- Reflections on Life ; It's necessary to live happy -

Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom

( Moses's prayer in Psalm 90 : 12 - Human being's life is short, God's life is eternal )

Our power is not to know how
the future will be but to know
who the God of this future is
( Leroy Koopman )

Only the existence of a God can explain
the order of the universe
( Leibniz )

Nature has perfections to show us that it's a likeness of God, and
it has defects to show us that nature is simply a likeness
( Blaise Pascal )

It's not necessary to live, but it's necessary to live happy
( Jules Renard )

Few speech but much Love
( Charles Perrault )

Even if men don't believe in God, God always exists
( Graham Greene )

Take care about the glamour of Satan :
The glamour will go away but Satan will
stay at home ( Gabriel Chevalier )

One day you smile,
One day you cry,
One day you was born,
One day you will die
( Julio Iglesias's song )

For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven :
A time to be born, and a time to die ;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted ;
A time to kill, and a time to heal ;
A time to break down, and a time to build up ;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh ;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance ;
A time to throw away stones,
and a time to gather stones together ;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing ;
A time to seek, and a time to lose ;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away ;
A time to tear, and a time to sew ;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak ;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace
( Ecclesiastes 3 : 1-8 )

Don't say that you are too bad, the Christ has come because you are bad ;
Don't say that you feel very sad, the Christ has come because you feel sad ;
Don't say that your trouble is too big & too bitter, nothing is too big for God

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come
and the years approach when you will say : " I find no pleasure in them "
...
Be happy, young man, while you are young, and let your heart
give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of
your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that
for all these things, God will bring you to judgment.

( Ecclesiastes 12 : 1 & 11 : 9 )

BIBLICAL STUDIES SECTION

The God of the future :

When I read newspapers I find news from yesterday and the days before yesterday ; but when I read the Bible I find the last news for tomorrow and the days after tomorrow [ Fernand Legrand ]

« Happy is the one who reads this Book ( the Bible ), and happy are those who listen to the Words of this prophetic message and obey what is written in this Book ! For the time is near when all these things will happen » ( The Revelation to John 1 : 3 )

Where there is great love, there are always miracles [ Willa Cather ] - Reflection quotations and quotes Human destiny is not written in the sky but in God's plan [ Lothar Gassmann ] - Reflection quotations and quotes

Astrology and superstition :

Astrology confuses the Creator and what He has created. " They exchange the truth about God for a lie ; they worship and serve what God has created instead of the Creator himself, who is to be praised for ever ! Amen " ( Romans 1 : 25 ). People consult the cosmos to learn about human being instead of to trust in God's word and in God's will. Astrology is a superstition in spite of its scientific appearance. What it says are false, just they are true sometimes by chance. What it says are just probable and are dictated by Satan.

The Bible says us that stars and planets are not gods which can influence on somebody and on the earth life ; stars and planets are just light. God has created them to give light on the earth and to mark seasons, but they have not power by themselves ( Genesis 1 : 14 - 18 ; Isaiah 47 : 13 - 15 ) or too Jeremiah 10 : 2 : " This is what the Lord says : Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the sky, though the nations are terrified by them ". These are demons' power which work when people believe in astrology and in horoscope.

Human destiny is not written in the sky through the position of the stars but it's written in God's plan.
( Lothar Gassmann in " Esoterik als Lebenshilfe ? " Verlag für Reformatorische Erneuerung 2001 )

HUMOR REFLECTION SECTION

SATAN'S CUNNING TO DISTURB A CEREMONY

Satan went to the temple, he arrived earlier.
- Where do you go Satan ?
- I go to the temple ; I go there to defend myself !
- To defend yourself ? But how do you do to defend yourself in a place where everybody hates you ?
- Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! I've a lot of ways. For example, early in the mornnig I make something which is unexpected. Just little thing such as unexpected guest for lunch ; a flu so people decide to rest in bed ... I see that it's so easy : just an unexpected broken lace ; a suddenly lost button ; the milk which is poured down on the ground ; the cat which becomes suddenly ill ; a broken vehicle just before starting ; out of gas for oven ; and so one ... So people decide to don't go to temple ! And if they decide to go, they go but in a very bad mood so they can not profit from sermon.

- In the temple ( at the beginning, at the middle and at the end ) I work to make people not concentrated. It's so easy too : just two or three people who don't stop talking during the ceremony. So other people can not really pray. Often too, some people arrive in late at the ceremony. There are two advantages for me : these people will not concentrated and they disturb all the others christians during the first 15 minutes ; oh it's funny !

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