Hvis du er som meg og mange andre, liker du ikke heller å bli irettesatt. Føler at vi vet bedre. Å disiplinere oss selv til å følge den rette slik at vi ikke blir irettesatt eller betale dyrt etterpå får oss til å bite tenner og gjøre det som er rett.
Når man tenker seg om er det veldig viktig med disiplin. Man oppnår jo ikke noe hvis man ikke disiplinere seg selv. Hvis man vil ha « a healthy body», må disiplinere seg selv til å spise bare sunne mat. Unngå kaker, sjokolader, brus, eller junk food.
Jeg strever med det. Jeg spiser det jeg har lyst til. Det er bare fordi at jeg har mer enn nok plager i kroppen at jeg ville ikke plage meg mer enn nødvendig som å ikke spise det jeg har lyst til. En trøst for smertene jeg har i kroppen. Men kanskje en del av maten jeg forsyner meg i forårsaker mer smerte i kroppen? Det vanskelig å bevise. Så jeg er tvil?
En annen ting er å trene. Det trenger også disiplin på min side på grunn av jeg er alltid utmattet. Men jeg prøver småturer, chairyoga, litt sykling for å ikke visne helt bort. Og det hjelper i hvert fall både psykisk og fysisk.
Nexflix og lydbøker er noe jeg bør disiplinere meg selv for hvis ikke, blir jeg sittende eller liggende og se på seriene eller lytte på lydbøker dag ut og dag inn. Og det er ikke bra for kroppen. Jeg blir en sofaslave rett og slett.
For mange er ikke bibellesning et tema engang. Men for meg er det den største del av mitt liv. Derfor disiplinerer jeg meg selv til å gjøre det. Når jeg tenker på Guds skapelser, hvor god han er og mektig, da gir det meg lyst til å tilbringe tid sammen med han. Jeg håper jo at jeg en dag bli mer like god og kjærlig som Gud. Alle vet jo at vi blir som regel lik dem vi unngås med til stadighet.
En verden eller et land hvor det er bare udisiplinerte folk som bor er sikkert et sted hvor det er bare kaos. Hvis man bare gjør det man har lyst til og ikke skal følge lover og regler, blir da enda mer elendighet her i verden. Kriminelle går fri, tyveri blir overalt og livet er ikke levelig. Så selv om man liker ikke ordet «disiplin» og vi ikke liker å bli «irettesatt,» bør vi egentlig være glad for at vi kunne være disiplinerte folk at det finnes lover og regler vi må følge etter.
Det var morgendagens funderinger?
Hva er det du disipliner deg selv til å gjøre slik at du oppnår målet du har satt deg i?
Hello and good morning. Håper solen skinner hos deg i dag. Her hos meg er det eneste tegn av sommer er fuglene som kvitrer. Det er jo også meldt regn i dag.
I går var det St. Hans aften og jeg kledde meg sommerlig og håpet for fint vær.
Det var fortsatt opphold da jeg sluttet min halvdags jobb og jeg var optimist.
Jeg laget asiatisk fiskegryte til middag.
Men det var ikke St. Hans mat. Så jeg kjøpte også risgrøt og salt skinke. Jeg skulle kjøpe rømmegrøt, men det var tomt på butikken. Det var flere som skulle sikkert ha rømmegrøt i går.
Det var jo like godt selv om det var ikke hjemmelaget.
Etter middagen kom regnet her og det var ikke noe vits å tenne bål på fjæra. Dessuten min mann var opptatt med snekkerarbeid. Lager fundament for lyshuset vi skulle sette opp på veranda.
Fant et blad å lese og der var det et sitat for St. Hans som.jeg ikke fulgte. Jeg la med tidlig i natt. Det var ikke mye søvn likevel. Kanskje jeg kunne ha brukt tiden til å more meg isteden?
Jeg var lys våken i fire tiden…
Jeg trenger inspirasjon i dag for å klare dagen…må vel prøve å jobbe.
Sitatene til inspirasjon er god å ha i gråe dager synes jeg og her er noen.
Blomster til å mate vår sjel:)
Og dagens ord…trenger påminnelse når smerter er uunngåelige.
Jeg vet ikke hvor mange ganger jeg hadde lovet meg selv at jeg skal slutte å handle, men jeg skjønner ikke hvorfor jeg ikke klarer å la være. For tingene jeg kjøper er jo ikke nødvendig og jeg kommer til å klare meg godt uten dem…men handlet likevel på nett med disse tingene.
Er du en av de nysgjerrige typene? Du lurer på mange ting. Du er interessert i mennesker, folket og deres levemåte. Reiser i ulike land for å lære om andre manns kultur. Slik er det også jeg. Jeg har vært en lesehest. Elsker å lese, lære, vite osv. Noen ganger, kortslutter hjernen min på grunn av for mye informasjon. Hvis jeg hadde en mulighet, hadde jeg sikkert reist verden rundt. For jeg er veldig nysgjerrig. Lurer på mange ting. Jeg er et tenkende menneske, sa min mann til meg.
Da jeg var barn, hadde jeg spurt min Far hvor Gud var. Og om han virkelig lever og om han hører bønnene våre. For jeg hadde lyst å be til ham om å gjøre livet lettere for oss for det var vanskelig. Kunne han ikke gjøre min Far seende slik at han kunne se meg? Jeg lurte på det. Lurte på hvor Gud ble født, og om han hadde foreldre.
Kong David lurte også om Gud. Hvis du hadde lest Salmene som Kong David hadde skrev, vet Du at han brukte ord til å beskrive hvem Gud var og hans skapelser.
Han var egentlig ikke en belært skikkelse. Han var en gjeter for sauene som hans far eide. Synd at faren til Davis så ikke hans viktige egenskaper. Da profeten Samuel skulle velge en konge, ble ikke David engang tilkalt til å stå foran profeten Samuel under utvelgelsen. Men Gud hadde allerede en plan for David. Han skulle bli en konge. Han var en person etter Guds hjerte.
David ble kjent med Gud gjennom å betrakte Hans skaperverk mens han passet på sauene. Han hadde tid å studere himmelen dag ut og dag inn. Han har sett hvor vakre soloppganger og solnedganger var. Kjent lukten av blomstene på marken. Følt regndråper på ansiktene. Og månen som strålte på omgivelsene om natten. Han hadde sikkert sett meteorene som skyter ned fra himmelen. Og i hans sovende tilstand, hadde Gud gitt han ideer for både sang og dikt som han skrev. Han levde i konstant felleskap med Gud og hans skaperverk.
Du som er en blogger akkurat som meg liker sikkert å skrive. Vi utrykker følelsene våre gjennom tastaturene. Kan hende at du er en kreativ type og har funnet din stemme gjennom å lage ulike ting og vise det til verden?
Mange bloggere bruker naturen til å tale for seg gjennom bilder.
I mitt tilfelle, ville jeg formidle hvor stort Gud er gjennom alt jeg gjør. Jeg kunne ikke beskrive alt i detaljer Guds skapelsen, for det er så omfattende. Likevel, å tenke og lure på de fantastiske skaperverk, fyller meg med en enorm glede og takknemlighet for hvor stort Gud er. Og uansett hvor mektig han er, elsker han meg og deg. Han tenker på oss. Han døde for oss.
Kong David skrev:
Når jeg ser på blomstene…hvor vakre de er…vet jeg at Gud har vakre tanker om meg.
Ellers for min del….spørsmålene kommer aldri til å ta slutt for jeg er en nysgjerrige Per. Er du?
Jepp, du gjettet riktig…det var ikke jeg som skulle feire atten-årsdag. Jeg ble bare invitert og ettersom sola skinte den dagen, kledde jeg meg sommerlig.
Det ble laget telt på veranda. Ungdommene feiret dagen før.
Reflection: Jesus’ humility in letting John baptized him was for me an amazing example of how humble Jesus was. Although he was the Son of God, it did not hinder Him to do so. It was I believe to show an example for us what we should do. To be baptized and repent for our sins. And the most important; to be humble.
Jesus went to a river and identified himself with those who were repenting of sin. And he later died for our sins.
In this passage, the Father, Holy Spirit, and Jesus were present. When I read what the Father said to Jesus “ You are my Son, whom I love; with you, I am well pleased, it gave me chill in my heart feeling that God is also saying it to me. “ Ligaya, (means Happy) you are my daughter; with you, I am well pleased.
And what a privileged to have the Holy Spirit ascended to us too. Imagine having the Father, Holy Spirit in Jesus in us. Then we can do amazing things. It dawns on me that as a believer, we are capable of what God has called us too if we only can truly apprehend who we are in Christ.
I found these quotes from people who professed who they are in Christ.
Quotes
“Outside of Christ, I am weak; Inside of Christ I am strong.” Watchman Nee
“Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing.”
“Our true identity is found when we stop being “who we are” and start being who we were created to be.”
“I am a daughter of the King, who is not moved by the world. For my, God is with me and goes before me. I do not fear because I am His.”
And in the bible, it said many things about who we are in Christ-like:
We are children of God
Galatians 3:26 “For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.”
In Christ, we will know true joy
John 15:11 “I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.”
We are blessed
Ephesians 1:3 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.”
We are alive in Christ
Ephesians 2:4-5 “But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions–it is by grace you have been saved.”
We are someone who is deeply loved by God.
Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
Romans 8:38-39 “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
We are seen as precious
Isaiah 43:4 “Because you are precious in my eyes and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.”
We are the branches of the true vine.
John 15:1-5 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me? 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”
We are understood by God
Psalm 139:1 “For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. You have searched me, LORD, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.”
Christians are heirs of God
Romans 8:17 “Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ if indeed we share in his sufferings so that we may also share in his glory.”
We are an ambassador for Christ
2 Corinthians 5:20 “Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.”
We are God’s special possession
1 Peter 2:9-10 “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”
We are beautiful
Song of Solomon 4:1 “How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are doves. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from the hills of Gilead.”
We were created in His image.
Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
We are a citizen of Heaven
Philippians 3:20-21 “But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior. 21 He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same power with which he will bring everything under his control.”
We will judge angels
1 Corinthians 6:3 “Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!”
We are a friend of Christ
John 15:15 “I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.”
We are strong because our strength comes from Christ.
Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
2 Corinthians 12:10 “That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
We are a new creation in Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
Ephesians 4:24 “and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”
We are fearfully and wonderfully made
Psalm 139:13-15 “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.”
We are redeemed
Galatians 3:13 “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”
The Lord supplies all of our needs
Philippians 4:19 “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
Our past, present, and future sins are forgiven.
Romans 3:23-24 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.”
Romans 8:1 “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
In Christ, we are seen as a saint
Corinthians 1:2 “To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours.”
We are set apart
Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Hebrews 10:10 “We have been set apart as holy because Jesus Christ did what God wanted him to do by sacrificing his body once and for all.”
We are someone who has been set free
Ephesians 1:7 “We have been set free because of what Christ has done. Through his blood, our sins have been forgiven. We have been set free because God’s grace is so rich.”
We are the light of the world
Matthew 5:13-16 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead, they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”
We are complete in Christ
Colossians 2:10 “And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.”
God has made us more than a conqueror
Romans 8:37 “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.”
We are the righteousness of God
2 Corinthians 5:21 “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
Our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit
1 Corinthians 6:19 “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.”
We are chosen
Ephesians 1:4-6 “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love, he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, by his pleasure and will–to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.
We are seated in heavenly places
Ephesians 2:6 “And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.”
We are God’s workmanship
Ephesians 2:10 “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”
We have the mind of Christ
1 Corinthians 2:16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.”
Christ lives in us
Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
God is continually working in us to conform us into the image of Christ.
Philippians 2:13 “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”
Prayer: Dear Jesus, I thank You for showing us what should one do to be forgiven. Repent, be baptized, and follow You. I thank You that through You we had become children of God. We are now new creations. Forgiven for our sins. We had been set free. Set apart. Righteous. A temple of the Holy Spirit. Salt and light in this world. In you, we are complete. We are conquerors.
With You, there will always be joy in our hearts no matter what we are going through. Thank You for all the blessings and for making us alive in You. For loving us with unconditional love. Although we had sinned against You, but for You, we are precious and worth dying for. You redeemed us from destruction.
I pray Lord that we will remain in You and not seek the world and all its glitters. Because there is more glitter in Your kingdom that awaits us.
We could not hide anything from You Oh God, so I pray that we will honor you with our thoughts and deeds.
I pray that we will act as Your ambassadors wherever we are. Thank You that no matter what happens, we can be secure that You will take care of us because we are Your special possessions. Amen
