Silent Time

A person does not live by food alone.

Of course we need certain obvious things to live.

The body needs food, clothing etc.

The mind needs God’s word.

A lot of evil things are going on in the world.

Have you experienced that God can turn even bad things into good?

The offer is available.

Things work out for good for those who love God.

Would you continue to trust in God even in difficult times, for example when the faith seems to contradict our intellect, our understanding?

Abraham continued to believe.

Let’s not give up the valuable faith.

Most people neither want to listen to the music of joy nor to the music of repentance which are both provided by the good news.

If we repent what we have done wrong in the past, then God gives us joy in the future, ultimate joy that lasts forever, even beyond this life.

The mainstream in the world does not want to follow the Lord.

A small group swims against the flow.

Stealing can happen in many forms and is not only taking away possessions from others.

Even a tiny spark of faith is still valuable.

Have you experienced the Lord?

He is not a remote God.

He knocks on our door and offers to grow in relationship.

Do you open each day?

In the world there is a lot of boasting.

Thanks to God, what finally counts does not depend on our accomplishments but on the victory that Christ has already won.

In what do you put your trust?

Do you at times feel like having done too much wrong and there is no more hope?

Or the opposite: you feel like behaving so well that there is no need for grace?

In both ways we would waste the grace of God.

None of us is perfect, so we all need forgiveness.

God in his mercy offers it freely.

Let’s not waste that grace.