Do you miss your Walkman?

I love music and travelling lately opened my eyes to a whole new fact: I never miss one song being away from home! Whatever I wanna listen to, I will have it on my phone, iPod, iPad, online, YouTube, you name it! I specially enjoy our gatherings at night with friends, chatting, laughing and probably having some music played in the background…and almost all the times we just take the whole array of music in one night, from Blues, Jazz, pop, Sha3bi, even classics and hymns! What a richness technology offers us. These gatherings around the wireless speakers and endless music choices reminded of the Old days of Walkman or Discman. I used to travel with 20 CDs or cassettes struggling every time which ones shall I take along on my travelling journeys! Funny enough, I was content thinking that I had it all..Cant be missing something with 20 CDs…200 songs (next to the fact that i had to change the cd every time I needed to listen to something different)! Now with the endless libraries of music at your fingertips (and lighter for sure), I realize how naive I were being content with just my heavy CDs I walked around with!

Are we that naive being content with just couple of good traits in our personality? Every person gives himself a label, one being patient, the other generous, a third gentle, a forth caring and so on…We just tend to be content with couple of good aspects and believe we are almost as pure as angels! Little we know about God´s Offering to us. We just do the same, being content with a walkman who having a full array of Heavenly gifts ready to be bestowed and set in us through the HOLY SPIRIT! Just read what is at hand offered to you by the Spirit:

“But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness, Gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence).” Galatians 5:22-23 AMP
“وأمّا ثَمَرُ الرّوحِ فهو: مَحَبَّةٌ، فرَحٌ، سلامٌ، طولُ أناةٍ، لُطفٌ، صَلاحٌ، إيمانٌ، وداعَةٌ، تعَفُّفٌ.” غَلاطيَّةَ 5:22-23

Lord, i pray today for eyes to be open and hearts to be hungry for more…more of You, Your goodness, Your Heart to show on us! Let this fruit hang from our tree to feed a hungry world…with abundance every day. Let us realize that the Fruit of the Spirit is all at hand once we decide to live and walk on the path of life guided by YOUR Spirit. All to glorify Your name! Amen.

Would you trade your iPod with a walkman now? I guess not!

Keep shining my friends!