Showing posts with label personal piety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label personal piety. Show all posts

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Stranded on the Desert Island

Helen Island, Helen Reef, Palau. Original desc... Biblical Joke and Humor!After the storm the young man's boat was nearly torn to shreds. The sail was ripped, compass and GPS gone, and he was adrift at sea. Days passed. Finally arriving at a deserted island he built a signal fire to light when a ship would appear on the horizon. Completely alone, weeks passed. Then months; and years. Finally he spied a vessel and remembered that signal fire he built so long ago. To his delight the ship turned to rescue him from his isolation!

On the dingy pulling away from shore the captain of the ship looked back at the isolated castaway's "community" he had built over the years. There were three structures.

"Did you build those?" the Captain asked.

"Yes, that was my village," the man answered.

"What is that first structure over there," the Captain inquired.

"That was where I lived; that was my house," the man explained.

The Captain went on. "And what is that structure there?"

"That is my church," the man explained.

The Captain was deeply struck by the man's sincere piety. Even isolated on a deserted island, the man built a church to worship the Lord. Through his tearing eyes he asked about the third structure.

"And that building there, what was that," the Captain asked.

The man quickly answered, "Oh, that is where I use to go to church."
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Saturday, November 5, 2011

God Loves You like a Mother Lovers Her Child

Into the intense business meeting walks an uninvited mother carrying her infant child. Instantly the meeting stops, the CEO, CFO, COO, president, directors, managers all admire the baby. For the moment, the child is the center of attention, not because of h/er business acumen, not because of its physical or athletic ability, not because of any degree or honor. All the admiration comes simply because h/er is a baby.

We later get it backwards. Instead of admiring and respecting others for being people, we only honor them by their accomplishments. Only if we succeed at sports, academics, business, popularity, or making money do we gain respect. If most of us walked uninvited into the business meeting we would be quickly escorted out, without accolades!

God sees us as children; infants to be admired. It is not because of our accomplishments that He loves us, only from being a child. He values us for our being, not for our doing. Quit trying to impress Him. He already loves you. Jesus invites us, "Come unto me all who are weary and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11).