Check and Balancewho can check my car ? my technician.
who can check my plumbing / electric stuffs ? plumber / engineer.
who can check my health ? doctor / TCM.
who can check my church financial spending ? ... at the end still hit the limit.
who can check my government ? government tools such judges, police and law enforcements. Who can check them ? ... at the end still hit the limit.
who can check that this forum is correct as per bible standard ? .... because being a troll is counter productive. I believe only GOD can check and balance this forum.
who can check my technician quality ? another technican / governing body. How can we know we don't get cheated ? another technician / governing body. How to we check another technician / governing body... You are hit by a limit.
my doctor is honest, but how can i trust him ? second opinion. How to qualify 2nd opinion is good enuf ? try 3rd opinion... where this things end ? 4th opinion, 5th opinion... You are hit by a limit.
my leader cannot lead my country. How can we fix this ? try opposition ? re-election ? change the leader ?... You are hit by a limit.
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This is the problem with people who has Jesus but
didn't believe in supernatural power.
Mindset. Even worse for pagan who denied Jesus like what happen in United States.
They have genuine interest to improve life, to lead for better, to give best service, but without putting Jesus into global picture, anything human's do will ended up in vain.
Here is the new mindset. Only Creator can do quality control, Only Creator can check and balance of all creation due to complexity of HIS creation. Only Jesus can check and balance everything.
Okay that's too spiritual, let's back to reality. Start with simple thing. Who can fix my car and how can i make sure the technician did his job well. As paranoid person, i afraid that....
Answer:
Put Jesus in the picture before take commitment and trust in HIM. Bless the technician that will fix the car. By blessing, there are spiritual things take into place:
1. the technician can have divine understanding what's wrong with the car. The discernment will benefit you as car owner. No need best technician. Only 1 regular technician ordained by DIVINE appointment.
2. If the technician trying to cheat, GOD will put enough fear to make sure the technician didn't cheat. Even before he touch your car, the technician somehow resistant to cheat you because of "unexplained reasons".
3. I still got cheated after i prayed ? how come...
Answer for question 3: trust in GOD. If HE allows, there must be some reason. Just pray: I am hurt because of this cheating LORD Jesus, please help me. I want to have faith in you. I want to believe that you are in control. Then after that forgive the technician so the bitterness will not consume your life. Then you can ask in this forum for strength and support if you don't have cell group in your church.
Another word: remember narrow path and wide path ? choose to trust GOD. That's the narrow path.
How about doctor, TCM, plumber, enginer, fixer, customer service, colleague, team member, my grumpy bosses and other things in general ? same approach. consider the story above per say.
-- Now go to advanced case: churches, government, and entity with more authority ---
unless i wanted to get deported from malaysia or banned from this forum for political writings: I can write only general, very general things.
1. Trust in GOD. GOD always in control. No matter you think you lost control. You think government out of control,
GOD always in control of everything.2. Bless authority above you.
For government, bless Prime Minister and deputy and their family. Bless all leadership structure. Bless menteri besar and family. Bless Sultan and his family. I am not sure about kerajaan malaysia structure in detail. But we need to bless them so GOD's perfect will be done.
The same story for Church. Bless the church leader so they will go GOD's agenda, not own agenda.
Back to Joseph story, GOD use pharaoh to install Joseph in picture so Israel and his family can be saved. Whatever the religion of our goverment leader, bless the them. GOD can raise people but only if HIS church bless authority above you
-- conclusion --
I hope that we have understand how to :
1. put Jesus into our global picture
2. speak of blessing to our live and anybody in touch
And how to use those 2 points to resolve our daily limitation as individual or leader.
In His Grace,
DE1929
I forgot to highlighted that easy and endure are two different thing. It's easy to walk but
. Speak of blessing also needs endurance as per say:
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I have case people speak blessing but instead of blessing, calamities came. Then the person has trauma. The fact is, the devil is playing mindgame to build a pattern of learning that: if you speak blessing then calamity came. Therefore persistence is needed.
Sample: Indonesia just have a new president Jokowi due to church diligent prayer to guard the election to be as clean as possible. Jokowi is not christian. The good thing about him that he is clean. He does not have track of corruption in his career.
Talking persistence / endurance, it's not all that's needed. There are a lot of things but today i can't type them all one-by-one.
You see, paul prayed for the thorn to be remove from the flesh and God did not remove it. So if it is God's will that this world will continue to be evil until the day Christ comes again, then you cannot change God's will.
Sometimes you can change GOD's will. Abraham negotiate from 50 to 10, Hizkia negotiate and got extra years. That's why UW highlighted the importance of GOD's grace. One benefit of GOD's grace is: leverage, negotiate with GOD, becoming his friend, etc...
As Christians, we should speak up openly against evil. When someone starts to twist the word, we should speak up because that person is trampling on the truth. We should feel angry when the truth is being trampled. One of the reason why God put us here is that God choose us to be his messanger. To speak against falsehoods and also to speak the truth to others.
. I will not wage war against evil, I will not rebuke. I follow GOD's timing and strategy. Feel angry yes but committing actions are 2 different thing. I will not speak up unless authorized or else it will not be "high quality blessing" per say.