My Heart Is Not Mine

Giving our hearts to God, we somehow think that He would put it in a camera store and will keep it until we meet with Him in heaven. I imagined this picture on a minute: God sits in a large study at a large table and signs every heart: « So, this Mary’s, and this is Pal’s...», and behind Him is a large wardrobe with cameras. Looking at this picture, I realized that, in fact, it is foolish. God is not like the Director of the Bank, to whom you can give away your valuables, so that He guarded them! It seems to me that God is more like the investor.
I give Him my heart, and He invests it in others. There is a wonderful verse in the Bible that whoever wants to save his life, shall lose it, but whoever loses his life for Christ's sake, shall find it. Amazing spiritual law!

The Value of the Soul

What could be more valuable than the soul? I often hear the phrase "I am ready to sell my soul, if only something happened..." The price of our souls is very high! I wonder: why?

We, as Christians, often focus on the spirit. We often think about the growth of the spiritual man, and  lose sight of our souls. And  we not only  to treat ourselves in such a way, but put the same criteria set for others. A person with a strong spirit is more valuable for us than  a person with a pure heart. We are more interested in communicating with a person who is able to see in the Spirit, move in the Spirit, who has the gifts of the Spirit ... and stop paying attention to friendliness, sincerity, simplicity, or simply humanity. And we sometimes miss people who have beautiful soul.

I Can, Because I Love!

This morning I woke up and heard the phrase: «I can, because I love!».

After some time I saw the picture, as I stand in front of a big city, which is surrounded by tall and thick wall. I stood in front of the gates which are open, but I am not in a hurry to go there, I`m just standing in front of them. And as soon as I realize that I love I boldly cross the threshold of this city.

Depth of Freedom

God gave me freedom. The freedom to be myself, to be free from people's opinions, freedom from an inferiority complex... freedom from many things. Often the freedom is associated with the flight and I agree with this. Because when I look at the birds that are flying and it gives an impression that the forces of gravity don`t exist for them - they're free. I like this feeling of freedom and I really appreciate it. But freedom has depth.

The People of the New Covenant

Jeremiah 31: 31-34

«Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new Covenant, not of this which I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to bring out of the land of Egypt... But this is the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days (Babylonian captivity), says the Lord:

I WILL PUT MY LAW IN ВНУТРЕНОСТЬ THEM, AND WRITE IT IN THEIR HEARTS; AND WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. And they shall not teach each other saying, know the Lord : for they shall all know Me...»

The Secret Stories

If you make a hit parade of the most memorable of Jesus' miracles, the first place, unconditionally, will take - Jesus walking on the water, and the second is the story of how Jesus fed 5 thousand people with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish.

Question: «From where they have come - these 5 loaves and 2 fish?»

In the Bible the story is described in all 4  messages of the disciples of Jesus, but only in the last, in John, you can find the answer to the question. The bread and the fish belonged to the boy, of whom nobody knows anything. But everybody knows the miracle that Jesus did with the bread and the fish.