Silent Time

God loves to help all people and he offers his support to everyone of any background.

But many may argue “to me, he has never provided any help”.

So who receives his help?

It is a fantastic news: God opens the door to everyone of any background, no matter what someone has done or is going through.

The door is open and the Lord invites you.

Do you enter that gate? Do you accept the invitation?

We often may not notice it, yet boasting and wanting to be relatively better than others is deeply rooted in our human being, we all tend to be “puffed up”.

Did you ever have to treat mildew at the walls of your house or building?

Mildew may not only occur at walls and stones, it can also come up in all kinds of relationships between people, for example within the family.

As the mildew starts slowly but might gradually eat into the material and gradually damage it, so conflict and strife might start slowly but gradually might eat into relationships and create damage.

As it makes sense to radically remove the mildew including its root cause before it grows further and damages the walls or even destroys the building, so it makes sense to radically remove the dispute and strife including its root cause before it grows further and damages the relationship or even destroys lives.

As the mildew might have a deeper root cause such as moisture, so the conflicts and strife might have a deeper root cause such as bitterness in heart, un-forgiveness, thoughts of revenge, pride, etc.

Many people would like to have a more healthy lifestyle.

Some need to overcome their laziness.

Far more important than all those things is the fact that we cannot ultimately overcome sin and temptation by our own will-power rather we need to receive the grace of God that will help us also in that regard.

And then we can learn to overcome our own desires and rather follow the perfect guidance of the Lord who has a good long term plan for each of us individually. The heavenly Father had a plan and tasks for Elijah, who did the right thing to overcome listening to his own human logic alone and rather followed the guidance of God, resulting in major blessings. And God has a good plan and tasks for your life in the same way.

For which occasions do you prefer to meet other people?

Are you good at distinguishing between situations in which it is better to keep quiet and in which situations it is better to speak up?

Among many other things, we can also learn in that regard from Jesus, who mastered that discipline as well.

Apart from all the acoustic noise such as from traffic or from machines, there is also another noise in the world: complaint.

What do you think of the prodigal son?

Most may simply condemn his behaviour. And many may look down on the people who nowadays behave similarly.

Yet there is so much to learn:

For example the decisive point: at last, he came to his senses!

At last he came to his senses.

And how about his brother, who looked down on him?

What factors help a person to find living faith and a relationship with the Lord?

Apart from the obvious, there are also other things going on in the background: the Holy Spirit is at work. And that is the reason why we are called to intercede and not cease to pray for others.