DifferentBrains

Some words of encouragement from the last chapter of
“Steps to Christ for a sanctified life”

Many who are sincerely seeking for holiness of heart and
purity of life seem perplexed and discouraged. They are
constantly looking to themselves, and lamenting their lack of
faith; and because they have no faith, they feel that they cannot
claim the blessing of God. These persons mistake feeling for
faith. They look above the simplicity of true faith, and thus bring
great darkness upon their souls. They should turn the mind
from self, to dwell upon the mercy and goodness of God and to
recount His promises, and then simply believe that He will fulfill
His word. We are not to trust in our faith, but in the promises of
God. When we repent of our past transgressions of His law, and
resolve to render obedience in the future, we should believe that
God for Christ’s sake accepts us, and forgives our sins.
Darkness and discouragement will sometimes come upon
the soul and threaten to overwhelm us, but we should not cast
away our confidence. We must keep the eye fixed on Jesus, feel-
ing or no feeling. We should seek to faithfully perform every
known duty, and then calmly rest in the promises of God.

Shabbat shalom!

by ralfern

I’ve got a noticeable colour difference between my arm and my hands, after my working gloves. And after my shorts. Tihi.. But that was actually not what i was going to blog about today. On my personal blog last week i wrote about being lonley the day after th left me for europe. I spent all evening walking in sircles, and ended up being quite lonely actually. But ever since i have enjoyed being alone very much. Nobody is complaining about my taste in music, and i even leave the music on when i go to bed. I can go to bed whenever i want, and if there’s anything at all i dislike even a little, i know that i’m the only one to blame. And it feels wonderful. When i visited eldar at skøyen, i got a flashback from how it was to live there, and i miss it! It’s nice not answering to anyone but oneself. So to those of you who might feel a bit lonley and sad you dont have a spouse, i will give this advice to enjoy it while you can! just as i have done theese two weeks.:)

Only a link today, to amazingfacts youtube channel.

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/amazingfacts
http://www.amazingfacts.org

Happy Sabbath!

Today, i saw a dead person burning. It had been burning for about half an hour. Did you know they cremate them with their coffins? People buy expesive coffins for their dead ones, and then they burn them! I thought they just threw them in the way they were.. I saw the remains too. Some of the bones had not burned up all the way, so they crush those afterwards. The person i saw have had a metal plate in his or her hip. It was lying among the ashes.

I spent the morning drilling holes for urnes. Put one down too, one who didn’t have any family to be there when we did. So we just threw it in, covered it and left. Good morning.It was raining today! From the moment we started to the moment we finnished. no more either, ironically. So my boss had set two of the girls making waffles to make up for the bad weather. I like my boss. he’s the most pleasant man you’ll ever meet. Chubby, with worn out jeans, always smiling, always a pleasant comment or joke. :)

Now i’m going to black out until next workday. feel free to visit. I am capabul of holding a conversation, but to exhausted to leave the couch. Tradittion of what to do with dead people indeed is strange.

Joh 17:14  I have given them Your Word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Joh 17:15  I do not pray for You to take them out of the world, but for You to keep them from the evil.
Joh 17:16  They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Joh 17:17  Sanctify them through Your truth. Your Word is truth.
Joh 17:18  As You have sent Me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.

Are you of the world, or does the world hate you?

All to often we tend to live of the world, and not only in it. Doing worldly things have no eternal value, and intellectually, we know that. But far to often we end up living like the world. Once in a while we have to take a look in the mirror, to see how we’re spending our time and resources.

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
Rom 12:2  And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

Are you letting God transform you?

Why is it that it’s possible to be a “Christian” without daily spending time with God? Why are we able to spend hours on end reading worldly books, watching worldly TV, or the cyberspace, but rarely have time to open the Bible? How can we spend hours on the world, and only a few minutes on our Lord and Saviour?

Rev 3:15  I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would that you were cold or hot.
Rev 3:16  So because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

This is harsh, but please, do NOT miss the last part of this chapter.

Rev 3:17  Because you say, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,
Rev 3:18  I counsel you to buy from Me gold purified by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be clothed, and so that the shame of your nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.
Rev 3:19  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; therefore be zealous and repent.
Rev 3:20  Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him and he with Me.
Rev 3:21  To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame and have sat down with My Father in His throne.
Rev 3:22  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Lets hear, lets use our ears!

Oh, dear God. I come before you now, asking for forgiveness. I spend far to much time on the world, jet find so little time for you. Please forgive me, and encourage me to set aside more time for you. God, i know, intellectually that spending time with you, is far more entertaining and joyful, than any worldly activity. But my heart is deceitful, I don’t know it. Come live in my life, take charge, and guide. In Jesus name, AMEN

Happy Sabbath!

Jer 17:9  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

I would like to share a simple story of how true and real this is.

One day, as I were making dinner, I had an awakening experience. In our kitchen we normally have two plants in the window frame.  Both of witch are used for food. This particular time i noticed that someone had helped themselves to my plant. I started thinking to myself, of how rude an act that was, stealing my plant, and without even asking. I partly came to my senses and shaked the somewhat hateful though of. And then it all of a sudden hit me.What I was doing. Don’t miss this:

At the very same time. During this whole experience, I was standing over the other plant, that was NOT mine, helping myself to huge quantities of someone else’s plant, for usage in my food, whilst simultaneously judging someone else for doing something that I was in the very act of doing myself!

It hit me hard. Real hard! One thing would be if I had done it earlier that day, and forgot about my actions. That would be somewhat “excusable”. But there I were, doing the very same act as i was judging. How deceitful and wicked, even desperately wicked my heart is!

Who can know it?

Luckily someone can! God knows everything about you. Now, some might think that’s scary, but I sure don’t! If God knows my heart, he can show me my heart, and if I let him, he can change it. If this plant experience had been introduced to me earlier, i’m not so sure i would have seen my deceitfulness.  Lately I’ve learned a lot about how salvation and gaining victory over sin really works. How to surrender to Christ, and give him my life’s steering wheel. I wrote some about that, in the post FNB, I changed. This plant experience is only one of many, “wow”, “aha”, “ops”, and “help me God”, I’ve experienced lately. And i thank God for waking me up, and starting to show me part of my deceitful heart, so i can surrender, and let Him live in me.

Jer 17:10  I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Mat 6:8  Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

Don’t let your heart get to you, invite Christ to fill it, and fill it completely, today, and continually.

God Bless, and Happy Sabbath!

Kvise-krise :

En diger kvise
Det er krise
Nesten bedre å måtte fise
Jeg skal vise,
ikke spise,
deg lille kvise
Hva jeg gjør med slik en krise
Nå skal jeg skvise
deg, lille kvise

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