Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry?

Could a doctor sit in comfort and let his patients die?

Could a fireman sit idle, let the men burn and give no hand?

Could you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?

-Leonard Ravenhill

Objectivity is never ever dependent on majority.

I will fight alone if I have to.

Is anything too hard for the LORD?

[Genesis 18:14]

I love people who love changing the world,

but you can only change the world if you love God.

I love God by changing the world.

Note to readers: Sorry about the one month hiatus. Needed to take a short break. That is why I did not type any essays of any sort (supposedly, but it is a long story); that explains the simple paragraphs and short quotes. Anyway, I’m back. Hope you people are still interested.



[Christian and Pride II]

C.S Lewis pointed something interesting about pride. When people take pride in something about themselves (may it be power, wealth, fame or things of the similar sort), the pride is never place in the thing itself. That is to mean that fundamentally, they are not proud of the power they hold per say. Then he goes on to talk about the idea that pride is actually place in the fact that they have MORE power then the others. So to say, pride is basically comparison. It will always be better, richer, more powerful, more beautiful etc. If the problem is purely material in nature so to speak, it would go away if we make both people equally filthy rich, both equally powerful. Hence pride is in fact a diseased sort of comparison, and this also explains the other sins such as envy and ingratitude.

So why did God places the idea of comparison into our finite grey matter? I cannot really come to a conclusive answer but I believed He placed a few hints here and there in my head. The idea of comparison originally conceived to help our limited minds to understand the concepts of God. Just like how a baby thinks that a 3 metres diving pool is deep, we tend to underestimate the characteristics of God. Just as how deep the ocean is, God's love is deeper. Just as how vast the outer space is to us, our God is bigger. Just as how the sun rises faithfully everyday, God is as faithful. God uses these comparisons to hint us of his existences and the descriptions of His characteristics. Comparisons are correctly used when they are used to compare things of man with God, and if we were to use it to compare things of man with the things of other man, its little wonder why we turned out like this. This is how Lucifer fell. He compared his glory with that of God and found it insufficient. He wanted to be more power, more glorious. Look where that got him.

Becareful of the comparisons.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
-George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Child-liked

Adults have the hands to change the world,

Youths have the hearts to change the world.

Adults have the power to change the world,

Youths have the will to change the world.

The good thing is that no one is incapable.

The sad thing is most faith-filled youths evolved into the "realistic" adults.

The tricky thing is figuring out how to have child-liked adults.

In, but not of - Hugh Hewitt

"If I see a madman driving a car into a group of innocent bystanders," Dietrich Bonhoeffer explained to his sister, "then I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe and then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try and wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver."

The German theologian, a pacifist, was attempting to convey why he had joined with others to plot an unsuccessful assassination of Adolf Hitler. The most extreme ambition is to attempt revolution. Bonhoeffer tried and failed and was executed on April 9, 1945, as a result.

"I have a vision from God."

I saw a drop of water dropping into a body of water.
The one drop of water is not different from
any of the rest of the droplets that is in the large body of water.
Ripples started spreading out from that point of contact.
It may have started small, but definitely ended big.


I think God is trying to tell me this.

One man can change the world.

Strong views may not be meant for the faint of heart.

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Reportedly, IMB's Tom Watson was asked if he was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost IBM $600,000. He said, "No, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?"

Came across this picture. x)

From one of my Christmas cards: my desire, my prayer - beautifully put into description
"May you hear even God's faintest whisper."

[Revelation of the year for me]

We were not made to escape failures but to enjoy success with Him.

Recently, I sat through a sharing that stemmed from the question on this postcard. There were about 15 people in the circle in which we sat together to share. One by one, we each shared about what we would be willing to lay down our life for. Some shared about their siblings, family. Others explain their choice of death.

Among the many, to name a handful would be

-grandmothers who took care of them

-sisters

-God

-the salvation of the others

What was interesting about the sharing was the fact that I noticed the trend in which everyone was willing to die for someone, but yet never something. No one even mentioned about some of the strongholds of the secular world. None would die for money, power. Not even fame. Everyone would only die for a person. Interesting isn't it? Yet I must say, the way our life lived does not seem to be a accurate reflection of the answer given. Why is it that parents spend more time at work then at home and then claim they would give their life for their kids? Why is it that we would die for our siblings yet when they are the ones taking the bulk of our bullying?

I seriously ask you to consider asking yourself this question today.

"What is the one thing you would be willing to die for?"

For unless we know what we would die for, we would not know what we are living for.

[The Return of the Demented Mind: Casino Royale]


The analogy of gaining trust.
If coins were trust, we would all be jackpot machines. To gain more coins from the other jackpots, we would first have to insert coins into their machine; first giving them our trust. It may not succeed on the 1st try, 2nd or even the 3rd. However when you hit the jackpot, it would leave you with a over flooding of coins. The only question left is: How many coins do you put in before you stop?






Or perhaps, the alternative question would be: Can you cheat the system?