What the Bible says about Jesus
The Good Seed and the Weeds “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seeds in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.” Matthew 13:24,25.
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Language Adaptation as the Best Defense for the Immigrant
One of the primary survival skill to ensure success in your immigration long lasting process after becoming a resident.
Written and published by Jean-Louis Mondon
Chameleon (Hebrew Koach "ko'-akh"): adapts to any climate, any situation or circumstance and creates the resources necessary - an atmosphere conducive - to it's own success.
After having spent an incubation period of six years in a chameleon egg, my eye sight afflicted by its innate stereoscopy woke up to its environment. I had gone through a metamorphosis that went beyond my sense of Cartesian analysis. The mirror only reflected kaleidoscopic dimmed lights whose alternance never ceased to engulf me in a deep and disquieting instability.
The more I looked at myself in my new habitat, the more my perception of public approval of my appearance of a weird animal in the cultural show window did not stop me from being aware of a certain internal protection against an imperceptible, but yet strongly felt erosion. This provoked in my being, a profound malaise similar to what happens to a sailor on a drifting boat, I had let go of my moorings, my roots had no more soil in to hold on to.
On the other hand, with the passing years, I have learned to accept this new nature of the chameleon. After all, it doesn´t wonder if its instinctive protection system follows the latest trends if the political, intellectual, social or artistic winds are in vogue, if he must today clothe himself in blue, red or as the order of the day dictates in green or with a bizarre costume. Adaptation , including a new language learning acquisition, if only a change of accent is a must if the immigrant´s career or being an integral part of society depends on his willingness to integrate and assimilate to his new environment.
Can we accuse the chameleon of being a weather vane? Of course not, the weather vane is blown by and follow the direction of the wind whereas the chameleon confronts the changing winds and his alarm system allows him to detect incoming danger and to trigger his inoffensive yet effective security device.
Or could we chide or blame the long lasting statesman Marquis de Talleyrand of having survived several successive governments or rulers without losing his head. Perhaps was it his reptilian composure (in French: cold blood) that allow him to keep it attached to his shoulders?
This is simply one of the adaptation mechanisms I had to develop along my life experience, without resorting to human psychology therapy, without artificial prescription or other drugs creating a false peace and illusory and ephemeral contentment.
Note from the author: Born in Algeria from 3 generations French parents, life carried me through 3 immigration processes that demanded acquiring survival skills. Learning a new language is a passport or a visa to a new way of life and demands efforts, courage, resilience and perseverance in the face of numerous challenges.
I have already survived 3 immigration successful processes and I am about to embark on another exciting journey on my 4th. Adventure. Going back home to Europe. Wish me well.
Jean-Louis
Saturday, March 25, 2023
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A Reflection on Love.
Written and published by Jean-Louis Mondon
Love always hopes. When everything seems hopeless to the world, the Christian has hope in God working out His will and plan for the ultimate best.
We can do more than praying after we have prayed.
We cannot do more than praying until we have prayed.
In Corinthians, we have love defined by its nature and principles, in Ephesians Paul calls the believers to understand and grow into the dimensional aspect of love.
The Corinthians being immature needed to learn the ABCs, the rudiments of doctrine, they needed things to be spelled out for them.
In Corinthians 10:7, Paul tells them: You are looking only on the surface of things.
Again in 2 Cor 3:15 he tells them: “So fix your eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal”.
In 2 Cor 5:12, he talks about those who take pride in what is seen rather than what is in the heart.
The Corinthians had all the external trappings of religion, the experience of the emotional release that can be found in and is similar to any gathering of people coming together for whatever the happening is football game, movie, circus, concert, etc.
The danger present in the situation is that they would revert back to the kind of worship and life style that was prevalent in Corinth among the pagan cults they came out of and wouldn’t know the difference.
This is why Paul took time to explain to them the principles of godly agape love, not some kind of philosophical, cerebral, ethereal, or emotional kind of love, but a love that has practical application in its outward manifestation as willful and deliberate attitudes of the heart, a relational love resulting in works of love.
Now contrast this with the prayer found in Ephesians 3:16 through 3:19
Paul's Prayer for the Ephesians
I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth 19of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.…
If in Corinthians Paul writes about the nature of love and what to do, in Ephesians, he writes about the dimensional aspect of love and how this love is manifested.
The qualities and nature of Christ’s love as it is expressed through the believer’s life have width, length, height and depth which implies the ability to be measured and the possibility of increasing.
Sometimes, time and space which we consider to be limitations in the natural state of man can be turned around for our ultimate good and our benefit in the development of the qualities of love, if we understand them properly and apply them accordingly in their dimensional aspects and grow into “being filled to the measure of all the fullness of God” that Paul speaks of in Ephesians 3:19.
Psalms 71 declares:“My mouth will tell of your righteousness, of your salvation all day long though I do not know its measure”.
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