Are you sometimes impressed by how much influence some people have?

We typically categorize people and look at such factors: how influential someone is, how many possessions one has accumulated, how strong someone is, etc.

But God does not make a distinction in such regards. He looks at another factor of each individual person: the heart’s attitude.

What is the majority of your talk over the last 1 or 2 years?

Is it mainly curse or mainly blessing?

Balaam did not curse the people, rather he blessed them.

In many of our human systems, the strongest and most clever typically take away the biggest benefits.

But God takes special care of the lowly, despised and vulnerable.

Whom do you praise?

We may recognize someone’s accomplishments.

Let’s remember who deserves the highest praise!

“His heart was proud”. That is reported for example of king Hezekiah.

How do you react, if a humbling factor - such as an illness - comes into your life?

What have you worried about the last couple of days, over the last year?

Worries over the future can easily become overwhelming.

But the almighty God commands us not to worry and rather to trust in him.

His arm is not too short to help.

As humans we have a lot of abilities, we can reach many things, especially in the long term, it is often under-estimated how much we can achieve: if every day we take small steps, we can be in a totally different situation 10 years from now.

Yet we have our limits.

For God, there are no limits.

Nothing is too hard for him. Even what seems to be totally impossible for us.

And we can turn to him with all our troubles, shame and fears.

Furthermore we can intercede for others, for family, friends and all people.

Additionally, we are called to share that good news.

Do you know people who proudly think of themselves as more clever than others? They are wise in their own eyes.

Which attitudes does God look for in people, which attitudes does he reject?

That is highly relevant, because it is what ultimately counts in the end.

Procrastination – do you tend to postpone important things?

It can be a problem both in work as well as in private life.

Some people have a good time management; they start from the most important tasks to be done. Others first spend a lot of time on much less relevant matters that are more easy to do and then there might be trouble because the most important things are undone.

Beyond work and other tasks, most of all let’s make sure that we do not miss the most important things in life.

Does anyone who has fallen not want to get up again?

Naturally, everybody wants to get up again.

Why then, God asks, do people not return to me after having fallen?

The almighty God is full of grace and invites anybody of every background to return to him, even when having fallen into wrongdoing or whatever it might be.