01.28.08
Man’s existence
Ecclesiastes 12 (NIV)
13 Now all has been heard;
here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God will bring every deed into judgment,
including every hidden thing,
whether it is good or evil.
Prior to verse 13, the whole book of ecclesiastes can be summarized into the vanities of human being (or everything is meaningless). Why does a human being eat, work, marry and live while at the end of the day life goes on?
Fear Him. That’s the whole duty of a man.
When someone fear God, it would effect everything in a person’s life. Be it family, finance, work, etc.
01.20.08
God’s existence
At this early stage of the blog, I’ll like to remind myself that this blog definitely support the idea of God’s existence. I’d like to think that the readers of this blog would be either those who believe that God’s exist and not exist. (Yeah, what else?) Within those who believe that God does exist, there is another question, which one is the true God?
While I am affirmed that the true God is in Jesus Christ, there will be plenty (in fact, most of them) would scorn at that idea.
Jesus Christ has died for our sins. No other god was shown to have died for you and me. They may have died, but again, none has risen from the death.
01.15.08
The two sides of love
God is love and God loves you. The previous sentence is a short summary of 1 John 4:7-21. Yet, it’s interesting to see that the word ‘love’ operate as both a verb and a noun.
As a verb, it takes two parties to experience love. One side is the giver and the other one is the recipient. As a human being, we want to be loved simply because we want to receive. It’s simply growing out of our selfishness (by receiving) and to be come a giver of love.
When someone falls in love, he/she would do anything for the object of his love. “Love blinds” sumarizes it. But is that a true love? That’s where God comes in. He is love. In fact, the greatest love a person could ever receive is when someone give his life for his object of love.
As someone who receive, it’s a good feeling. I always enjoy to receive gifts from someone. But it may hurt when we have to give away.
When I had a discussion on the book of Ephesians with other church members, I mentioned that a husband ought to love his wife. Just like Christ love for His people by dying for them. This is the question that I have pondered ever since: how to love my wife that I’d give my life away for her? It’s interesting to think that I had that feeling when I dated her. That I’d do anything for her. Take out emotion out of the equation, and see if you’d still do that. Not saying that I won’t do that anymore, but rather, how to be able to do it and continually loving her. While God is lovely, it’s because He is Love and not just a lovely object.
Again, God is love and He loves you. He has died for you. Would you live for Him?
01.11.08
About 1thing2think
There was an old saying: “You have only one mouth but two ears. Therefore, you must listen more than talking.” So what does the adage has to do with this blog? What is the real thing to think about?
I’d write about God’s Word and it’s relation to life (applications). Come to think of it, there is really only one thing that we ought to think of: God our creator.
His instruction is clearly stated in Joshua 1:8 (NIV):
8 Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
The key word for this blog is “meditate”. I want to write about the results of thinking the Word. That’s pretty much my goal with this blog. The blogosphere has a different way of conveying message compare to the traditional media. I’ll learn to communicate in it while I hope that you will be blessed with it.
For the Glory of His Kingdom,
James (a pseudonym)
