God Working Thru People

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="005fd5a3.jpg"> <div> <I><B>Dependency Answers</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>         </B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000066" FACE="Georgia" ><I><B>  Since 1998</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>|     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dependency Answers"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="006d2b03.jpg"> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Articles and Resources"><U><B><U>Articles and Resources</U></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dependency Answers"><U><B><U>Home</U></B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B> <A NAME="god_working_thru_people"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><I><B>God Working Thru People</B></I></div> <bR> <div> I tend to get caught up in the world today I think like many people overwhelmed by the news in the papers, on the Internet and on TV and the stuff happening around the home, add in a dash of centering on goals and I get tunnel vision. It could be that I get stuck in my own conditioning which tends to limit my gratitude for just how great my life really is. I have what I want and I want what I have so to even get stuck in the express lane of ingratitude for any measure of moments feels like criminal behavior.</div> <bR> <div> We all tend to get stuck at times and need to go out and discover or rediscover the things that make humans so great and turn up the lights on life exposing the brilliance of the greatest acts of unselfish love that man has been involved in at times when the best choice might have been to stand silent or flee. You see, God works through his people and I think that the ideas the pop into our heads that propel us toward courage are divine guided. It seems that way because of the awe inspiring chain reactions of good brought forth in others from a single unselfish act that stifles evil and overcomes peril and often the catalyst donor is left wondering just how or why they suddenly reacted the way they did.</div> <bR> <div> To that end I decided to search and find the coolest measure of God inspired acts I could find and to share with my readers the wise words of what I believe are creator inspired wisdom. In writing this I hope to become more centered as I rediscover the greatness of the many humans who have improved the world for the better.</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>If you save the life of one person it is though you have saved the world eternal. Jewish Proverb</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Even a hunter cannot kill a bird that comes to him for refuge. Japanese Proverb</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Clothed in mercy</B></div> <bR> <div> It happened during the darkest days of Europe's history. Hitler was sweeping across the land promoting his contempt for Jews and his plan to exterminate them from the planet. Many countries were easily conned by his propaganda.</div> <bR> <div> But Denmark had a king that wasn't so easily taken in. He received Hitler's edict concerning the armbands that Jews would be required to wear.… So he went out on the balcony of his palace and began reading the edict line by line.…Then when finished, he tucked the note away and reached into his pocket, pulling out a small yellow armband. The king slipped it onto his coat sleeve. </div> <bR> <div> Over the weeks to come, thousands of Danes found ways to acquire these yellow armbands and wore them whenever they went out in public, just as the Jews were forced to do. As a result, Hitler's men found themselves in a constant struggle to separate the Jews from the non-Jews in Denmark.… Compassion is a trait within us that is very near the heart of God.</div> <bR> <div> Story retold by Frank M. Martin in Embracing Eternity (Tyndale House), p 85</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Georgia" >See More Like This In </FONT><A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Holocaust Heroes"><U><I><U>Holocaust Heroes</U></I></U></A></div> <div> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div> <div> <B>A candle in the darkness</B></div> <bR> <div> "In 1989, Lazlo Tokes was the pastor of a fast-growing reformed church in the city of Timisoara, Romania. His powerful preaching had caught the attention of communist officials, and they began a strategy of suppression. Just before Christmas, they decided to send him into exile.</div> <bR> <div> But when the police arrived to hustle Pastor Tokes away, they were stopped cold. Around the church stood a wall of humanity. Christians from around the city—Baptist, Pentecostal, Orthodox, Catholic—had joined together to protest.</div> <bR> <div> All through the day they held their post. As it grew dark, a Baptist student named Daniel Gavra pulled out a packet of candles, lit one, and passed it on to his neighbor.</div> <bR> <div> Then he lit another. One by one the burning candles were passed out among the crowd. Soon the darkness of the December night was pierced by the light of hundreds of candles. When Pastor Tokes looked out his window, he saw a sea of faces lit up by a warm glow.</div> <bR> <div> Two days later, police finally broke through the crowd and dragged Pastor Tokes away. But that was not the end. People streamed to the city square. Hundreds were shot, Young Daniel's leg was blown off. Yet the brave example set in Timisoara inspired the rest of the nation. Within days, the entire population of Romania had risen up and the bloody dictator Ceausescu was gone.</div> <bR> <div> adapted from How Now Shall We Live? Devotional by Charles Colson (Tyndale) pp 711-12"</div> <div> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div> <div> This Page To Be Continued </div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>