Morse Code Signals in our Life

“Religion and business are not separate things.  Divine and human agencies are to combine in temporal as well as in spiritual achievements.   They are to be united in all human pursuits.  Mechanical, agricultural labors, mercantile, and scientific enterprises must be in cooperation in everything embraced in Christian activity.”

Once, Fr. Ritsche along with other DC Herald volunteers tagged us along in a Bible Sharing.  There, I was amazed how the Holy Spirit continues to work among these GKK members who meet weekly to sit down and talk about the gospel, for 23 years already.  That’s why, I didn’t pass the opportunity to borrow the notes of their District Coordinator/Group Leader Dr. Rose as she reflected on this verse:

“I am the vine.  You are the branches.  Remain in me and I in you.”         

We are to love God, not only with all our heart, mind, and soul, but with all our strength. Jesus was a true worker in temporal as well as in spiritual things and into His works.  He is determined to do His Father’s will.  In His earthly life, Jesus worked as a carpenter and the Heavenly architect who marked out the plan for the sacred building where His name was to be honored.

In building the first tabernacle, God gave wisdom to execute the most skillful and beautiful workmanship and in the hearts of all that are wise heartedthat they make all that He commanded them.  See Exodus 31:2-6.

God desires that his workers in every line shall look to Him as the Giver of all they possess.  All right inventions and improvements have the source in him who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working.  The skill with which the carpenter uses the hammer, the strength with which the blacksmith makes the anvil ring comes from God.  The skillful touch of the physician’s hand, his knowledge of the delicate organism of the body is the wisdom of divine power, to be used in behalf of the suffering.

It is just essential to do the will of God when erecting a building as when taking part in a religious service.  If the workers have brought the right principle into their own character making, then in the erection of every building they will grow in grace and knowledge.

The Lord made Daniel and Joseph shrewd managers.  They worked through them because they did not live to please their own inclinations but to please God.  We remember that both are dreamers; their link to God and they followed them.  Try to read their lives in the Bible.  Daniel was a prophet of God receiving the light of heavenly inspiration.  Worldly, ambitious men are represented in the Word of God as the grass that grow up, as a flower of the grass that fades and as a branch that does not bear fruit.

Yet the Lord desires to have in His service intelligent men qualified for various lines of work.  There is a need for businessmen who will weave the grand principles of truth into all their transactions.  Their talents should be perfected through study and training especially the Bible.

If men in any line of work need to improve their opportunities to become wise and efficient, it is through using their ability in building up the kingdom of God in our world.  But God will not accept the greatest talents of the most splendid service unless self is laid upon the altar, a living, consuming sacrifice.  The root must be holy, else there can be no fruit acceptable to God.

Lastly, I’ll ask you. Have you fiddled with the dials of a radio on the shortwave band and come upon Morse Code signals that sound like ti, ti, tititi.  They are actually saying something if you know the code.  They have a message for those who can read codes.  This sort of coded messages are all around us daily.  God has a way of sending us signals through persons, places and things, but we’ve got to be awake and aware of their presence or they’ll fly right by.

“I am the vine.  You are the branches.  Remain in me and I in you.”  

Salamat Dr. Rose for the gift of yourself in serving the local Church.  May your group continue to grow both in number and in spiritual gifts, as well.

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