Manusia Menjauh dari Tuhan Ketika Kecewa dengan Sesama?

"Luka Batin" oleh Ps. Philip Mantofa

"Jesus Has Forgiven Your Sins, It's Time to Forgive Ourselves"

DID YOU KNOW?  When we ask Jesus to forgive our sins, He does and even forgets them?   Now we must forgive ourselves and move on to the great Positive future He has planned for us!

God Bless YOU!   Pastor Roger 

Romans 3:23 "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,"

Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."  

I John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 

Psalm 103:12 "As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us."  

Isaiah 43:25 ““I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins.”

Still - Hillsong

"God has a reason for allowing things to happen. We may never understand His wisdom. But we simply to trust His will. We faces all challenges. Beyond all the problems. Cause we believe that the more pain we overcome, the more stronger we become.

just HOLD ON !

and BE STRONG !

God is with us.."

Hide me now
Under your wings
Cover me
Within your mighty hand

When the oceans rise and thunders roar
I will soar with you above the storm
Father You are King over the flood
I will be still and
know You are God

Find rest my soul
In Christ alone
Know His power
In quietness and (trust

Repeat Chorus 2x)

My God.. My God.. My God..

I will be still and know
You are God

Songwriters
COSTELLO, ELVIS

"Percayalah kepada Tuhan"

~ Lepaskan Pegangan 

Anda ~

Percayalah kepada TUHAN dengan segenap hatimu, 

dan janganlah bersandar kepada pengertianmu sendiri. 

Amsal 3:5

Suatu hari Kerry Shook, 

penulis buku 

"One Month to Live" 

mengajak putranya bermain ke taman. 

Begitu sampai 

di taman, 

putranya Josh langsung berlari 

ke arah permainan yang paling 

di sukainya, 

sebuah palang untuk bergantung.

"Tolong angkat aku untuk bergantung 

di palang ini," 

demikian pintanya pada sang Ayah.

Kerry lalu mangangkatnya, 

dan tangan kecil Josh langsung berpegang erat pada palang tersebut tanpa dipegang lagi oleh ayahnya.

Kaki kecilnya bergantung sekitar 5 kaki di atas tanah, 

dan Josh terlihat begitu bangga bisa kuat bergantung disana. 

Sekitar beberapa menit kemudian, 

dia mulai lelah dan meminta di turunkan.

"Ayah, tolong turunkan saya."

Ayahnya menjawab,

"Josh, lepaskan saja peganganmu dan aku akan menangkapmu."

Terlihat segurat keraguan 

di wajahnya, 

dia berkata,

"Tidak, turunkan aku."

Kembali Kerry berkata,

"Josh, jika kamu lepaskan peganganmu, 

aku akan menangkapmu."

"Tidak, turunkan aku."

"Josh, aku mencintaimu. 

Aku janji aku akan menangkapmu."

Bagi Kerry ini adalah kesempatan untuk mengajar Josh bahwa dia bisa mempercayai ayahnya. 

Josh hanya perlu melepaskan pegangan pada palang itu, 

dan ayahnya akan menangkapnya. 

Tetapi pria kecil itu bertahan dengan seluruh kekuatannya bergantung 

di palang itu. 

Dia berpegangan hingga tangannya mulai kelelahan dan tidak bisa bertahan lagi. 

Akhirnya dia lepaskan pegangannya dan dia ditangkap oleh ayahnya.

Sebuah senyum mengembang diwajahnya, 

dia diturunkan 

ke tanah oleh ayahnya dan langsung berlari untuk bermain ayunan.

Pelajaran untuk Josh telah selesai, 

namun ayahnya, 

Kerry tiba-tiba mendengar suara Tuhan dengan jelas yang berbicara kepadanya.

Seperti itulah hubunganmu 

dengan KU. 

Kamu sering berpegangan dengan suatu keputusasaan pada palang kehidupanmu, 

coba melakukan sesuatu dengan kekuatanmu sendiri. 

Kamu mengalami pergumulan yang tiada akhir, 

mencoba mengendalikan semua situasi. 

Kamu bertahan dan berpikir bahwa tidak ada orang yang akan menangkapmu sehingga kamu pikir lebih baik kamu bertahan di palang tersebut dan mempererat pegangan. 

Ketika kamu lelah bergantung, 

dan tanganmu mulai lemah, 

AKU berkata, 

"Lepaskan pegangan, dan AKU akan menangkapmu. 

Lepaskan peganganmu. 

AKU janji AKU mencintaimu dan akan menangkapmu.

Seringkali kita mencoba mengerjakan segala sesuatu dengan kekuatan kita sendiri, berpikir sebaiknya kita kekiri, 

ketika TUHAN berkata ke kanan.

Hari ini DIA berkata, 

"AKU membentukmu dengan tangan KU sendiri. 

AKU menciptakanmu dengan sebuah tujuan, 

dan AKU mati untuk menebusmu. 

Mengapa kamu tidak bisa mempercayai KU ? 

AKU memberikan hidup KU untukmu. 

AKU TUHAN atas alam semesta ini. 

Kamu hanya perlu melepas peganganmu, 

dan AKU akan menangkapmu."

BAPA sorgawi ingin Anda dan saya untuk mempercayai NYA. 

Jika Anda berkeras untuk mengendalikan keadaan Anda sendiri, 

berjuang dengan kekuatan Anda sendiri, 

merencanakan apa yang baik menurut pikiran Anda sendiri, 

Anda akan kelelahan.

Anda akan kehabisan daya.

Ini adalah saatnya Anda mengambil sebuah resiko untuk melepaskan pegangan Anda. 

Ini saatnya untuk mengalami kuasa Tuhan bagaimana DIA menyatakan mukjizat NYA dalam hidup Anda bahkan pada bagian-bagian yang tidak pernah Anda pikirkan sebelumnya.

Mempercayai Tuhan membutuhkan keberanian, 

hal itu  membutuhkan iman. 

Namun mempercayai TUHAN tidak akan pernah merugikan. 

Memang, 

jantung Anda akan sedikit deg-degan,

tapi percayalah DIA selalu tepat waktu dan tidak mungkin meleset untuk menangkap Anda.

Waktu TUHAN selalu indah, 

dan DIA selalu dapat dipercaya.

❤JESUS LOVES US❤

"Bertahanlah dalam Penderitaanmu!"

Hari Selasa, Pekan Biasa XXX

Rm. 8:18-25

Mzm. 126:1-2ab,2cd-3,4-5,6

Luk. 13:18-21

Bertahanlah dalam penderitaanmu!

Beberapa bulan lalu saya mengunjungi seorang pasien di Rumah Sakit. Setelah doa dan pengurapan dengan minyak suci, suasana di kamar itu terasa tenang, semua orang saling memandang satu sama lain, sesekali memandang pasien yang terbaring lemah. Salah seorang saudaranya memecahkan kesunyian dengan berkata: “Saudara, bertahanlah dalam penderitaanmu. Percayalah bahwa Tuhan Yesus akan melawat dan menyembuhkanmu.” Kata-kata ini tidak hanya mencairkan situasi tetapi juga sangat menghibur pasien itu. Ia perlahan-lahan boleh menerima penyakit yang dideritanya. Ia bertahan dalam derita dan Tuhan menganugerahkan kesembuhan kepadanya.

St. Paulus membantu kita semua hari ini untuk menerima apa adanya segala penderitaan dan kemalangan, sakit dan penyakit sebagai bagian dari hidup kita. Ia berkata: “Sebab aku yakin, bahwa penderitaan zaman sekarang ini tidak dapat dibandingkan dengan kemuliaan yang akan dinyatakan kepada kita.” (Rm.8:18). Semua penderitaan yang kita alami saat ini sifatnya sementara, kemungkinan pemulihan selalu terbuka karena  penyelenggaraan Tuhan. Tuhan akan memberikan kemuliaan, yakni kehidupan kekal kepada setiap orang yang percaya kepada-Nya. Ini adalah kerinduan seluruh makhluk dalam menantikan saat anak-anak Allah dinyatakan. 

Anak-anak Allah hidup dalam Roh dan mendapat kasih karunia dari Tuhan. Mereka berani meninggalkan kedagingan hidup dan hanya hidup dalam Roh saja. Sebab hidup dalam kedagingan adalah hidup dalam kesia-siaan. Orang harus memiliki harapan untuk bisa mengalami kemerdekaan dan kemuliaan sebagai anak-anak Allah. Mereka itu laksana biji sesawi dan ragi yang bisa mengubah hidup sesamanya supaya layak di hadirat Tuhan.

Bacalah Homili di: 

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Damai sertamu,

PJSDB

"Jesus took away all the thorns to save you from pain"

How can you mend this broken man? How can a loser ever win? Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again.

These lyrics from a popular song of the ’70s, “ How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? ” by the Bee Gees, can certainly make us reflect on our own broken hearts. How many of you have a broken heart now, or have had your heart broken in the past? You have this huge gaping hole in your heart that was left by someone or circumstances. How many of you feel that this hole can never be filled and that you will be left with the hollow in your heart forever?

There can be many reasons why we are left with a broken heart: the death of a loved one, divorce, loss of a job, loss of status, loss of health, betrayal by a friend, loss of a child and, yes, loss of your childhood. All of these reasons can leave you a broken man or woman.

Along with enormous blessings, I have also had great sorrow in my life. The biggest sorrow of all was the loss of my childhood and never knowing what a loving father is like. I never heard my father say “I love you” or “I am very proud of you.” I never experienced what it is like to feel secure, with a strong father in my life, protecting me and keeping me safe. This reality in my life has left a hole in my heart—an emptiness that I once felt could never be filled.

Even though we have these holes in our hearts, I am here to tell you that there is hope for you and me, and for all the brokenhearted. There is hope for those who sorrow, because there is a Healer who will mend our broken hearts. As David said in Psalms 147:3: “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” God wants to heal us of all of our wounds.

What is a wound? If you have ever had an injury or a deep cut, you know how painful it is and how it hurts to be touched. Oftentimes sorrow and loss are like deep wounds. They can be so painful that it seems no one or nothing can make the pain go away. Sometimes our heart is so broken that we can’t even express the words and nothing seems to take the pain away.

People who try to encourage us can’t seem to say the right thing. Like a deep wound, a broken heart will not heal overnight. Like some medicines that burn when you apply them to a skin wound, so can a well-meaning friend who says the wrong thing at the wrong time. Who wants to pour rubbing alcohol on an open wound? We search the stores to find an ointment that we can apply to our skin wound that will not burn and then cover it gently with a Band-Aid. It’s the same way with our broken heart. We need the right ointment to bring about healing.

So what is the right ointment for our hearts? How do we begin to heal? How can the hole in our hearts that is gaping open begin to close?

1. Recognize the pain and understand it is OK to hurt. Sometimes we seek to cover the pain by ignoring it or through other means like the use of alcohol or drugs, which will only cause us to get infected and reverse the healing process. Like a deep skin wound, we must apply the right ointment or a Band-Aid so we can begin to heal or else it can get infected and become worse. We cannot ignore our pain and think it will go away.

Understand that it is OK to hurt. We try to push the hurt away, but we can’t. The hurt isn’t outside of us—it’s inside. So, in our attempt to push the hurt away, we actually push the hurt deeper inside. We then can spend the rest of our life running from this suppressed hurt.

By going through our hurts, we are a part of the human race—millions of people who are going through similar pains. It is during this time that we need a lot of love, encouragement and hope restored. We realize how frail we are and see our great need for God.

It is a time to reflect on the true meaning of life and the greatest opportunity of all to draw close to God. It is an opportunity to learn empathy toward others who are going through the same things. You cannot do all of these things if you try to ignore the pain.

2. Seek the Healer. Seek God as your healer! Just like you tell a doctor your symptoms, tell God how much you were wounded and need His healing touch. He will hear the cries of the broken. God the Father wants to reach down, take your hand, and walk you through your pain. It may take weeks. For many of us it will take years, perhaps even a lifetime to close the wounds of our hearts completely. God will spend as much time and as many years as necessary to help you through it.

He wants to gently apply the daily salve or ointment of His Holy Spirit to your heart until your heart is healed. I know this because He has done it with me. When I am down, He lifts me up in many different ways. He is there for me to cry on His shoulder, so to speak, and then sends His encouraging Spirit to get me back up and going again.

King David said in Psalms 56:8, “You number my wanderings; put my tears into Your bottle; are they not in Your book?” God was so aware of David that He even collected his tears. In the same way God is involved and aware of our pain, our joys, our failures, our accomplishments.

When Hezekiah was stricken with sickness, he poured out his heart to God. God heard him and saw his tears. God was moved with compassion. “Return and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you”’” (2 Kings 20:5). God saw Hezekiah’s tears. Understand that God can be closer to us when the pain is so great than at any other times in our life.

“The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit,” wrote David (Psalms 34:18, NIV). Ask and receive God’s love and encouragement, because He is very near to you. God can work with a heart that has a hole in it, because the need is so great for it to be filled.

3. Reach out to others. As God has reached out to us, so we should be an instrument of God to reach out and help others who are in pain. Solomon recognized the fact that people need to be comforted. In Ecclesiastes 4:1 it says, “Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed—and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors—and they have no comforter” (NIV).

Ask God to use you to encourage others through their pain. By your own pain you will be able to understand and help in a far greater way. Christ our Savior was in all points tested and understands all that you go through. He reached out to us by giving His life so that we would be healed.

Isaiah 61:1-3 discusses Christ’s mission: “The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor” (NIV).

This will come to pass when Christ returns, but in the meantime we should make it our mission to follow this example, and be instruments of healing by taking the time to care for those who are in pain and hurting. By reaching out to others, our own pain will begin to disappear; the holes in our hearts will begin to close.

Healing takes time

It takes time to heal. In my life, after 25 years, there is still a hole in my heart, but it’s much smaller because of God. Every time I feel God’s presence, every time I see God’s intervention in my life, every time I reach out to someone else, every time God grants me blessings, the hole in my heart gets smaller and is being replaced with God’s heart.

When God returns to this earth, the hole in our hearts and in mankind’s hearts will be filled and mended. There will be no more tears, no more pain, no more sorrow and no more holes to fill in an empty heart—for all our hearts will be filled with God’s Spirit. For as Psalms 126:5promises, “Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.” God will heal all broken hearts. We will no longer feel sad for what we lacked in this physical life because God will fill our hearts and make us complete