与神亲密

仔细想一下我生命中有什么不良嗜好呢？

也欢迎我身边的朋友提醒，谢谢！

Mark 4:26-29

He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters
seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the
seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the
soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full
kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle
to it, because the harvest has come.”

Jesus spoke in parables and sometimes I wonder why not just plain talk
but that doubt was clarified in v11 where he said that the secrets of
the kingdom of God are revealed to those God chooses to reveal it to
and not to those who God chooses not to. Today’s parable seems so
obvious and I would wonder why some people dint get it but as I read
it again, I realized that to understand it, one first needs to
understand God’s will for our own lives. This parable was spoken in
the spiritual sense and has to do with what God commanded us to do in
Matthew 28:19-20 when he gave us the great commission. He commanded us
to go and share the good news of salvation through his own death and
resurrection and the new hope that we have of knowing where we are
headed beyond this physical body.

As servants of God, our primary calling is to serve God and not
ourselves. After we are saved, our new lives are not to be lived for
our old selves but for our maker and creator who saved us from certain
death and the fires of hell. For this great blessing, we are called to
go out and share this great news of forgiveness and hope which is free
to all men. A serious challenge we face with this commission is our
minds which makes us wonder how we can share the good news because we
may not be good speakers like Moses, worry about loosing friends when
we talk things that they don’t appreciate, etc. However, we need to
realize that God saved us not because of anything we did but because
he wanted to bless us and we need to go out and shamelessly share this
same good news and not worry about the result because that is God’s
work. Are you willing to stand us for your savior? If yes, do it
shamelessly for the Lord and if no, seek God’s help to know how you
can serve him.

In His Loving Service,
Vineet

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强烈推荐：帮助10亿多生活在贫穷中的儿童
My World Vision
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/b9eB-TfHaDE/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAG4xukFtOE
http://www.tudou.com/l/-AkH-GVLOB8

很感动，
为了每一个贫穷的孩子，
不论多么小，都有他的声音，你在听么？
…………
现在全世界有超过20亿的儿童，你期望将来看到了什么？
贫穷，还是应许？
问题，还是机会？
绝望，还是希冀？
今天全世界有超过一半的儿童生活在贫穷中，超过10亿的儿童，要靠“每天一美元”生活，
…………
成千的World Vision的工作人员，在接近100多个国家中，正在改变百万的被资助的孩子的生命，
…………
【太18:5】 凡为我的名，接待一个像这小孩子的，就是接待我。
'And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me.
And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
…………
然而还有超过10亿的儿童，生活在贫穷中，他们有真实的名字，真实的需求，真实的希望，
…………

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from Michael HUO