Sunday Quotes

                      

1. “If you sell your soul to the Devil, you will spend the rest of eternity trying to buy it back.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
2. “If Noah waited for signs of rain to build an ark, he would have been swept away by the flood.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
3. “Before you look for dirt in people, look for treasure.” – Matshoa Dhliwayo
4. "Wisdom is the capacity to see things from God's viewpoint." – Charles Stanley
5. "Do not judge others, we do not know the battles they face. Love and be kind, for it costs nothing.” – Henrietta Newton Martin
6. “One of the enemy's sneaky attacks against the joy of our salvation is to put us in the spiral of self-condemnation.” – Linda Evans Shepherd
7. “If you want to know your worth, look at the old rugged Cross.” – Gift Gugu Mona
8. “The fact that I'm a biker doesn't make me a different kinda Christian, but the fact that I'm a Christian makes me a different kinda biker.” – Dano Janowski
9. “Forgiveness brings us closer to those who have hurt us and helps them to experience the forgiveness and love of Jesus through us who forgives them.” – Omoakhuana Anthonia
10 “Shine your light at all times; you never know who you are leading out of the dark.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
11. "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength." – Corrie Ten Boom
12. "If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are." – Charles Stanley

A Dance with the Devil

"Judas Iscariot is proof that you can sit in a dynamic church with an amazing pastor & still become a friend of the devil" (Rev Fredy Paul)

Surprised? 

Judas did not spend a day with Christ, he spent 3 years. And yet.

The reason is that we humans have an affinity to the devil and his dance of death. By nature, we are materialistic and selfish, only interested to cater to our material life in this material world. Demi Lovato, a famous singer says in her song Dancing with the Devil -

"I was dancing with the devil

Out of control

Almost made it to heaven

It was closer than you know

Playing with the enemy

Gambling with my soul

When you're dancing with the devil It's so hard to say no"

I am sure a great many of us identify with that. A dance with the devil is extremely thrilling in the short term and extremely dangerous in the long term. 

An anonymous writer, a member of the Alcoholics Anonymous once said - "there is a devil in that bottle. When I open it, he shows me wonders I have not seen, possibilities I had not known & strengths I did not possess, and I have to, then, do whatever he says; I have no control over him. The only way I can control him is never to open that bottle and the only way I can do that is with AA".

Well, that's the kind of outcome we can expect when we dance with the devil, unless we have help of someone who is beyond the temptation and who lives in us and is available on call. Jesus and the Holy Spirit. We have to live in this world, but, as Jesus said, we are not to be of this world.

The only way is to WALK DAILY WITH CHRIST, and how many of us really do that?

Walking with Jesus is a conscious effort to exercise our faith and our belief to build spiritual muscle. It is a daily adventure - so let's start TODAY!