From the Heart by B.Demaere

Have you ever read a book with a new outlook, a renewed focus about it or life?  This happened to me as I was reading the “strange ” book of Ecclesiastes .  Although the author of the book is thought to be king Solomon.  It is now Solomon as a ‘senior” we are reading.  I always thought I was reading the book of an old man“tired of life”.  But now I am reconsidering him.  He is not so far from the truth.  I better pay attention to his wisdom. What I see in this book is phenomenal.   He is inviting us to evaluate our lives and to think long and hard at our time and moments. How we value it or them.   Do not work so hard that you miss half of your life.   He is asking us to consider the value of things and for him to have reached the end of his life and passing it on to us is a treasure of wisdom that I am truly thankful for.   It is my legacy from him. In the third chapter he wants to break our time in moments and name them. ...

    I am more than excited about the wisdom I find in Proverbs from the Bible these days.  A wisdom that I want to grow into and be able to pass it on to future generation The book of Proverbs is to me in part an admonition from a father to his son.   A legacy of wisdom and character.   Very obviously and more than anything he does not want his son just to be wealthy    but rather, want him to be rich in wisdom from God, the highest kind of wisdom there is.   The kind of wisdom that you want to know intimately and even pass it on to the next generation.   Men, I am talking to you or with you While still reading and meditating on the Book of Proverbs from the Bible, I cannot help but experiencing it as an admonition from a father to his son.   The Father wants to pass on a legacy to his son.   Are you a father or one to be? Or perhaps, like me a grandfather who has struggled all his life to put food on the table?   Now ...

  Someone once asked Billy Graham, "If Christianity is valid, why is there so much evil in the world?" To this he replied, "With so much soap, why are there so many dirty people in the world? Christianity, like soap, must be personally applied if it is to make a difference in our lives."   I feel the same way about wisdom. It must be applied personally to your life to work. Furthermore, the wisdom from Proverbs is for everyone as we read in the first verses of the book. So, whether you think of yourself to be a wise person you still need it. Proverbs guarantee you will still benefit from them. One might want to try to do just that and see what kind of results we get out from them. I suppose it would improve our lives greatly and positively. Better than any old books on positive thinking, this might eventually turn anyone into a positive person and the quality of life would be comparatively great. In other word, you can never receive enough wisdom and that is...

  Are you a god that you should know better than him who created everything from scratch?   Proverbs 8:22 (MSG) “ God has sovereignly made me- the first, the basic- before he did anything else. I was brought into being a long time ago.”   Today, my message is from the Word in Proverbs, and it is clear and to the point.   How many times have you started something without making wisdom, your sister? Do you hold wisdom close to your heart and mind? (Proverbs 7:4-5)   This verse in Proverbs 8:22 says that Wisdom was created first or God is sending us a strong message about wisdom. “If I started with it, you could too.” Start with wisdom in all you do. If you lift her up, she will lift you too.   Increasingly our society is letting go of wisdom . An example: Prayer in schools replaced by good behavior . Are we telling God what to do? How can we have our needs met if we do not put him and his kingdom first (Matthew 6:33)? Why do you think there is pove...

According to 1 Corinthians 1 and 2... The message of the Cross is foolishness to the lost, but wisdom and power to the people of God.  We are saved against any humanly impossible condition.  Humanly speaking God’s love for us cannot be reasoned since the wisdom of man cannot bring us to God (1 Corinthians 1:21).  Human wisdom is too weak to even comprehend God’s ways.  We who are born-again believers have cause to rejoice in this, that Christ did not die in vain but saved us beyond our understanding.     It does not make sense that I who has a mental illness should be given the privilege to give the message I have been given .  Come on God there must be someone better than me among 8 billion ?  But it is his delight to entrust his message to the weak because that is given in power .  Obviously, God must be looking at other aspect to qualify someone because to the world I was a nobody.   No one can know a person’s thoughts except that pe...