[Humans don't mind suffering]

Its true.
We all are willing to suffer to various degrees to obtain something we desire. Girls are willing to skip meals to save for branded merchandise, guys are willing to eat protein powder and pump iron to achieve muscular body tones etc...

Actually, the fact is that people are willing endure objective suffering, but not meaningless work.

If we can see where all the trials will bring us to, and if the end point is desirable, i believe we would have less qualms about suffering. This is the point behind objective suffering.

However, this would then direct us to another issue. Objectivity can only along with a specific direction. Any direction apart from the sole direction is objectively wrong. The saddest thing is not that most people are heading in the wrong direction, but the lack of one in the first place. Without a direction, everyway is the wrong way. There can be no objective suffering, for you do not even know the reasons behind why are you suffering the way you are. As a result, everything becomes meaningless.

This is clearly accented in the lifes of students especially during periods nearing exams. They tend to get increasingly deluded with studying. After all, its truly meaningless for someone who wants to be a ballet teacher to be investigating about the law of thermodynamics.
I don't blame them if they don't see the point.... cause there isn't one.

If Speed is secondary and direction is primary,
then setting of direction must be fundamental.




stop. pause. think.
where the heck are you heading?

"If we do not chase dreams, we would be caught by death."

[The Four Loves - C.S. Lewis]

Even if it were granted that insurances against heartbreak were our highest wisdom, does God Himself offer them? Apparently not. Christ comes at last to say "Why hast thou forsaken me?"

There is no escape along the lines St. Augustine suggests. Nor along any other lines. There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket -- safe, dark, motionless,airless -- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

I believe that the most lawless and inordinate loves are less contrary to God's will than a self-invited and self-protective lovelessness. It is like hiding the talent in a napkin and for much the same reason "I knew thee that thou wert a hard man." Christ did not teach and suffer that we might become, even in the natural loves, more careful of our own happiness. If a man is not uncalculating towards the earthly beloveds whom he has seen, he is none the more likely to be so towards God whom he has not. We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.





shucks.

[Direction - realigned, refocused, reminded]
whoever drops by here, better mermorize that thing below.


Our vision is to fulfill the Great Commission in our lifetime by building strong and biblical people to plant strong and biblical churches in Singapore and all over the world.


Hope: AC
Hope: Fairfield
Hope: SJI
These aren't caregroups. These are churches.
Come to pass in Jesus name I claim!
Amen.