Word up!

On Wednesday nite, Brother GD has explained to us how we need to be cleansed by water and holy spirit... that water actually represents the living water... or the bread of life... or another word the Word of God... the Word that was with God and the Word that was God in the very beginning... and God created all things thru His Word... Anyway, Brother GD wanted us to make sure that our lives are directed by God's Word and enpowered by God's Spirit..., but of course often times we lose focus on what's important. Just as Martha thought it's important to get the chores done... while Mary thought it's more important to hear what Jesus had to say. Similarly in our daily lives..., we can easily get distracted, bogged down by the daily chores... and get all busy over nothing... and when we don't have enough time... we'd easily sacrifice devotional time, time with God for the busy earthly stuffs...

Just as I did yesterday..., well, at least I read His Word..., just didn't have enough time to blog it! ;) Yesterday, I read about Pilate(John 18:28-19:16). Is Pilate a good guy or a bad guy? I don't think he's particularly good or bad either way. I suppose he's very much like most of us... to just go with the flow kinda guy. He knows he's not doing the right thing..., but he was pressured to do it anyway... he fought a little, but then just decide to give up for the sake of peace.

All I know is that if I were pilate, I'd probably do the same thing...

Today I read about Thomas...(John 20:1-29), the disciple who's not afraid to ask hard questions! ;) Of course God is not afraid of people asking hard questions. If you want to see my pierced hand and wounded side? Fine, I will show you! Ask and you shall receive!!!

Unless something is really just aweful, for sure our God won't withhold anything good from us. I believe even knowledge is included. If Adam and Eve asked God for the knowledge of good and evil, I'm sure God would eventually give them the knowledge without having to eat from that tree!

But often times we only have very little faith in God... or we don't like to wait... so we take matters into our own hands! This is what motivated Eve to eat from the forbidden tree...

Not that there's anything wrong with taking initiative, it's just that we need to be careful what's our motivation for taking whatever action. If you're motivated by love, then I suppose you're probably doing the right thing..., but then again, perhaps Eve was motivated by love too. She checked and made sure she didn't die before handing it to Adam... She was motivated by her love for Adam... she just want Adam to be smarter like God... instead of being as dumb as dirt! ;) So I guess the main point is that loving thy neighbor alone is insufficient. We also cannot forget about loving God too! Of course without loving thy neighbors, loving God alone won't work out very well too! Surely God is not a killyjoy forcing us to love..., forcing us to do something we don't want to just to please Him... Truthfully, it's just good to love! Without love, as Solomon said, everything is basically meaningless.

We're wrapping up 2007, hopefully we'll get less busy soon..., hopefully NASA will extend their contract with our TPS system... fingers crossed..., but God please help us and be with us. Thank You!!! :)