Silent Time

What do you answer – who is Jesus?

How many times have you got disappointed in life? How many people got disappointed by the behaviour of other Christians? Throughout history and still today Christians have been behaving not as Jesus would do and disappointed others. Let’s not look on the shortcomings of people and their imperfections. Rather let’s look up to the perfect holy God. Praise the Lord that he enables new beginnings in a...

For the whole world – and for me personally! Do you doubt at times how the big universal deeds of the almighty eternal God, the creator of the universe, concern to your – seemingly insignificant or burdensome – small personal life?

How comes that Jesus and the good news is so often been ridiculed and rejected?

The easy way is to go with the majority. In which areas of life do you step out and consciously swim against the flow?

Have you ever received a present box nicely wrapped but there was nothing inside? If the present itself is missing, then the main point is lacking. We easily fall into patterns of living our lives with nice wrapping but without the major content.

Which navigation system do you use for your life?

How many dimensions can you understand and explain?

Who needs a renewed heart? We might initially think of criminals and those who do wrong. Eternally blessed is the person who understands that it is oneself who needs renewal.

Do you know people who are insolent? People who behave inappropriately? Behaviour that has negative impacts on others?

Which kinds of reminders do you use, in order to remember important matters?

We are aware of some of the risks and dangers, that we face in in our daily lives. Other dangers we are not aware of. They are not so obvious because we cannot see them.

Does time – for you – pass by slowly or quickly? We all have 24 hours per day, yet we have different impressions of time. How do we make the best use of our limited time?

What are your favoured excuses not do something which you know you should do?

Which topics are exciting for you? Your hobbies? Your career? Your house?  A wonderful news, which might not sound exciting at all at first glance. The good news is ultimately the best news we can imagine. A wonderful news that provides peace, joy and real hope.

A man who lived all his life high up in the mountains very close to nature, he once came into the big city, and was so amazed how busy it was. He tried to cross the road but continually cars would come up. There is another road which is still busy – still busy despite it is narrow and despite all the persecution and opposition that try to block that road. Praise the Lord!

By nature, we object to be compared to sheep, rather we prefer to be something great, to be admired. Yet, the bible compares us to sheep. And we do not need to be upset about it, in fact there is a lot of comfort and true hope in it.

How does it happen?

Which clothes do you wear?

To which places and countries have you travelled so far?

What has been the reason for people being enthusiastic about Jesus? Just the expectation of one or the other miracle?

How do we make a good use of our resources? What is the best possible usage of our time, energy, possessions and creativity?

Whom have you last looked down on? Everyone has weaknesses but instead of judging others, let’s rather pray for them. We all can learn a lot from thinking about that.

To be on the top of the mountain is nice – both literally when having been hiking or climbing up and enjoy the view, as well as in a transferred sense when things go well in life. But just few days later things might look totally different when being back to work, having too much to do, worries about the future, pains and by other things the devil might try to torment us. Despite all the challenge...

What are the major difficulties in your life?  Once identified, the next question is: who can overcome them?