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So what have this 2 things to do with each others ? A lot actually !! My friend, Indian, I was visiting him here at the school and suddenly he felt a bit of a hunger for a snack and he went over to the kitchen to get some bread and peanut-butter and I followed him. Then it happened that a student here at the school wanted to ask us a biblical question....fair enough....we took the time.
The whole matter was starting about "God and evil spirit" (1. samuel 19), to suddenly different subjects like "can Christians drink wine"......to miracles and other "not that much important" subjects. (I am not saying that the whole bible is not important, im just concluding that some subjects are more important to be agree about than others......).
Well....that was okay......unless if it was not for the fact, that if the bible turns out to be right, and we have a different opinion - then we have to be show obedience and "lay down our pride and stubbornness" and transforming our opinions/definitions according to the word of God.....else there is not so much point in being a Christian, if we are not willing to that, right........ Im not proclaiming that we are called to be "book-Christians"..but the thing is that being a "relation-Christian" (relationship with Jesus Christ as your Master, Saviour and Lord, friend etc.) comes together!
Why ? Because a relationship with Jesus is ALSO a relationship with the Word (the bible)...it goes together.....remember that the Bible proclaims Jesus as "the word became flesh"...Jesus IS the word....a without that understanding, it is both difficult to understand the bible as well as Jesus!
I am not in intention of "hanging out anyone" in here.....I am just clearing up a point on the connection between the bible and Jesus and our willingness (and even at times LACK of willigness....) to submit under the word of God !! If we dont want to accept that the Bible gives us the truth, there is not much point in debatting/discussing based on the bible at all........... that is just called "waste of time" I believe.....
So we went on for quite some time with several people joining, with almost same opinions and using same scriptures, but result : no change.....same understanding, same convincing!
After that, I guess we saw it a little pointless and ended the talk...........I belive that is a fair and adult conclusion to come to at times, when we get stucked in "the middle of nowhere" and nothing seems like going ! But praise God, because His word is ALIVE and living...challenging us......no matter if we want to be challenged or not...... :-)
Peanut-butter is good.....and it even can open up for "God-meetings"...so more penut-butter to the churches please......hehe........
Update news on Australia-tour : STILL waiting for a miracle........... with love in Christ /brother Asger

It is not that I do not believe in miracles, I perspective my own life as one big miracle!! In 2001 I went through a depression and at same time went to both a psychologist and a psychiarist - but did not receive medicin (only a little for sleeping once in a while) - as I believed God would heal me out of it again.

All this was, among other things, caused by a dad, which in my childhood, was showing a love in a way I did not much understand and able to receive and it caused me to have some identity-problems!

Actually all this is a very personal matter, but I wish to glorify God and why should I hide it ? I know what God did....He did NOT run away when it was most hurtful and paining......suicidal-thoughts, very dark and depressive thoughts, lots of tears etc.....He was EVEN closer, yes, God carried me through all this, He took me into His loving arms, God showed me that He was MASTER of my circumstances, that He was GREATER than what "was around me"...what I thought was impossible....He showed WAS possible, because He did it !

God kind of like expanded my view and knowledge of Him and learned me that I could be completely honest before Him and that sometimes it is "okay to just be like a little 4 year old child" that enters before the God of Creation. This is the God I serve.
Not only that, I was studying business-subject at that time, 4 different subjects (Marketing, Organisation, administration of staff and ledership & cooperation) and I manage to do so continuesly, in His power, and even go to exam the next comming year (2002) and get a quite good score - PRAISE GOD BIG TIME !!

This is one of the things I have in the "backsack of life".....now I am in Thailand, after I in 2005 meet my wife on through the Internet and later called to mission here. Let us go back to 2004...there was Tsunami, 26th december, in Thailand (among other countries) and while I was watching the news, the TV, Internet and newspapers was over-welming of sorrow, sadness, horror and desperation and the same things filled my heart - I was crushed in the Spirit, I was broken!! I was crying.....

The strange thing is that I did not know why I was reacting so heavy (today I know why....God was already there preparing my heart for Thailand....) and I know almost nothing about Thailand at that time!!!! Then the following year, 2005, on Valentine Day came in this mail from a cute little thai girl (only 1,49 centimer hehe....) and the rest of the story you know......now she is my wife :-)

We married in 2005, october, and the following year, as I kept praying and I was back in Denmark, had no job and everything I kept applying for was just "no, no, no..." and one day, one a walk near the see, I got this "sense in my heart".....: "there is absolute no reason for me to not go to Thailand....God wants me there..."....so I obeyed !
11th february 2006 I was on the plane to Thailand...this country I love.......... and I am still here....

This was a long background to where I am now......now I have a VISA-problem (but nothing that God cannot fix right.....) and is out of money to fix that. Problem : about 1500 US DOLLARS NEEDED A.S.A.P. - to what ???
To go to Australia, the only place and closest place, where I can get a 1 year VISA to stay in Thailand.....if that is the way of the Lord. How do I know ?

I might be crazy, I might be naive.....but maybe God is calling someone of you - who read this - or a church you know, or friends, or family, to - through the Holy Spirit - is being called upon to provide me for the travel to get a 1 year VISA ?????????? 1500 US DOLLARS about that.......... Is it ?

Why should you be given to someone you dont know and never have meet in person ?? Good question...I guess there is only one answer : TRUST...FAITH.........

How can you be sure I not cheat you ? You cannot....you just have to TRUST....and most of all, ASK GOD......if this is His will I know it will work out........... if not....then He must open another door, I guess.

2 testimonies from me on persons I have never meet but only on the Internet and I have given :

1) A person, danish, who was stucked in France and did not have the money to go back to Denmark........I meet her on a chat.........that was her story.....she is (was at least....) a Christian sister and I transfered money as I "sensed" the Holy Spirit asking me to do so.... the sad part of the story is later I discovered her story was not true and she wanted "only" to borrow but after that, she was not, suddenly, possible to contact at all ! But still....obedience and PRAISE GOD.....we cannot blame God for free will of humans....to do good things AS WELL as bad things..........

2) A phillipine girl, I meet on a chat, she had hardly money for her family which she had to take care of. I "sensed" the Holy Spirit to ask me to help her.....I never meet her in person or anything...... I transfered the amount God was asking me to and she was extremely happy and thankful !! I was happy as well, for my obedience to God and how He spoke to me!

Imagine how amazing it is, that we with such a simple thing AS MONEY...can help, can bless others (and the bible also encourages us to "do good, specially to those who have home in the same faith as you"....). Wow....what a oppurtunity...that we have this chance of changing other peoples life with JUST MONEY....that we get the chance of being a blessing....of giving.......and to "get rid of one less worry" (money mostly is connected with worriness....).

It not even stop here......God also promises : "GIVE AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN TO YOU"....that when you bless others......you will be blessed back.......wow.......what a oppurtunity!!!!!!

What to do now ? Well.....if this is the voice of God, you have to act in obedience and love to Christ.....if this is just my words.....then you just spent time in reading "another nice story" :-) Bless you brother and sister in Christ !!!

Hi there.... :-)
First I thought about the head-line....normally that is the first thing I put on (some prefer to write it AFTER finish writing.....maybe that is a good idea, but only now that is now how I do things hehe....). I wanted to write "Gods love" and not more than that....because what else is there to say ? Does most things in life not have to do with the love of God, or lack of it ? Does it not go around that issue all of it what is happening here on "planet earth" ?

Anyway...... I read a article today, among the other news-flash of the day, which was giving the point that "human race has not become more clever (the brain has not developed...) since on top in the 80s"...so far so good....that might be right, that might be wrong, I dont know.....it was not there my eyes headed.

What happened next was where my heart stood still for a split-second.....the article goes in to details and says "the human being is the most clever animal though of all the animals..." - say what ? Animal ? YES---- that is what the article proclaimed.....animals....humans....comparing and equalizing them...!! In the year of 2008....... Darwin is still considered a "hero" for many huh ?......

Could it be, just to be in the article subject, that our brain actually would start to develop again, if we started to look differently at ourselves....that we are created by a living God as human beings and different from animals ? Could it be that when we lowered our perceiption of ourselves to identify with animals, that was the point where our development stopped ?

What would happen if we started to look at ourselves like God looks at us ? What would happen with the whole human race if we identify ourselves in the same way as the bible does ? Would there happen more than we would have to give up our human pride ? - and that would not be so bad after all, right ?

When think of this...how, sorry, stupid human can be in our thinking and perception of things, ya, then it IS a wonder, that God still loves us - but that is the fact, He does and exactly because God loves, is the very same reason why He cares about what we think and how we look at things as well !!

For now.....when we stick on to the article, there is not much point in talking about the love of God - is there ? That God loves "animals" like us, that is great right..........
Well, I choose to rise up my standard, I am a LIVING HUMAN being, I am NOT a animal...I am a human, I have 2 arms, 2 legs, I can stand up, I can sit down, I have a name, I dont crawl around......I live, I think, I reflect, I breathe, I pray, I communicate with God (which by the way I dont find animals do.....)......now, here it becomes relevant again to think about the love of God.

God became a human...to become LIKE us....He did NOT became a animal...........(he would have to do that, if God wanted to be like one of us, and if the belief is right, that we are "animals"....). God became equal with us........

I hope to come back to the whole issue about Gods love a couple of times more.....because I believe it is here we need to find our identity, our braveness to visit God the Father in prayer and worship in the confidence that He IS love and the whole matter of how we relate to ourselves, others and God should as well be based on the matter of a understanding - a right understanding - of God as being L-O-V-E.

So to other HUMANS like me.....God LOVES you..... :-) He even loves Darwin......

I dont want you to get a depressive impression of these thoughts....but I am sure when you are honest, that you can follow my reflections. Have you been honest with life, you know that it hurts and it is in times like this, we become wondering about life and feel the rhythm of life moving in us.
For good and for worse.....is more than a clever line, is more than the whole specter of life...is it real. Thanks for the comment anyway....you know who....about as christian brothers and sisters that we ARE one family, much more than friends. Maybe exactly because of that, we are hurting each others......churches, denominations are hurting each others, splitting, dividing each others....pastors, leaders, common church goers and different believers - new as well as "old" - everybody hurts each others....that is a fact of life!!
I believe Peter, the disciple, he was hurt several times as well as him hurting others....and in the midst of this hurt, he come and ask Jesus, "how many times am I suppose to forgive my brother/sister who sin against me..." (does that sound like a proud question ?...or very realistic ? ).........70 times 7 ? or what ?
In a non-mathematic way, Jesus answers, "No....I tell you the truth...not 70 times 7, but 70 times 7 times..." - which I read a comment on, is a expression, a symbol of FOREVER...NEVER-STOP....
It is not a game about forgive your brother or sisters who sin against you 490 times (70 times 7) and AFTER that you can go ahead and take reverenge......by the way, I am not sure many people would stand up to forgiving the same person 490 times.......and still be forgiving ?......... It is NOT like that !!
Christ comes in with a love-message.....with a ultimative demand to us...asking us, begging us to LIFE A LIFESTYLE of forgiveness......it is NOT easy........but we HAVE to do so.....even when the people around us seems to be "hit by extremely stupidity"....... (but hey...could it be that I myself as well CAN act in "extremely stupidity" also ? I think so....). Who is the "idiot" anyway - me or them ? Well to quote a christian book (Paul Maier) "The world is full of idiots" and as far as you and me are included in the world, that DOES mean that we are "idiots" at times....and we need other peoples forgiveness also, for our expressions and behaviour!!
It might be a revelation is needed that forgivining is NOT a feeling....it is a decision......I mean how many times have you heard or said "but I dont FEEL like forgiving..." - NO....but that is NOT what it is about at all.
It is the same; God DECIDED to forgive us.....HE CHOOSE to do....... He did NOT have to do.........HE CHOOSE it............ (anyway, else it would also compromise with God being LOVE.......who else should save humanity from death and destruction ? Superman ? Spiderman ? )
Do we need to ask the Holy Spirit for a daily revelation of exactly HOW much we have been forgiven for, by God, and that we are called to live in the same forgiven attitude to the people around us ? Do you see your own sin ? Your own forgiveness ? Is it possible, that when you feel "ohhhh....so hurt and painful...", you could look at the cross of Jesus, where HE is surely SO hurt and pained....literally and He STILL prayes "forgive them, because they do NOT know what they do..." - is it possible then, that whatever difficult situation we are standing in, that compared with that amount of forgiveness, that we will be able to forgive ? (forgive those who are only humans like you and me...... could it also be that they are also struggling with forgiving you and me in their lifes...).
Do you remember the story Jesus shares about the servant who get a HUGE debt forgiven against me and right after that, he hurry to go out and DEMAND the debt from one of his debtors......it does not really match together, but look at it...is that not often what we do ? I do.........
One aspect more....have you thought about that it is mostly the ones that is closest to us, that means the most for us, that hurts us the most ? I mean, the lady who works at the post-office, when she hurts you it is not in the same degree as if your wife/husband hurts you or you hurts them ? Does "the more love-connection, the more risk of getting hurt" has something to do with it...... ? I think so.......
Well, this is todays reflections, sundays reflections on a day where God calls us to look at our heart, our intentions and willingness to forgive...a lifestyle of Christ !

Hi there....
So now it is saturday, a sleepy day because it happened that my sleep in the night was not that good....I think we got too much coffee or something. Anway....I feel like living on a big re-uniting today, because yesterday - you might know if you are a steady reader of my blog - my wife came home + all the students at the students at the school as well as some staff. In total quite many people and WHAT a difference that made from 2 weeks of quite much silence here!!
Ain´t it funny that being away from each other for some time, creates a BIGGER joy when being united instead of daily life when we almost take each others for granted......have you ever thought about that ? It is like you need to loose something, and then re-find it to experience the real joy of having it....is like 2nd. time is bigger than getting it first time, right ? Funny.......
Imagine then how God feels when someone is lost from Him, who maybe one time belonged to Him - in some way we all did when human kind was able to walk side by side with God in the garden of Eden and then came the fall of sin in the same garden place... * - and then they / or Him (it is still discussable who takes the first initiative...) come back to God....what a joyfull re-uniting!!

* can I add here that the bible and the whole plan of salvation - which makes it humans history as well - is a GARDEN-STORY!! The whole bible is about gardens......think about it :
1) The beginning of humans story WAS in a garden, garden of Eden.......as well as the fall of sin away from God was in a garden....
2) The devil appeared first time to humans in a garden as well, but same kind of garden though....
3) Jesus prayed in a garden, Getsemane, and ask God to let this pass away from Him....but then submitted Himself "let your will be done....not mine"....
4) The betrayal of the Son of God happened in a garden also...same garden as Jesus
So now I start to wonder if we will meet Jesus again in a garden :-) :-)

Anyway, I am happy to experience the joy of being with my wife as well as all the friends here, thank God for that !!

Stay blessed and THANK God for all the things you have and please dont take it for granted.....praise Him for it, He wants you to rejoice!!