From the Heart by B.Demaere

  Knowing Jesus Christ may not be a trend in this world right now, but I can guarantee you it will change you from the inside-out.   It did it for me and I live in a greater freedom from day to day. I would imagine the trend right now is to “know yourself” and as a world of knowledge we are consumed by the knowledge of Self.   Self can become an idol between God and us.   God must become number One in your life. The other trend is to find happiness at all costs which can be dangerous as you would not be able to stand yourself when you become depressed or angry.   It does not give much room to allow yourself to be normal if your ideal self is “happy”.   In other word, stop looking for “happy” and everything will be “normal” like your feelings and the grey sky in your life.   We suppress so much of our feelings that we end up hating ourselves for being unhappy or normal. God is looking for normal people so that through them he can do the miraculous...

  What is Most Important Thing? Here, is the Apostle Paul who did not consider anything about himself as important.  According to Philippians 3:5-11, he does not even consider his past accomplishments or religion as important.  All his moral qualities and advantages, even past failures as he had persecuted the Church.  Everything about him he considers lost for the cause of knowing Christ. “Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord” (v.8) If you read about him in the Book of Acts 9 and through his letters, he will tell you that he was a know-it-all kind of person.   Very proud of who he was and what he did.   It took a vision of Christ on the road to Damascus to convert him to Christ.   He had previously been a Pharisee of Pharisees and knew the Law of Moses inside and out.   What could have changed him so drastically, but Christ.   For delivering him from that bondage to the Law an...