Today when I woke up I thought this day will be nice maybe some clouds and maybe maybe some sun. Now its this light rain – summer rain. The sound is lovely. I wish I was inside an caravan and not sitting in my bed. Its so much more cozy in a caravan! Well well.
I went to a meeting in an other church then I normally goes to yesterday. FCC – Philippine Church in Oslo. As normal as any other Church I’ve been to the last 8 years of my Christian life. The preaching was in English (also normal for me) and about Submission in our Christian life.
1.Submission is about to honoring others (Romans 12:1) – Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Are we honoring others? If not, why? The preacher said, “we are all rebellions inside” we want to do it our way first. If not my words or will goes first am I not willing to change just so your will gets through. That’s maybe how most people thinks and acts today. How sad if we can’t honoring others.
2. Submission is about putting others first (Philippians 2:4) – not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. How often are you putting others first? – serving others sincerely.
If you working in a office or some other place, do you putting your colleges first in order to do your things first? Do you serving others sincerely ? I like to help other people first when I know I can. I would love to be more awake about this in my life because it is important. I don’t need to put myself first. I know me but mostly I do not know the others need i life as long as they do not tell me.
In my church I serve others first, I have been doing the same task for years and sometimes I think I want to something else so I can grow as an person and to be able to serve God in something else. But I am still doing the same. What do I try to say here? Well I think it can be a challenge for other people in church to see or maybe even understand when its time to move on to other tasks. They think you doing such a good job and don’t see why a new task would be good. I think its human to think like that, so maybe we Christians need to seek God more on this part. To serve others does not always mean do the same thing every Sunday year after year.
3. Submission is about denying ourselfs (Mark 8:34-35) – hindrance in discipleship is making myself first. “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
Do you deny yourself or just other? Have you picked up the cross? How do we deny ourselves in our daily life? I can deny my sins every day and ask for forgiveness but I think its hard from day to day. I want to. I have taken up my cross and I really trying do what God wants me to do.
I don’t know if its easier to get closer to God if you have a job with routines or if you just have to decide when you take time with God. I have been struggling with “PT” – private time with God since I got saved. For me is it easier to talk to God all the way during a day, pray on the bus on my way to work and read the daily verse online.
A month ago when I still had a good routine every day, I did my things to get up of the bed and catch the bus. My routine was to read the bible-verse on the way to my work place. So when I then didn’t have that routine any more it slipped out of my life.. I know I need routines to get around in life including to read the bible. So my daily life today is not as I want it. I applying for jobs a struggle itself. But I do have a positive mind and hope and faith of a new job soon.
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