Our 'Job' 

 

We, Christians are to be His witnesses. Our 'job' is to be the invisible reign of Jesus visible. The world is shrouded in darkness. Nothing is visible in the dark. No wonder then we've are called to be the light of the world. Every single one has a mission. We have all been sent to bear witness to Light. That means simply that we are all missionaries.

My thanks to R.C. Sproul for this exhortation to act.

From Digital Anvil.

Pressure Of Too Much Money

A survey by the Private Wealth Network revealed that the vast majority of Australia’s wealthy want to conceal their true wealth from family and friends.

A spokesperson from one of the forty-four wealthy families surveyed commented:

“It makes it a hell of a lot harder to raise your kids with a decent attitude and to instill my child with a sense of purpose and mission.”

Most of us only dream of being crazy wealthy and think that would solve all our problems. Yet this survey shows that you simply migrate to a different set of challenges.

This is why Paul wrote to the Philippians that he had learned to be content in every circumstance, whether living in plenty or in need (Philippians 4:12).

Joy is beyond our financial resources.

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I'm grateful to Karl Faase.

( from Digital Anvil )

 On Purpose:

 

 

Here is a linked article for connecting with an overall goal of God and of others, I thought you might be interested  in ...where can you and I find our purpose,our primary reason for being here on this planet? Especially in the tug and push of everyday life.

Click or tap on link below

link On Purpose.

(from Digital Anvil with respect to the website: Glorify.com.)

I recommend following the above link to determine more of that universally sought- after supra -power: Purpose.

As you are aware the 3 primary pillars of human life are belonging,meaning and purpose. 

Purpose is the shorter, slimmer but stronger sister  walking with her two sisters, Meaning and Belonging along a dusty, winding path. In fact the two elder but more robust sisters are being dragged by Purpose uphill toward their common  destination,  the mountain range of the familiar fillial peak: Gennema.

By Digital Anvil.

 The Heinous Ideology:

Nazi ideology held that a superior race was entitled to rule over and eliminate others, a claim so total it displaced God a-n-d decided whose life was worth living. 

This heinous ideology is duplicated  and has mutated in some countries today.  Merged and mutated--i believe--in others, but just as dangerous.

 

 

The Jewish concept of chosenness is the inversion of that idea: not entitlement, but obligation to live by the Ten Commandments and to model it for others. (Even when the practice of it fails and doesn't match the ideal )

Confusing the two cases is not a small error; it is the exact error the Holocaust comparison depends on. This is not about superiority but about responsibility, toward your own first and once they are secure, toward the rest of the world.

 Jews fleeing extermination in the 1930s and '40s found the world's doors closed. The 1938 Évian Conference stands as the enduring symbol of that abandonment, when dozens of nations met and almost none agreed to take in Jewish refugees. Palestinians today have the sustained backing of the UN, the Arab League, the OIC, and hundreds of millions of sympathisers worldwide.

 

A friendless minority marked for extermination is not the same thing as a national movement with global patronage, and conflating the two erases what made the Jewish catastrophe so singular.

Instead of gaslighting Israelis, let's ask ourselves: who urgently needs to learn the lessons of the Holocaust?

 

 My thanks to an Anonymous Contributor.

 

(editing and Final Form by Digital Anvil) 

 

 

When you and I realise that the GOD of the Bible loves the Jews a-n-d the rest of the World, then the domain becomes a true home for Man and Woman. 

 

 Fool's Talk ?

 

 

 In strong contrast to secularism, the Christian view is both this-worldly and other-worldly. It has a healthy appreciation of this world, but sees it always within an equally strong appreciation of another world that throws this present world into a different light, redeeming its worst features and confirming forever its highlights. And in strong contrast to the Eastern views, the Christian view has a solid appreciation of the created reality that we know and that we may trust—even though there is another world that is needed to make this world what it should be.

Os Guinness, Fool’s Talk:

 

 

(from Digital Anvil)

 The Paradox of Humanity:

 

 Almost all the world’s greatest philosophers and poets have faced up to the paradox and incongruities that confront us when we consider ourselves and our humanity.

 

 

" From Psalm 8 to Shakespeare’s great soliloquy in Hamlet, many of the world’s most beautiful and profound reflections have focused on the paradox of man and woman.

 As humanity, we humans are so small and so great, so strong and so weak. We rise so high and we sink so low. We are body and we are spirit. We are mortal and we are immortal. We have a grandeur and we have a pathos. Sometimes our little lives seem like a momentary fleck on the heaving ocean, yet we are all always the center of our own universe while we live, and together as humanity we are the most powerful and influential creatures in the whole kingdom.

 We can see things as they are; we also know the way things ought to be, and sometimes the difference makes us laugh and sometimes it makes us cry. 

 

What other beings in the universe are like us in these ways? What explains this paradox and these incongruities, and even more, how can we hope to reconcile them in a way that makes life meaningful?

Unquestionably, the current vogue in thinking is to duck the incongruity by stressing only one side—in the case of the new atheists, reducing reality to what can be handled by reason and science, and denying everything else that does not fit this reductionism.
 Not surprisingly, Dawkins and his naturalistic cohorts have put such a stress on the naturalness and smallness of humanity that they now routinely deny aspects of our humanity that were once considered part of human greatness—human dignity and freedom being the latest to be assigned to the dustbin as “illusions.”

Os Guinness, the Author of  Fool’s Talk:

 

 

(Edited and Final Form by Digital Anvil ) 

 

 Science vs Other Elements:

 

It should be noted that the assumption of science of being the source of the all -conquering advance of humanity is  called "scientism." While this belief has some truth,it relegates other belief systems to naught. 

That is manifestly false.

As always other systems are necessary and mindful of the spiritual, psychological,relational,economic and social aspects of  life from the individual up to the whole world.

Although science may analyse the composition of a birthday cake and technology aid in its duplication, it can not discern its meaning, and purpose.

The biblical account, however, goes further than science will allow, by claiming that while every living thing has God’s breath of life in it, humans alone bear his image and thus the special responsibility of representing God to everything else. This is the genesis of Shakespearian odes to humankind being the “paragon of animals” or, alternatively, claims of “species arrogance” that reserve for humanity alone unique perks and privileges.

On this point, science — as is said of God in biblical idiom — both gives and takes away. The evolutionary account of our origins grants us a peek into our own beginnings but it’s one that winds up demoting human life, if attributed solely to blind, natural forces. In that case, man and woman, made in God’s image, are no longer the pinnacle of creation, as in the biblical account. Instead, we’re unlikely, upright apes left to create our own meaning in a meaningless universe, left to wrestle with the difficulty of reconciling what we know to be true and all that we feel about that truth.

Man and Woman cannot live by science alone.

 

But by every human who loves, wisely acts and selflessly gives of themselves to other humans.

Thanks also to an unknown contributor.

( edited and re-worked by Digital Anvil. Final form by D. A.)