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This is my witty God...Could you have imagined it?

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I have reposted a very popular story below just to illustrate the witty, improbable, intelligent and impossible to predict God that we serve...that all creation will serve knowingly or not. God says in Isaiah 55:8 - "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,". During World War 2, a soldier was separated from his unit on an island. The fighting had been intense, and in the smoke and the crossfire he had lost touch with his comrades. Alone in the jungle, he could hear enemy soldiers coming in his direction. Scrambling for cover, he found his way up a high ridge to several small caves in the rock. Quickly he crawled inside one of the caves. Although safe for the moment, he realised that once the enemy soldiers looking for him swept up the ridge, they would quickly search all the caves and he would be killed. As he waited, he prayed, "Lord, please spare my life. Whatever will happen, I love you and trust you. Amen." After pra

Time of Yearly Stock Taking

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This is the last days of the year and appropriate time to do a stocktaking of the year to know if indeed you have succeeded or not. What goals did you set at the beginning of the year? To what extent did you get at fulfilling these goals? Whether you succeeded or not or did you get to achieve a considerable level or not? What really motivated you or distracted you during the course of the tear? Dividing your goals between spiritual or material goals, which one did you succeed at, and will you say there was or is a relationship between the two? Is each of the two mutually exclusive? In real sense of it, neither is mutually exclusive. If you live a life of self-power, self-effort, self-capability, self in all sense, you will certainly tend to evaluate and score only on the earthly or material or physical sense meaning all your efforts, belief and actualisation will be entirely based on your own ability and strength. Whatever you achieved or not during the year or over the