Why are you looking for useless things?

Prophet Isaiah (Is 55:1-3), speaking in God’s name, presents us with a very clear question: Why to spend your time and energy, looking for things that cannot satisfy you?

All of us are hungry and thirsty of love and of life. We need to be noticed, recognized and accepted. To satisfy this need some are ready to do strange thinks that bring them out of the crowd in which they feel lost. In order to make a name for themselves, to be spoken about and to become famous, some are ready to break all rules and to do what others dare not do.  In the end, by whom do we want to be counted? Will it bring peace of heart? Will it give meaning to our lives? Why to spend our time and energy looking for what cannot satisfy us?

And Isaiah presents God’s invitation to each one of us: Come and get food and drink that satisfy your heart, without paying, just for free. God always accepts us and he is always ready to make a covenant of love with us.

The invitation remains. Why should we ignore it? We loose nothing in trying it out. And God will give meaning to our lives.

The madness of a killer...

The madness of a killer, pretending to be a hero.

Life is cheap, very cheap,

Not worthy keeping

And easy to throw away

Into the dustbin of history.

Someone’s crazy dreams

value more than dozens

Of young lives in the prime

Of a journey full of hope.

Anything can be justified

Even the heart’s madness

Trying to make one’s own chaos

Into the rule of the world.

How can he be connected with Christianity?

That Christianity has nothing to do with Jesus Christ,

The Prince of peace and the Giver of life.

Jesus came to bring hope, not despair.

25-Jul-11

REJOICE

Rejoice, oh

shout for joy

you heavens, and all

who dwell within it.

A great voice

Is heard in heaven,

Shouting out:

All of you

Leap with joy.

Salvation and power and

the kingdom of our God

have arrived among us.

All of you

Leap with joy.

It has come along

With the power

of his Christ.

All of you

Leap with joy.

The liar, who accused us

Day and night

Has been thrown out.

All of you

Leap with joy.

He was defeated

By the blood shed

By the Lamb

All of you

Leap with joy.

And he was defeated

by the true word

of their testimony.

All of you

Leap with joy

(Rev 12:10-12)

compose by Elvis Mumba

We should always rejoice,

because of God’s great love,

revealed to us in Jesus Christ.

He came to set us free by

defeating the great deceiver

who accused us day and night

and prevented us from

coming close to the God of life.

On the cross, shedding his blood for us,

He revealed his great love, which

brings reconciliation and peace.

We rejoice and we sing his praises,

standing up as witnesses of his love

and proclaiming that being one with him,

we find life, freedom and salvation.

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THE BOOK A REVELATION

Many times, we are turned off by its difficulties,

And many see in it the prophecies of the present and of the future,

a future full of doom and disaster.

Many people interpret every detail as referring to present day events and personalities.

However, the Book of Revelation is a book full of hope, and written to give hope to the persecuted Christians at the end of the first century. It is a book to proclaim the final victory of Jesus Christ, being assured that all those who live and die with Christ, will share his victory. The song presented above is a song of victory, and so it is a song of rejoicing.