There was a young student who came to his teacher and asked,“Teacher,where I can find God”?The teacher answered,“you will never find God”. And then, the student think and replied, “I will search and find God. I should know if He is True.” Time passed by and the student grown up.
One day, He then again come to his teacher. The teacher was really surprised with the student. His look was so thin, is youthfulness apparently been took offand seems been into long travel. The teacher asked the student, “What happen to you, what did you do to your life?” The student didn’t answered his teacher insteadhe said,“Teacher, I have something to tell you. You are right, after years of searching where is God, I didnt found Him but I found my father. And the student tell his story:
“One day, I approached and talked to my father whom for so many years we didn’t communicate. And then he said “What do you want Son”?That is the first time I told, “father, I love you and I want you to know that I have a cancer and soon will die. After what I told, My father, hugged me. “
Reflection:
Some point in our life we keep searching if God do really exist. And that is the time we always asked everytime we had problems, worries, troubles.... trials. We never know time passed and still looking for proof . . . his existence.This story may be not exactly the same context of our life. But God plan for us is to have fullness of life.We only live once in this earth may be our age now is in 15s, 20s, 30s, 40s, or 50s its our choice how to makes our life with God. When we will accept and believe that there is God, if we are already at age of 80s?
Matthew 25:14-30
14 ”Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his property to them. 15 To one he gave five talents of money, to another two talents, and to another one talent, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. 16 The man who had received the five talents went at once and put his money to work and gained five more. 17 So also, the one with the two talents gained two more. 18 But the man who had received the one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money. 19 ”After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them. 20 The man who had received the five talents brought the other five. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.’ 21 ”His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’ 22 ”The man with the two talents also came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with two talents; see, I have gained two more.’ 23 ”His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things.Come and share your master’s happiness!’ 24 ”Then the man who had received the one talent came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’ 26 ”His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? 27Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest. 28 ” ‘Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. 29 For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 30 And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
I would like to share with you passages that I got from our servant leader, Bro. Mike Belarde during our church service last Saturday.
About the calling in His Kingship:
1. Man created shielded by God’s Glory.
Genesis 3:17-19
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat of it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”
2. Plan of God to Man is to live forever
Genesis 1:26-30
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27 So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
3. If God plan something, it will come to pass.
Jeremiah 29:11-14
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you,” declares the LORD, “and will bring you back from captivity.[a] I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the LORD, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”
4. God sent his only Son, Jesus for Man to give life fullness .
John 10:10
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in im shall not perish but have eternal life.
5. God call Man to save them from sin.
Isiah 6:418 “Come now, let us settle the matter,”
says the LORD.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.
says the LORD.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.
6. Through Jesus, He entrusted again his power according to your capacity
7. God set time for salvation to Praise Him.
Isiah 6:4
4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.