Silent Time

People may keep their promises or they might not fulfil it.

God’s promises are different: he always fulfils his promises. He may not fulfil all our wishes, he may not intervene in the ways we desire, his timing might be different to ours. Yet, the promises of God are firm assurances.

Children are lucky if they are taken care of well by the parents. The children may come with empty hands, yet good parents provide for them with love and care.

But also as adults, even in the strongest years, deep down in the heart everyone has the desire to be taken care of well.

Jesus explains that if we do not receive the kingdom of God like children, then we may not receive it at all.

Usually everything needs to be paid for. All goods have a price tag.

But in the economics of God, it is different: more comparable to a baby crying and the parents providing for free. Though that comparison is not perfect yet is shows the economic logic of our relationship with the Lord Almighty in a much better way: he provides for free when we shout for help in our needs.

“Why have you done this to us?”

Have you complained to anyone in such a way?

Apart from the regular usage, let’s look at how that question is also top relevant for everyone.

To whom do you listen? From whom do you learn?

Usually it is good to learn from the most successful people.

However, in specific regards, we do well to learn from the good example that a poor blind beggar gave around 2000 years ago.

What kind of hierarchical structures dominate in your society?

In some cultures there are nowadays hardly any vertical hierarchies anymore, in others the situation is still similar to what it used to be in the past with different levels.

Take for example a hotel in the past, there used to be clear levels from the top manager down to the boy who had to clean the shoes and carry the bags.

Jesus, despite being the son of the most high God, yet he humbled himself to the lowest tasks, carrying the load on our behalf in order to serve us, in order to enable us for reconciliation with the holy God almighty, he took upon himself our burden of wrongdoing.

In many parts of human history there have been different kinds of pillars of scourging, where people got tortured. We may easily condemn the cruelties and those responsible. 

Jesus had to suffer terribly up to the cross. We may easily condemn the cruelty and those responsible, but let’s be careful, because the son of God took upon himself the suffering on our behalf, in order to offer us the opportunity to be reconciled with the holy Lord.

We all would like to receive great promises from God.

In fact they are available for everyone, the bible is full of such promises from God. The heavenly Father offers his love, help, forgiveness, hope, courage, strength and life in its fullness. All that and much more is available to everyone of any background, whoever humbly puts one’s trust in the Lord’s word.

What can we learn from those, to whom God originally gave those promises?

Help and encouragement amongst confusion and fear:

Whether we have navigated ourselves into troubling situations or whether it is imposed by others, among all kinds of confusion and fear, no matter how desparate, the Lord offers encouragement and help to everyone.

Do you receive his help?

What are your life’s circumstances?

Many people of our times have available more than enough food and other physical goods for the body in abundance.

How about the status of the nourishment for the soul and mind?