Philippians 2:3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.(NIV)
As we look at all this world has to offer us we see idea’s that we believe will help us as ministers of the gospel and we wonder if we can harness this for God. One of these concepts that we have latched onto is the idea of Social networking. This is the idea of using things like the internet and other tools to make connections with people that will benefits us.
On Saturday, January 2nd I watched a great movie. This is a movie about operation Valkyrie, the movie was named for this operation i.e. Valkyrie. For those of you who do not know, Operation Valkyrie took place in Germany in the year 1944. It was an attempt by a group of men and women who saw it as their duty to their country, their world, and their God, to stand apposed to Adolf Hitler. They saw a world forming that had to be stopped. Looking back at this discussion we cannot help but agree with their choice even though at the time it did not meet with the same warm reception that it does today. Yet their choice is not what shocked me about the events leading up to and including that fateful day of July 20th, 1944. But instead what shocked me was the providential hand at play in the midst of everything. It would almost seem that, as Claus von Stauffenberg worked so hard to kill Adolf Hitler, there was a greater force behind the scenes making sure that Hitler did not die.
I surrendered all my dreams of conquest when I realized that all I would have to show for it is the World (Larry Fineheart, Numbers)
