today is the last day of school, and well the beginning of holiday for most. excpet perhaps the unfortunate JC students and myself, the equivalent of half a JC student. looking forward to mugging with you, whoever you are, wherever you are, secretly reading my blog you stalker !
i’ve been getting the strain recently on the drawback of spirituality of our lives. the fact is, more christians are becoming increasingly burdened with the “Religion” we hold close to our hearts. if it was meant to edify, is it thus, wrong to conlcude that something somewhere must have gone wrong?
Let’s put things in perspective. 1) Religion never works. 2) relationship does. i guess many would have long figured out the principle of the difference with our approach to God as a religion or a relationship. but when pressure builds and faith is tested, how easy is the escape to a routinal practise of justification, and seemingly burning our christian joss sticks? and yet we can thus argue our payment of duties with the “justified” routine of religions. we do our roles, pray a little, keep away from sin, read the bible once in awhile.
But, is this how you want your spirituality to conclude. would the above approach have left you thirsty for more, changed from the inside out and bringing about the dynamics of christianity that God have so blatantly promised in the bible, that he “had come so that we may have life, and have it to the full”. so you call that living life to the fullest. if that would to hold true, then the value of christianity would ultimately be debased and degraded into yet another set of ritual and spiritual exercise that all would adhere to in equivalent to our schools and the necessity to sleep. however with this very same necessity, it is all the more important to highlight the need to continously challenge our perspective and idealogy of the life that we are living now and the life that we know God have in place for us.
so is this how you want to live your spiritual destiny, or is it the kind of destiny God have intended at all. well for many it might hold true, but not for me. as long as i am here, i seek to establish the very roots of my existence and my purpose that christ himself have graciously died for. to live for the cross and discover it’s position in my life is of utmost importance to me. and quite frankly, i hope it is for you as well. i might not find the truth fully unveiled yet, but i will in time to come and i am certain. will you as well, not put down the baton, but hold it firm and grip it tight, because despite not knowing the end in sight, you know through faith, the belief in things unseen that God works out for all who love him.
food for thought
