Sunday, December 17, 2006

It's a Wonderful Life ....a classic film

This story, which I got to watch for probably the 100th time, was once again on TV tonight.

Most people know the story starring Jimmy Stewart, as George Bailey, who after having his world cave in on him, contemplates suicide but ends up meeting an Angel, by the name of Clarence, who allows George to see what his world would be like if he had never been born...of how lives he has touched, would be so very different.

Usually as I watch this film I always find myself pondering on my own life and wondering if I had made a difference in anyone's life for the better: I think that comes with age.

My thoughts were taken this time though to the Life of Jesus, pondering on his birth we celebrate at this Christmas season, his life as a baby, and his controversial years in ministry, when he was hated by so many he walked among, ....

And instead of wondering what it would be like if I hadn't been born, like our friend George Bailey, I wondered what it would be like if Jesus had never taken on flesh and come down from on high to be born as a helpless baby 2000 years ago, all to save mankind, to take our place on that cross, and bleed and die for us, offering the one and only perfect sacrifice, himself, for sinful men, and women;...that's you and me, by the way.

I can't imagine, and don't want to think about what my life would be like today without Jesus.

I also pondered tonight while watching that film, what Mary's life was like...what she thought during those months while carrying the Son of God. And what she must have pondered on during the next 33 years, watching him stumble and fall as a young child, grow into a teen, work along side Joseph in the carpentry shop, enter into His ministry, be loved by a few and hated by others...and ultimately die on that cross.

Wonder if she questioned things in her heart or knew why?

Just sharing my thoughts ...


Mary, did you know
That your baby boy
Would someday walk on water?
Mary did you know
That your baby boy
Will save our sons and daughters?
Did you know
That your baby boy
Has come to make you new?
This child that you've delivered
Will soon deliver you.

Mary did you know
That your baby boy
Will give sight to a blind man?
Mary did you know
That your baby boy
Will calm the storm with his hand?
Did you know that your baby boy
Has walked where angels trod?
When you kiss your little baby
You've kissed the face of God.
The blind will see
The deaf will hear
The dead will live again
The lame will leap
The dumb will speak
The praises of the Lamb

Mary did you know
That your baby boy
Is Lord of all creation?
Mary did you know
That your baby boy
Will one day rule the nations?
Did you know
That your baby boy
Is heaven's perfect Lamb?
This sleeping child you're holding
Is the Great I Am


*to listen- http://www.wrensworld.com/marydiduknow.htm

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Are you still searching?



Life is like a journey, it is my opinion that from young to old, we are ever in the process of searching. Searching for what you may ask? For most people, we are searching for satisfaction and happiness.
Many spend their energy and time on gaining material wealth, thinking that financial security is the answer to satisfaction in life. Others seek satisfaction in friendship, in relationships. And a great number seek satisfaction in pleasure, in the form of food and drinks and sex, and even drugs.
It is my observation that such satisfaction will not last. When we die, all our material wealth will depart from us, even a good relationship will not last, because people may change, and even our loved ones will depart from us when we or they die.
And the pleasure we seek are temporary and may lead us to addiction, bondage, pain and sickness.
Some seek satisfaction in fame and achievement, in intellectual pursuit. But even this will not last forever, when we die one day, all our achievement and glory means nothing, it will fade away.
So I like to suggest that we seek satisfaction in the right thing, things that will last forever. These are the spiritual things.

There is one person in history that promises this satisfaction, He is Jesus Christ and He says He has come to give us an abundant life:

John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

The irony is, to get this abundant life, you must surrender your life to Jesus. For Jesus also says:

Matthew 10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

It takes faith to do that, but Jesus will keep his promise to you. What do we mean to lose our life in order to find life? We have to give the control of our life to Jesus, making Jesus the Lord over us. We have to give up things in our life that displeases God. This invitation to an abundant life is open to all, are you tired of seeking so many things in life only to find that it is emptiness? Do you labour with no peace and you have a heavy burden? Jesus says to you:

Matthew 11:28-29 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

You can find rest and satisfaction in Jesus. Click on the link “Do you know for sure?” on the left to find out more how you can begin this abundant life, don’t wait any longer.