What Are We Looking For In This World?

What are we looking for in this world? Most people will definitely answer that they are looking for money, wealth, popularity, and position. They thought that if they had got what they were looking for, they would definitely find happiness and life satisfaction. Is that really the case? Not. Money, wealth, popularity, and position do not guarantee that we will experience true happiness.

What are we supposed to be looking for? God warns us to seek Him earnestly (with all our heart). That is the word of God who created us, who knows our future, and who loves us. He is the Lord, who gives us what we seek, “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart“(Jer 29:13). If we make God the primary target of our lives, seeking Him more than anything, believe that we will get what we want, even more, because “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,” (Ephesians 3:20).

If we need protection, seek God because He is a city of fortresses and a rock of refuge (see Psalm 94:22), as well as a stronghold (see Psalm 91:2). If we desire blessings, seek the Lord because “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” (John 10:10) and God “… shall supply all thy needs according to his riches and glory…” (Philippians 4:19). God not only provides what we need, He is even willing to give His life for our salvation, because He is the Good Shepherd. “The good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep;” (John 10:11).

If we are discouraged and helpless right now, seek God, for “He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.”(Isaiah 40:29). When we are weary and burdened, come to the Lord, for He promised: “… I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28).

Seek God, then we will get whatever we want in God’s miraculous ways.

Full Of Goodness

A glass filled with water is always full because the part that is not filled with water is filled with emptiness and an empty glass is completely filled with emptiness and emptiness gives nothing to life but to be a burden.

There are people whose lives are filled with kindness but only by words and not by their attitudes and actions. This kind of life is a life full of hypocrisy.

Man expects goodness; Whoever he is wishes to be treated well, and therefore everyone counsels kindness. Doing good is the longing of nature created as a treasure for man.

A good person is not how much he says but how well he behaves and acts. Only things that are done with love will impress the heart.

Start thinking good (the term positive thinking is commonly used), speak gentle and polite words, act kindly to everyone, practice more patience, learn to be there for others and slowly this life is increasingly filled with kindness.

He who heeds the word wisely will find good,
And whoever trusts in the Lord, happy is he.

Dear Friends,Someone Send You Letter This Morning.

Good morning

When you wake up this morning, I look at you and hope that you will greet Me soon, even if it’s just a few words, and thank Me for everything good that happened in your life yesterday.

But I’ve noticed you’re too busy choosing the best clothes to wear to work. I’m waiting again to hear your greeting. Once ready, I know that you have a few moments to pause to greet Me, but you are still too busy.

I want to say that I can help you achieve what you have been dreaming of, but you never talk to me about your dreams, you rely on your strength alone. At one point, you just sit in a chair for 15 minutes and do nothing. I’m still waiting to hear from you.

Then I saw you stand up, I thought you wanted to talk to Me, but you took your phone and called a friend. After that, you left home to get to work and I was waiting patiently for you all day to hear you.

With all your busy activities, you become too busy to be able to speak to Me. At lunch, before you eat your lunch, I see you looking around you, maybe you feel ashamed to talk to Me, so you don’t bow your head when you have seen your friends talking to Me first before they eat their food, but you don’t.

It’s OKAY.

After the afternoon comes, you go home. There is still time available, I still expect you to say hello to Me. It turns out that you still have a lot of work to do at home. When you’re done, you turn on the TV. I don’t know if you like watching shows on television or not, it’s just that you often spend a lot of time in front of them, thinking about nothing but watching every show while enjoying snacks. Back I waited patiently. But you still don’t greet Me.

It’s time to sleep for you, of course, you have been feeling very tired all day today. Then you immediately fall asleep soundly.

It’s okay because you may not realize that I am always around you. I have more patience and tenderness than you can tell. In fact, I am eager to teach you how to be patient and gentle with those around you well.

I love you so much. Every day I wait for the bow of your head or your prayers or expressions of gratitude from within your heart.

Like yesterday, you wake up from your sleep and return I wait lovingly and hope that on this day you will at least give me a little time.

I bless you!

From your best friend, 
Jesus Christ

“The distance is nothing; it’s only the first step that is difficult.” – Marquise du Deffand

Do you remember when you first learned to walk? When do you begin to step at a time? Do you remember, when you first looked at everything from your tiny feet? Everything felt so far away and out of reach of your little hands. The legs of the chair and the legs of the bench are like sticks to keep you standing.

Under the dining table is your favorite place, the dining table is enough to cover your head. You looked up and saw the beautiful lights, you were amazed to see them, and then you stretched out your hand to reach out to them. But you can’t. Everything seemed so far away and unattainable to your little hands and feet that it was trying to reach.

Then you hear a voice calling you. You searched around limpingly, but you didn’t find it. The voice called you again. You get more curious and hit the floor quickly to find the source of the sound. Your little hands and feet try to keep your balance as you run to find who is calling you.

Such a soft, voice that you know comes from the one who loves you. The same voice sounds beckoning to you again, you look around you once more, but you still don’t find that voice. All you see around you are your scattered toy cars, 4 chair legs, a balloon, some books, crayons and finally your favorite dining table.

You run and and slump under the dining table, just in case the source of the sound is coming from there. And you hear that voice once again, accompanied by a soft laugh.

“Where are you looking,son? Look I’m on top of you.”

You raise your head and see the source of the sound. Your mother stood opposite you and smiled at you. You smile and think “Hey, look I can find you.” Then you stretch out your little hand, trying to reach it. Trying to kiss her, trying to hold her hand. However, ouch!! Your hand can’t reach it.

Suddenly your Mother feels so far away from you. She stands tall and you can’t reach it. You start to get disappointed and cry. You want your mother!! You want to kiss her, hold her cheek, you want to pull her hair. You want your mother, but you can’t achieve it… Your mother feels so far away.

And suddenly you feel your body lifted. There is a pair of hands holding your small waist. You see your mother smile and say, “Well, I found you!” You reach out with your hand, and “Hey look,” you cheer, you can hold her cheek. He laughs when your hands hold his cheek. Even when one of your hands pulls her hair, she laughs and she pulls you closer to her and kisses you on the cheek. You laugh with pleasure. Finally you can grab your mother. Oh no, finally your mother can grab you and hold you.

How often do we feel that God is far away and unattainable to our hands? Or maybe we would love to reach out to Him but, your hands are not long. Your feet are not high enough to reach Him. Have we ever felt that God was far away from us, thinking and imagining ourselves like children with such limited vision that we could not see that we were actually under His feet!! We are less than 10 cm from His presence. Our view is very limited. Unlike His views!! In His sight we are so close, that His hands can reach out and draw us closer to Him.

To Him we are so close, that the sound of our breath is heard by Him. When He bowed His head, there was us at His feet. He smiles and laughs when He sees you looking for Him, even though you are at His feet. And finally, He lifts your waist, takes you up to be able to kiss you. To let you hold His cheek, to let you pull His hair. He is very close to you. All you need is to stick your hands up, lift your head up, and He will lift you up. He will bend down and stretch out His hand.

If you feel so far away from Him, remember you’re near His feet.

Crab Mentality

Maybe many know the shape of crabs, but not many know the nature of crabs. Hope you don’t have a spiteful crab nature.

In the Philippines, rural people love to catch and eat rice field crabs. The crab is small in size but tastes quite delicious. The crabs are easily caught at night, then put in a basin/container, untied. The next day, these crabs will be boiled and then eaten for side dishes for several days.

The most interesting of these habits, the crabs will always try to get out of the basin, with all their might, using their powerful claws. But a good crab catcher is always calm even though his hunting is always trying to escape. There is only one recipe, that is, the hunter knows very well the nature of the crab.

If a crab almost escapes out of the basin, its friends will pull it back to the bottom. If anyone else climbed quickly into the mouth of the basin, again his friend would pull him down… and so on until finally no one made it out. The next day the hunter just boiled them all and the flock of spiteful crabs died.

Similarly, in this life… Unknowingly, we also sometimes become like those crabs. Spitefulness or envy is a word that we often hear in everyday life. In the family, a younger brother is jealous of his brother when his parents buy him a new motorcycle. A friend was envious when he saw his deskmate get the highest score in the math test in class. In the office, A is jealous of B because B gets a promotion.

A spiteful person is a person who always cannot accept the reality of other people’s successes. Who should be happy if our friend or relative experiences success we even suspect. Especially in business or other things that contain elements of competition, envy, spite, or hypocrisy will be more real and if not we immediately realize we have unknowingly killed ourselves.

A sign of a person is a “crab”:

  1. Always remember the mistakes of others (can be other people or situations) that have been past and make it a principle / guide in acting,
  2. Criticize a lot but no change,
  3. Like to talk about other people’s weaknesses but does not realize his own weaknesses so he is only busy pulling crabs that will come out of the basin and forget about his own escape efforts.

The crabs should have helped each other out of the basin, but well… it takes a big soul to do it.

For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind.

Love The Process Of Your Life

Many times when our ears hear a word “process” it doesn’t feel good. Coming to mind is a sequence of implementation or events that are interrelated, of course, for a long time.

A potter went to find clay to get material for his vessel, he was willing to work every day diligently and unyieldingly. When the materials were available, the potter began working to make the vessel.

There are several steps of the process carried out by the potter for the steps of forming vessels, starting from the preparation of the clay to be used, placing the clay on a rotating workbench so that the clay is easily formed, shaping the clay into objects that have uses, burning vessels that have been formed to be strong, the cooling process so that the results are more perfect, until the process of perfecting the appearance of the vessel to make it much more beautiful.

We must understand that there is no moment in our lives that is not a process for our lives. Every moment is part of the process of life. Therefore we must learn to give up our lives, have willing hearts and surrender to God, so that our lives can be shaped by God’s hand.

“Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?“

Because God’s plan for our lives is beautiful and good for us, and it is not an accidental plan to destroy us. God wants us as His creations to always live by relying and also to keep believing that His promises are always real in our lives.

God bless all of us and for those of you who are reading this post. Amen!

For They Have Sown , And They Will Reap.

One day a young man was walking in the middle of the forest, suddenly he heard a cry for help. It turned out that he saw a young man the same age as him struggling with floating mud, moving more and more deeply he was mired. The first young man gave his best to help, and finally with great difficulty the fallen young man was rescued. The young man who was the first to take this mired young man back home.

It turns out that the second young man’s house is very good, big, magnificent, and luxurious. This young man’s father was very grateful for the help given to his son, and was about to give money. This first young man refused the gift. He said that it is appropriate for fellow human beings to help others in distress. Since this incident they have formed a friendship.

The first young man was a poor, while the second young man was a wealthy nobleman. This poor young man had dreams of becoming a doctor, but he did not have the money to go to college. However, there was a generous man, the father of the noble young man. He gave scholarships until finally obtaining a medical degree. Do you know the name of this poor young man who became a doctor? His name was Alexander Fleming, who later discovered the drug penicillin.

The young nobleman entered military service and on an assignment to the battlefield, he was seriously injured causing a very high fever due to infection. At that time there was no cure for such an infection. The doctors heard about Dr. Fleming’s discovery of penicillin and they injected it with penicillin which was a new discovery drug. What happened? Gradually the fever caused by the infection subsided and the young man finally recovered! Do you know what the young man’s name is? His name is Winston Churchill, the illustrious British Prime Minister.

The story of Fleming and Churchill was written by Arthur Gladstone Keeney (1893-1955) in his book Dr. Lifesaver. Keeney was a day-to-day reporter who covered the War Information Office in Florida and Washington D.C. during World War II. Despite the controversy over the authenticity of the historical value of the story, the story of Fleming and Churchill has inspired many people around the world.

In this story we can see the law of sowing and reaping. Fleming sowed goodness, he reaped goodness as well. His dream came true, he became a doctor. Fleming discovered penicillin which eventually helped Churchill’s soul. Likewise, it turns out that a scholarship given by Churchill’s father to a poor young man later saved his son’s life.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

I am… The Sculptor.

I woke up early today, excited for all I could do before the clock tolled the midnight mark. I have a responsibility to fulfill this day. I’m important. My job is to choose what kind of day I will have.

Today I can complain because the weather is raining or…
I can be thankful that the grass is watered for free.

Today I can feel sad because I don’t have more money or…
I can be thankful that my finances encouraged me to plan my spending wisely and guided me to avoid living extravagantly.

Today I can grumble about my health or…
I can rejoice that I am alive.

Today I can lament everything my parents didn’t give me when I was growing up or…
I can feel grateful that I was born and by them I have grown into what I am today.

Today I can cry because roses have thorns or…
I could rejoice because the thorn had a rose.

Today I can lament the lack of friends or…
I can eagerly embark on a quest of finding new relationships and friends.

Today I can complain that I have to go to work or…
I can shout happily because I have work to do.

Today I can mutter sadly because I have to do house chores or…
I can feel honored that God has provided shade for my mind, body and soul.

This day stretches out in front of me, waiting to be formed. And here I am… The sculptor who can shape it. What it becomes today, depends on me.” I can choose what kind of day I will have!

“Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.“

Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

Habit is a condition that is formed and shapes human life that requires interaction with others in all matters.

Good habits are formed from a good lifestyle in a good family and a good society.

A good lifestyle is shaped by a good mindset and good actions that continuously occur. If the good act is just to show off at a certain time, then it doesn’t become a good habit.

Good habits form good character and good people fared well.

The challenge of good habits is just misassociation. Get along well with everyone and don’t be influenced by the bad things of people around; Hating and shunning bad people, even if they are good, can also be categorized as bad company — favoritism.

Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone.

What Kind Of Heart Do You Have?

A person with a harsh tongue has an angry heart. A person with a negative tongue has an fearful heart. A person with an overreactive tongue has an unsettled heart. A person with a boasting tongue has an insecure heart. A person with a filthy tongue has an impure heart. A person who’s critical all the time has a bitter heart.

On the other hand,a person who’s always encouraging has a graceful heart. A person who speaks gently has a loving heart. And a person who speaks truthfully has an honest heart. What kind of heart do you have?

There’s a story of a man who differed from a teacher issued condemnations and harsh words, venting his hatred for the teacher.

The teacher just kept silent, listened to him patiently, calmly and said nothing. After the man left, the student who saw the incident curiously asked, “Why you keep silent and didn’t retaliate against the man?”

The teacher asked the student, “If someone gives you something, but you don’t want to accept it, then who does it belong to?”

“Of course it belongs to the giver,” replied the student.

“The same goes for those harsh words,” said the teacher. “Since I don’t want to accept those words, then those words will come back to him. He had to keep it to himself. He does not realize, because later he will have to bear the consequences, because the negative energy that arises from thoughts, feelings, words, and deeds will only result in the suffering of life.”

The teacher continued, “Just like a person who wants to pollute the sky by spitting on it. The spit would just fall soiling his own face. Similarly, if there are people out there who are angry with you, let it go, because they are throwing away the garbage of their hearts. If you keep silent, then the scum will come back to themselves, but if you respond, then you accept the trash.

“Today so many people on the streets live with rubbish in their hearts, rubbish of resentment, scum of anger, rubbish of hatred, selfishness and others, so be we wise people.”

If you can’t give, do not take.

If you are too hard to love, do not hate.

If you cannot comfort others, do not make them sad.

If you can’t praise, do not blaspheme.

If you can’t appreciate, do not despise.

If you don’t like to be friends, don’t be enemies.

Dear friends…

This is the time for us to train ourselves to get rid of all the trash/ego that is in our hearts.