According to the dictionary, presumption means an assumption, often not fully established, that is taken for granted in some piece of reasoning.
I used to take everything in presumptions when it comes to my relationship with the Lord. I thought what I know is enough. But when the Lord give me the understanding- that to earn the Kingdom Lifestyle, I must have to depend on Him everything. To depend means to freely give my everything in total obedience to God's will.
It is written in the Bible that we must work out our salvation with fear and trembling. Fear here as to my experience is not the fear that we have to overcome. It is the Holy Fear of the Lord that we must always possess, to enable us to be not presumptive in our relationship with Him. It is not something that we just have to say or talk about but it is something that we have to work out and apply as the Lord reveals it to us.
I want to qoute the words written by Choo Thomas in her book Heaven is so Real! as to the the importance of obedience. "...Whoever wants to be with the Lord Jesus forever must work for His salvation daily, all the days of his life. We cannot be off-and-on Christians, because we do not know when He is coming for His people. When you get used to a lifestyle of total obedience, you won't want it any other way. When our lives are totally obedient to the Lord, we never have to worry about anything. From time to time we are required to go through certain tribulations and trials. Through these we learn that we always can depend on the Lord and that, no matter what, we have our peace and joy with and from Him".
To fully obey and know God's will in our lives we must not take for granted our relationship with the Lord. We must inquire and come to Him to know Him more. As our elders in our church family always says, "we cannot outgive nor outlove God because he is love and the giver of life but we are a people who are in need of Him. Apart from Him we are nothing".
The Lord has blessed us with everything we need and want in our lives, we just don't realize and see it sometimes because we are so full of ourselves. But God is Love that is why if we want and choose Him to be the Lord of our lives, He will give us GRACE to understand things and WISDOM to apply it according to His ways. Isn't it amazing!
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
LOVE
LOVE IS GOD AND GOD IS LOVE. I heard people saying that they are in love or is it really love? Love in my perspective is not just based on feelings. Love must be founded by Love itself which is Christ himself. Maybe some will not agree with my perspective of love. However, I have my constitutional rights to express my perspective about love and you have the choice to believe it or not. Hence, love is a matter of choice...hehehe
I watched the movie FIREPROOF last night and I was really in awe of God. It confirmed my perspective of Love. Somebody asked me before if how I define Love. I always define Love base on 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. Let me share it with you:
"Love is patient; Love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails....."
However, he told me that, hey, it's not the definition of love. It's hmmmm....I forgot what he called it but in my perspective, it's how I define Love.
Furthermore, God is Love. In my experienced, I understand the deeper meaning of Love when I accepted Jesus as Lord and Saviour and He accepted me as His child. Before I didn't know how to love until God love me first. Only in God, we know true love. If we don't want Him to enter in our lives then we cannot do the second commandment "To Love others as ourselves." That's why I was really blessed by the movie FIREPROOF because it confirmed my experienced. Click on the youtube below, it shows the trailer of the movie and the conversation of father and son about how God(love) works in their lives. Love you all!
By the way, the german meaning of love is LIEBE and I have a friend who has that name and she just celebrated her birthday last February 24. We rarely see and talk to each other though. The last time we saw each other was last February 2008. However, consider this as my belated happy birthday gift to you LIEBE!
I watched the movie FIREPROOF last night and I was really in awe of God. It confirmed my perspective of Love. Somebody asked me before if how I define Love. I always define Love base on 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. Let me share it with you:
"Love is patient; Love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails....."
However, he told me that, hey, it's not the definition of love. It's hmmmm....I forgot what he called it but in my perspective, it's how I define Love.
Furthermore, God is Love. In my experienced, I understand the deeper meaning of Love when I accepted Jesus as Lord and Saviour and He accepted me as His child. Before I didn't know how to love until God love me first. Only in God, we know true love. If we don't want Him to enter in our lives then we cannot do the second commandment "To Love others as ourselves." That's why I was really blessed by the movie FIREPROOF because it confirmed my experienced. Click on the youtube below, it shows the trailer of the movie and the conversation of father and son about how God(love) works in their lives. Love you all!
By the way, the german meaning of love is LIEBE and I have a friend who has that name and she just celebrated her birthday last February 24. We rarely see and talk to each other though. The last time we saw each other was last February 2008. However, consider this as my belated happy birthday gift to you LIEBE!
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