For His Name's Sake

You always think about your friends in a certain way.

You categorize them:

1.     Who is the best?

2.     Who is the nearest?

3.     Who is a friend whom you don’t like?

4.     Whom you really care for?

5.     And whom you just want to see occasionally!

ملخص أربع سنوات.

حوالي ٢٠٠٠ عام قبل الميلاد، حلم فرعون حلما، ٧ بقرات سمان خرجوا من النهر. وتبعهم ٧ بقرات هزال التهمت السمان وهي لا تزال هزيلة!

انزعج فرعون من هذا الحلم وسأل كل سحرة مصر انذاك لعل أحد يجيب بمعنى الحلم.

لم يعرف أحد إلا يوسف الذي كان في السجن، وقال هوذا سبع سنين شبع يتبعها ٧ سنين جوع، حتي تنسى الأرض إنه كان هناك شبع يوما ما.

Utmost.org - 14-4-2014

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me . . . —Matthew 11:29

Whom the Lord loves He chastens . . .” (Hebrews 12:6). How petty our complaining is! Our Lord begins to bring us to the point where we can have fellowship with Him, only to hear us moan and groan, saying, “Oh Lord, just let me be like other people!” Jesus is asking us to get beside Him and take one end of the yoke, so that we can pull together. That’s why Jesus says to us, “My yoke is easy and My burden is light” (Matthew 11:30). Are you closely identified with the Lord Jesus like that? If so, you will thank God when you feel the pressure of His hand upon you.

“. . . to those who have no might He increases strength” (Isaiah 40:29). God comes and takes us out of our emotionalism, and then our complaining turns into a hymn of praise. The only way to know the strength of God is to take the yoke of Jesus upon us and to learn from Him.

“. . . the joy of the Lord is your strength” (Nehemiah 8:10). Where do the saints get their joy? If we did not know some Christians well, we might think from just observing them that they have no burdens at all to bear. But we must lift the veil from our eyes. The fact that the peace, light, and joy of God is in them is proof that a burden is there as well. The burden that God places on us squeezes the grapes in our lives and produces the wine, but most of us see only the wine and not the burden. No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God living within the human spirit; it creates an inner invincibility.

If your life is producing only a whine, instead of the wine, then ruthlessly kick it out. It is definitely a crime for a Christian to be weak in God’s strength.

The Pearl

She asked him, " are you sure that you want to go inside?"
He nodded excitedly.

It is a gallery, selling jewelry. It announced that it will display the most precious pearl in the world!

Since this announcement in the news, he didn't sleep a day. All of his friends heard his story. He kept telling them, "I captured the most precious pearl in the world. But it was stolen from me."

Most of his friends doubted that this is a true story, they informed that they never saw this pearl. They also confirm that their friend became a different person since then. He turned to be not a focusing person and his face was changed.