Last week I was sitting in the church to translate a message which King, our pastor, shared. I'm sure that God wants to reveal himself as a good provider who provide a safe place to any Christian who deals with family conflicts, and it's a Christ family. This is a very big family that have the same value and thought, they also have a same father, and they also walk to eternity together. Most of Thai Christian would face lots of conflict from our earthly families if we are the 1st person who became Christian in our own family. We value life by live in a holiness and love one another while our very own family value money and how much we can get from others. We can't expect that we'll be understood by our earthly family. God also doesn't let us stand alone in this kind of situation, he is carrying our sadness,grieves and suffering through his children. Once we share our heart together with brother and sister, we receive an encouragement and understanding from them. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't turn away from our earthly family since we receive a good thing from Christ family, we should be a giver who gives to our family. This timeless truth helps me to turn myself to my dad and my sister, instead of point out what wrong with them, I'll be a giver who cares and love them. I'll continue to give and pray for them. Through this, I can walk as Christ-like Christianity. Thanks to God for his wonderful message!
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11 ESV There are many people in different generation refer to this specific scripture as their comforts, their hopes, and encouragement for others which is not wrong of doing it so, but recently I read this passage over and over until I have the deeper understanding with its context and meditate on it, so I want to write it down to remind myself and share it with you. The verse before this scripture is "For Thus says the Lord: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will visit you, and I'll fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." - Jeremiah 29:10-11 ESV . God told Jeremiah to write a letter stating this passage in Jerusalem and send it to the survivi...
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