Hey there,
this sunday i got ask to talk about the light in my life and how i am a light. It's gonna be some kind of testimony i have to give during a sunday youth service in two weeks.
There is this song called 'Krieger des Lichts' (eng.warriors of light) by Silbermond, a german band. It talks about fighting for what we stand, fighting for what's important. I personally really like this song and it's also gonna be the theme for that specific service. I still don't know why they chose two friends and me, but I can say that I'm truly honored to be seen as one of those warriors. So here are some thoughts we collected and I had about it:
Warriors! They stand for strength, strong will power, couragous and never ending faith. All things, I would say are positive. But it also includes the word war, a word I associate with something really, really negative. But not included in the word warrior, at least not for me. Because life is kind of like a little war. we have to fight every day, every hour against all the temptations and a lot of people just run, but a warrior stays and fights for what he stands for.
Light! something bright, nice and warm. Don't we all love the shine of some candles or the warming power of fire?
Now how can you combine those two? I think it's pretty easy! The light isn't only what we see, it's what we give. It's praying for someone, hugging and being there for someone when they need you, giving love, bringing God, our Lord and father to other people, giving HIS love and HIS hope to others. Showing God through ourselves.I know it sounds hard to do that but in little aspects we all are warriors of light sometimes.
In Germany, a lot of people say that the youth of today doesn't believe in God, that there is nobody who fights for God who is my age. But that's not true. I see it everyday at my school, we don't have a lot of people believe in Christ; they don't go to church or to prayers or stuff like that, they are in the darkness. But we also have people who fight for bringing back that light into my school, who fight for showing how God is using us. God made everysingle one of us to be a warrior of light, to bring his light into the world. maybe you organize a taizé prayer in your school to bring that light or maybe you just help someone who needs it.
We all are warriors of light! I am! You are! We all are!
Dienstag, 30. November 2010
Mittwoch, 3. November 2010
Some thougths
So, I had this bible study on Monday and i was going through my bible and found this passage and thought I should share it. It's a great chapter that talks about Love, which is a big deal for a lot of my friends right now.
1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
So never forget, God loves us like we are and we don't have to change. And if we don't have to change for him we don't have to change for anyone else, because we live for him! And he accepts us as we are.
1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
So never forget, God loves us like we are and we don't have to change. And if we don't have to change for him we don't have to change for anyone else, because we live for him! And he accepts us as we are.
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