A lot of people profess to be authentic when they're not. Ultimately, their actions will catch them out. 'Your body oozes deceit', Sigmund Freud

1. Volksrust Recorder - Rubrieke10 Recorder 28 November 2014
Ons soek altyd rede om onsself te regverdig. Kinders van God
soek soms teksversies om hulle eie optrede en keuses te regverdig.
Hoekom? Ons weier om verantwoordelikheid vir ons eie lewe en
keuses te neem. Dit is mos makliker om iets of iemand anders te
blameer. God vereis absolute gehoorsaamheid aan Sy Woord.
Enige kompromieë neem ons uit God se wil en bring ons op die
weg van sonde. So, sonde is om ongehoorsaam te wees aan die
stem van God. Ongehoorsaamheid lei ons op 'n verkeerde pad.
God keer ons nie! Hoekom? Hy het elke mens die keuse gegee.
Ek en jy kan self kies, maar dan self ook pa staan. Die verhaal van
Jona is seker een van die beste voorbeelde van God se toelaatbare
wil. Jona kies om ongehoorsaam te wees. Sy keuse lei hom na
Tarsus. Buite die wil van God. God stuur ‘n storm en ‘n vis
(genade) om Jona weer op koers te kry. So, God laat sekere dinge
toe maar Sy liefde en genade laat sekere omstandighede toe
sodat ons weer in Sy perfekte wil kan inbeweeg. Daar is altyd ‘n
doel met God se toelaatbare wil. Daar is twee belangrike waarhede
om te onthou. Satan se plan is vernietiging, God se plan is
restourasie en genesing. God se einddoel met ons as Sy kinders
is Goddelike karakter en die enigste manier om karakter te vorm is
om deur suiweringsprosesse te gaan. Job se lewe is sekerlik ‘n
goeie voorbeeld. God se plan was nie om Job te vernietig nie
maar om hom te suiwer. God het Satan toegelaat om sekere toetse
te bring. Onthou, Satan het pyn gebring, nie God nie. God
restoureer. Die einddoel van Job se lewe was belangriker as die
begin. Job was hoogmoedig. God laat toetse toe om Job te suiwer.
Hy word nederig en erken dit ook in Job 42. God laat ‘n storm oor
Jona losbreek. God se einddoel met Hom was dat hy in Nineve te
eindig. Ek en jy as kinders van God kan nie anders as om vuuroond
belewenisse te gaan nie. Dit kweek karakter en berei ons voor vir
toekomstige oorwinnings. Maar baie vuuroond belewenisse is
onnodig. Ons beweeg uit God se wil uit. God gebruik ons
ongehoorsaamheid om ons te vorm. Hy los ons nie. Ek lees in
Hebreërs 12:5-13, “ En julle het die vermaning heeltemal vergeet
wat tot julle as seuns spreek: My seun, ag die tugtiging van die
Here nie gering nie en beswyk nie as jy deur Hom bestraf word
nie; want die Here tugtig hom wat Hy liefhet, en Hy kasty elke
seun wat Hy aanneem. As julle die tugtiging verdra, behandel
God julle as seuns; want watter seun is daar wat die vader nie
tugtig nie? Maar as julle sonder tugtiging is, wat almal
deelagtig geword het, dan is julle onegte kinders en nie seuns
nie. Verder, ons het ons vaders na die vlees as kastyders gehad,
en ons het vir hulle ontsag gehad; moet ons nie veel meer aan
die Vader van die geeste onderworpe wees en lewe nie? Want
húlle het ons wel ‘n kort tydjie na hulle beste wete getugtig;
maar Hy tot ons beswil, sodat ons sy heiligheid kan deelagtig
word. Nou lyk elke tugtiging of dit op die oomblik nie ‘n saak
van blydskap is nie, maar van droefheid; later lewer dit egter
‘n vredevolle vrug van geregtigheid vir die wat daardeur
geoefen is. Daarom, rig die slap hande en die verlamde knieë
weer op; en maak reguit paaie vir julle voete, sodat wat kreupel
is, nie uit lit raak nie, maar liewer gesond gemaak word.”
Die einddoel van Jona se tugtiging was redding van siele. Die
einde van Josef se vuuroond belewenis was die redding van
Israel. So ons beleef teenstand a.g.v. twee redes. Ons het besluit
om ongehoorsaam te wees aan God se Woord (Jona) of God is
besig om ons voor te berei vir ‘n groter taak. (Josef). Dit is Sy
toelaatbare wil. Ons mag nie opsetlike sondig en dit toeskryf aan
God se toelaatbare wil nie. Nee God is heilig en Hy vereis
gehoorsaamheid. Dit is net genade dat Hy ons nie in ons paaie
van ongehoorsaamheid los nie. Hy tugtig die wat Hy lief het. Sy
einddoel is die redding van ons siele.
Ek sluit met die Woorde van Petrus. 1Pe 1:6-7, “ Daarin verheug
julle jul, al word julle nou—as dit nodig is—’n kort tydjie bedroef
onder allerhande beproewinge, sodat die beproefdheid van julle
geloof, wat baie kosbaarder is as goud wat vergaan maar deur
vuur gelouter word, bevind mag word tot lof en eer en heerlikheid
by die openbaring van Jesus Christus” Onthou ons keuse het
gevolge kies dan reg. Moenie mismoedig raak in vervolging nie
maar onthou God is besig om jou en my karakter te vorm vir ‘n
groter oorwinning.
Vrede,
Pastoor Johan Venter
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wilwilwilwilwil As a professional speaker, I play in the world of motivational speakers, gurus and industry experts.
A word that is bandied about by this fraternity is authenticity.
You’ll hear it from the podium … “live an authentic life”, “set authentic goals”, “be authentic to yourself” and
the like.
It is easy to say, “be authentic”. But being true to you is another story altogether.
I get the feeling that when people bandy about the word authentic it’s a case of Shakespeare’s “The lady doth
protest too much.” It might just be that they’re trying to hide that they are fake.
Being true to whom you are, your beliefs, your principles and your standards is a noble endeavor.
But sometimes, trying to live the authentic life can … well, be trying.
I often tell my audiences that we have digital holidays on weekends. No surfing the web and wasting time on
social media.
I was brought back to earth with such a jolt at how inauthentic (heck, that’s too soft … let’s just call it what it
is, fake) I really can be when my daughter caught me answering an email at the weekend on my smartphone.
“Daddy,” she said. “Daddy, you’re not present.” Yes, this is how they speak when they’re eight years old.
Goodness help me when she’s a teenager.
She was right, of course. I wasn’t present and worst of all I broke my word to her and the standards we had set
for our weekends.
This is just one incident that highlighted my feet of clay. Every time I say I will write and I don’t; every time I
say I will be more respectful with those who serve me and I’m not; every time I say I will spend quality time
with my family and I don’t and; every time I see something that’s just wrong and I say nothing … every time I
do this, I erode my integrity and authenticity.
Fortunately, the human condition is such that it will be able to justify any action or inaction. So, I get by with
rationalising. But when I hold that mirror up to who I really am I sometimes have to shut my eyes because what
I see is not someone who is authentic, but someone who is fake.
So, being authentic can be extremely difficult and maybe it is an impossible Grail quest. But, I believe it is the
only way to [strive to] live. Because the more authentic you become, and the more true you become to
yourself, the more true your dealings will be with others.
www.jacquesdevilliers.co.za
Authentic is the new fake
VolksrustSeme Business Column
LabourministerOliphantupwardlyadjustsdomesticworkers'annualwages
Change Your
Story
With Jacques de Villiers
Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant has approved the new wage structure for the Domestic Workers Sector following
the upward adjustment of the new minimum wage.The latest relief comes on the eve of the festive season. The
minimum wage adjustment is in line with legislation to protect workers in SouthAfrica in sectors in which they are
likely to be exploited, or where worker organisations and trade unions are absent, and workers are not covered by
regulating mechanisms. The new sectoral determination of domestic workers starting from 1 December 2014 to 30
November 2015 prescribes that the minimum wages for domestic workers who work more than 27 ordinary hours
per week as follows:
· Area A (those in major metropolitan areas) is R10.95 hourly rate, R476.68 weekly rate and R2065.47
monthly rate.
· Area B (those not covered in Area A) R9.30 hourly rate, R418.32 weekly rate and R1812.57 monthly
rate.
While the Minimum wages for domestic workers from 1 December 2014 to 30 November 2015 who work 27 ordinary
hours per week or less is as follows:
· Area A (those in major metropolitan areas) is R12.40 hourly rate, R334.74 weekly rate and R1450.33
monthly rate.
· Area B (those not covered in Area A) R10.98 hourly rate, R296.35 weekly rate and R1284.09 monthly
rate.
The latest Sectoral Determination (SD) which establishes minimum wages for Domestic Workers will be applicable
for the period 1 December 2014 to 30 November 2015. Its implementation is in the last year of the current three-year
sectoral determination cycle. In June 2014 the Department of Labour hosted Domestic Worker Sector national
public hearings to review the current three-year cycle of sectoral determination prescribing minimum wage and
conditions of employment for the sector – with a view to gauge the feelings of the stakeholders on the current SD
structure on whether it should be modified and how!The road show engagements focused on issues such as at
which minimum level should the new wage rate be set? Whether future minimum wage increases should still be
based on the consumer price index (CPI); issues of leave provisions (annual, sick, family responsibility, maternity,
paternity etc); and other related matters.In addition to the national public hearings Labour Minister in 2013 also
initiated a consultative process to engage with the domestic workers through “Izimbizo” going to various provinces
to get a better understanding of the Domestic Worker Sector and how to deal with problems facing the sector.Whilst
the jury is still out on whether sectoral determinations will continue in future, a new debate has started on the
possibility of introducing the national minimum wage in SouthAfrica especially for the vulnerable.
Application forms now available at Lewensvreugde or any of the Management Committee
members. Contact details for the Management Committee Members are as follow:
Willem Hüsselmann - 082 415 7725, Freddie Kapp - 017 735 4444, Johan Botha - 082 335
7274, Ashraf Moola - 082 588 5515, Ahmed Chothia - 082 554 4886