Hoekom moet ek en jy aandag gee aan ons Geestelike lewe, en veral om te groei?
A short interview with Rick Warren, "Purpose Driven Life" author and pastor of Saddleback Church in California. Rick said:
People ask me, what is the purpose of life....? In a nutshell......., life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven. I may live 60 to 100 years on earth , but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity. We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense. Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just comming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one.
God is more interested in your caracter than your comfort: God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy. We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal of life is to grow character, in Christ likeness.
Groei beteken dus ook dat ek met my verlede moet breek en genesing in my emosionele menswees moet ervaar.
God het reeds Sy deel gedoen. Ons deel is om ons probleme te herken en ons aandeel te aanvaar en te streef na vergifnis en bevryding. Jou probleem is daar om jou te help groei en onthou dit help ook dat ek my doel ('purpose') meer effektief kan bereik.
Groei beteken dat ek nader aan God kom, meer vir mense kan beteken en dus ook die lewe in volheid kan geniet.
Met erkenning en dank aan Manie Delport
2 comments:
Breek met die verlede is n lang moeilik pad.
Gunther
Gunther,
Dit is inderdaad 'n lang pad. Hou net vas aan die Here en Hy sal jou die krag gee om daardeur te kom
Sterkte ek bid vir jou.
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