Watch and wait
Waiting for a special events of our lives is very natural to us. We waited a year to celebrate our birthdays, anniversary or others events. If in case that people forget about it on the exact date , they still greeted you with a word belated, like belated happy birthday or belated happy anniversary. For few people it is sweet but sometimes it is also embarrassing. Why I said it so? Because you have forgotten the special days of your love ones and didn't remember it where infact you are the one who should remember it.
Advent journey has began and the Lord remind us to be advanced not belated approach in life. You read it right, an advance remembrance so we can't forget it. It is also showing that we are excited for the upcoming event like we did when we prepared our birthday in early time.
Jesus called this advents for us to be advanced of the preparation of his coming and this is not the coming happened 2,000 years ago. I will remind you with this gospel, they didn't referred on the birth of Jesus but the second coming of Jesus in the end of time. Yes! Jesus will come again. He will come with glory and in great power.
This is an important part of our faith. He will come to judge the living and the dead. No exceptions. All of us will be judged.
Maybe you will asked , when is the second coming? How it will happen? To be honest , there's no answer for those question. We have no knowledge in regards with the will of the Lord. Despite of that , Lord still encouraged us to be good and have faith to him. We are waiting for his second coming , all those who believed in him.
Many of us experiencing problems with it comes on waiting because it is not easy and we have that mindset that waiting has no assurance bit if you have faith , you will . How can we make our wait more meaningful? Jesus call us not to wait but also to watch. Yes! To watch for the coming of the Lord. Waiting and watching is being joyful in the process of waiting that we prepared so much for the ones we have waited.
What lover are you?
Have you ever thought what kind of lover are you?
Or what do you like on a guy that you will date?
Here's the 20 kinds of lovers that you might want to know and maybe you belong to them.
The Giver
This lover is a selfless one. He gives 100 percent of his love to her love ones. They believed that they are not good enough so they always end up giving to fullfill thier thoughts that they are not enough.
The Taker.
Unlike the first one who always gives. This kind of lover is always takes in the relationship. They always insisting what they want. This person thought that they are always contributing much in the relationship. They always thought that thier existence is enough and they don't need to do anything. This person believes that thier partner is so lucky to have them.
The pleaser.
This lover is a kind of lovers who always pleases thier partner. We can also called it unconditional love or pleasing love. They feel the pleasure when they see their partner smiling because of pleasing their partner. They willing to give up what they want just to please thier partner.
The controller.
This kind of lover is showing much love and obsession to the point that they are already controlling you. Sometimes this kind of attitude makes your partner suffocated to the point that they need some space because of you being always in control.
The Selfish.
This is a type of lover that always second thought when it comes to giving or doing favor to thier love ones. They always thought the word " what about me? ". They always want better and bigger in all aspects like getting a large piece of pizza or always favoring thier wants.
The doubter.
A kind of lover who always in doubt. They never trust you completely. They always monitor you just to make sure that the relationship will be okay. They are scared when you are with your friends or you are not around. They always doubting when something strange happened.
The actor.
They are the ones who are good at acting. They always showed care when your with them and asking what you want and take good care of you but in real life they didn't do anything for your sake. They have only flowery word but no action.
The drama seeker.
This lover is seeking different scene all the time. They always make some drama to make the relationship not so boring all the time. They always asked questions and make scene and then make drama afterwards.
The straying lover.
This is a kind of partner who easily felt boredomness on the relationship. They seems so excited when you are newly couple but got bored when the infatuation already fade away.
The overlooker.
They see your imperfection but choose to ignore it because they don't want to ruin the relationship. They always choose to be blinded rather than to confront and discussed with thier partner.
The helper.
This type of lover always find ways to help thier partner to be better in some ways. They support them and inspired them. They do help their partner but they also spoke thier sacrifices to thier partner , resulting of manipulating thier partner.
The compromiser.
This kind of lovers don't mind if they gave up what they want just to follow the wants of thier partner. They don't want a fight and choose to obey thier partner and respect the decision of thier partner.
The possessive.
They love you so much but they don't trust you fully. They always thought that there are people who always want to separate them with their partner.
The jealous lover.
This lover get jealous when thier partner achieved something. They love you but they also want the thing that you have. If you have a new phone , they also want a new phone. If you achieved something , they always said that they will achieved it soon too.
The material lover.
This lover is more on material things. They want everything luxurious and they don't have any care what people might say as long as they get what they want.
The loyal.
The one who remain loyal to their partner no matter what happens. They are contented and secure with thier partner.
The passionate.
This lover is a kind of lover who is extremely passionate and spend a lot of time on making love. They want more the in bed and never imagined thier relationship without sexual intimacy.
The brooding.
This kind of lover always feel lost in their own world. They always want some space. They get annoyed if they didn't get spaces even for short period of time. They look happy in the relationship but always bothered by something.
Enthusiastic lover.
They love trying new things. They love new memories with thier partner.
Romantic lover.
This lover is truly romantic. They always impress their partner by doing romantic things.
After knowing this 20 types of lover. I will asked you. What lover are you?
Is it okay?
Crying infront of your child. Is it okay?
From crying inside the comfort and leaving the house, most of mothers didn't want to show their emotions infront of thier kids. But is it right to hide those emotions or you need to show the normal emotions of a mother freely?
This topic is quit broad but there's a few answer upon the study of the researchers.
The main reason why mothers hide their emotion is because mothers don't want thier child to think that it was thier fault.
This statement is somehow true because mother has emotional contagion. One of the studies said the fear of the parents can transfer to their child like in this scenario when you have worries on going to the dentist.
On the other hand, we need also to be true with our children. Showing your real emotion to your children has a benefits on thier personality. If they will get used to it , they might be developed overcoming problems in the future.
Hiding , uncontained emotion and discussing emotions. We need to remember these three concept when showing our emotion to our children.
Suppression - This is when you hide you outer emotion but unfortunately not everyone has a talent to hide their true emotions. When you are hiding emotions it's can trigger you blood pressure and psychological arousal. As much as you want to hide it , some people around you will noticed it and worse the emotion that you feel will transfer to them as well.
One of the studies show that the relationship of parents and children will have long quality if parents hide their negative emotions to show. One of this emotion is failing to give children what they really need.
Infant , babies also waited for the interaction of thier parents to them and they will be annoyed if they didn't see that.
It is somehow connected to still face experiment. When a parent show blank emotion to their kids.
They said this experiment giving stress to an infant because they can't managed to see the face of thier parents when it was blank and there's no emotion on it.
Forgive and forget
There are some situations in our life that we want to be in hatred but you can't control yourself to feel pity on the certain person even if they do a lot of wrong things to you. Sometimes it was so tiring to understand them and forgive them and soon they will repeat what they did.
You always asked yourself why your heart is so soft that you can forgive them easily and forget all the things that happened in the past and act like normal and nothings happened.
How can you managed to see that person everyday?
Instead of cursing them, you still choose to pray for them even if they hurt you. You still to be a man that God has designed as his children. You still managed to keep on forgiving over an over again and continue praying those person and lift up to God that one day God will touch their hearts and soon be changed.
People around you might laugh at you, thinking that you can easily fool around and person can do bad things to you because you can forgive them afterwards.
Some people pity you because other people take an advantage because they know you are kind. And some people admire you for that because it was hard to do. They told you they are having a hard time on forgiving.
As of now, I want you to know that God is glad to k ow that you choose to forgive and prayed for those person instead of having a hatred in your heart and curse them. I want you to k ow that God will bless you for that kind of attitude and it can bring glory to Him.
I know some situations came without knowing the real reason behind it, maybe it was meant to be. A blessing in disguise? or God wants us to be strong and test our faith. I don't know the specific reason but I know God has a reason for everything that is happening to each of us. We never know it now but soon we will realized that God is so good to allowed that thing to happened.
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The real reason God created you. ( first part)
God almighty and your whole life will be good imagine entering the gates of heaven standing before God that knows everything about you absoultely. Just imagine how you will feel. The English language does not have enough words to convey to us he wonder and the glory and the immensity of standing infront of him with his eyes that are of a flaming fire. Those eyes will be looking directly at you and each hour and each minute of every second will be examined.
The Bible says, for God will bring every deed into children including everything hidden whether it is good o evil. Now imagine in this moment, if God was to say to you. I created you with so many talents, gifts and skills but you never reach your full potential. I was the still small voice that you heard, that whispered to you throughout your life that told you over and over again that there is more to life than this. You ignored that voice. I choose to live a life that I never designed for you.
One thing that really haunts me is that some of you reading this article today will never do what God knows you're capable of doing. You will never into fruition, the potential that God has put inside you and there is no one to blame than yourself. There is no doubt that God has given you and will continue to give you opportunities after opportunities for you to fulfill the potential which is upon your life. Most of you would ignore or simply dismiss this opportunity either because you think it's beneath you or above you but God does not make mistakes.
The chances of you being born in terms of correct sperm meeting the right egg is one in four hundred trillion. This figure does not take into account the chances of your mother and father even crossing paths. Let alone and having a conversation. Let's take a look at the number one in a four hundred trillion. You have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than being born. So don't you dare tell me or ever believe the lie that you're not on this earth for no reason. The meere fact the you are here is because God knew you. God knew you before you were born. You're not a biological accident or a genetic miscalculation. You are divinely fashioned by a sovereign God who made just like you are.
That's why God said to Jeremiah, I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee, I sanctified thee, I ordained with you. This is what God also did to you before you were born. He knew you, every hair on your head is numbered. Before you were born he sanctified you. To be sanctified is to be set apart. That why you've gone through your whole life feeling like you don't fit in because you were set upon. How can you fit in when God wants to elevate you to new hieghts places you have never been before. Places you have never seen.
Exodus 9:16 says, but I have raised you up for this very purpose that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all of the earth. Everything God creates has a purpose. Every tree, every bird, every star in the sky has a purpose. He is not God who creates without a reason. So why would God treat you without lapels.
Philipians 4:13 needs to be raised into your mind. I can do all thing through Christ who strengthens me. There is not a thing on this earth you cannot accomplish. That means failure cannot stop you. Bankruptcy cannot stop you. Rejection cannot stop you. Operate cannot stop you. They will not stop you. You are a royal priesthood, a chosen generation, God's special possession.
You are born to win. Born to itself. Created to be the head and not the tail above only and not beneath. That's why you have haters. You will always have haters. They see what's inside you. You might as well add knowledge and see what's inside you. You're a designer's original fearfully and wonderfully made in God's himself. You cannot be duplicated, replicate and even imitated therefore you shouldn't be intimidated. No it didn't look like you. No one can see the world like you do. That's why you don't need to be in competition with everyone
For the good man
Because of the redemptive act of our Lord Jesus Christ for the Church of Christ, what else are you store for its members?
Giving thanks to the father who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of Light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of sons he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sin.
The church of christ is indeed for the good of man, for grest blessing is reserved for those who are redeemed and forgiven of thier sins. They will inherit the kingdom of Light. This kingdom is none other than the Holy City where only goodness awaits the redeemed.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The firdt heaven and the first earth disappeared and the sea vanished. And I saw the holy city,the new Jerusalem coming down out of the heaven from God, prepared and ready like a bride dressed to meet her husband. I heard a loud voice speaking from the throne. Now God's home is with people. He will live with them and they shall be his people. God himself will be with them and he will be their God. He will wipe away the tears form their eyes. There will be no more death, no more grief or crying or pain. The old things have disappeared.
In the Holy City there will be no more crying sorrow pain and anguish and above all there will be no more death. So even if man fails to be better his life in this world still he can receive true goodness from God that can only be found in the true church. As God planned it to be, man can attain the full benifits of his blessings by joining the church of christ. To refuse to join the church means to deny one's self of the good God has planned for man.
The Lord God and his son Jesus Christ have done thier share in the master plan of giving man what is the best for him- the salvation of soul. It is high time that man does his part by becoming a member of the church of christ.
Reflections 1
***We die to live***
Ordinary life may be overcome by death. Eternal life, however is immune from the power of death.
Jesus is life. He is in all who has life. He is in a man alive that is why we are said to he the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus is in me. He is in you and He is in everyone of us. We should love one another. Jesus is love.
***Which is difficult?***
What seems to he difficult in the will of God is not so much about understanding it but rather in accepting the consequences. For example, we understand that God is forgiving and so it is His will that we also forgive., but we don't. God is love, but we hate. God is truth but we lie. God is Savior but we condemn. God comes to serve and so He wills that we too must serve but we prepare to be served, instead.
***Peace***.
God is everywhere and He is all good. Therefore anything that is not good has no space. Why l something seems not to be good is because I am not aware of the presence of the all good God.
Therefore I should always be aware of His presence everywhere and I will have peace. Because God is peace.
***Which choice?***
The world is temporal and so everything in and around me is temporary. I am on my way to the state of eternal life.
In the temporal world, joys and sorrows intermingle with each other in my life. In the life hereafter they are separated from each other. Therefore :
If I consume the joys in this word, I will leave my sorrows with me in the eternal life, but when I spend my sorrows here, I can enjoy the joys forever.
Which should be my choice?
***Gift of God to man***
The most valuable gift of God to ma that he may live as an image of the creator are:
Intellect, that we may be able to discover the goodness of our loving God
Will, that we may be able to live a natural tendency to goodness and which with God.
Freedom, that in living we may be able to choose God and His goodness.
Have a great day everyone!
For what I may really be.
I came from nothing and from nothing God has chosen me to be. He must have a purpose to me, now that I turned to be unworthy, dirty, wretched, sinful and worth nothing. He personally came down to my life to repair me and restore me to become whole again.
Why?
He has a purpose to me and I must cooperate to attain the purpose otherwise, He can finally annihilate me.
It is the place I desire to go. It is the place Pre destined for me by God: Heaven.
Heaven is a condition of life where God is. It starts on my life here on Earth. We build heaven by habitation and habit is a practice plus time. That is why we say " Heaven is not reached at a single bound". We build a ladder by which we rise.
Presently, in order to habituate heaven, we have first to dehabitate hell. Hell is the state of nothing good. It is the end point of those who ignore goodness.
As I journey on this earth, I squandered my soul in an attempt to gain piece of the world only to find at the end that I have lost both.
But God is really so good and so loving for what I have lost He has purchased back through His death on the cross and is now offering it back to me free.
This is the new life I am treading on along which I am offering for the glory of my Lord, in the care of our mother Mary and in the continous guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Give your all
Loving is a total relationship of giving all to the beloved. God and man.
The gospel teaches us to love God with all our hearts, with all our souls, with all our strength, and with all our mind and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves.
Therefore we cannot love in part and live the blessings of love. If we give a part, we shall be hurt, but if we give our whole life we shall enjoy.
Would you experiment giving a portion of your finger, or cutting a piece of your ears as an offering and you will centainly be hurt, but when you give the total of you, you will experience peace
Many of us seems to believe in part thus we experience constant emptiness and desolations as we keep on searching for something we don't know what and looking for someone we don't know who.
Yes we attempt to recover the part we have parted with but we could no longer have it because we have already given. But when we give our all there will be nothing to seek anymore as nothing is missing.
Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and everything shall be added unto you. In the Kingdom of God everything is fulfilled for God.If we seek Him with all our heart. We are nothing and God is all.
It is not worth to exchange myself with God?
What do you say?
The lost and found.
When I'm lost, I must be found.
I cannot find because I am lost.
Someone can find me other than I myself.
When I lost the way
It is the way I lost, not I.
I must find the way
But the way stays where it is.
It is not lost.
It is I who moves away from the way
That is why I lose the way
In our relationship to God
God is never lost
He is present and everywhere
He is in me., in us
When we are lost
It is not God who left us.
God loves us
And a lover doesn't leave his beloved
If we are lost
It is because we left God
Therefore I should be found
It is the lost that should be found.
So we should look at ourselves
When I look at myself who is lost
I find myself.
But God is within me
When I find myself
I find God.
Belong where we belong
Men should have no problem and would have been in perfect harmony with one another of only he has lived to his purpose as an image of God. There is only one God and so we can really understand each other and live with one another in perfect relationship because there is only one God who is our pattern of life. When we rebelled against God we were separated from Him and of our choice we were thrown to the animal kingdom. When and where we live an animal image.
But what kind of animal? There are so many species of animals, to which of these species do we belong? That is perhaps the main reason why we can't understand each other. Thus we quarrel one another and even the members of the same family separate from one another.
Result : broken homes, unwanted neighbors, accusing each other with disagreeable behavior.
Reason? We don't know who we are. An animal. But what kind of animal?
Because we lived as an animal, our first priority are the things we have and second is our chosen neighbor. God is the last, if at all included in our list of priorities. God invites us to follow Him to paradise, the kingdom of God. Let us answer His call and make Him our priority. Seek the owner and His ownership shall also be ours.
Bloom where we are planted
Success is a condition of having what we need to have, becoming who we are meant to be; and doing what we ought to do. Luck is the result of preparation plus the opportunity and the response to the call of opportunity.
We should note thaylt success is synonyms with luck. Success or luck is initiated by God. When we are created for nothing we are lucky to be so created and our being created is only willed by the Creator. It was not our choice neither was it the result of our capacity, for we have no such capacity to create. In creating us, God had only one intention, for us to become successful, which means for us to be who we really are meant to be that we may be able to do what we ought to do and certainly we can do it for we were given what we need to have: Life of God. Are we moving toward that goal?
A plant has no purpose if it does not bloom. Therefore we should bloom where we are planted. Our only excuse for not blooming is when we are not planted. Since we are, but here, and now!
Would you?
Our work is not ours. It is God's work done through us. If we accept our task with love and willingness we would be able to accomplish it with success in flying colors. This success belongs to God. There is a lot of work to be done. He knows how to do it better and He can do it perfectly even without help.
He wants to do it through us only because He wants to share His glory with us. Our attitude therefore should be to be always dependent upon Him. Our dependence upon God is manifested through our prayers. Prayer is the shortest distance between man and God. Through prayer we become united with Him, thus, we receive the power to make things right.
God is asking us to pray for more laborers to accomplish His works that are too many. Perhaps it is not really because we lack laborers but we actually need people who would do the work right. People who can depend on God for the accomplishment of any given task.
He is asking us to ask for more laborers so He can share His glory with as many as who will collaborate with Him.
Would you?
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