Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Woven by Your Hand



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 depth of the earth,

Your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me were written in Your book
before one of them came to be.
/Psalm 139:13-16 (niv)


What a wonderful words and how true they are! Only blind can not see the miracle of life God brings into being.
This is picture of my/our son and when i thought about and wrote down the words of this Psalm it sounded like it is him saying this praise. It sounded like i heard his voice.
There is some growth and development Before Leaving mothers womb and some growth and development Before Leaving Earth. Both of these Leavings is to do with some pain, but our growth being in God's hands are wonderful.
What world we are coming into when we Leave these two worlds mentioned? Are we coming into father's arms when we Leave mother's world (womb)? Are we loved by our parents before seeing them?
And Leaving Earth - are we coming into Father's arms? Are we loved by Him?
Do you know your Father? His Love for you? Do you hear Him talking to you while you are into womb of this Earth?
Listen to Him and respond, feel His touching hand through the cover of unseen realities. He wants to touch you - to feel you moving.
His love endures forever!

Thursday, November 11, 2004

God's provision

Here i am - back with my few thoughts and things to share.

Evening with students that day went fine (i think). I did not hear any feedback or comments, but after lecture i talked to couple people. One guy could recognized himself from what i shared about my first steps in Faith in Jesus. Looking back to the topic - i could not avoid talking about discipleship. I don't know how it happens - it just happens.

I better share about that miracle i mentioned:
I know it is kind of worldly thing and sometimes i even feel guilty that i have so much while others are not so fortunate, but my prayer to God is that my heart does not stay attached to those things that can pass away in any minute. We all are fragile and so does the things what we have. God gives and God can take them away. By His grace we have what we have.

There is some life on the way in our family and the apartment we are living is not really ours, but belongs to organization my wife working for. We had a thought for awhile to get some place to live, but we did not really looked for anything till couple weeks ago we thought to look in Internet - to see what is around and what it costs. So we wrote down couple apartments, called the people and arranged one evening to go and look at one of them.
As we saw this one, it looked perfect, nothing more to desire. That night after us two other families came to see the place. As we walked away left with the time (till next noon) to think about everything, we felt that it might be to late if we don't say YES now. We had some minutes of "panic" and praying to God to know the right decision to make. As we stood at tram stop letting three trams to pass us by, we made the decision to call them back and to say that we are buying it. And seems like those two other families who went there that night were also considering the same. We were first and so the process was starting, but the thing is we were not even quite ready for all of this. People who were selling the apartment wanted us next day to make a precontract with the first payment towards it. So the next day was another day of panicking thinking about all the right things to do and getting to know all the information which you need to know when you are buying property (you never know how all this can turn - there is all kinds of "horror" stories around real estates. Like stories when two people buy the same thing not knowing about other buyer and so on...).
Well for us, with God's grace, week later we signed the REAL CONTRACT. It seemed unreal, unbelievable.
The owners of the apartment were very nice people, the mediators who sorted out all this between us also were nice. All this was just as a big miracle. GLORY TO GOD! Only He is worthy of our praise!

That's the STORY.