Poem by an unknown soldier

 I asked God for strength, that I might achieve;

I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked God for health, that I might do greater things;
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.
I asked for riches, that I might be happy;
I was given poverty, that I might be wise.
I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men;
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life;
I was given life, that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing that I asked for but everything I had hoped for.
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.
I am among men, most richly blessed.

The unfortunate event of spiritual euthanasia!

It is just bad enough to imagine how hard it might be for a family the big decision of pulling the plug off.

Well Imagine that you do that to you spiritual life. You kill that spiritual part of you. I guess sometimes with intention to do it and some other time without. The point is that we have the power to decide whether we continue to live spiritual lifes knowing there is a risk or we can just simply unplug our spirituality. I think the choice is to protect life whether it is physical, emotional or specially SPRITUAL!

Don't give up. It is spirituality what matters. Not a religion, not rules, not appearances

Deductions outside the box in my Christian beliefs

I like to think and I do it a lot. Sometimes I question everything even the core of life itself and some other times I want to surrender and just belief without putting any reason to it.
I reflected on some topics and here are some deductions. Doesn't mean is the absolute truth of faith. I am not or right is only my opinion. Jesus is the only ultimate truth.

 

 

Conclusions

• after Christ sacrifice we entered into an age of grace leaving and overcoming the old law give to the Jews in the old testament.

• The bible was inspired by God through the holy spirit, unfortunately man is imperfect...
  some parts of the bible had been poisoned by the unclear and sinful hand of man. Changing the meaning.

• God is not in control of all things and he chooses not to be in total control even though he is all powerful.

• God does not want to kill or see people get killed. He would do it by himself/herself without the help of humans.

•  A lot of religious so proclaimed spiritual people lack the gift of discernment.

• A lot of religious people don't act accordingly to what they preach. Some Christians really haven't read what Jesus talks about. Others like me forget his words. Maybe with the idea of keeping away memories that will remind all of us the importance of a commitment in Christ.

• Life with Jesus require a lot more sacrifice, love, humbleness, and forgiveness

• some people just have a cold heart towards the spiritual knowledge, God and his son Jesus. 

Spiritual Coldness

I have tough situations just like any other person. After seeing the pain on my mother because of her cancer and how my faith was starting to become weaker a weaker I decided to analyze the causes.

Friday December 02 2011
Maybe I just want to write that's it!
spiritual coldness in the life of a christian is part of a mature christian life. 

One will experience spiritual coldness at some point and some characteristics are:

• existentialism for many aspects of life
• many doubts
• questions
• annoyance to the christian faith
• despair and discontent with some christian people
• lack of faith
• Knowing what Jesus wants but avoid applying it
• hard time believing all things come for good purpose of God
• hard time believing the will of God is helping at the moment
• desire to go nuts and go back to the past sinful life

reasons for the spiritual coldness:

• circumstances in life
• things aren't going the way we want.
• unrealistic expectations from before. Like believing God is your servant and thinking that all people who claim to be Christians are truly Christ alike.

Solutions:

• Ask God for Love 
• Ask God for revelation 
• Be honest in your prayers with God. 
• Start practicing and improving FAITH 
• be basically calm and avoid going back to the sinful past 
• be a lot more patient 
• don't take your emotional pain on to people.  
• be silent so you won't destroy people with your words 
• think before acting and talking 
• Prudence 
• Tolerance

Keep struggling and as Winston Churchill said "We Shall never surrender..."