Silent Time

Do you sometimes wish to live in a better world? Many times I would wish for that, but that is not the reality. We live in the world as it is with all its injustice and wrongdoing that is going on. Things are not perfect.

And yet there is advice how to find real hope and a positive outlook.

If something is really important to someone, the person will automatically talk about it. Just remember someone who was overwhelmed by a certain thing or matter, the person automatically talks about it. Imagine a child for the first time having visited an impressive amusement park – the child for sure will talk about it to everybody.

What are the things so important in your heart that you talk about it?

What are your circumstances of life? Can you live in freedom? Or are you bound or in chains or due to your physical condition cannot move freely?

Whatever your conditions of life are, let’s remember and pray for those who are bound in chains and suffering.

What remains permanently?

Many things come and go. Even things which appear to us as if they were of long term nature, yet one day they will be gone, same like ourselves.

What lasts permanently?

Throughout history it can be seen again and again: where injustice and selfishness gains the upper hand, the society will have tough times.

What is your motto of life, what do you aim for, what are your targets?

To get promoted?

To gain esteem?

Many things promise us happiness, for example the advertisement.

But if at all, the smiles last only for a while.

What gives us real contentment and inner joy? In order to answer that, we need to look first at the opposite: what takes away our joy? There are fears, sometimes subconsciously, that rob our joy. But all that has been overcome. Christ has won the victory!

Rejoicing in sorrow? Being happy despite problems – is that possible?

Often it seems as if only the healthy, wealthy and successful can be happy.

But if we dig deeper, we find out that it is not always like that, sometimes it is even opposite. Those who made the biggest career might not be joyful inside, while those who have only few possessions are often found more joyful, their hope is in the Lord.

Help for the helpless – in which points or areas of life do you feel helpless?

Many claim that they do not need help, they seem to have everything under control.

Others are more honest and admit that there are things in which they need help.

The psalmist knew about that, we can learn a lot from his insights and prayers.

Do you know of times of so much trouble that you almost want to give up? You are overwhelmed and almost fainting away?

There are many types of enemies, troubles and traps.

But the one helper is bigger than all that.

There is a great prayer that we should learn in order to be prepare for such times.