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December 20, 2009 • 8:20 pm 0
Prayer
Teach me your ways, Lord. Train my ears to hear your voice and heed it. Open my eyes to see the unseen. Reveal to me the things of the spiritual realm. Guide me with your spirit.
Prepare me, a good soil, full of nutrients. Guard every seed of wisdom that gets planted.
For a man’s life doesn’t belong to himself. I long for you to set my steps.
I surrender to you today of my flesh desires, and pursue the one passion to bring you glory.
Amen
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• 8:09 pm 0
Advent Conspiracy
This year, there seems to be lot more emphasis on stepping down on consumerism and take back the true spirit of Christmas.
I like this concept.
One thought that I do have is: if you and I both bought on this idea, then it’ll work very well since we understand and we won’t be expecting gifts of elaborate kind. But what about the distribution model? How will this spread? At some point, a person who is doing this will have to come face to face with a person who is expecting, a BIG gift! What then?
Do you go with the true conviction and be seen as a scrooge?
or, is this what it is whenever you make radical changes?
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• 6:37 pm 2
Living with Unbelieving Parents
I could never find articles nor sermon messages on how to interact with unbelieving parents. I know we are to honor our authorities whether they are godly or not.
What does honoring mean? Is it just respect? What about submission or following their mandates?
I’ve heard that our foremost authority is God, and then the authorities. As long as it doesn’t disobey and dishonor God’s will, then it is ok to submit to the authorities.
Well, here is a question: What if being in the environment affects your perspective, your attitude and instead of edifying you, it creates a war in you? What if their view points that you don’t agree with because it doesn’t align with your value?
Quite bit of chasm wouldn’t it?
Sure, people could be agree to disagree. Sure, you can communicate and hope the reverse influence will happen. It’s kinda like be a believer in this unbelieving world. Is it just a constant battle?
Their hearts can change too.
To show love and grace. I guess when you do need to show love and grace is when the person you are interacting with doesn’t agree with you fully. Otherwise, how easy is it to love someone who loves you, right?
Though parents, especially Asian parents. They must think they are a total failure when it comes to see their kids doing something so radically different from the world. Like, say becoming a pastor instead of a doctor. Or, how about creating a business that opts in for purpose and meaning, instead of maximizing profit.
The thorns of life and the worries can definitely strangle even a little seed growing up. Especially the older people get. No wonder people say, people’s beliefs are harder to change after 20-somethings. Maybe this is why I’ve always been so gun-ho about impacting the 20-somethings (aka the quarter lifers) and getting frustrated with them at the same time.
Is there such a thing as a true harmony in a family which people don’t share the same values? Or is mere productive conflict good enough? I desire to have.
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