How We Really Know Those Who Don't Really Know

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Just a thought. . .


I've been thinking about what it means to know and if I'm not sure about a number of things, I'm sure of this: to know is to be able to help somone to know too.


Now I'm not playing with words but seriously I have had my share of teachers who appear before the class and flaunt their knowledge and experiences. Instead of making the theories and ideas easier so that the students can learn, they bring forward a more bigger  and more complex version so we can be awed. In the end I never learn a thing or rather the only thing I get to learn is how 'good' they are.We must be reminded that the knowledge we really have isn't the one that is flaunted, the knowledge we really have is that which is deep seated in us working it self out as wisdom for others to see in our lives.


The test that we really know is if we are able to explain a particular concept to someone who hasn't heard of it in such a simple way that they understand. That's the point.


I am a christian, and there's always this temptation to make the simple truth of what Jesus has done for every human more complex to those who haven't heard a thing about it . These days I'm learning to ask myself  "Do you really know?"


Cause When I can't make the complex theologies I hear on the pulpit on Sundays understandable to my colleauges on monday. . . I don't really know


When I can't make people around me see how Faith is relevant to the daily activities of life . . .  I don't really know.


When I hide behind big words and spiritual cliches to make it look to others that yes I too make use of a good bible dictionary and concordance. . . I don't really know


This is a call for everyone of us to resist the temptation to hide behind big words and theologies just as a bad professor hides behind vague theorems and formulas. The test that we really know is that we are able to help another know that which we say we know. In what subtle ways have you been hiding? Do you really Know?

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Posture of Surrender

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I have prayed a thousand times not assuming the posture of surrender.

I’m standing tall and decreeing

A picture comes to mind; Hitler and his comrades.

He issues his command with a stern face; whether they like it or not, they go after their general’s bidding.

I am Hitler sometimes

And  God? I don’t know what I’ve made of Him

Like Jack, I put him in a box

Like Aladdin, I rub my genie in the bottle

But He’s no genie, I better start realizing that

When we come to pray, what have we come to do?

To bow before God or to make God bow before us?

I’m reminded this morn; as I curl up in my place of worship of one truth

Sometimes Hitler’s do have their way but the end isn’t something our world admires.

I don’t want to be known as a God follower by the world and still commanding God in my closet.

I will learn

I will learn how to come boldly and still bowing

Surrendering and still possessing dominion in the places required of me

‘God is a Father’

‘God is a lover’

‘God is a friend’

‘God is a security’

Many things about the Divine comes to mind in this holy position as I put my gaze on his wounded son also planning to shift the scene to him rising gloriously on the third day.

But I’ve learned my lesson from being a commander.  I will hold on to these truths of him and still be ready to move up when I hear his voice calling in the quietness of a sour morning

“Come up yonder my liebling* to see a new part of me you never knew”

It’s the posture of surrender we know these things

It’s in the posture of surrender we realize God isn’t a boring genie

It’s in the posture of surrender we learn what true prayer is about

And if we learn well, we will be long remembered long after Hitler is forgotten.

*Liebling - German for dear one or little one

Question of The Day: When you hear the word prayer what exactly comes to your mind? What practical ways can we remind ourselves of what prayer really is? How can we surrender in the place of prayer and still possess the dominion ascribed to us as Christians? I would love to hear from you :)

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If this blessed you, check out this post I wrote some months back on the same subject

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11-11-11

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“Tomorrow is 11-11-11” a friend on facebook updated last night. “Make it memorable. This happened last 100 years ago in 1911”

So what to do with a year that happens once in a hundred years? The very thought could just make you break down, I mean you not gonna see this again (at least if you twenty something and aren’t praying the prayers of Methuselah . . . he he he). Now someone please tell what’s memorable about breaking down on a day you have just once in 100 years? Nothing, absolutely nothing!

Today is precious. Following my friend’s advice I want to make it memorable. I want to laugh till it hurts, freeze the moments and hold hands with friends. I want to look back and smile. But isn’t every day meant to be like that? Isn’t everyday one in a hundred years? Oh sorry strike that out. Isn’t everyday once in a lifetime? No day actually repeats itself, come to think of it. Every day is a new gift. 

This is the day that the Lord has MADE . . . . *

The worse thing we can do with days is to assume that since they all have 24 hours we can categorize them as the same. Some dates would repeat itself, but no day would EVER repeat itself.

This is the day that the Lord has made and I will rejoice and be glad in it. *

Our job: we have to and must find the joy in each day cause that’s the gift. We have to rejoice. Our Job is our joy!

Did you have a bad day today? Or maybe your yesterdays keep repeating itself. Step out today and make it memorable. It’s 11-11-11 anyway and we have been encouraged to make it memorable cause it occurs once in 100 years. But you could make it memorable by learning to heart today that no day actually repeats itself and everyday is a GIFT!

I dare you to find the Joy in each day henceforth

Do you think everyday has something new, unique and never seen to offer? I would love to read your comments

About The Photo - I just joined Pinterest and woah! so much amazing photos! I found the one above and it simply pierced my heart reminding me that we can always  choose to have a good day even if things aren't going our way :)

P.S. - Many Thanks to Dami O. for sitting over this post with me, re-reading and telling me where my words stunk and it was a makeover, believe me it was. You rock brother :)

* Psalms 118:24

The Danger We Seek When We Ignore The Small Things

I saw the picture above some days back and I was wowed at the catastrophe a comma could avert. Most times we are told in our world the big things make the heads turn but we are always not reminded that it's the small things that keeps the heads in place. Some little things people neglect end up costing them a lot. For example, one that readily comes to mind is dilligently taking care of our bodies and our minds so we don't end up on the doctor's bed.

What little things are you neglecting today? Have you taken time to look beyond now to see what it might cost you? Has making a little or small insignificant decision ever 'saved your life' before? I would love to hear from you  and do have a great week ahead :)

Dear Artist, One Is A Seed

 

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You've got to love what you've got

We can't multiply, produce or re-create if we do not love what's in our hands

Five talents for he that has got it

Two for he that has been given it

And you who's got one never try burying it in anger

When we diligently love the little in our hands, our eyes open up to the seed of the plenty that has been placed in it

Are you a creator, artist or writer afraid to offer that you've been given?

You think it really doesn't matter so you hide it somewhere far deep down in your heart from the world and you

What's been given to you matters, if it didn't it wouldn't have been given

We must learn to appreciate the seed in our hands dilligently

No matter how small, no matter how 'negligible'

In doing that we are opening up to others the harvest God has given us to share

Little will be much if you appear daily in the sowing season

Much will be plenty if you keep showing up in and out of seasons

Little will be reduced to nothing if you wait for a fruit before you plant a seed

There's a promise of much in every little

But we must remember

One is a seed

Question of the day: What lures people to bury or hide their giftings and talents? Have you ever felt any of these pressures in your own unique expression? I would love to read your comments :)

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