Monday, November 20, 2006

Die right the first time

As I am meditating I come up to answer the number one question of life, "Where do I go when I die now?". As a believer of Christ, it is an easy answer because I am trusting in the bible that "...whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16. In short I have the assurance of salvation.

It is also a question to those who came to Jesus Christ and professed to be Christians yet there is no clear-cut answer. The cloud of doubt has covered their minds that it need a radical revival for the rain of the Holy Spirit to come down until the sky is cleared. Once the Spirit comes, the mind will be freed again.

It is the greatest question for those who don't know the salvation through Jesus Christ. A question of death and life. A question of where a person wants to spend his eternity. A question of heaven or hell. A question that needs to be answered NOW, not tomorrow.

As I close this day. I want to leave this words from Robert M. McCheyne, "If you die wrong the first time, you cannot come back to die better a second time. If you die without Christ, you cannot come back to be converted and die a believer--you have but once to die. Pray that you may find Christ before death finds you."

Sunday, November 19, 2006

No one loses God, but he that is willing to part with Him

"I can't feel your presence anymore God. You have departed from me", cries the believer. This is a cry of desperation. This is a moan for answers. This is an all out cry deep within the soul. It is a cry to feel the presence of God and get right back to Him.

A believer's dream is a great relationship with God. An unbroken relationship that prayer and worship exist all the time. I mean fellowship in which a union with God occurs.

But we have to consider the tumultous roads that life has to pass by in having a relationship with God. It is not a road where you can walk and enjoy all the time. There are temptations on the right side that a believer sometimes slips. There are tragedies on the left that tends to stop us from going to the finish line. Circumstances that destructs our faith and most dangerously the fellowship we have with God.

It is still in the hands of the believer if he wants to continue the Christian life even though he fails so many times. Though we are prone to failures, God always gives us the chances to stand up and get going. Though we hurt God by dumping Him along the road and looking to the "riches of the world". Though we seek the vanites of this world, He still nudges us to come back.

It is not that God has departed! We are just walking in the road of life and decided that we can get there by our own. Alas! That's a lie. I can do nothing without Christ!

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Knowing God in the depth of the soul

There was a tremendous longing for Jesus Christ within me the day after I accepted Him as my Lord and Saviour. I got my my new testament bible that I usually place in my pocket. I started reading the book of John as I was intructed to begin with. I may have not understood 98% of what I was reading but I felt that I am being fed. I sensed something within me that needs the word .

After reading some passages, I might not understand that time, my soul was being flooded that I needed to speak to God. That's the time without knowing that I was communicating with the Divine. By reading the bible, a communication was bridged!

I was no longer bound by my sins, but I had been freed by the grace of God. I could now go directly to the throne of God without any barrier. I could now tell to Him what I feel, what I need, and what's within my heart knowing that He is listening everytime.

My insatiable soul has kept seeking the Creator. This soul of mine has not rested in seeking God all night and day for a month. There was a flood of great distress if one moment I would stop knowing God. I laid down my reasons in exchange for faith. I emptied my mind for the things of this world in trade for the knowledge of the Holy.

Oh what a great discovery! That God can be found by a seeking soul. That the Creator can have a union with His creations called man.

Getting Back To God

There was a man who served God with a great love and devotion in his early Christian life. He spent his time with God everyday and experienced the joy of union with the Most High. His heart was focused only to Jesus Christ as he worshiped and sang praises. He scared the devil every moment without knowing because God was with him.

His life was completely transformed as people around him noticed the glory that covers him. He gladly enjoyed being a blessings to others by encouraging the downtrodden and by lifting their burdens in prayer. And he prayed like God is in front of him. He was a good testimony to all the people he interacts with because of of his life. He was firmedly in tuned with the Father.

He vowed to God that he will serve and love Him as long as he lives. " Oh God, take this life as an offering, I surrender everything", he sincerely prayed.

As he continuously served, God gave him the favor that everything he asks will be answered. Yet with all the blessings of God in his life, there seems a moment that his devotion was disrupted by unidentified struggles of the soul and spirit.

There was a time that a thought came into his mind that he doesn't need to go to church anymore because he could still connect to God anywhere he goes. So he stopped attending Sunday services for several weeks, months, year. He still believed that God was with Him and he was feeling the Spirit of God. What he didn't realize was his daily morning prayer that was being shortened everyday until he can no longer stand in the presence of God. His devotion to the Word was soon disappeared.

His prayer life was dead and so does his spiritual life. The glory that was upon him was no longer there. It was not that God departed from him but that he departed from God. The man who was, back then, so closed to God is too far from heaven that he can't even utter prayers. The man who was bold enough to come to the throne is now afraid of God.

Back then he loved the music of heaven, now he doesn't care what he is listening to. He had loved the fellowship of his brethren, now he is in the "fellowship of men". He had consumed his eyes in meditating the word of God, now the television is his past time. Not only that, his life is beginning to mess up.

This man who had spent most of his life in the presence of God has lost everything because he departed from the Master. Yes, there is a tendency for a Christian to go to the wrong direction. Once a person has left God, then God won't be with Him any longer.

Are you in the same situation as this man? Have you departed from the love of God? Do you miss those moments of intimacy with God? If so, why don't you give everything back to God? If you can't, let Him take it.

"I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance, and that you cannot endure evil men,and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false; and you have perseverance and have endured for My name's sake, and have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you, and will remove your lampstand out of its place-unless you repent." (Revelation 2:2-5)

Monday, November 13, 2006

A Prayer for Help

Dear Heavenly Father,

I am in one of the most difficult situations of my life! I know that you will bring me out of this my God, my Redeemer..

My mind is distorted in looking upon You because of my shortcomings and sins. Forgive me. Cleanse me by the Blood!

I pray O my God that You will never leave me at this moment of crisis. Stay with me Father by Your Holy Spirit. I got no strength but You. I ask You to help me and be with Me. Amen.

Saturday, November 11, 2006

At last I caught my eternity!

Chasing those things that are temporal are like chuffs being blown by the wind. When the wind fades, so does the journey. Once the journey ends, it will stay in the same place forever until the chuffs will be buried in the ground when it rains.

I don't want to be like a chuff. Aside from being empty, I would be having no direction at all. I want to have life that at least meaningful and with future. I want to live knowing that someday I will meet my Creator. For this reason I needed to dig within to find what it means by EVERLASTING LIFE.

Where could i find eternity? A question that bothered me for so many weeks, for I never imagine to pass away without eternity. As everybody knows that life is too short, if I could get it now, I'll take it.

I breathed deep one night as the breeze of the wind passes by in a chapel. A wind from heaven I believe was in the place to let me know ETERNITY. As I kneeled down, my heart was excited to meet my Creator. I stood up and slowly walked to the altar to meet Eternity. I accepted Jesus Christ the eternal that night!

I wept all night with joy knowing that Eternity is within my heart!

Friday, November 10, 2006

My longing for eternity

I was just 14 years old when my soul searches for something. Knowledge, maybe, because of my intense readings of whatever I got in my hands. I couldn't negate the desire to be joined in a group. Also, the reality of being recognized by others every moment if possible--I call that ATTENTION.

But I realized one day that there was a deeper search within me that I believe that time it would never come into satisfaction. I was longing for something that I couldn't lost in the future. There was a search of who am I. There was a search of why I am here? There was a search of something permanent that I can rely even those things of the world are gone. I was in a search for eternity!

"Where can I find eternity?", says my soul. "Can I buy eternity?"

Days had gone by without finding the source of the "searches". But I could tell that my soul longs for ETERNITY.

My first post

I know I am going to post daily. I know that I will spend my time in writing what really matters most. Of the significant topics that will impact my readers' thoughts and hearts, I have chosen one.

There is no such topic that worth exploring but the quest of the minds to understand the Creator and his creations. It would require billions of pages and the vastness of the finite space is not enough to describe the infinite God. Words are not sufficient to write about God.

I have a great news for you! Though God is infinite that ours finite minds can never understand, though God is too big that the universe can't contain Him, yet He is small that He can come into our hearts.

That's where I begin with. That there is God willing to come into every persons heart. There is God who created this universe. There is God that loves us, that He gave His only Son Jesus Christ for us.

This is my first post. I believe in God!