What is life?
When we were babies, life is just sleeping,crying,eating. When we start schooling, life is about sleeping,occasional crying,our education and friends. When we work life,is about sleeping(maybe less compared to before),occasional crying,education(we have to continue learning all our lives),friends and work. This list continues as we enter different phases of our lives ie family, retirement etc etc.
This few weeks,i got an opportunity to meet a few working ppl(through badminton club).There was this guy who was now working in the marketing sector.He used to work in Msia as a Network engineer in Technology Park Malaysia.When i heard that the first thing that came to my mind was..."wow,successful man". I didnt say what i was thinking but his next sentence revealed that he doesnt concur with what i thought.He said,"When u come out and get a job, a job is just a job. We do it because we need to survive in this world. Its not life. In uni, everyone studies and studies to do well and hope that they will get a good job, but when we start working,work will just be another routine." I am not really sure whether he is a Christian or not but i believe there is some truth in what he said(unless of course u like research and u do that for the rest of your life). Working is not life. And am quite confident that the other things listed is not life either.
I guess the main problem with ppl is the fact that we are proud beings.We always tend to take pride in ourselves,our achievements,our work,our possesions, etc etc.This might be able to give us temporary satisfaction in our lives, but not a permanent one.
Pro 11:2 When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
but with the humble is wisdom.
Pro 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom,
and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
Deu 6:1 "Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the
LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in
the land to which you are going over, to possess it,
Deu 6:2 that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your
son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments,
which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your
days may be long.
In the deuteronomy verses, Moses was giving his final address to the ppl of Israel before they entered the promised land. Notice the Fear of the Lord is to keep His statutes and comandments.Looking at this 3 verses, what can be drawn out of it? With humility comes wisdom, but wisdom is the fear of the Lord and the Fear of the Lord is to obey HIM and by doing so our days/life may be long. So now lets ask ourselves, why would God promise us a longer life if we obey his commandments? Lets face the fact that, we wouldnt like to live a life forever under someones command(in a humanly sense). So i guess the reason why God promises a longer life if we obey his commandments is simply because, through total obedience to God,He gives us LIFE, a life that is worth living, a life which sole purpose is to glorify God.I guess this fact should be further strengthtened simply by the fact that Jesus has already died for our sins . Through Jesus we already have hope. It is up to us whether we decide to run back to that hope.I think it would be very foolish of God to send his Son down to save us only for us to find that life is still empty and hopeless.
Well....God is no fool. So let us not be foolish, but instead humbly run back to the cross and realise that our hope is in the LORD, and it is only through HIM we can find an everlasting purpose in everything we do be it our studies,work,friends etc etc .
Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and
gave himself for me.
And let us also find encouragement from the fact that we are no longer living for ourselves, but for Christ. As Paul wrote in Romans...
Rom 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power
of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
So lets us too pray that God will fill us with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit we may abound in hope....hope in Christ and not ourselves.....Amen
This few weeks,i got an opportunity to meet a few working ppl(through badminton club).There was this guy who was now working in the marketing sector.He used to work in Msia as a Network engineer in Technology Park Malaysia.When i heard that the first thing that came to my mind was..."wow,successful man". I didnt say what i was thinking but his next sentence revealed that he doesnt concur with what i thought.He said,"When u come out and get a job, a job is just a job. We do it because we need to survive in this world. Its not life. In uni, everyone studies and studies to do well and hope that they will get a good job, but when we start working,work will just be another routine." I am not really sure whether he is a Christian or not but i believe there is some truth in what he said(unless of course u like research and u do that for the rest of your life). Working is not life. And am quite confident that the other things listed is not life either.
I guess the main problem with ppl is the fact that we are proud beings.We always tend to take pride in ourselves,our achievements,our work,our possesions, etc etc.This might be able to give us temporary satisfaction in our lives, but not a permanent one.
Pro 11:2 When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
but with the humble is wisdom.
Pro 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom,
and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
Deu 6:1 "Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the
LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in
the land to which you are going over, to possess it,
Deu 6:2 that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your
son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments,
which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your
days may be long.
In the deuteronomy verses, Moses was giving his final address to the ppl of Israel before they entered the promised land. Notice the Fear of the Lord is to keep His statutes and comandments.Looking at this 3 verses, what can be drawn out of it? With humility comes wisdom, but wisdom is the fear of the Lord and the Fear of the Lord is to obey HIM and by doing so our days/life may be long. So now lets ask ourselves, why would God promise us a longer life if we obey his commandments? Lets face the fact that, we wouldnt like to live a life forever under someones command(in a humanly sense). So i guess the reason why God promises a longer life if we obey his commandments is simply because, through total obedience to God,He gives us LIFE, a life that is worth living, a life which sole purpose is to glorify God.I guess this fact should be further strengthtened simply by the fact that Jesus has already died for our sins . Through Jesus we already have hope. It is up to us whether we decide to run back to that hope.I think it would be very foolish of God to send his Son down to save us only for us to find that life is still empty and hopeless.
Well....God is no fool. So let us not be foolish, but instead humbly run back to the cross and realise that our hope is in the LORD, and it is only through HIM we can find an everlasting purpose in everything we do be it our studies,work,friends etc etc .
Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and
gave himself for me.
And let us also find encouragement from the fact that we are no longer living for ourselves, but for Christ. As Paul wrote in Romans...
Rom 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power
of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
So lets us too pray that God will fill us with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit we may abound in hope....hope in Christ and not ourselves.....Amen
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