God is God

Who are these people that make it their mission to defend God? How arrogant do you have to be to think you can stand up and defend a God, that not only has an intimate knowledge of who He is, but also of who ever you are trying to convince that god is real. God is working in a person's heart, with inside knowledge of what makes that person tick, He knows exactly which part of Him will find a accord in this person's heart. He has all the advantage. Yet, some people thinks that they can fight with people, win them over with arguments over dogma and persuade the unbeliever to follow a god, that they themselves clearly has a very limited knowledge about. That is not servant hood, but blatant arrogance.

So you have a mandate to go to all the world, tell the good news, and make disciples. How is it good news to tell people only about impending hell, people who's hearts may not have been prepared for the message of Christ. People will not be able to accept this God that you are talking about, mainly because of your inability to live the Christ life. People who will once they have encountered you, will be a 1000 times harder to convince of the goodness of God, simply because you took your mandate, and only read the part that put you in a position of power. Make disciples. OK, so you want to disciple people? Who's disciples? Jesus? Show me the way by showing me your love. Show the way by showing you humility, show the way by showing your obedience. Show the way by taking care of the orphans and the widows. Show the way accepting people like Christ did, without reservations. Show the way by not counting up sins, show the way by trusting God, not only for yourself, but also for those that you so forcefully are trying to convince that God is indeed God. Show the way by telling the good news to those who's hearts have been prepared in love by God himself. Echoing the message that your actions and your love, and your God have already established in their hearts. You can only agree with God, you have no authority of your own. You are everything that you are, because God is who He is. You have a position of servant in relation to God. Never forget that He Is God.

Great ride in Groenkloof

Had a great ride in Groenkloof today. Wimpie and Brood joined me. I was suppose to loosen up the legs for tomorrow's ride, but I soon realized that there was not much to give tomorrow. Then in the 2nd lap of Groenkloof, I found out that my rear disc pads are finish. No stopping! No racing!

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Long day

It’s been long day, starting with good bye and ending in a migraine. In between there was the highlight of doing a nice ride in Groenkloof with good friends and playing with my boys and fixing my bike’s hubs with my dad.

Christmas

Lately my wife and I have been talking about the responsibility we have to show the world the Love of God. Not the typical churchy big smile with little impact; the sort of laying down your life that impact another.

What if every wealthy South African family were to take in a homeless child, one of this little ones that knows no home, no love, no security, no hope, no dreams. The ones that have experienced hunger, despair, abandonment, abuse, desolation and the death of every dream that they might just have left in them. What if every wealth child got a homeless brother instead of a play station? I tell you one thing, we’d all start looking at the world a lot differently. Suddenly the homeless child still out there is a stark reminder of where the one you have taken in could have been. The one in your home becomes a message of hope, a testimony of what is possible if people allow God to change their hearts. Suddenly every Christmas becomes a true Christ celebration, because one in your midst have a physical realm experience exactly like Spiritual experience we call salvation, one that was taken from the darkness and pulled into the light of homes, like we were pulled from the darkness of our slavery into the light of his salvation.

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Blood is thicker than water, or is it?

In the bible the Spirit is often symbolically referred to as water. So one could say that the author of the saying that blood is thicker as water was saying that one's spiritual connections is less significant than ones blood relations. This however contradicts the word in that Jesus clearly valued his spiritual connections more his family relations. We too should put our acquaintance with God before our traditions, what does God ask off us? What do our traditions ask of us, which do we do? The scripture says, there is now therefore no Greek or Jew, not slave or freeman, no man or women, because we are all one in Christ. Paul puts your position in Christ higher than anything else, and here is why. We are in new creation, in the likeness and image of God, no longer son of man, but child of God; we are born off His spirit, being (continuously) transformed into His likeness every day. Shall we then indulge in our tradition which are so often so against the will of God. I say no. Spirit is thicker than blood.

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Sunday Training Session. SO MUCH FUN!

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