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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Indebted. I've been so disobedient recently. Indeed God refines and molds us, and it's always through a process. I need to turn compliance into commitment. I need to be a better person. I need to be a sheet of blank paper, pure and open towards God so that He can do whatever He wants in my life. Sometimes we forget our life is literally 捡回来 (picked up from mess) by Jesus. No Jesus, no Enling. The moment something can satisfy our temporary desires, we wanna get it. Not aware that some of those temporary desires take us further from God. Step by step, even if that step is tiny. And we forget we are indebted to Jesus for dying and suffering for our sins 2000 years ago. I watch alot of dramas. In those olden day period dramas, the person who pays to redeem a person selling himself on the street, he is the master of that person for life. That person will have to be 100% loyal and faithful to his new master, even die for the master if situation requires. Even if the master mistreats that slave, the slave cannot escape or find his own freedom. Only the master can grant the slave his freedom. Sometimes, we have so much freedom in Christ that we think we are worth more than we are actually worth. God saved us, redeemed us, picked us up, and so now we have every right to do whatever we ourselves want, not caring whether it is God's will for us or not. Right? Just because God is NOT cruel to restrict our choices, and allows us to choose our own path, doesn't mean all paths lead to God. There is only one path, the straight and narrow that leads to eternal life in Heaven. And just because God's character is merciful, loving and compassionate DOES NOT MEAN that we can forget our places and lead a careless life. There is a chinese term for it, 忘恩负义。It refers to someone that forgets his/her own benefactor. Whenever we choose our own way of doing things instead of God's way, we are being 忘恩负义. If you are a believer, and if you are thinking 'got so serious meh?' I hope we can re-evaluate our relationship with God. I say 'WE' here because I'm also a work in progress, even after having this revelation. It will be easier for believers if God constantly scold & remind us, using Jesus' death for our sins as a threat "if it is not Jesus who died for you, will you even be alive today?! Har??!! Tell me?!" Then, whenever we are tempted to go the opposite way, we will always feel guilty and indebted, and in this way God will never be disobeyed. BUT, God is a gentleman. And although Jesus is our master, He never forces us to obey Him. If we decide to stray away from Him, He will not control and say "cannot!". So as believers who wants to be like Jesus, let us make the wise choice by being willing to go God's way. It's definitely not easy to go with God's decision.....afterall, we are given freedom to choose. But we can make the first step towards it. :) Labels: contemplative, revelation 1:44 AM
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