Mat 5:14-16 GNB “You are like light for the whole world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. (15) No one lights a lamp and puts it under a bowl; instead it is put on the lampstand, where it gives light for everyone in the house. (16) In the same way your light must shine before people, so that they will see the good things you do and praise your Father in heaven.

I recently experienced what it can mean to be the light of the world as a follower of Christ. With the Holy Spirit inside of us, we bring the reality of the Kingdom of God, the dominion of God everywhere we go. So when I go to my office in the morning I always invite God to be in the office with me. I know that He lives inside of me, but what I mean by that invitation is, that I invite God to bring His tangible presence into the office, so that all of my teammate’s and all the customers who call us can actually feel the presence of God and experience His love and grace.

For me there is no point in being a child of God and keeping my Daddy all for myself. I owe people an encounter with my Dad. And the more I share Him with others, the happier I become, cause our family grows and grows.

One of my colleagues offered me to order a mobile phone for me and sell it to me a lot cheaper then would usually be. I found that a bit dodgy, but still told him, if we will set up a proper contract of purchase and if it will sealed in its original packaging, I’ll be up for it. A few days later he approached me again and told me, he wants to give the phone to me as a free gift. The following 3 weeks I would ask him almost every day, when my new handset would arrive. He always found a different excuse.

Then suddenly at last weeks monday he said to me: “Bad news Tom, the phone is on its way to me, but it will not be the original one. It will be a counterfeit phone.” Well my reply was, that I wanted to have a think about that first. God then was very quick in telling me, that this is definitly going to be theft, cause the original brand would lose money because of that purchase of a fake phone. So later this week we met again and I told him: “I don’t want the phone, even though you offered it to me for free. God told me, that this is going to be seen as theft and I don’t want to steal, because thieves don’t enter heaven.” The guy seemed to be quite shocked at first, but then he returned to his joking around mode and everything was fine.

What I didn’t know this time was, that later that day the police would have him handcuffed and taken off the office premises for further questioning due to a lot of fraud issues he was involved with.

Here God’s light brought something to the surface, that was hiding in secret and in darkness for a long time. God taught me, that if I would have taken the phone that day, things would have turned around a lot different and the whole thing would have taken a much longer to come to the surface. Also they might have taken me as a suspect as well.

I’m thankful for that lesson and I’m very impressed by the power of God’s light in each of us followers of Christ.

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…just the webblog of another follower of Jesus. Someone who is trying to figure out, what it is like, to live in a vibrant relationship with our Heavenly Father. Actually, this blog is not about me. It is about my Dad in Heaven. Maybe I just haven’t said that clearly enough over the last couple of months. You know what? I love Him! He is just, well, great… I guess. I’m on the move, moving further and further away from the identy this world is trying to press upon me. Seeking to get rid of any fear of men whatsoever. It still is kinda scary though. I’m miles away from being perfect, and yet still He loves me so much! Everytime I fall, He is there to pick me up. He is there to tell me: “Get up quickly, don’t stay laying on the ground in self-pity, condeming yourself. Cause I am not condeming you! So why should you?” He always engourages me to run back into his arms.

It is just the fact that I seem to be so impatient sometimes. Impatient with myself, impatient with the way Dad unfolds His plan in my life. And every now and then I was just fed up with trying my own best to have fellowship with Him. And it is only then that I realised again, that I started strifing again, where there is no need for that?!

It is just weird, this whole thing. And I’m always returning to just being his son. Nothing more and nothing less. A brother of Jesus and a son of God. Not to say “the Son of God”, but one of His sons.

You know, I read so many of these books from Bill Johnson over the last couple of monts. And they kinda made me feel weird. They are challenging and motivating on one hand. But on the other I sometimes just sit there and inside of me I cry out: “Why do I have to go through alls this theory?” I know Bill’s books weren’t meant to be theoretic. And much what I found in there was actually really practical. But it was just not the way I expected it to be. I need somebody who takes me by the hand and shows me all the mysteries of God. Bit by bit, step by step. It is not going to be Bill, though. It is gonna be Daddy Himself.

I’m sick of fearing this and that and this again. I’m sick of thinking, thinking more then I’m actually doing. A little healing of a headache of a colleaque at work is not good enough anymore, while there are so many people out there dying from cancer, where they simply shouldn’t die from cancer at all.

Will you follow Jesus with me? Are you in for the adventure? It is more then a game and it is more then just another thought. Is Jesus the One we follow? Some kind of rolemodel? Okay, then let us first start with admitting, that it is actually possible for us to walk in the same anointing, power and authority that He walked in, while He was on this earth. How? By being in connection with his Heavenly Dad all the time. How did He do that? With the help of the Holy Spirit that came down upon Him. And also by submitting His priorities unto the ones of His Father.

Okay, I gotta go. I’m humbly learning …. AGAIN.

Tom

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