| MeRRi ChriStmas!!
been such a long two weeks... from ma dad goin to chicago, to my final exams, and now I have been in Toronto for about 5 days.. miss my hun sooooooo much... yet I ve been able to accomplish much and learned much more in life than I have for the past three years alone. Spending time with my brother whom I haven't seen for a long time was and is a blessing... these few days we have spent time together as not only as sibs but friends and I must say this is the first time ever for along time despite the times when we were both young, but now we have both come our ways in life and we will both continue to grow, and the same he may walk in paths I have took before and he may walk on new ground but the same we have both learned to learn from each other and both are continuing to grow to be independant and to create new lives for ourselves.
And this year my bestest present of all is a found place to go on Sundays now and James is not reluctant at all to join... ^^ it is english and Chinese Church a little outside of Chicago. So now that I am already settled down, actually its already been awhile >_<, and i have a car and no more excuses of time or transport I can settle down my spiritual life.. *
so much to say ... so many praises...
Our Father in Heaven is good, He will not forsake us, and He will teach us in His time and His way, in the past couple of days one of my friends whom I have known for 7-8 years asked me why I needed God and what is the point in believing even if people have to go through alot of dark periods in life ,is He really doing good for me? Isn't is better for ourselves to create our own path since humans are already so intelligent? Me and my friend went to seminars together, we have grown with each other during my time in HK, we served and went to the same church, yet we both went seperate ways in the past three years of uni. He told me he didn't need God anymore and that he was better on his own without the pressure of the church, of other Christians juding him and just without God. But I know deep inside through the many years we went to church together I know he knows that's not true.. and I just want to dedicate this to him and to say a Merry Christmas and blessings for the coming New year.
Christianity to most is a religion, it is a religion that created and branches out to the many of the different sorts of Christianity that exists in the world today. Yet, what God is simply asking for is a relationship , a friendship with Him. We may be church goers, we may do what every Christian should and ought to do (whatever that is?), and we may pray on time every morning, afternoon and night, we may bring tens and tens of people to Christ yet, sometimes not all those Christians are fulfilled, sometimes there are those who do all those things and feel as empty as when they hadn't met Christ.
That's because sometimes its not the big things you do that matter, its the SMALL THINGS that you DON' T do that mean the most. Is to simply Love Him and to Love someone sometimes theres not much you have to do and it's only BETWEEN YOU AND THE PERSON YOU LOVE. We are given choices by Him just as Adam and Eve when they chose to take a bite of the apple from the tree of knowledge and wisdom. Everything is planned for a reason, and that reason is to let people to have a choice, yes God created Humans and he knows us all so He can already create people to love Him, but one thing God CHOSE NOT TO control was our FREEWILL. He wants us to go through the many things in life to let us decide and let us choose. Just like when a man finds a wife, doesn't the woman have to say "I do" before they can get married? Doesn't the woman have a choice to choose? Doesn't the man have to choose to propose in the first place can a woman marry? Even when they get married they can also have a choice of divorce because they have married the man for wrong motives or based on wrong decisions and then they need time to find another spouse or they may even divorce and in the end go back to each other. God is giving Time for us to decide when we are ready for commitment, when we really decide He is the One for us. He is also giving time for those who are already married to something else and are struggling to divorce. But does that mean ebfore you are ready to commit you can't even be friends? God is waiting. He never left us, we only leave Him. Mercy triumphs over Judgment. Who is able to judge if one is good enough to be a Christian or not? Who can judge what is good and bad. Mankind is imperfect thats why it took so many years for God to shape and reshape the world. We can only discern what is good or bad becasue we have eaten from the tree of knowledge, yet knowing doesn't give us the authority to judge. We may teach but those who teach ( it says in the book of James) will be judged more strictly. So why will one give up this friendship when one already knows its truth? Is it worthy to give up all over the emotion of hate, fear, or anger or even simply on pride? The Church is only a building, Christians are only human. Yet the relationship and God's Love is what we all seek for, just as Jesus seeks for the Lost.
May this be a blessing to my friend and for others who may come upon it, may it be a blessing to you also.
shoutout:
To hoi turtle, you have been a brother and a friend and I praise the Lord for our talk, even though we are both on either side of the World, may we only grow closer over the span of the oceans and may you be blessed with Wisdom and strength to withhold. lub u lotz
mel ma lil sis, Merry Christmas... hope you are recovering well? I miss you sweetie but don't be "grey", even though you may feel alone don't forget we all are never forgetting abouting you ok? You can go visit poh poh anytime.. and u can always e-mao me..
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