It is extremely interesting to analyze the cyclical events in mankind history. The spreading out of the imagination, inventive and progress within and according to the generational parameters where they display their occurrences
But men, especially when they based themselves upon their egocentrism, intellectual, material and physical arrogance, always end up losing and repeating the ever and always present mistakes of generation after generation
It is so true and sorrowful the statement of man being the only one who always stumbles upon the same stones on his path and this does not exclude Christians, just for the sake of naming or considering themselves as such type of people.
This makes me remember a very popular saying that states that we are all herdsmen walking up and down the paths of our wrongdoings. Because this is what we usually end up doing, reining in the cattle herds of our inconsequence, wrong assertions and rationalizations
And Christian ministries are not exempt just because they are considered the purest expression of our personal change and the fulfillment of the mandate to love others, especially the abandoned, abused, destitute and helpless, especially if they are children, as we love ourselves
In the bit by bit slippering down road of good intentions when we follow the unstable slopes of human self-sufficiency we, at times, tend to forget that the deeds undertaken on behalf or representation of this God we proclaim we serve, there is always present the temptation to apply human businesslike strategies forgetting that God´s business goals and practices are out rightly different from our particular ways of thought and actions
We should always have in our mind, emotions and spirit the warnings about what should be the real motivations when acting as servants and channels of God´s love, mercy, concern, care and protection
We should always remember that of the ten given dinars, our responsibility for good stewardship and the end of the day rewards, or reproach and chastisements.
We should remember that of being asked more from who have received more.
As well as that of the good shepherds and the lost sheep and that of the utmost importance of faithfulness to the vision when turn into mission and commitment. Mathews 18: 6 and 10
And above everything else the conviction in relation to the fact of the mystery of God´s acting upon our lives and the lives of those entrusted to our protection and care, as a completely different to man´s acting and its catastrophic consequences as the ones we are witnessing and being involved nowadays.
It pains the heart seeing how well founded ministries collapse because of their trusting more human businesslike practices than God´s as this require total trust, submission, unselfishness, righteousness and uncompromising attitudes and actions in order to receive His blessings.
Meanwhile, and while we discern which one of so many visions in relation to solving social and individual maladies is our destined for us by God, permanently, temporarily, or adjusted to the developing stages and phases of our lives.
Meanwhile, let´s pray for all those He had placed in our path. Let´s pray for the grateful as well as the ungrateful. Let´s pray for the shortsighted and the well meant but lacking doers.
But about everything else, let´s pray and implore the blessings of God upon His children, both in age as in spiritual growth, maturity and standing, us included, as well as our families, biological or adopted ones
But men, especially when they based themselves upon their egocentrism, intellectual, material and physical arrogance, always end up losing and repeating the ever and always present mistakes of generation after generation
It is so true and sorrowful the statement of man being the only one who always stumbles upon the same stones on his path and this does not exclude Christians, just for the sake of naming or considering themselves as such type of people.
This makes me remember a very popular saying that states that we are all herdsmen walking up and down the paths of our wrongdoings. Because this is what we usually end up doing, reining in the cattle herds of our inconsequence, wrong assertions and rationalizations
And Christian ministries are not exempt just because they are considered the purest expression of our personal change and the fulfillment of the mandate to love others, especially the abandoned, abused, destitute and helpless, especially if they are children, as we love ourselves
In the bit by bit slippering down road of good intentions when we follow the unstable slopes of human self-sufficiency we, at times, tend to forget that the deeds undertaken on behalf or representation of this God we proclaim we serve, there is always present the temptation to apply human businesslike strategies forgetting that God´s business goals and practices are out rightly different from our particular ways of thought and actions
We should always have in our mind, emotions and spirit the warnings about what should be the real motivations when acting as servants and channels of God´s love, mercy, concern, care and protection
We should always remember that of the ten given dinars, our responsibility for good stewardship and the end of the day rewards, or reproach and chastisements.
We should remember that of being asked more from who have received more.
As well as that of the good shepherds and the lost sheep and that of the utmost importance of faithfulness to the vision when turn into mission and commitment. Mathews 18: 6 and 10
And above everything else the conviction in relation to the fact of the mystery of God´s acting upon our lives and the lives of those entrusted to our protection and care, as a completely different to man´s acting and its catastrophic consequences as the ones we are witnessing and being involved nowadays.
It pains the heart seeing how well founded ministries collapse because of their trusting more human businesslike practices than God´s as this require total trust, submission, unselfishness, righteousness and uncompromising attitudes and actions in order to receive His blessings.
Meanwhile, and while we discern which one of so many visions in relation to solving social and individual maladies is our destined for us by God, permanently, temporarily, or adjusted to the developing stages and phases of our lives.
Meanwhile, let´s pray for all those He had placed in our path. Let´s pray for the grateful as well as the ungrateful. Let´s pray for the shortsighted and the well meant but lacking doers.
But about everything else, let´s pray and implore the blessings of God upon His children, both in age as in spiritual growth, maturity and standing, us included, as well as our families, biological or adopted ones
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