the third
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Wi-fi experience
Sunday, September 7, 2014
2 greatest commandments
The 2 Greatest Commandments of Christianity (in my own words):
1) You gotta WANT GOD, GOD, GOD more than anything, anyone else in your life. Your will to live is the god you worship. We obey because we love God back and not because we are forced or it is the moral thing to do. Obedience is the only sign that we love God. Talk is cheap. Faith without corresponding action is dead.
2) Realize that the worst and the best humans you know are just the same as you. You are no better than anyone. Love and treat everyone the same way you would do to yourself. Yes, as a Christian you are Heaven-bound but remember that your ticket is a gift to you. You cannot boast about it. All the glory goes back to God.
Love your enemies. If you only love those who love you, what good is that? Even sinners do that.
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no commandment greater than these.”- Mark 12:30-31
I am preaching to myself... and trying to sleep.
Friday, September 5, 2014
Get up
When I was a toddler, I cry everytime I stumble and fall. I wait for someome to get me up and tell me to stop crying and just keep walking.
When I grew up, I just laugh when ever I stumble. With a smile, I get myself up quickly telling myself to be more careful next time.
When I was a toddler in my faith in Christ, I condemn myself whenever I fall into sin. I wait for others to encourage me and get me back up.
Now that I am grown up (and still a lot of growing up), IF I sin, I get back up right away, having no doubt that I am not condemned anymore, that God loves me not because I am a "good person" but because He knows how bad I can be but still loves me the same way.
I get up, and follow Him who says "Follow Me."
I praise God for His grace and mercy.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
No brainer
I'm not gonna do ANYTHING my way anymore. I wanna do everything God's way. He loves me more than I love myself and He knows infinitely more than I do. So, I might as well let Him lead.
I acknowledge every good thing in my life coming from Him and every bad thing will be a story of His forgiveness and unconditional love.
Tonight, we sang "all I need is You, Lord" in church. I sang it not because those were the words flashed in the big screen but because I understand and I mean it. I'm saying "all I need is You, Lord" publicly and I will never be ashamed of my faith in Jesus. Neither shall you if you believe in Him. ;)
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Thought life
I am convinced that no Christian can enjoy an authentic God fearing lifestyle if he does not exercise godliness. The flesh is always against the spirit. The old self has to be crucified or else we will have no joy, no integrity, no right to preach repentance to all sinners.
In morality, compromise is surrender to the devil. We must be pure in our private thought life so that we can have a public voice to preach God's holiness.
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Just because...
Just because I helped and smiled at someone, I believed I am a good person
Just because I don't believe in "sex before marriage", I thought I was more morally upright than others.
Just because I believe that there is God, I thought I was better than those who did not believe.
Just because I was close to achieving my own standards, I felt good about myself...
Until I came to understand and know who Jesus is, I realized that I cannot brag about anything.
My "goodness" is nothing compared to His goodness.
My morality is crap compared to His perfect holiness.
My faith in God is not worth comparing to His faith in God the Father.
My own standards in life is like building a sand castle by the seashore compared to a palace in a wonderful city.
I felt like a little kid who believes he is strong just because his muscles are sore from doing 10 push-ups for the first time in his life, until He met the Man who can lift up the weight of the world in His hands.
I pray that someday confessing that Jesus is Lord is not as controversial or as complicated as saying that the color of milk is white. Everyone agrees.
No one can tell the color except through the eyes. No one can tell the sound except through the ears. No one can tell the smell except through the nose.
No one can say that "Jesus is Lord" except by the Holy Spirit. I pray that we choose God and not sin.
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Inadequate
I'd rather be aware that I am inadequate and ask for God's help in everything consistently than think I am strong by my own effort and not recognize it is God who enables me to do absolutely everything in my life.
For a man to know that he is only a man and God is God is the most humbling experience a man can have.