Keeping the Integrity...

 

Lots of developments are now occurring in various territories. It seems like everyone is busy taking something or looking for someone to gain a need or earn a respect somehow. These treasures, property, respect and a well known name.., are occupying a big chunk in one’s heart, to acquire a meaning to one’s own life, however curved it could be.., Hmmm, they are quite a fact of conformity (?) hmmm, para sa maraming mga tao sa ating paligid. Minsan nga nakikita na rin natin ang ating sarili dun sa rat race. (Ingats)

Another thing though, I also noticed that there are people who has acquire a higher aim towards this so-called motivational ground. Sila yung mas pinahahalagahan yung mas mataas na ethical principles, yung mga taong mayroong hmmm, (ano bang tawag dun?) ahh! Yung soundness of moral character pala. This goal has been occupying the hearts of numerous people now and they are getting bigger. Nakakatuwa at marami na ring nasasanay to set a higher goal sa buhay.

And in spite of many considerations in worldwide catastrophic events that somehow forced people to grab wants and necessities in life, eh meron o dumadami pa rin ang lumalabas na di na-aantig o hindi nagpapadala sa “bended” moral codes. Such a great standard to stick or have a firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values. Honesty, humility, integrity and more! Di bah? They are those who are unwilling to be bribed and morally corrupted. Hallelujah for such people! (Kasama ba tayo dun?)

I just hope that this distinct peculiarity of people will climb on the top of the list and reach more population. Naisip ko lang kasi… ’Could it be that because this code of integrity is so lacking nowadays and many don’t know what it looks like in someone’s life, kaya parang nagiging invisible na s’ya at bihira ng gustuhin ng iba. Hmmm….

I remember one character in the OT, God gave us an example of integrity in the life of Joseph. Nuon pa meron na rin palang mga taong ganito. He has been put in charge of overseeing Potiphar’s properties, i.e. his house and all that he had. (except for the wife) But, when he was “maliciously invited” or propositioned by his master’s wife, Joseph readily refused saying, “How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?” He knew what God’s standard were, and he chose to stand for the right---at the cost of his freedom. It’s very difficult for a man, lalo na at pilit kang hinihila sa malambot na higaan. Tsk, Tsk. Lalaki rin ako and I can definitely point out the difficulty on how to escape such. Ibang klase ang integridad nya.

Integrity---look it up in first Book and let us pray to live it out in God’s strength. Let our words and actions be seen by everybody to testify and speak aloud as no legacy is as rich  as integrity.

Here's what missing to some….., Meron ba tayo nito?

Shalom Everyone!

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How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God? Gen 39:9

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Wandering from Wisdom?…

 

Konnichi wa....

Hmmm, 'Just wonderin'..., If God offered you anything you wanted, what would you asked for? Hmmm...gandang choices nun ahh! Ano nga kaya?

When David's son, Solomon was given that choice, he asked for the wisdom todiscern good from evil so that he might lead God’s people well. His kingship to rule good for the people comes first. “Because you asked this thing” God told Solomon, “I have done according to your words.” He even promised to give him “both riches and honor”. To this day, Solomon is remembered for the great wisdom God gave him. What a chance! What a gift!

Solomon began his rule with devotion to wisdom and deep ambition to build a magnificent temple to honor God. But something happened along the way that hindered this. His passion for living by God’s wisdom was displace by the allures of wealth and position God had given him. Nalibang siya sa pagiging hari at sa maraming good looking na babae sa paligid gaya nuong si David na tatay niya. His marriage to foreign women who worshipped pagan gods eventually led him---and ultimately the nation---into idolatry. Hmmm..., What a waste. Such a mess.

The lesson is crystal clear. Keeping our love for Christ pre-eminent ---is a primary objective for those of us who want to live to satisfy God throughout the course of our life. No turning back. A commitment to following the riches of God’s wisdom will enable us to avoid the drift that destroyed Solomon. What an enlightenment that unlocks imprisonment. (Naman!)

Keep your heart in tune with God’s wisdom and obey His voice. Always refer ourselves to the loving and precious Word of God. Monitor our heart daily to avoid wandering from God’s wisdom. That’s the way to finish well. That's the way to grab the promise.

As usual po....Keep on! Shalom!

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Give to your servant an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil. 1 Kings 3:9

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The Sin of Sins

I found myself wondering (and wandering) one afternoon when I read this phrase, it brought me down to the past, Yep….that’s right…., to the very beginning, which lead by my wonder and curiosity to study something about this so called father of sins. The more you know the background of who and what is it, the more we could readily claim and walk from victory in our Christian life. The “who did it” was laid out and given, “the-what-it-is” remains to be thoroughly investigated and understood.

So allow me to walk with you again….moderately, along its story…

     It was this sin which first led Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit (hindi mansanas yon ha.😄 )  “Just eat it and you won’t die” as the invitation was pushed to enlarge the desire and probably appetite. Then, she looked…, she plucked…, she ate ….. and… she shared (shocks! kaya problemado ako eh 😁  hehehe!) Then the “who did it" of old--did it auspiciously for the first time in human history. It was none other than the devil himself, introducing the sin he triumphantly applied to share his condemnation to humanity.

     It was also this sin, (I supposed) which transformed an anointed cherub of God, the very "seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty,” (as what the Good Book says) into Satan, Lucifer the devil, the Father of lies, the one for whom Hell itself was created. Time and again, we're warned to guard our hearts against this sin lest we too "fall into the same condemnation as the devil."

 

  This sin of sins is none other than “p-r-i-d-e”. It is the commencement of all sin because it was this which overthrew the devil, from whom arose the origin of all other sins and afterwards. His malice and envy pursued man (and woman “siyempre”), who was yet (at that earlier time) standing in his uprightness, but it subverted him in the same way in which he himself fell.

     Pride is peculiarly the sin of our fallen nature, and that’s why we are pre-occupied with our own. Such fitting,---that the middle letter of this word is “I”, it’s all about me, myself and mine. (‘recognize this??) A selfish nature acquired by listening and following to the oldest lie to be other “gods.” It's this sin of pride manifest itself in self motives, an exaggerated ego, a low opinion of others and disrespect for God. This sin of sins is rightfully distinguish as the foremost among seven deadly sins, and each of those seven is equally as deadly (Proverbs 6:16-19, NKJV), but none is quite as notorious as this "sin of the devil." It could be somehow looked, that many or all of those sins are inspired by such.

     We must recognize such problem and fight it. And this might be the hardest part, because as we have seen..., pride skews, bends and warps our perception of reality. It's hard to humble ourselves when we're stuck in pride. We cannot defeat it on our own as "our own heart is deceitful above all things", it can trick us but it cannot trick God.😅

     Don't make this thing the longest distance between ourselves and God. Such situation must and should bring us to our Creator, the Lord God. A complete repentance and submission to Him entails to halt this as we start to walk continuously and accordingly to his plan in our lives. Quite a relief ehy...that He did not forsake us to be defeated by our own selves through providing a “down-to-earth and simplistic way…..”Come to Me…” in which many people from many backgrounds sadly fail to understand yet. (willingly or otherwise)

     Give it up to grow up 😄 "for and to" God, as “Humbling ourselves before Almighty God… is the name of the game.”

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But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. James 4:6

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…Still Small Voice…

 

Shalom! It’s a good day! Sssshhhh baka may natutulog pa po….. 

I’m a loud guy—a former cursing, shouting and emphatic noisy guy. I make it a point that I am being heard to be known, even if a non-sense word is coming from my big mouth. I was a market vendor in those days, that’s why I talked a lot….”pag masyado kang timid, wala kang benta…worse malulugi ka pa” No extra money for extra activities…. Hehehe.  ‘Just shout your goods “kahit papaano”….”Ale sitaw” made in Japan….”ayus na yun! Mamaya may maglalapitang buyers nakangiti pa! oh divah?, Tapos,  Ale kalabasa, lagkitan..kahit kinulayan lang” tsk tsk tsk…those were the ways then, those were my market days!

Then, in recent years, I tend to become a little quiet…..”kasi” I was able to get a personal music player. A player that my friends always warned me that I will possibly loose my hearing for always using such. As the long term exposure “daw” for music at high volume has been shown to cause hearing impairment. Well, in a nutshell…I learned as well that too much hearing can result to an inability to hear. “Ano ba yan?” So…”dadaldal na lang ako ng non-sensible jokes…hehehe ganun ba yun?!”(smiles)

We live in a world filled with noise…., those noises that are designed to sell, plead, seduce and deceive. And in the midst of this confusing desires and cacophony of sound (tama ba spelling ko? Hahaha), it is easy to miss the one Voice that matters most. Parang.., it goes with anyone in the darkness or wherever, to sing about hope, about love…, a real Big Voice to convict if we’ll just listen and listen well. Hmmm…

Elijah had listened to Jezebel’s threats and the voice of his own fear, so he fled to a cave and hide. In the cave, he was confronted with the overwhelming noise of wind, an earthquake and fire. (OT Kings write ups) Then the cave grew silent and the voice of the Lord—-the only sound that mattered—broke through as a still small voice. Hmmm…

If we are to hear God’s speaking to our hearts through His Word, we need to pull away from the noise of the crowd. Only when we learn to be quiet and be still, can we really understand what it means to commune with the God who truly cares for us. For the Lord in His stillness poured many ideas to those who wait and listen with expectancy.

So…turn down the world’s volume. ‘Will yah? Hmmmmm… won’t you be quiet please…… (Ssssh, secret ha, I need this…very much!)

Shalom everyone!

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After the earthquake, a fire but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire, a still small voice. 1 Kings 19:12

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Restraining Yourself, Get Out From It!

 Hello there!

Sin’s pleasures possess a great appeal, isn’t it? Many of those “come-ons” have not only blocked the complete blessings from God but also brought huge headaches to one’s own life and the lives of many as well. They can deceitfully appear to be a big and wow bargain at the start but as one “blindly” get along with it (hello!!), the hidden trouble of its expenditure would catch up! The seemingly great appeal will now turn into a great cost.., eventually.., to drive one into a lower, decreased and perhaps insignificant situation pushing oneself quite far away from the abundance of contentment. Tsk, tsk…

Allow me to share a brief lesson about a certain guy from a Christian fellowship who received a promotion that made his income turned into a level of grandeur.., so to speak. Some of his companions made him want to upgrade his way of life materially. He learned to have a large credit to enjoy many purchases, as he can now pay for it anyway. Whatever the rich guys of his time did, he also did and follow. Sometimes he even edges the others to the increase of his heart delight. Those prominent cruises, great vacations, new house and latest furniture, expensive shopping trips etc… have taken his full attention. And…, it happens. When the cash flow of his company suffered an enormous plunge and dive, he.., in turn went behind his payments. In a way.., those things with great pressures put his marriage under tremendous strain for him! It deeply hurts! And his faith so enormously cultivated in the past, have somewhat become pale and colorless. He was nearly consumed with such grief and anxieties.

But in the midst of these all, the real friends that he has back then…, emerged. They that continually pray…pray harder for his deliverance. Counsels of truths approached him from different angle, until he finally confessed his sins, cried out to God with all the shame and repentance. He found himself making the right things now, silently following the more significance methods that have been there all along. Peace, joy, prosperity and wisdom have eventually returned to his life. Praise the great Savior! Praise the great Lord!

Those gold instructions of the Lord today indeed apply for everyone! So.., when many ways, from various cultures of the world that are driven with pride and greed comes and whispers…, be on guard!, be on alert, not to share or be enticed with other’s sins!

And just an additional reminder…no one who follows Christ will ever stray from God. Dwell on that!

Shalom!

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Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. Eph. 5:11

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God’s Grace Won’t Fail.., as Always!

 

Hello there! Blessings and blessings to you all for this New Year and every day!

The Word of God is especially important in these challenging times to encourage you and me and keep us focused on what is most important in life. And this should be at the very heart of our life if we are truly living for Christ.., as we reach around the world with God’s unchanging truth. Lots of lives are being transformed! Millions as examples should have that testimony to be shared on how the Lord has transformed their lives.

You see.., as a brief rewind on my past--- I have been a “Christian” all my life, but never really knew God. I have been bringing my own theology into God’s Word. But in all this, God was so patient with me. My life had so much uncertainty, with extreme complications and breakdowns. But something miraculous happened as found myself to listen intently to the Word of the Lord! His sermon somehow did the impossible things on me and perpetually doing so…. I didn’t search for anything, nor had I seen any sermons in recent times. I know for sure it was no coincidence. His Word really turns me around, from the life of waste and self-proclamation, to a life of abundance. ‘Really as it is and it should be destined to be heard by everybody for God’s glory.  And real lives could be impacted around the world.

The Word of God still and will always be bringing various messages every day to let His will be known and change many people who choose to believe today. Surprisingly His Word will be specific for you and for me, and for all who will really listen. Hello!

This is the reason why we must continue to share God’s Word so that more people can hear what the Lord is saying to them in these challenging times! Who could have anticipated the events of this last year? ‘Quite a challenge ehy?, A global pandemic, recession, lockdowns, social unrest and more.

I really am so grateful that the Lord is opening doors for people to make an even greater impact with the gospel together in this year 2021. God is transforming many lives which is why I am asking you to continue to pray and live for this mission today. There are many people yet to be reached for Jesus—where ever they are or right next door. Let us be bounded together and continue to help launch a new year of proclaiming God’s love, salvation and transforming power.

In this year of uncertainty and even despair around the globe, you and I know that true refuge exists only in Jesus Christ. That is why the Word of God is so important in these times. And together we should and would be reaching others around the world with God’s unchanging truth.

You may also be feeling fearful and unsure of the future. So I want to encourage you to meditate perpetually on His Word to remember that our God is an ever-present help in times of trouble. His grace abounds in deepest waters. His sovereign hand will always guide. Where our feet may fail terribly, His ways won’t and will never start now!

Be encouraged! As the Word of God is certain! His grace won’t fail!

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God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, even though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. Ps. 46:1-2

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More Than, More Than Enough...

God bless you! Still here am I blogging immense fully, trying at my best to scatter the exciting challenges which no less than the Lord Himself allowed and also making all the possibilities of answers that we should learn. He is not changing! Be still my dears, HE is still the Alpha & Omega, the sun and shield that provides and protects everybody who seek Him genuinely.... 

"My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." 2 Cor. 12:9

Such is a powerful reminder of God's provision for you and me when we reach the end of our strength. Our limited being is so fragile and weak. Glory to God He is always there!

One great saint whose named Paul wrote these words while he was being harassed everywhere. He was mentioned to went by an evil spirit around that he referred to as "a thorn in the flesh." It was a messenger sent from Satan to hinder and to constantly harass him. 

In his predicament, the constant harassment of this spirit finally got to him, and he begged God three times to take it away. Paul was clearly at the end of his rope. But, even though Paul prayed for God's intervention three times, the spirit did not depart. And God's response to Paul was the verse we read above. His strength is made perfect in weakness. Paul did relied on Lord's strength to overcome and indeed.., He did overcame for the glory of God.

What does perfect mean? It means that His power comes to full maturity…it grows and blossoms…it is fully expressed in our weakness.

Paul's response? He went on to say "Therefore most gladly I would rather boast in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions and distresses for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong." found in verses 9–10 of that same chapter.

It seems that sometimes we have to get to the end of ourselves before we will look fully to God. But when we do, we find that He is more than enough. If you are there today or close to that point, take hold of God's strength. He is indeed more than more than more...... Let us discover His endless power, protection and provision to fully understand His purpose for our lives.

Put your trust in Him. He will bring you to the place of your breakthrough, and you will find the strength and direction you need.

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And God can give you more blessings than you need. Then you will always have plenty of everything enough to give to every good work. 2 Cor. 9:8 EXB

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Pretender… Are you?

  

Quite a lot of people I meet day to day. My line of work has able me to greet and talk to folks with black, white & brown skin. Some of them having pointed or flat nose and even small or big brown eyes, with courage and without. You’ve got to be flexible enough to crack a joke with them to halt any tension that may arise while they were waiting for right kind of tools they want as many times some of them do not know the part number of the correct tools they require. So we resort to description, symbols and uses it may have to get a grip of it.

When we discover the right part number, then we suggest them to please take note of it so in the next time we will be spending a shorter time looking for such.  Then we will take their staff number to record the borrowed tools under their name.

Some guys by the way are giving a bogus staff number, so as not to tie his name to the tools he wanted in many case. That’s why many tools are lost due to some irresponsibility of few. They don’t want to get bother to return it back and clear their own real names and staff number for that case. Well, they're trying to pursue what is required but pretending someone he wasn’t. Tsk tsk…

Pretending also occurs in many churches today and worse, as many people put on a false front, use the right “Christian” words or even pray before meals. They pretend to have it all together to gain the approval of others and not to endure on what the biggest struggle within. That brokenness, that doubt, or an addiction or other persistent sin.

My dears, God has placed us in a body of believers to gain support for the guilt we have inside. Admit it.., first thing, so we can have a wise counsel of a mature guy who experience such things and has a wide experiential wiseness. And thus…we can be set free to be from our sinful songs of life. Don’t stick to making a claim for yourself. Don’t entitle yourself to be good in this world to stay chain on numerous self-breakdowns. Stop pretending there’s nothing wrong in hiding sin and cover up. Do we got it? Confess, repent and live in freedom! Whoa!

The loving God will surely fill your heart with His song….. if you don't pretend to be what you are not.

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Confess your trespasses to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed. James 5:16

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Gee! I'm shocked...

 

 

Hmmm, I understand that God does not call a lot of people who our world would consider wise, noble or mighty. He calls a few, yeah.., but not many. The fact of the matter is, God will use anyone who will yield himself or herself to Him sincerely.

 

The idea Paul wants us to understand is that the vast majority of people God chooses are a surprise to everyone else. God's choices are generally not on our "A" list of people. Think about the apostle Paul himself, who wrote these very words in 1 Corinthians 15, I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. And the next words out of his mouth are profound, But by the grace of God I am what I am. He was a persecutor of Christians. In fact, he was so filled with hatred he even went to foreign cities to have believers arrested, families split apart, jailed Christians, beaten them and at times even executed. Divah?

 

And yet, God chose Paul as His mouthpiece to many places of Gentiles. It was so astonishing to many in the church that they didn't want to receive Paul when he was first saved. Kahit siguro ako magdadalwang isip. From what has happened in the past, they thought it was a trick. It took them a while to understand that God actually had saved him and was using him. Paul would not have been one of their primary choices as a vessel for God. They were so shocked as I am today when I stumbled on his story again. God is soo good and surprising talaga!

 

Hmmm, I love that about the Lord. He uses the unexpected people and those we might pass over to carry out some of His most important work. God's choices of people to scatter His words are really very surprising indeed! I simply cannot get over that fast when He turns no one to someone. Praise God!

 

So choose Him to be honored, served and worship. Live for Him as your Lord and Savior and you will be surprised as well.

 

Shalom everybody!

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For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. 1 Cor. 1:26

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Do you Self Pity?.., Rub it Off!

There are so many difficulties that can push us to get easily discourage. And after such, we find ourselves wrestling with a negative feelings of self-pity. We try to derive some sort of perverse satisfaction from our misery. Ouch! Bakit nga ba ganon?

Many doctors, Psychiatrist to  be exact have an interesting name for people who habitually indulge in self-pity---it's "injustice collector" daw. Ito yung mga tao that are constantly dwelling on their hurts and hardships, whether real or imagined. I don't quite understand but somehow they enjoy thinking about them at sinasabi pa nung iba. 'Yung bang, they search out for people who will sympathize and commiserate with them. (Shocks!) Di ba it is quite destructive to practice or even tell about it? Kasi po I think the root cause of it is our pride that makes us focus too much on ourselves. Divah po? We dwell to much on our own misfortunes and sorrows. And that is not healthy.

Hmmm, I  heard a sensible believer says, "God is concerned about your pain & hurt, but He doesn't want you to be so much concerned about it" Medyo malalim noh? kasi po the longer you let your life be concentrated on your own pain...the longer it stays and could grow into something huge. You see, it could embrace resentment, unforgiveness  and bitterness to situation or person who brought this pain we're embracing so tight. And it would be far painful if that guy who caused it, is yourself. Ouch talaga!

We are not suppose to be self-seeking. We are not supposed to be keeping records of wrong, divah? HMHYHE! Well, this is not to say that we should ignore or deny when we are being mistreated. Hindi ganun ha...., we should take constructive action to see that we are treated with proper respect or remove ourselves from harm's way rather than sit idly and feel sorry for ourselves to the Nth power. It is unproductive--it's destructive and leading to what I've said before.., Resentment-Unforgiveness-Bitterness. RUB it off will you!

And these are some reasons why Satan works doubly hard to get us so focus on our wounds rather than the cure---which is the wisdom & love of God. Hmmm.., Time and again..., He wants to be our Comforter. God hurts when we are hurt, kaya don't insist of holding your feelings of RUB as it will block Jesus efforts to comfort and rescue us. Kaya let's open the door of forgiveness to our self and others as well. Gratefulness is also an antidote for such. No matter what's going on, we have so many to be thankful for! As we do it and as we stay in His words, blessings and provisions that entails in His promises will be readily available. Mas OK 'yun divah?

So we must let go of that negative emotion of self-pity and ill feelings towards others. Don't yield to self-pity  as it is a dangerous enemy, the worst they say co'z it push the idea in our thoughts that we can never do anything good in the world. And instead of you saying "poor me" hey better to look to God and confess..."the pity-party is over" Divah? Joyful-party tayo!

Shalom po to everyone!

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The bread of idleness (gossip, discontent and self-pity), she (the virtuous woman) will not eat. Proverbs  31:27 AMP

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Don't Just Hear.., Listen to Understand...

Good day everyone!

It is so easy to play the role of such a fool and live among them when we are dealing with a strained or broken relationship. We seek to promote our own cause mostly rather than seeking to understand other persons. We will often feel that need or requirements of our self and strive for them to look at our hurt by neglecting theirs.

Personally like me, others have probably said, "You need to hear me so pay attention. You need to see this, don't blink. You need to understand why I am in pain and why I reacted the way I reacted. You really should know that I am right. I need to convince you that I am satisfied in the things I've said and the things I've done."

When we say those things, we are giving-off or throwing away any interest of understanding the other person's point of view. In doing so.., we are avoiding a mutual agreement of peace. We just selfishly want to scatter the self-proclaiming opinions, pains and reasons of ourselves.

The Bible says that is the way a fool behaves. That is the way why men become far.., so far from God's direction. Being a preacher myself, I'd like to be honest. I am going to stand at the front of the line and say, "I've been that fool more than once." Yeah and you heard me right. But we must learn to listen and understand. (Hear me well.) Once you have listened and understood, here is an important phrase to learn, "I see what you're saying, and I'm sorry." That does not mean, "I see what you're saying, and I'm sorry you're such an idiot." That means, "I've listened to you, I've heard you, and I'm sorry.", and that's a Period. "Forgive me." would be appropriate in the next line.

It is amazing!.., yeah indeed, on how some people choke on those words. In fact, it is shocking and nerve-twisting to realize how few people know how to give a proper apology. "I'm sorry" seems to be the hardest word. They or We.., offer the rose of an apology by handing it thorn-end first.

Stop playing the fool. Listen and listen well..., to understand. Shalom!

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He who neglects discipline despises himself, but he who listens to reproof acquires understanding. Proverbs 15:32

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Enabling the Disable...

 Hi there! Are you really able?

"Quite a question to open up my blog. Yet somehow, this is the question that interrupts the flow of our cycle. It unsettles our perspective of things by sometimes bringing us to perplexity of our requirements and thus..., interference, disarrange harmony or at times trouble in huge measure grapple us in the neck. haayyys! 'felt that in your corner?

Such predicament at times come., and we are thrown into the confusion of "Paano ba ito Lord?" A question that does not wholeheartedly ask God for solutions somehow, but trying to figure out a way out of such on our own. "Medyo may katotohanan ba?" Have you been quite swayed?  

In general, lots of or variety of subjects capture the instances that I'm trying to put out. It could be the crippling need that mostly put you down, the protection which is quite protracted that somehow limits, or the changes occurring yet producing quite tardy key. Hmmm, aren't those, in a way, raise a disgusting emblem in the process? Tsk, tsk... 

Or perhaps..., these moments are just a way to put your widely disorganized focus on elsewhere rather than to the one thing, that good Paul expressed on. Hmmm..., As we seem to have been travelling long miles, yet miss fire on some occasions, we eventually simmer down somehow. And the emission of smoke is very evident to misled tracts. (Read it again...will you?)

Christian journey indeed could be quite tricky. A loosing and fierce enemy is observing us. Left, right, down or upside down for some. Oh yes it is.., the enemy is always arm with many deceptions to hinder you on the foremost mission at hand. He, in his armature of intended fraud might use catastrophic waves or silence whisper that could make anyone feel a bit of so called "full of a legitimate sense of self-worth-prejudices", hmmm, 'hope we dig this, to arm ourselves with the Word who truly provides and protects.

Those sharp arrows of disablement could be quite a basis of many sorrows and failure. Such silence that blows up in one's face, once it is on the verge of one's helm. Such silence yet so effective in drowning the great titanic in one's time. Disastrous indeed and could easily make many around fall as well. Tragic awaits and ruins enjoys such fatality that silently starts from "self-worth-whisper" Whew, such an avalanche! Ooh be aware...be very aware. Beware of such tranquil steps of the devil whose dirty tricks and moves always aim at your journey. Beware of false serenity.

But ability surrendered  is the definite way of erasing those vulnerabilities. This reachable ability can be utilized at its highest peak if we quit, yearn and yield our own control to the Hand that controls! It has been said...., "It is not our ability but our response to God's ability that counts" Hey!....., that's loaded!

So, let us be one who trust and yield our "enables" to Him who will surely disable our own "full legitimate sense of self-worth-prejudices". Well..., Ability without proper submission will cause vulnerabilities' absorption! While yielding in God's hand asserts relying to His unfailing plan.

VERSE-MEAL:
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness. Lev. 26:13

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