Hello Dear Christians. I hope that you do really rejoice in
the love of the Lord and keep kind doctrine of God in your
practice. I know that it is not always easy, so don’t be
hard on yourself if in one day you find yourself doing
something which you later on regret. Just remember that you
are not and never be perfect in this world. Your body is not
perfect for you are not capable of many things. Not every
one of us can be the champion or genius. Some of Christians
are not even destined to live long life or spent the rest of
it on invalid chair. What we eat is not perfect as well, for
it doesn’t matter how passionately we pray for our food
once upon a time we still manage to get food poisoning. Our
clothes are not always comfortable, warm, and durable. The
air which we breathe is not always pure and pleasant. The
same goes with water. Yes, we could say that we are out of
this world; we should never truly belong to it. Then,
let’s recall John 3: 16 “For God so loved the world that
he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life”. If we never
belong to this world then what is the use of such sacrifice?
We belong to this world, for we were created there. God
loves this world and if we say that we don’t belong here
or simply don’t feel comfortable here, that means we
don’t feel comfortable with decision of God. We could
simply pray “Oh Mighty God why did you send us to such
awful place which is full of corruption?” But don’t
forget that God has created this world. Not everything in
this world is ugly as well as not everything in this world
is beautiful. You could enter dreadful passage of caves,
witness animals killing each other, and at the same time you
can enjoy watching, magnificent canyons, and graciously
flying albatross above the gracious ocean waves. But denying
this world is simply denying the good work of God. And
denying the good work of God is denying Himself. Therefore,
what we have to know that in bible scriptures world
doesn’t always mean the universe, but something which
doesn’t belong to Holy Light, Holy Spirit. The world in
this case means the body of sin. The body of sin includes
all possible sins which make life of God and ours full of
suffering. So, in this case if we can say that we are out of
this world for we don’t except any action and thought
which could harm ourselves and others. Still we sin, for
everyone fail short in God. Accept your mistakes, but try to
avoid them as much as you can.
Don’t go for extremes and avoid them by any chance. If
you started dancing downtown and singing aloud the praise of
God, what good would it do for you or for Him? If you start
nagging people whom you don’t know by demanding full
repentance, in what kind of position do you put yourself and
church? Would it make people think that all who believe in
God like Christians do are crazy lunatics? Or you simply
start denying yourself to the point that you let everyone
rub his or her fit upon your body and make a big fortune
upon your grave. Or maybe you start making false miracles to
make many people believe in God. Can self-humiliation, angry
and careless action, as well as lies create a great divine
foundation within your heart? I don’t know how about you
but I refuse to believe in that.
Don’t go for extreme even with my writing, don’t try to
immediately accept or reject it. Just think about it. You
may not fully agree or disagree with my points of view. This
is quite understandable. I am just an ordinary person who
only recently graduated from college. Don’t call me wise
for my actions simply don’t prove that. Be careful if you
call me idiot for in this case you make yourself more
vulnerable: just think if something what I have said would
coincide with your way of positive thinking.
I want to say that I myself don’t have any desire to read
even bible with complete acceptance or rejection of its
worlds. I strongly disagree with the statement which was
written in New Testament that everything what is done for
God is good. If I decide to set myself and my relatives on
fire and say that it is for the sake of God, would I really
do something good? I don’t think so. How many bright minds
were killed for God, only because we, Christians, oppose the
truth about the universe? Still many Christians cut the
words of true in pieces, spit in face of science, while
still actively consuming its fruits: driving cars and using
cell phones. We, Christians, dare to call ourselves
righteous, the judges of the world which we still have not
understood completely. What makes things unpleasant that
many of us don’t have even desire to understand the world
which is made in really skillful and I would say genius way.
We are Christians claim that we are only ones who please God
but no one else. The heaven awaits us while the others
doesn’t matter whether some of others benefit to one
another more than we do, even those ones will be swallowed
by everlasting fire. My father gave me drive to Ontario
Science Centre even though he was sick. He gave me money,
before he left me at the drop-off area. I have webcam
because my father bought it to me. I have calm life in
Canada because my mother moved me here. My parents refuse to
be a Christians, so according to the Paul’s point of view
they are cursed people. How about those many gangsters who
have faith in God but ruin life of many brothers and
sisters? Still because they believe in God and later on
anyway repent and accept Him in their lives those people
will be delivered from everlasting agony. How to say believe
in God and be saved. But is it really true? I want to keep
in mind that all demons whom Jesus Christ met believed in
him as a Son of God. They feared him and obediently left the
bodies of wretched people alone. Yes, demons believed in
Jesus, believed in God, but still they have never been
welcomed to his kingdom. However, their minds were corrupted
and their intentions were focused on harming the others and
make the most of suffering which is no way relates to the
true heaven of God. Christians, if our minds are
concentrated on harming one another, our belief in God
becomes a weapon in the hands of devil. Don’t forget my
dear brothers and sisters that according to our actions the
other people will determine the preciousness of our Chosen
One, our Lord, and our God. So if we start hurting each
other while claiming that God is loving and merciful than
who would believe us for our actions go against our words?
In this case one can say “They praise God, but more
embarrass Him, they build, but more destroy. They comfort,
but more condemn. They say true but hypocrisy is their daily
practice”. So if we claim ourselves Christians let us not
feel too comfortable sitting in the high places while
looking down at many others who don’t believe in God the
same way we do. Let us be careful our words as well as in
our actions. But if some people got offended by our deeds,
let us reconcile with all those who have been hurt by us to
make sure that they don’t bear any hurt against us. Today,
I had to apologize to Jae Won Kim for I falsely accused him
in something which he has never done, in intruding my
privacy. Jae Won Kim accepted apology and we no longer
talked about it, for chewing this unpleasant matter all over
again simply would aggravate the relationship between me and
my friend.
Christians just think again about the fact that God opposes
the proud people and give grace to the humble ones. We claim
ourselves to be humble. What does it mean to be humble? It
means to never ever assume that we are God’s chosen ones,
while the others are in the sight of the darkness. The words
“I am for sure going to go to heaven” or “Oh I am
afraid that my uncle went to hell for even though he was a
nice person, he never bothered going to church” don’t
come from the mouth of humble Christian, but self-proud
judgmental one. Christians who start thinking in self-proud
and judgmental way have high chance to become worse than
unbelievers. Let us never forget that. Being humble means
that even though we managed to understand the book of Godly
kindness we are still aware of the fact that there are still
many things in this world which we don’t know or cannot
fully fathom. Being humble means respecting others people
points of view, choices, and life styles, despite the fact
that some of them might look very bizarre to us. Being
humble means accepting that sometimes we or some of us can
be wrong.
However always and always remember that being humble never
ever means to be defenseless and let many people accuse you
without reason and make you bleed. Letting many people take
advantage of you in the way that you squeezed dry is also
not an option for Godly humbleness. Giving food to dogs and
treasures to pigs was never ever approved by Jesus himself.
Letting many wipe their shoes against one’s back is a
creepy practice which must never take place neither in the
church, nor outside of it.
And how it is important to respect the point of view of many
brothers and sisters for we are so different. Each of us has
particular life style which suits his or her personal
demands. In fact our bible does teach us how to respect each
other choices. For example for one of our brother daily
bible reading is beneficial, while for the other reading
this book three times per week is just enough. Does it make
the first brother more spiritual than the second one?
Absolutely not, for they both chose their lives styles which
suit them the best. Let’s take the other example: one
sister eats just everything, while the other eats only
fruits mushrooms and vegetables. Does it make the first
sister more spiritual than the second one? Absolutely not.
In this case the second sister may have to choose vegetarian
life style due to her health issues or maybe she simply
cannot stand eating something which went through the process
of slaughtering. The third example, one brother prays to
three times per day while the sister prays five times per
day. Should sister push brother to increase the number of
praying to make it five per day? Of course not. The pray
should come from heart and any time when the person feel
yearns for it which should be natural.
Pushing each other to follow one unique life style for the
sake of salvation is senseless and I would say often harmful
practice. It destroys normal relationship within the people
among the church, distorts the true meaning of God’s
doctrine, brings suffering within community.
Therefore, I am pleading you my dear brother and sister
don’t try to make yourself so like each other for we are
so different. Don’t push one another to take identical
life style which according to your (I am not saying God’s)
point of view is the only way for salvation. In simple
words: don’t go nut over insignificant differences of one
another. It would be much better if we learn how to bear
with one another while sharing new experiences in rather
encouraging but not obligatory way. Keep in mind that
senseless obligation of church made sacrifice of God look
ridicules. Let us learn again and again how to live our life
in God’s way. We need to practice that rebuking should be
reasonable and at the same time not too harsh, and that
encouragement should not come from hypocrisy but from
sincere humble heart. Too all of you my dear Christians, I
wish PEACE. How I wish that I loved you more than I do. God
bless all of you. Amen.
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