Silent Time

What do you think about compromises? Are they good? Are they bad?

Often compromises between 2 conflicting opinions are useful to find a solution and a way ahead.

Pilate also knew that sometimes compromises are necessary, he tried to find a way in between the conflicting expectations.

But towards Jesus, a compromise is not possible. There needs to be a clear decision. Whether consciously or unaware, everyone takes a decision in life. Either one gives the first priority to worldly matters or to God. Only one can be the number one in life.

Have you ever done a small favour to someone, and that person made you a much bigger present of incomparably more value?

Whatever we can do for Jesus is much smaller than the tremendous gift that he offers us.

What is your reaction to that great news? – “He has risen!”

The greatest news of history about the decisive victory of all times and for everyone personally: “The Lord has risen!”

Are you interested?

Or do other topics of daily life continue to fully occupy your mind alone?

Do you have anything to eat?

To most people of our times sufficient food supplies are available.

Less obvious, beyond the need for food and other physical stuff, there are also other types of needs that we are sometimes not aware of.

Where is God?

What can technology do? More and more things. The advance in development is amazing. Technology can do things that were thought of as being impossible in the past.

What can technology not do?

“Ill-mannered behaviour” – what comes to your mind?

The behaviour of a small child?

Or your own moods, tempers and unreasonable desires?

Blessed is the person who recognizes wrong behaviour not only in others but mainly in oneself and who takes the right consequence to turn to God.

In the past, the festival of reconciliation was a great day for the people.

What can we learn from that for the life nowadays in our current times?

Are you sometimes sad about how people behave?

It can be especially disappointing if beloved people like family members ruin their lives, such as teenagers and young adults taking wrong decisions that ruin their health, their career, their lives, destructive decisions that they will regret later on.

People of all times got sad when seeing the destructive behaviour of others.

We can learn from those who also were disappointed in such a way and yet continued to walk closely with the Lord.

Some people easily get our attention and they might fascinate us with their rhetoric or visions. But let’s be careful not to follow the wrong persons and ideas. In order to distinguish, it is good to ask “what are his motivations?” and “what are her targets?”.