TOTD, August 15-18

Things Will Get Better

Things are going to get bad, really bad, before they get better. ( Max Lucado)

I like the quote from Max Lucado. It somehow reflects our daily problems.
We pray, things getting worse. We pray harder, things seem worsen. But, maybe we need to get all through the bad experience and wait for the better. Things will get better. We need to trust God. (-fon-)

But I trust in you, O LORD;
I say, "You are my God."
--- Psalm 31: 14

Be Low-Profile


Have you met some friends who has changed tremendously only because they have achieved something, for example: wealth, education, career, or admirable spouse?
If we happen to meet them or maybe we’re once like that, we need to move on and do what we should. We need to boast in the Lord. Whatever we have is actually His Gifts, His Presents in this life.
Whatever we achieve, it’s He who gives permission as well.
Be low profile and if you should boast, just boast in the Lord. (-fon-)

But, "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
--- 2 Corinthians 10:17-18

Wisdom and Understanding

Maybe you’re young now. So, you think that you don’t need any wisdom and understanding. You think that it’s only for the older generation. Mothers, fathers, grandparents, they need wisdom, but not me…Maybe, sometime in the next 20 years, I might need that.
But when we look at our daily life, each step of the way that we take, needs a wisdom. Each decision we make, needs a wisdom as well. And what kind of wisdom that we need? The best is from the Lord Himself. Nothing compares to the wisdom and understanding from Him. Ask to be empowered by wisdom and understanding. (-fon-)

How much better to get wisdom than gold,
to choose understanding rather than silver!
--- Proverbs 16:16

Freedom

It’s independence day today. Indonesia has reached its 64th birthday. I just want to encourage all of us to treasure this moment and be thankful for being able to breath the fresh air in our freedom. Thank God for Indonesia!

The bible did mention about freedom. One of them is from the book of Isaiah saying that the Spirit of the Lord has anointed him to preach good news to the poor, sent him to bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom for the captives and release from the darkness of the prisoners.

Are you longing for the true kind of freedom? Find it only in God’s mighty hand. You’ll experience freedom like no other. Not the kind of freedom that this world has always offered. Free sex will lead to the bondage to the sex itself. Not to mention pornography, drugs, and other addictions. Those temporary excitement will only bring you to temporary freedom while it has another bondage, the attachments to them.

Freedom is a choice. And if you have to choose, choose the freedom that comes from God. (-fon-)


The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners
--- Isaiah 61:1