’ve been through
Apr 1, 2021
Apr 1, 2021 at 3:45 PM UTC
Focussing my life on Christ is my desire
And, to worship Him is far above everything.
Yearning, yearning to comprehend His most wonderful love
Enabling me to lose myself in His presence.
Learning the wisdom to recognise the many hindrances;
That of despair, fear, frustration, pride and, worry
And, to understand fully that only true worship
Will bring perfect and complete peace of heart.
Reflecting my Lord’s characteristics is my ultimate goal,
To seek honesty and truth whatsoever the cost.
Pursuing, pursuing after temperance, purity, holiness and, meekness
And, seeking the true righteousness first and foremost.
Willing always to endure hardship, persecution and, unfairness
And to forsake any acknowledgment, self-importance or arrogance.
Just as the moon reflects the sun’s brightness
So I must daily mirror the Lord’s justice.
Serving my Lord Jesus Christ is my ambition,
To apprehend the potential of my spiritual gifts.
Inviting, inviting His compassion to invade my heart
And to let Him touch lives through me.
Relinquishing my God given abilities into His Hands
For Him to use at His good pleasure.
May I let my renewed personality in God
Reflect His care to the poor in spirit.
Winning the lost, would it be my passion !
There are many not knowing where to turn,
Sharing, sharing my testimony and, the salvation message.
There are those whom have begun with disadvantages
Seeking how they can finally end in triumph.
A mourning for Geneva’s lost heritage, incites me
To pray for her to remember her reformation
And, to receive a new baptism of fire.
Partaking in the saint’s fellowship is my aim,
A blessing beyond description and too often forsaken.
Possessing, possessing this high privilege as a pearl
And the power and unity in corporate prayer.
Allowing God’s love, compassion, concern, and tender mercy
To touch others in their time of need.
The Lord Jesus Christ sacrificed Himself for us
Therefore I must give Him all my life.
Mar 15, 2021
Mar 15, 2021 at 2:07 AM UTC
There’s blackness in my soul
Knowing you are there
Feeling the total abandonment
Knowing you are there
Knowing you are there
But where are you?
Knowing you are there
Where is your power?
Where is your power?
Do not give up!
Where is your power?
Cry out to Jesus
Cry out to Jesus
But are you listening?
Cry out to Jesus
Believe in blind faith
Believe in blind faith
Where am I know?
Believe in blind faith
Nothing makes any sense
Nothing makes any sense
Hope thou in God
Nothing makes any sense
You will see victory
You will see victory
Just look to me
You will see victory
Focus on Me only
Focus on Me only
And then total breakthrough
Focus on Me only
Breakthrough and total victory!
Mar 7, 2021
Mar 7, 2021 at 2:29 PM UTC