It reminds me of how we should pray to God. Very often we pray for our needs and focus on what we want in our lives. We always hope that God will grant us what we wish. If then, what difference will it make in comparison to other religion?
Christianity is not a religion, it is a relationship, a relationship with God the creator. We are not merely asking for His help, but to seek Him and to build up a relationship with Him. God has His will for everyone of us, to walk in the true path, and His way of righteousness. Even though the path may not be favor to us, it is sometimes God’s will for us to endure the pain and suffering, so that we can grow and become stronger in His faith, and to understand His purpose.
What is God’s will, you may ask. It all started within you, on how close your relationship is with God. Prayer and reading God’s word is the key to improve our relationship with God. By getting closer to Him, we can understand His will and be ready to walk in His way.
God made us to have the freedom to choose. Do we choose to live an obedient, righteous and faithful life? Or do we choose to live by our own way?
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Wives & Husbands
Ephesians 5:22-33
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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