I must confess I have a hard time writing about what I’m doing on this blog, I mainly just like to write what God is teaching me, so sorry if its not to much about what I am doing, but then again what I am learning is doing. Right?
The first thing I want to say is that God is so good and amazing. He is so merciful and kind, I couldn’t be more grateful for what he is doing in my life.
Lamentations 3:22-23
"It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassion fail not.23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness."
Being back in Taiwan has already been awesome, God is already been revealing to me so many new things. When I got on my second flight to go over to Taiwan God lead me to Psalms 115.
This Chapter talks about how the world has made false gods, ones with hands and mouths but they are useless to them and those who trust in them are just like them.
In Taiwan many people worship idols and trust that if they worship them and pray to them, they will be blessed and have peace. But in there worshiping they find no peace and no rest, for their gods can do nothing for them.
It’s so sad to watch this and its so sad to watch them waste their lives on serving a dead god, a god that will never give them what they are seeking.
Before we put them off as not relate-able, think twice. Are we not the same??
We seek pleasures of the world that will not satisfy us. We want jobs that will make us financially secure. We want friends that will not betray us and fathers that will never disappoint us. Are these not false gods?? Are these not with hand and mouths but cannot move or speak?? And has not man created them??
We have made a world that is built on dead ideas, dead gods, we are trying to up hold them and say that they are living and if we follow them we will be blessed.
The ways of the world are dead and those who seek to find comfort and peace in it, will only find death.
BUT GOD, who is rich in mercy and in love has given himself to us, and provided away to have life, to have peace and those who trust in Him will not be put to shame.
"The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. And those who know your name put their trust in you,
for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you." Psalm 9:9-10
Another thing I have been thinking about is how this digital age and social media age has been killing our relationship. I thought that phones and Facebook should improve our communication skills and the ability to stay connected with all of our friends would be a good thing. Maybe it is?? But one thing God has been showing me is that a lot of this social media makes us trade real relationships for fake ones. We create a new kind of friend, friends that we don’t really know but know about. We make false image of what a friend looks like and does, but in reality they are nothing like it. In trying to know everyone we know no one.
I believe that the root problem to all of this is, we have turned from a real relationship with God to a fake one.
Let me explain.
From the beginning of time we can see that God made man to have a relationship with Him, but we rejected him, we chose sin over a relationship with him.
We lost the connection we once had. What was once no problem to know God, had became merely impossible. We would need a mediator to know God one that would break down the wall of sin, allowing us back into the relationship that we were once able to have. This of course is Jesus, but often I think that we forget this point. Jesus is the one that made it all possible to know God, He is the one that intercedes on our behalf for us, He paves the way to God nothing else. Not church, not good books, not sound doctrine, not even prayer, but JESUS Himself.
Often we replace Jesus for something else, creating a false god creating a false relationship about Him. You can know all about God but that will do you no good, even the demons know who God is and know what he has done. You can do things in His name and for Him but that will not save you. Jesus is the one who saves and if we know Him we will know the Father and if we know Father we can love our brother and have real relationships with them. PRAISE JESUS for what He has done, He has won and He is LORD.
Keep me in your prayers as we are on our second week of teaching in Taiwan and only have one more week after that. Pray that we would have energy and creativity and that God's kingdom would go forth.
David—
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