What is He saying today?

Here is a post I wrote a year ago, I found my self coming back to it in order to remove the dust off what is important in life. I also was inspired by reading this post: Living like He's there by Sarah Markley.

I needed to prepre last Sat. for the Sunday school class I am teaching. I had to watch a Nooma video # 5 called Noise by Rob Bell. It is my first Nooma video.

Here is the video to watch for yourselves.

I had to watch it three times before I actually start teaching it. The fact that it presents is so deep. Just to record one hour of total silence required 2000 hours of record time.

The fact comes to mind, we try to fill our time, our schedule our daily life with so many things. See, today I have to plan my day and before the end the day, I have to plan tomorrow and if I don’t have any thing to do, I would have to find any thing to fill my day with. We view unfilled schedule as boredom time.

If we are on the highway, we turn on the radio and we may even have the radio on while talking on the phone. If we can’t find something better to do, we watch the billboards on the highway and if there isn’t much to see, we may complain of not having any thing to look at to consume our time.

Here is reality, we don’t have the attitude of thinking of our spare time as quality time that is an opportunity that is given to us to allow God to speak.
See, we go to church once or twice a week and during that time we speak a lot (praising and worshiping) then we listen to 30 min sermon for speaker of the day. But the video wants us to wander around trying to listen to what God have to say to us.

Do you ever wonder what He wants to say to you today? Do you want him in your life, leading it and inspiring it? So why don’t you allow him to talk and allow your self to listen?

See, if you yearn to have a close relationship with someone, you have to engage with that person in conversions and allow him to speak as much as you speak as well. When we are in love with someone, we look forward to their calls and can’t wait to get home to see them. We can't wait to have them call us and speak with us just for the sake yearning to listen to their voice on the other end of the call.

I believe that while I was teaching those kids in my Sunday school class about allowing God to speak. I have learned that I need to be silent and not only that, but also have the attitude to enjoy my silent time with him, trying to listen to what He got to say in Silence.

P.S. Silent/Listen have the same letters. In order to Listen, you must be Silent. In order to be Silent, you must not talk and Listen.

From the Pit to the Palace

Haven't you been in situations that you asked God why is this happening to me? why did you let this happen? I was so good to you God and don't deserve what is happening to me!!! When you are feeling this way, remember Joseph......his brothers threw him in the pit but he ended up leading the land in king Pharaoh's palace where God has put him. God allows us to be in these situations so he can be praised and glorified. He can also use our silliest mistakes to bring glory to his name.

God arranged everything that happened to Joseph from being in the pit all the way to being in the palace. None of what happened to Joseph was a coincidence, God had arranged it all and was in control of every minute of it. When we are in these satiations we should not feel that God had left us, we should not feel that we are alone, we should trust in Him that He is in control. Just remember that He is arranging everything to come together for a good purpose.....His name.

Are you a Submarine?

This is the Cherry tree at my work parking lot. Every spring it flowers so pretty. I can only say that this tree been here for ever. Just look at its root. Every SPRING, I go and take a picture of it.
It is amazing how the season changes and how God is great.



Click Slide Show to see it in full screen. It is so pretty
This Past Sunday, I was teaching my middle Sunday school class about how we are living in the presence of God all the time as we walk this earth. That His work is every where. As result, we should live the fine line of pride and humbleness. Proud to belong to such great God and humble as we don't deserve to belong to him, but is his mighty grace we wanted us more than any thing.

More than 10 year ago, I heard that comment from a preacher, who said, many of us act like submarines, who are under the water for so long and only come out once a while they are out of food. He said that we are under the world all week long and only realize God presences as we enter the church on Sundays. We need to see God in every thing around us. The flowers, the sun, the rain, the snow, the seasons, the heat, the cold, and every thing.

Here is the Video I used during my Sunday school class.



Now, share with me and others how you see God around you... link below.