Learning vessel

“You never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make. That principle runs all through life from the top to the bottom. Give up yourself and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, submit with every fibre of your being and you will find eternal life.”

( C.S Lewis )

Oh that is so true what C.S Lewis says here. Often we think too much about us, and our impressions to other people. 

C.S Lewis says here : “Give up yourself and you find your real self.” And that is exactly what the bible says, because we are imperfect, yes you are not perfect when you didn’t know that, now you know :D

No one has the right to expect that you’re perfect. 

When you loose your life, and surrender it to Jesus Christ, then you will save it, and as a result you will find your real self. You’ll have eternal life. 

Try it :) Because when you don’t try, you’ll never know :)

The topic I’m thinking about the last few days is time.

I asked myself ” Do I spend my time right ? Do I spend my time in reasonable things ?”

These are hard questions to answer. I came to the conclusion that sometimes my head is so full of thoughts/words/actions, that I often forget what really important is in life. Sometimes I spend too much time in “Me”, but this little world is not about me. ( So a question for you to think, what is it about, when not about me ? ;) )  

For myself I know that the only solution is the surrender of my toughts/words/actions to Jesus Christ. I mean, he invent thoughts/words/actions ! So who could better deal with these things as the one who invented it ? Rhetorical question :)

(Part 2 will come.)

In the last post I told you about my distinct sense of justice. Today I want to tell you what I learned the last few days. 

In the bible God says : “Learn to do well, seek judgement,…,…” 

In the dictionary the word ” judgement ” signify ” divine justice” and ” understanding”. In my Study Bible it is written under this verse ( in Isaiah 1 / 17 ) if a person is truly right with God, he will also treat his fellow man right. 

So what is ” divine justice ” ? In the book ” Revelation” in the bible you find many things about divine justice but that’s not what I want to show you today.

The answer : Grace is higher placed than justice.

Grace is directly connected with love !

One of my missions is that in my life, Grace shall be higher placed than justice. 

One of my missions is loving the persons in my community just as they are, and I know it’ll be hard, but who is my daddy, huh ? :)

Then he said to the crowd , ” If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways,… follow me. “ 

Jesus said this. In the last few weeks I recognized that I have a very distinct sense of justice. Especially when the situation is about the environment and me. So my question was : ” Is this selfish when I want my right, when I want my justice ? “

I asked Jesus to close down my distinct sense of justice to the ‘divine’ sense of justice. Grace is higher placed than justice.

Nelson Mandela said once : “When I don’t want to change myself, how could I expect from other people to change ? “

In 3 weeks I’ll have a presentation about Mother Teresa’s life and her fight against the social injustice. I red a lot of informations about her and her heart and I’m completly overwhelmed !

I’m overwhelmed by the strength of God’s love in Mother Teresa’s heart. 

Today I’m aware again that I want to have a commendable attitude to my circumstances and that I want to love / help / love / help / love / help / love / help / love / help / love / help / love / help / love / … / … / …

AAAH ! I want to fight against the bad and fight for the good with every muscle I have !

This old lady changed with her attitude my whole attitude.