Caria linistii ..

Caria principala a linistii este poate nesiguranta …

cel putin eu asa le percep .. in antiteza .. linistea vs nesiguranta …

Sentimentul care imi alunga cel mai adesea linistea este nesiguranta .. nesiguranta rezultatelor, a zilei de maine, a consecintelor … nesiguranta de a face anumite lucruri, de a merge in anumite locuri … frica ca mi se poate intampla ceva … uit uneori ca toate lucrurile sunt sub puterea lui Dumnezeu ..

Ce e drept nu ma confrunt cu sentimentul asta foarte des .. dar cand ma confrunt cu el parca ma acapareaza cu totul … imi acapareaza gandurile, imi limiteaza actiunile, imi afecteaza relatiile ..

Dar bunul Dumnezeu a facut o promisiune celor ce aleg sa se increada il El .. El a promis ca va fi alaturi de noi in orice imprejurare, ca se va ingriji de noi, ne va pazi, ne va intari , ca toate lucrurile sunt in puterea Lui …asa ca eu aleg sa ma incred in Cel care a creat cerurile si pamantul , aleg sa ma incred in Cel ce m-a creat pe mine .. aleg sa ma incred in Cel pentru care nimic nu e prea greu … tu ce alegi?

” Îmi ridic ochii spre munţi… De unde-mi va veni ajutorul?

Ajutorul îmi vine de la Domnul, care a făcut cerurile şi pământul.

Da, El nu va îngădui să ţi se clatine piciorul; Cel ce te păzeşte, nu va dormita.

Iată că nu dormitează, nici nu doarme Cel ce păzeşte pe Israel.

Domnul este Păzitorul tău, Domnul este umbra ta pe mâna ta cea dreaptă.

De aceea nu te va bate soarele ziua, nici luna noaptea.

Domnul te va păzi de orice rău, îţi va păzi sufletul.

Domnul te va păzi la plecare şi la venire, de acum şi până în veac.”

Psalmii 121:1-8

Prefer genunchii juliti !

Se spune ca o problema nu vine niciodata singura .. poate asa este .. poate nu, insa sigur sunt momente in care vin deodata mai multe greutati decat credem ca putem face fata … ne loveste o boala, apar decizii importante, .. sau chiar mici chestii care ne intuneca seninatatea si incepem sa ne ingrijoram .. si incepem sa ne indoim de dragostea lui Dumnezeu … incepem sa credem ca El ne-a uitat ..

Dar asta nu se va intampla niciodata …caci El ne-a facut o promisiune!

Iisus : “iata ca Eu sunt cu voi in toate zilele, pana la sfarsitul veacului. Amin.” [Matei 28:20]

Daca sunt sigura de un lucru pe acest pamant .. atunci este acela ca Domnul nostru este mereu acelasi si ca promisiunile Lui sunt intotdeauna adevarate!

Omul fericit nu este acela care nu are necazuri .. ci este acela care stie ca are un viitor si o nadejde in bunul Dumnezeu, este acela care stie ca este protejat de Cel atotputernic .. este acela care nu se sperie de necazuri .. caci stie ca acestea sunt cele care ii schimba inima …

“Caci Eu stiu gandurile, pe care le am cu privire la voi, zice Domnul, ganduri de pace si nu de nenorocire, ca sa va dau un viitor si o nadejde.” [Ieremia 29:11]

Scopul necazurilor, problemelor, tragediilor nu este sa ne chinuie .. ci sa ne faca sa realizam ca nu suntem atat de puternici pe cat ne credem , sa ne faca sa realizam ca avem nevoie de puterea lui Dumnezeu pentru a trece peste momentele grele , sa ne ajute sa ne apropiem de Dumnezeu …

Cei ce si-au pus viata in mainile Domnului nu sunt feriti de necazuri, nu sunt mai privilegiati din acest punct de vedere .. dar acestia stiu ca dincolo de orice lucru este bunul Iisus care este mereu alaturi de ei, este bunul Iisus care le umple inima de liniste si incredere, este bunul Iisus care iubeste neconditionat !

Chiar daca cadem, chiar daca gresim … stim ca in bratele Domnului intotdeauna gasim iertare , mangaiere, dragoste, sprijin, echilibru, ratiune, bucurie ! ..

Nu-mi doresc sa nu-mi julesc genunchii … prefer sa explorez , sa lupt si sa iubesc, sa invat ce inseamna sa traiesc intradevar viata alaturi de Domnul meu! .. vreau sa ma implic in viata 100% … Domnul Iisus mi-a dat viata , si nu mi-a dat-o ca sa o irosesc, ci sa o traiesc din plin!! .. sa iubesc din plin, sa iert in totalitate, sa gust bucuriile, sa visez , sa infrunt problemele!…

Crestinismul adevarat nu este o religie .. ci este o realitate transformatoare!.. si daca nu-ti schimba viata .. inseamna ca nu ai parte intradevar de ea .. inseamna ca nu cunosti intradevar cine este Iisus si care este puterea Lui !

Vreau sa fac totul alaturi de El, vreau sa ma incred in El, sa indraznesc stiind ca El este cu mine!

Prefer genunchii juliti ! Dumnezeu nu mi-a promis o viata fara necazuri .. dar mi-a promis ca atunci cand ma impiedic este acolo sa ma ia de mana! El este ocrotitorul meu ! Inima mea se increde in El!

Si aceasta promisiune este valabila pentru toti cei ce isi lasa viata condusa de Iisus! El are puterea sa ne ierte caci a murit pentru pacatele noastre, El are puterea sa ne schimbe caci El ne-a creat, El are puterea ne ocroteasca mereu caci El este cel care a creat totul!

“4 Domnul sa-ti fie desfatarea, si El iti va da tot ce-ti doreste inima.

5 Incredinteaza-ti soarta in mana Domnului, increde-te in El, si El va lucra,

6 El va face sa straluceasca dreptatea ta ca lumina, si dreptul tau ca soarele la amiaza.

7 Taci inaintea Domnului, si nadajduieste in El.

23 Domnul intareste pasii omului, cand Ii place calea lui;

24 daca se intampla sa cada, nu este doborat de tot, caci Domnul il apuca de mana.

39 Scaparea celor neprihaniti vine de la Domnul; El este ocrotitorul lor la vremea necazului. “

[Versete din Biblie - Psalmul 37]

Gustati si vedeti ce bun este Domnul!

In cele ce urmeaza este prezentat un psalm scris de David, imparatul lui Israel,aflat intr-o stuatie limita.

Dar intai, intamplarea din spatele Psalmului.
In timp ce inca domnea Saul peste Israel, David a omorat pe uriasul Goliat(cred ca stiti cu totii intamplarea cu David si Goliat din Biblie - 1 Samuel 17:12-58).
Dupa aceasta,David a ajuns in fruntea oamenilor de razboi, si oriunde era trimis, izbutea!
In acest fel a ajuns in atentia tuturor, iar cantaretii si poporul au inceput sa-l laude astfel: “Saul a batut miile lui, iar David zecile lui de mii.”
Inima lui Saul s-a umplut de invidie si ura, asa ca a hotarat sa-l omoare pe David.

Dupa ce a incercat mai multe metode de a-l omori, David a hotarat sa fuga in Gat, de unde provenea uriasul Goliat pe care il omorase. Va imaginati in ce situatie disperata era daca a hotarat sa fuga la dusmani.

Neincrezandu-se in Dumnezeu, David s-a hotarat sa faca pe nebunul cand a ajuns in fata imparatului Gatului, Abimelec. Asadar Abimelec l-a izgonit, David fugind in pustiu intr-o pestera.

Acest psalm este scris de David cand a facut pe nebunul in fata lui Abimelec si a plecat izgonit de el.
Este minunat sa vezi cum un om, intr-o situatie atat de disperata, se uita la Dumnezeu si este umplut de incredere si bucurie!

1 Voi binecuvanta pe Domnul in orice vreme; lauda Lui va fi totdeauna in gura mea.
2 Sa mi se laude sufletul in Domnul! Sa asculte cei nenorociti si sa se bucure.
3 Inaltati pe Domnul, impreuna cu mine. Sa laudam cu totii Numele Lui! -
4 Eu am cautat pe Domnul, si mi-a raspuns: m-a izbavit din toate temerile mele.
5 Cand iti intorci privirile spre El, te luminezi de bucurie, si nu ti se umple fata de rusine.
6 Cand striga un nenorocit, Domnul aude, si-l scapa din toate necazurile lui.
7 Ingerul Domnului tabaraste in jurul celor ce se tem de El, si-i scapa din primejdie.
8 Gustati si vedeti ce bun este Domnul! Ferice de omul care se increde in El!

9 Temeti-va de Domnul, voi, sfintii Lui, caci de nimic nu duc lipsa cei ce se tem de El!
10 Puii de leu duc lipsa, si li-i foame, dar cei ce cauta pe Domnul nu duc lipsa de nici un bine.
11 Veniti, fiilor, si ascultati-ma, caci va voi invata frica Domnului.
12 Cine este omul, care doreste viata, si vrea sa aiba parte de zile fericite?
13 Fereste-ti limba de rau, si buzele de cuvinte inselatoare!
14 Departeaza-te de rau, si fa binele; cauta pacea, si alearga dupa ea!
15 Ochii Domnului sunt peste cei fara prihana, si urechile Lui iau aminte la strigatele lor.
16 Domnul Isi intoarce Fata impotriva celor rai, ca sa le stearga pomenirea de pe pamant.
17 Cand striga cei fara prihana, Domnul aude, si-i scapa din toate necazurile lor.
18 Domnul este aproape de cei cu inima infranta, si mantuieste pe cei cu duhul zdrobit.
19 De multe ori vine nenorocirea peste cel fara prihana, dar Domnul il scapa totdeauna din ea.
20 Toate oasele i le pazeste, ca nici unul din ele sa nu i se sfarame.
21 Pe cel rau il omoara nenorocirea, dar vrajmasii celui fara prihana sunt pedepsiti.
22 Domnul scapa sufletul robilor Sai, si nici unul din cei ce se incred in El, nu este osandit.

[Versete din Biblie, Psalm 34]

THE PRUNING KNIFE

Title:	True Vine: Meditations for a Month on John 15:1-16
Author:	Murray, Andrew (1828-1917)

Already Ye Are Clean Because of the Word I Have Spoken Unto You—John 15.3

( Acum voi sunteti curati, din pricina cuvantului, pe care vi l-am spus. - Ioan 15.3 )

What is the pruning knife of this heavenly Husbandman? It is often said to be affliction. By no means in the first place. How would it then fare with many who have long seasons free from adversity; or with some on whom God appears to shower down kindness all their life long? No; it is the Word of God that is the knife, shaper than any two-edged sword, that pierces even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit, and is quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart. It is only when affliction leads to this discipline of the Word that it becomes a blessing; the lack of this heart-cleansing through the Word is the reason why affliction is so often unsanctified. Not even Paul’s thorn in the flesh could become a blessing until Christ’s Word—“My strength is made perfect in weakness”—had made him see the danger of self-exaltation, and made him willing to rejoice in infirmities.

The Word of God’s pruning knife. Jesus says: “Ye are already clean, because of the word I have spoken unto you.” How searchingly that word had been spoken by Him, out of whose mouth there went a sharp two-edged sword, as he had taught them! “Except a man deny himself, lose his life, forsake all, hate father and mother, he cannot be My disciple, he is not worthy of Me”; or as He humbled their pride, or reproved their lack of love, or foretold their all forsaking Him. From the opening of His ministry in the Sermon on the Mount to His words of warning in the last night, His Word had tried and cleansed them. He had discovered and condemned all there was of self; they were now emptied and cleansed, ready for the incoming of the Holy Spirit.

It is as the soul gives up its own thoughts, and men’s thoughts of what is religion, and yields itself heartily, humbly, patiently, to the teaching of the Word by the Spirit, that the Father will do His blessed work of pruning and cleansing away all of nature and self that mixes with our work and hinders His Spirit. Let those who would know all the Husbandman can do for them, all the Vine can bring forth through them, seek earnestly to yield themselves heartily to the blessed cleansing through the Word. Let them, in their study of the Word, receive it as a hammer that breaks and opens up, as a fire that melts and refines, as a sword that lays bare and slays all that is of the flesh. The word of conviction will prepare for the word of comfort and of hope, and the Father will cleanse them through the Word.

All ye who are branches of the true Vine, each time you read or hear the Word, wait first of all on Him to use it for His cleansing of the branch. Set your heart upon His desire for more fruit. Trust Him as Husbandman to work it. Yield yourselves in simple childlike surrender to the cleansing work of His Word and Spirit, and you may count upon it that His purpose will be fulfilled in you.

Father, I pray Thee, cleanse me through Thy Word. Let it search out and bring to light all that is of self and the flesh in my religion. Let it cut away every root of self-confidence, that the Vine may find me wholly free to receive His life and Spirit. O my holy Husbandman, I trust Thee to care for the branch as much as for the Vine. Thou only art my hope.

Al Domnului este pamantul!

1 Al Domnului este pamantul cu tot ce este pe el, lumea si cei ce o locuiesc!

2 Caci El l-a intemeiat pe mari, si l-a intarit pe rauri.

3 Cine va putea sa se suie la muntele Domnului? Cine se va ridica pana la locul Lui cel Sfant?

4 Cel ce are mainile nevinovate si inima curata, cel ce nu-si deda sufletul la minciuna, si nu jura ca sa insele.

5 Acela va capata binecuvantarea Domnului, starea dupa voia Lui data de Dumnezeul mantuirii lui.

6 Iata partea de mostenire a celor ce-L cheama, a celor ce cauta Fata Ta, Dumnezeul lui Iacov.

7 Porti, ridicati-va capetele; ridicati-va, porti vesnice, ca sa intre Imparatul slavei!

8 “Cine este acest Imparat al slavei?” - Domnul cel tare si puternic, Domnul cel viteaz in lupte.

9 Porti, ridicati-va capetele; ridicati-le, porti vesnice, ca sa intre Imparatul slavei!

10 “Cine este acest Imparat al slavei?” - Domnul ostirilor: El este Imparatul slavei!

[Versete din Biblie, Psalmul 24]

Stanca mea!

1 Te iubesc din inima, Doamne, taria mea!

2 Doamne, Tu esti stanca mea, cetatuia mea, izbavitorul meu! Dumnezeule, Tu esti stanca mea, in care ma ascund, scutul meu, taria care ma scapa, si intaritura mea!

28 Da, Tu imi aprinzi lumina mea. Domnul, Dumnezeul meu, imi lumineaza intunericul meu.

30 Caile lui Dumnezeu sunt desavarsite, Cuvantul Domnului este incercat: El este un scut pentru toti cei ce alearga la El.

31 Caci cine este Dumnezeu, afara de Domnul, si cine este o stanca, afara de Dumnezeul nostru?

32 Dumnezeu ma incinge cu putere, si ma povatuieste pe calea cea dreapta.

33 El imi face picioarele ca ale cerboaicelor, si ma aseaza pe inaltimile mele

34 El imi deprinde mainile la lupta, asa ca bratele mele intind arcul de arama.

35 Tu imi dai scutul mantuirii Tale, dreapta Ta ma sprijineste, si indurarea Ta ma face mare.

36 Tu largesti drumul sub pasii mei, si nu-mi aluneca gleznele.

[Versete din Biblie, Psalmul 18]

From the inside out ..

Hillsong - From the inside out

A thousand times I've failed
Still your mercy remains
And should I stumble again
Still I'm caught in your grace

Everlasting, Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending, Your glory goes beyond all fame
In my heart, in my soul, Lord I give you control
Consume me from the inside out Lord
Let justice and praise become my embrace
To love You from the inside out

Your will above all else, my purpose remains
The art of losing myself in bringing you praise

Everlasting, Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending, Your glory goes beyond all fame
In my heart, in my soul, Lord I give you control
Consume me from the inside out Lord
Let justice and praise become my embrace
To love You from the inside out

Chorus 2x
Everlasting, Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending, Your glory goes beyond all fame
And the cry of my heart is to bring You praise
From the inside out Lord, my soul cries out

La inceput era Cuvantul …

Ioan 1:1-4
La inceput era Cuvantul, si Cuvantul era cu Dumnezeu, si Cuvantul era Dumnezeu.
El era la inceput cu Dumnezeu.
Toate lucrurile au fost facute prin El; si nimic din ce a fost facut, n-a fost facut fara El.
In El era viata, si viata era lumina oamenilor.

Ioan 1:14 Si Cuvantul S-a facut trup, si a locuit printre noi, plin de har, si de adevar. Si noi am privit slava Lui, o slava intocmai ca slava singurului nascut din Tatal.

V-ati intrebat vreodata de ce Ioan Il numeste pe Isus Cuvant?

Incepand azi sa studiez Evanghelia dupa Ioan dupa planul unei carticele .. am gasit urmatoarea intrebare:
La cine se refera termenul “Cuvantul” din primele propozitii ale cartii lui Ioan si de ce crezi ca a ales apostolul acest termen?
Raspunsul la prima parte a intrebarii .. a venit de la sine .. direct din verset … clar, direct ..
.. insa raspunsul la a doua parte … “de ce crezi ca a ales apostolul acest termen” .. s-a lasat asteptat ..

Insa am gasit un comentariu interesant pe internet :

John 1:1-18 - The Prologue

The prologue is marked by the themes of the Word and the witness of John. Clustered around the “Word” are a series of abstract words and concepts. They include: beginning, creation, light, life, truth, grace, glory, and the world. This is the high language of theology and philosophy. Yet moving among these terms is a man sent from God who testifies (i.e. gives evidence) about this “Word.”

John’s use of these abstract terms is part of his scheme to paint a picture of Jesus that is very different from that found in the Synoptic gospels. Mark introduces Jesus at the beginning of his ministry. Matthew places Jesus in the context of Jewish history by his opening genealogy and birth narrative. Luke sets Jesus at the intersection of Judaism’s pious hopes and the Roman Empire’s march through history. As valid and interesting as those introductions may be they all allow the reader to say, “All that’s very nice, but Jesus doesn’t really concern me and my life.”

John, however, sets Jesus in the context of the creation and meaning of the world. Verse 3 indicates that reality is dependent upon Jesus. The meaning of life (v. 4) and truth (v. 14) are somehow connected to Jesus. No one can accept John’s picture of Jesus and walk away saying, “That doesn’t matter to me.” But to really understand John’s picture of Jesus we need insight into his use of the word, “Word.”
John 1:1-5 - The Word Introduced

The most significant word in the prologue is “Word” which is used as a title for Jesus. The Greek word for “Word” would be written in English letters as logos (from which we get logic, logo, and related words). But a Greek dictionary would not have given all that John means to say about Jesus when he called him the logos.

Jesus is rarely called the “Word” outside this prologue. Perhaps its unusualness is proportional to its significance. To describe Jesus as the Word of God points to a basic truth. A word is a message, a communication. Jesus is the communication of a message from God. A word expresses the thoughts of the innermost person. Jesus is the expression of the heart of God. A person’s word is a statement of that person’s nature or character. Jesus is the perfect expression of the nature and character of God.

That much is common to the way every culture understands a word. The author and first readers of the fourth gospel would have understood much more by designating Jesus as the Word. In Jewish thought a word was a powerful and effective thing. Words accomplished things. Genesis 1 describes God as creating simply by means of a word. To say a blessing was to create a blessing. Likewise, to pronounce a curse was to actually bring evil upon the cursed one. In Genesis 27:30-40 when Esau asked his father, Isaac, to retract the blessing given to Jacob Isaac refused - the blessing had already been spoken and was effective - it could not be retracted. To call Jesus the “word” was to attribute to him the ability to make things happen.

Intertestamental Judaism and especially the Targums (paraphrases of the Old Testament from the Hebrew language into the Aramaic language) used the expression “word of God” as a circumlocution for the name of God. Because of their extreme reverence for the name of God they avoided pronouncing it and would use substitutions instead such as “heaven” or “the word of God.” This meant that the phrase, “Word of God,” did not mean Scripture for the Jews of Jesus’ time as it does for us. Rather, it was a reference to God himself.

Another clue to the meaning of the word logos in John’s prologue comes from the Wisdom literature of the Old Testament (Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes) and the Wisdom literature of the intertestamental period (Ecclesiasticus and Wisdom of Solomon especially). This Wisdom literature often personified wisdom. Wisdom was spoken of as a person who was present with God in creation, providing life and light for the world. The apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus even describes Wisdom as being created before all things (created before creation). Wisdom was seen as almost eternally pre-existent with God. The intertestamental book, The Wisdom of Solomon, actually identified the Wisdom of God and the Word of God (Wisdom of Solomon 9:1-2). Thus, for Jews in the time of John, the phrase, “Word of God,” would have pointed to the personified Wisdom of God who was eternally co-existent with God and God’s active co-worker in Creation. Even though the Jews were ferociously monotheistic “the Word of God” spoke to them of a person who was with God and almost was God.

The logos also was a word that would communicate very profound concepts to the Greek world. Greek philosophy had come to use logos for some profound ideas. Logos meant more than just single words; it also referred to Reason and to the principle of order that held the Universe together. In some ways the Logos was the mind of God that controlled the totality of the world. It was logos that made the world orderly rather than chaotic. Further, Logos should control individual persons. The Reason of the Universe should enable the individual to reasonably decide between right and wrong. Philo of Alexandria, writing at the very time of Jesus, described Logos as the tiller with which God, the Pilot of the Universe, steers all things. In that sense the “Word” was an intermediary by which God related to the world and worked in it.

Thus both the Greek and Jewish patterns of thought attributed profound significance to the “Word.” In both the Word was associated with God in the creation or maintenance of the world. In both the Word was almost a substitute expression for God Himself. In Greek thought the Word related God and the world to the individual. We can draw further conclusions about the way logos would have communicated in the first century world. Perhaps no other concept could have been chosen by the gospel writer to so broadly express the awesome significance of Jesus.

Verse 1 describes the Word in three ways. The existence of the Word at the beginning is affirmed. The relationship of the Word to God is described. Finally, the actual character or nature of the Word is declared. The first affirmation is of the existence of the Word in the beginning. By doing this the gospel echoes almost exactly the opening words of Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God . . . .” Thus Jesus is paced at God’s side as far back in time as the Bible goes. The next phrase, however, refines the relationship between Jesus and God. “The Word was with God” does not pick up a significant implication of the Greek text. It might be better translated, “The Word was face to face with God.” The relationship of Jesus and God was more than side-by-side; it was a face to face relationship indicating far more intimacy than that of simply being co-workers. This prepares for the final phrase, “The Word was God.”

The affirmation that Jesus is God is not a startling or difficult thought for present day Christians. It may not have been for John’s readers, but it was difficult for many first century Christians of Jewish heritage. Every Jew began every morning with these words in prayer, “Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God is one.” To claim that Jesus was God would be a very difficult idea for Jews to assimilate. Perhaps the point that we should understand is not just that Jesus was (and is) God, but that when Jesus is seen, God is seen. The Logos provides us access and understanding into the very nature of God.

That does not mean that the Logos exhausts the being of God. John does not say God was the Logos. We struggle with the mystery of this verse. Jesus is said both to be with God and to be God. That speaks of Jesus being distinguishable and yet identical with God. Our minds cannot hold the ultimate logic of both statements together. We believe, but there is a limit to our understanding. John could have easily said as Paul did in Ephesians 5:32, “This is a great mystery.”

Verses 2 and 3 return to the eternal existence of the Logos with God and the role of the “Word” in creation. “And apart from Him not even one thing was made.” This emphasis on Christ as creator reflects an important insight from Jewish thought. To affirm that nothing was made apart from Christ is to affirm that His imprint is stamped on all creation. All creation owes a certain accountability to the Creator. As modern science pursues the mystery of life in physical and chemical terms, the Bible-believing Christian cannot evade the meaning of John 1:2-3. We are responsible for the life we live to Christ as our Creator. The meaning of our life will never be embraced by DNA studies. The imprint of Christ on our neighbor and our universe will always be a part of our pursuit of understanding. The creation can never be considered evil from a Christian standpoint, but we must be the people most concerned that evil does not corrupt it.

Verse 4 introduces the terms, “life” and “light,” in relation to Jesus. Life was in the logos. The energy and vitality, the creativity and feeling that we call life has its source in Christ. If life has its existence in the logos then if there is no logos there is no life. John wants to make Christ absolutely the essence and meaning of life. No Christ - no life. We are too tempted to spiritualize this truth. No Christ - no spiritual life. For John the difference between life and mere existence is Christ. If we agree with John the way we spend our time and money, the things we think important and funny, and commitments of our energy and interest will all be changed. We have let the world define life for us too long. Life is in Christ.

Verse 4 goes on to declare that this Life was also the light of mankind. Verse 5 declares that Jesus is involved in a great struggle against darkness. Here is an example of John’s black and white thinking that we may not be able to appreciate like the people of the first century did. The flick of a light switch has made light so easy for us that most of us do not really understand darkness. We do not have to deal with its terror, its unknown character, its evil-cloaking nature.

The people of the first century understood the fearfulness, the insecurity, the lurking of evil that went with darkness. Darkness was a metaphor that spoke very realistically to them of the way sin worked. In contrast light dispelled darkness; light overcame darkness; light exposed and defeated sin. And John tells us that Jesus was that light. Darkness struggled to overpower the light, to hold it down, to extinguish it, but the darkness failed. The Greek text notes that the Light we know as Jesus continuously shines and the darkness cannot knock it out.

Domnul sa va binecuvanteze!!
†

Fii recunoascator!

Fii recunoascator!!

De ce ?
Pentru ca tot ce ai, ai de la Dumnezeu, .. tot ceea ce privesti ca fiind de la sine,orice lucru cat de mic sau cat de mare .. este de la Dumnezeu, si este un dar pe care il reprimesti in fiecare zi .. fii recunoscator .. va veni ziua in care nu il vei mai avea …

Pentru ce?
Pentru darul unei noi zile, pt vedere, auz, miros, pt florile pe langa care treci,pt bataia inimii, pentru puterea de a iubi, de a cunoaste ceea ce este corect, drept, pentru oamenii din jurul tau .. buni sau rai, pentru puterea de a visa, de a spera .. pentru sansa de mai bine, pentru ca El este acolo pentru tine, pentru ca are rabdare cu tine … pentru greutatile vietii tale care te cresc, pentru ca numai in Dumnezeu ai un viitor si o nadejde!

ah .. si inca ceva …
Nu te plange ca nu primesti tot ceea ce iti doresti .. bucura-te ca nu primesti ce meriti! :) .. nici unul din noi nu meritam toate lucrurile bune pe care le avem in viata noastra … sa fim recunoascatori pentru ele,sa ne bucuram de ele, si sa ne rugam Domnului pentru toate celelalte … :) ..

El se ingrijeste de toate nevoile noastre .. si uneori chiar de mofturile noastre .. !

Inca un motiv pentru care sa fim recunoascatori este faptul ca nu ne da tot ceea ce ne dorim .. altfel ar fi vai de noi .. :) … caci nu tot ceea ce ne dorim ne face bine :) .. exact ca un copil care isi doreste muulte multe acadele .. dar parintii ii spun NU, desi ar putea sa i le dea .. dar prefera sa nu ii dea!! Si asa cum copilul nu stie si nu vrea sa inteleaga ca prea multe acadele ii fac rau .. asa suntem si noi uneori .. vrem multe, dar nu tot ce vrem ne face bine! Bine ca Domnul discerne cand noi nu discernem :)

Fii recunoascator .. ai atatea motive!

Super suuper!! Maret Dumnezeu!!

Am fost azi la unul dintre cele reusite festivaluri crestine la care am fost vreodata!!! Mesaj sanatos, muzica de calitate , muuuulta muuulta lume … nu-mi venea sa cred .. ma uitam in stanga .. nu vedeam unde se termina oamenii , ma uitam in dreapta … tot asa, ma uitam in spate .. nici o sansa !!!

Cat de minunat e sa vezi atatia oameni adunati la un loc pentru slava lui Dumnezeu !!!

Dumnezeu a lucrat tare mult azi, in viata multor oameni !! .. Veniti si voi .. cautati-L pe Dumnezeu din toata inima .. si El nu va intarzia sa vi se arate !!

Mai este si maine(1 iunie - duminica) acest festival .. d-abiaaa astept sa ma duc !!! Hai si tu !!

Este in parcul Izvor, incepand de la ora 18:00 .. intrare libera !!

Fiti cu totii binecuvantati si fie ca Domnul sa va calauzeasca spre dragostea Lui minunata!!

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