Category Archives: 2003
- In other word, men built a city to ensure their physical and psychological well-being. But having done that, they still found that they needed something much higher than that. They needed something to worship. Yes, this is always in men. What should they worship? Having denied God and refused to acknowledge Him, they desired to worship themselves. But once they started to do that, they found themselves totally despicable and totally unworthy. So they started to worship the heavenly hosts, the suns, the moons and the stars. When that didn’t help, they started to worship various powerful and capable men. And when that didn’t help, they ended up worshipping even the lowly beasts and insects on the ground.
- “I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.” Unlike the city of Babylon where the temple-tower are demanding people’s worship with its system; here we no longer have any outward system of worship, but instead we have the true, real, object that deserves our worship – the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb. There is no hierarchical stairs to climb. There is no intermediaries of priests, bishops or popes. God is there and He can be approached by all the redeemed ones. For all, from the smallest to the oldest, will know Him and will worship Him.
- And what is the duty of man? Here it says, “His servants will serve Him.” Serve Him. Be ready to do His duties, whatever that may be. I believe that there’ll still be plenty of things to do for Him on that day. Oh, just as we serve Him here, we’ll still be serving Him there.
- We are usually not joyful because there’s something we want and we are not getting it. It’s a matter of our heart. So to be truly joyful, we must first deal with our heart. What is the “important thing” in our heart?
- We receive the most help when our heart is fixed on God and His purpose alone. That is the importance thing. We can rejoice because whatever happens affords God a chance to further His work in myself and other’s lives.
- Don’t try to over-analyze others’ intention. Learn to say as Paul said: what does it matter? The importance thing is “what about me”? What about my intention and motives? We cannot be held accountable for others’ thoughts and actions; but we are fully responsible for our own.
