Reading & Meditating

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Today’s world competes for our time everyday. We are very easily dragged to our cares, burdens, and commitments. The Psalmist’s 1st Psalm sets the context and he understands very well the need to delve into God’s word, and that too day and night. The usage of “day and night” expresses the gravity of being occupied with His word for a significant period of time. No child of God can survive the winds of this life without His word, as the Psalmist concludes with what happens without it. Contrasting the 2 trees here, one that is beside the stream and the other without the stream. The stream represents the word of God from which we draw everything for our survival. Not just that, but also to grow and bear fruit like the tree, in time. We cannnot, survive, grow or bear fruit without investing in His word.

I heard this elsewhere…If you want to know God, read His word, If want to hear the voice of God read it aloud!

Our singular motive ?

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Today, we will spend a few moments to dwell on our motive. Although 3 pronged, it is still in some ways, one direction – towards God. All this from one source, His word !

Live the truth: Studying the scripture and understanding how to live true, and in integrity, that pleases God.

Grow in truth: Obeying scripture as God reveals in our daily lives, putting Him first in everything we do, directed by God.

Spread the truth: God loves us and we love God, therefore we love others who don’t know God. Because we love others we want them to know the whole truth and not hide anything from them. Would we not let our next door neighbour know if they don’t know, about a storm coming our way ? We do care for others, so we let people know. We present the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It is important that people know the fine print too, right ?

the Church

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The English dictionary alludes to the church being a physical place or building where Christians meet for prayer or worship or any spiritual act. The Biblical definition is far from it. The word “church” occurs more than a hundred times in the new Testament and derives from the Greek word “ekklesia” and can mean a congregation or assembly but the literal translation is “to call out” or “summon forth”. It is clearly not a building. It is a group of people united in mind and spirit of Jesus. So it’s people and not the building. In other words, it can happen in any place and at any time. No physical constraints or boundaries. It is however meant for 3 important things:

To connect: With God and His people.

To convey: The message from God – His Word.

To carry: Each other and serve each other. This extends to reaching out to our community. So note, it starts within first and then out.

What is in a name ?

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The literal meaning and what it became, encapsulates everything. Jesus or Yeshua means saviour and Christ means messiah or the “anointed one”. So “Yeshua” stands for the role and “Messiah” stands for the authority. Both are vital. Role and authority. Anyone can claim roles but without authority, it is empty and worthless. This authority was given by the ultimate authority – God the creator of this universe. There can be no higher authority. So it does matter, what Jesus said, and did, while He was in human form on this Earth almost 2000 years ago. His coming divided our history on this planet. Things that happened before Christ (BC) and after Him (AC).

Been thinking, why start this now…

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Well, why did we start this site and this blog, you may wonder. We wanted to present the whole truth in an uncompromised way. We plan to share thoughts, facts, news and truths from God’s word as they come our way and hope it is a blessing for others. So reaching the whole wide world through the world wide web.