Journey to God in Small Steps

Our passage for reading is in Mark 12:28-31 about the two greatest commandments. It says: " One of the teachers of the law  came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,”  answered Jesus,  “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.   Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength .’ The second is this: ‘ Love your neighbor as yourself .’ There is no commandment greater than these.” In another account in Matthew 22:34-40: " Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees,  the Pharisees got together.   One of them, an expert in the law,  tested him with this question:   “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied:  “‘ Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and wi...

Photo Credit: www.balloonlady.co.uk One morning God impressed to me a picture of Goofy, the character from Disney who's friends with Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, holding many colorful balloons in his hand. Then, as if to contrast the difference, my eyes instinctively went to a portion of the picture where the balloons, instead of held, are released and soaring up in the sky. Sometimes letting go seems that way. Balloons are beautiful you want to keep them, in all colors if you wish. But then they become more wonderful and at times breathtaking when they just float up in the air, as high as balloons can fly the way they were designed to do. They bring a noticeable color that is in contrast to the sky which tends to remain in hues of blue, white, orange, or purple sometimes, which I just happened to witness last month. Some things or people in our lives perhaps God is asking us to release - a loved one, property, sin, a child, or dreams. These things or people become more b...

Framework:  Discipleship Class, 2012 Photo Credits:  Truth, http://www.mynewnormals.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/truthU.png Cross, http://www.stockopedia.com/ Victory, http://www.beacontn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/victory.jpg

Last night, I felt God's smile and joy as sons and daughters have come home. God is so happy and if God is happy, I am thankful. Nevertheless, we have to address a need of people, which is to recover and heal from oppression, people would call these days as "bullying." Bullying indeed is not a light issue. I had been bullied in different parts of my life before, by people I knew and people I did not know so much. I repressed a lot of my pain and it resulted in depression and some of my negative habits that I turn to make sure I don't get bullied again. I have projected my "bullies" on unknown people and that's when I knew the trauma has been repressed. While I have come to terms with my own pain about it, I use my experience to comfort others who have been through more than I had. The personal justice I got from God, without hurting my offender but letting God bring out the truth of the matter as He healed me, made me feel secure in God. ...

I have been thinking about fulfilling our purpose for our workplaces lately. Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life book had really made a mark on me. I believe deep down we have that hunger to know that we are making a difference, that we matter, and that the world is better off because we were in it. When I read that book 8 years ago, little did I know that this would be what I would do one day. I had to discover it a little at a time. While our perceived purposes may be different, the sense of purpose gives much life to our work. I have heard of a presentation lately where the executive's main idea was to make the workplace a fulfilling environment for his employees. That sounds like a good purpose. It might sound simple but when we're in the right place where God wants us to serve, with the talents that He has given us and we're doing each one well, applying His Word to work as if we're working unto the Lord, and not men, we are already fulfilling part of God...