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Friday, May 23, 2008
holidays.WOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!...actually its not that much of a celebration, considering that 5 days a week are comsumed with training. fishsticks.ohh well. i just gotta stick it through and ill get alot done by the end of june.got results back last friday. pretty thrashy. i failed like 4 subjects. and dropped like 2 points. and this time i actually tried hard to study and do well.thanks Ben and Nong for trying to cheer me up. guess i just gotta really study for next term. didnt wanna go home after that so i went to stay at Josephs house.church on sunday. another one of those times when everyone leaves =(. did black magic on Vanessa. so much fun to watch her squirm.prank called Cheng Liang. so fun to watch him sqiurm.went to watch Drillbit Taylor on monday with Joseph and Barn. thought it would be one of those kinda thrashy slapstick shows. like Mr Woodcock. yeahhh. but it wasnt all that bad.Owen Wilson has a funky nose.hmmm. just a thought today.you know how afterlife is an eternal thing. like it goes on and on. if you landed in heaven through God's grace its never-ending bliss. and for the rest of eternity youd be praising God and basking in His love.nothing better, yes?but if one we're to land oneself in hell...then he or she is doomed for a fate so unthinkable that even the mere notion of it scares the heck out of me. burning in sulphur. continuously. and its not like you wont feel pain; you feel every devastating ounce of it. but you cant die. youre already dead. and the molten sulphur continues to incinerate you. and each second you bear seems to be forever.but thats actually like forever x forever. cus it doesnt end. ever. the torture just goes on and on and on and on. for the rest of eternity youll be dying. but youll never get to die.and thats a fate that each and every one of us rightfully deserves. for leading sinful lifes, unworthy of His holy presense.real freaky, huh.but God's love, unconditional and omnipresent, has redeemed us from the fate that was previously inevitable, and set in stone a destiny of hope and freedom. a chance to wipe ones slate clean. to save us from the fiery pits of hell and an eternity of agony.and all He asks is for us to believe.sometimes believing in God is no easy task. maybe its the thought of a universal master that people who embrace logic find so unnerving to wrap their minds around. maybe its the apparent thinness of the concept that the God our ancestors have been worshiping for over 2 millenium still stands true to this day. perhaps, even, it may be that a fate so incredibly, redemption from eternal death, seems too good to be true.after all, by rational thinking, it seems much more feasible that God, Jehovah, and the promised paradise of Heaven is just a fabrication of man to delude himself of the notion that once he dies, thats it. kapoof. your existance fades entirely away into nothingness.and yet, God calls us to fight against this perversion of the mind that the Devil has sown in our lifes. 'Truly blessed are those that have not seen, and yet believe.' though often there exists no tangible proof of God's presense, He urges us to trust in Him, and His ongoing existance in our world today. though in our everyday lives it is starkly rare that one comes close into His holiness, God exists through subtle nuances; the beautiful earth that we are so blessed to live in, the love and warmth we experience through our friends and loved ones, the continuing knowledge of mankind that, indeed, there is something more out there beyond the material entities of this world.all that is good, all that is pure, all that is untainted comes from God. and if one were to open ones eyes, it may be seen that God is everywhere. that God is real, and that His promise of salvation and life everlasting is anything but bogus. and all that He truly requires of us is...faith.faith that moves mountains.faith that parts seas.faith that challenges the illogical and irrational.faith that sees beyond the world and its charms. faith that bridges the impossible gap between God and man....is it really that hard just to believe...?