respecting authorities

"Do for others what you want them to do for you: this is the meaning of the Law of Moses and of the teachings of the prophets."

- Matthew 7:12 -

Do for others what we expect them to do for us... It's about the law of sow and reap... We can't ask others to do something if we don't do the same thing.

Sometimes it is very easy to say and to share this verse. Maybe we have heard about this sermon for many times. But the question is "Have we done it as our habit?"

I want to share what I learn these days about this theme of devotion. Oh yes, sometimes we can share the Word of God easily because we have known the logical meaning of the Word that we share. But, have we counted how many sharings which based on our personal experiences? 

This morning, suddenly my mind was disturbed by this thing and it made me thinking for along this Wednesday.

Respecting Others! Especially Respecting Authorities.

Easy to be said if we have good relationship with them.

Easy to be done if we have the same ways of thinking.

But, how it could be if there are some cases?

In example, if we have different opinion with them, if we know their weaknesses, if we have different principles or the way of thinking with them, Do we Still Be Able To Respect Them?

Those things came to me when I joined in a team-work two weeks ago. Facing different authorities made me learned to have good responses. It is not about the new people as my authorities, but about their leadership styles and temperaments which are contrary with mine... hahaha...

God reminded me to have good response to face them. Even though it was hard for me to accept, but I learned to have a humble heart and opened mind.

Respecting authorities needs a humble and sincere heart. When we know the weaknesses of our authorities, when we find the differences, we have to have those responses so we might have some adjustments with them without any difficulties. Without any difficulties? hahaha...
Yes! I am sure about it!
If we have had those responses as our daily habits, those good habits would become good characters in our lives.

The only challenge that we always face is ourselves!

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as though you were working for the Lord and not for men.

~novitz~

my new idea...

Two weeks ago I got a new idea to start a new thing which I can do for other people around me...especially for children... It is not far from the burden that I have about education... It should be immediately to make it real, because the times run very fast....

Even though there was a feeling that I couldn't do it, I am trying and thinking how to make it real. Suddenly I remembered it before I wrote this post... ^^

And when I tried to think it deeper, another new idea came to me again... This new idea motivates me to go on... I feel like my blood can breathe fresh oxygen... hahahaha...

I just can pray... Lord, bless me... bless my new idea so I could bless others... Amen...^^

novitz

God's Perspective

Life isn't far from what we can name the way of thinking. Something that we think comes from what we see. What we see makes us have opinions...directly or indirectly. 

A direct opinion doesn't come on right away. It should be based on something what we have known before or we have thought about it, even though in different cases. It is called an experience. 

Experience can build a paradigm which causes how we think. 

So, the way of we see and think is called Perspective. How can it grow up in our lives? And what is the relation to God's Perspective?

In life, we can't avoid and be separated from this word...Perspective. It grows up naturally in every person even there's no one teaches or explains it. In fact, since we were in our mother's womb, it has been started. What our parents said and expressed about us could be planted in our lives. In example, if we were rejected by them (our parents) since our mother's pregnancy, even though they haven't told us about it, it could give a big impact for our lives.

I am a person whom ever experienced this thing. I was born by an accident which done by my parents. My mother shocked because of her pregnancy. She tried to make abortion through consumed many things because she dreaded to face the fact. I didn't know about this fact until my mother told me; but my responses, actions, behaviors, the way I felt, the way I thought could show that I was a child who had been rejected. I realized it when I knew God's Truth. It was a long process until I was recovered.

Experiences can make us build something which we think as a truth. No matter our thought is true or not, we have had many paradigms since we were created. As the time goes by it will be added...added...and added.

But I want to tell you about the truth that I believe which is from a greatest book of all. The book of guidance for living which is written His Love Letter for us where we can know about God's Perspective in it... Holy Bible.

What we think and believe should be compared with what is written in the Holy Bible. Because God's Word is the only Truth that we have to believe.

In examples:

If we think and see that we are nothing, His Perspective is different because Isaiah 43:4 says,  

"Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you, and people in exchange for your life."

If we think that we are weak and can't do anything, Philippians 4:13 says,

"I can do everything through him who gives me strength."

Those are two examples I can show. There are many elses we will find in the Bible about God's Perspective. Don't hesitate to look for the ways out for our problems from the Holy Bible. And if we have found it, do not forget to meditate and confess it day and night as Joshua 1:8 says, "Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful."

This is what I can share to all of you who read this article. I write it because I have experiences with The Truth. Whatever problems that you have right now... learn to see it not only through your perspective, but learn to see and think it from God's Perspective through reading and seeking from His Word.

You'll find New Excitement in life!

God is with you... ^_^

~novitz~