Silent Time

The city on the mountain.

Have you been involved in discussions on how God is like? Usually such discussions do not provide much value and are often conducted by people who have a cold heart. In contrast to that are those who love the Lord, as e.g. Solomon did.

In what do you put your trust? There could be many answers, e.g. relying on one’s rhetorics, the ability to speak and convince others. Another person might trust in one’s possessions. Or in arms and the ability to defend oneself. In what do you put your trust?

Wandering away from good sense? Or towards it?

Which new clothes would you like to have?

What do you think about the fight against evil? A movie may come to mind, where the hero fights against the evil guy. The eternal creator God never fights against people, he rather always fights FOR people, but against the real evil.

Opinions are often based on having heard something from someone else, involving uncertainty. By contrast, experiences are based on one’s own actual practical conscious knowledge.

What is the difference between shining a torch at the body compared to undergoing radio-therapy?

Ashamed of bringing along the dirty brother?

Can you imagine, how great it will be? How much joy will be there in heaven?

Which dress or clothes do you prefer to wear?

Which words are suitable for prayer?

Shall we do good deeds? Of course, everyone will agree. But the foundation for our righteousness is something else.

Young chicken look for protection under the wings of the mother hen.

Do you look for freedom? Everyone prefers to live in freedom. What really limits and what enables freedom?

To whose words does it makes sense to listen to? Who has such authority making it worth listening to?

Ride on in majesty! But which majesty?

What are you excited about?

Are we a random product of evolution?

Do we do away with the law?

What is in your range of capabilities? And what is impossible for you? As humans we have limits, but everything is possible for the almighty, eternal creator God. The question is: how much trust do you put in him?

Have you experienced situations, in which you have almost given up? There might be too much workload or too strong pain from sickness or feeling lost in a prison cell and many other hopeless situations. Yet there is always hope, we are called to persevere; God’s offer of help and blessing is greater than any difficulties can ever be.

A commonly known, a person consists of body and soul. By human definition, someone is alive, as long as the body is alive. But regarding eternity, the question is whether the soul is alive in Christ.

Whom do you trust more? Your own reasoning and common sense, or the Lord? For the big majority of decisions to take, both point in the same direction. But there can be few cases in which God in his eternal wisdom has a better long term plan for your life than common sense looks like. We may only understand later. Whom do you trust more?

How do you react when you get accused? People may first tempt, confuse and then accuse us. Also the devil tries to first confuse and tempt us and then accuse and condemn us. But the Saviour is stronger than any accuser can be.