YYYThursday, November 09, 2006
Aw my mum's so cute! She bought me red hair extensions for prom XD! I was like, no I'm not going to wear that! Now she insists I attach it to my dress somehow.
Jiakang's family clan is even cuter! They are flying in to Singapore from all over the world to see her dress up for prom!
John 12: 21 "
We [some unbelievers] wish to see Jesus"
The key word here is SEE. Here, what is meant by "see" is to experience Jesus, to understand His message.
In John 1:50-51, Jesus invites Nathanael to come and "
see greater things", to "
see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man". At the end, it is the people who come to Jesus to ask to see because through his work/ his life they understand that He is truly "the way, the truth and the light".
Actually I think that everyone is thirsting and hungering for the truth, everyone wants to
see the truth. It's just that many people do not recognise this thirst. They misread it as growing pains, teenage angst, philosophical rubbish, a passing phase, part of life and so on.
They try to find ways to quench this thirst. These ways seem harmless. But most of them just lead to them wasting their lives away. They do not realise this because the Devil is crafty and plants thoughts, that these ways are okay, in their head. These people cannot tell the difference between their own thoughts and the Devil's because the Devil is so clever. The Devil is happy because by wasting their lives away, these people are not fulfilling God's purpose for them on earth.
But these types of "water" [ways] don't work because Jesus said in John 4: 13-14, "
Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life".
He also said, "
I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."(Jn 6:35)
The Devil works by making us believe that this life we lead in this world is the most important, that as human beings we are God of this earth. But how short-sighted this thinking is!
What about what comes after this short life on earth? At most we'll live what, a hundred years? After that what happens? Is that the end? Does it just go all dark and our soul just shrivels up and decomposes? What a sad life we live then! We are living for nothing then, since it just ends like that.
We might say we are living for others, to make others happy. But what use is this happiness (both ours and that of others) if it is all so immaterial and silly in this life of ours that is doomed to a black end anyway? It would be the same as saying that you are living to make money. You can't bring all that money you have earned to your grave anyway.
Call me morbid, but it is the truth that our life may end any moment. There are so many people, so young and healthy, who suddenly die of a cardiac arrest or by choking on their tongue/vomit/saliva in their sleep.
What if we die missing the truth? We would have spent our whole life living out a lie then.
Jesus said, "
The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you. If you walk in the darkness, you do not know where you are going. While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light." (John 12: 35-3")
Ah I don't know. Maybe that sounded a little harsh. Maybe the right way is for people to see Jesus through others, others who love with all their heart, who truly embody Jesus' commandment that "
Just as I have loved you, you should also love one another" (Jn 13:34)
But maybe it is because I am so morbid, I feel it is very urgent.
Ah I know such things cannot be rushed. They are big decisions. And anyway everything happens "in His time".
Whatever it is, I just felt I had to say it. I am not very spiritually mature so who knows if its right :(
But I love everyone and I just want everyone to see what I feel is the truth. I want everyone to share in this joy that I have, of knowing God.
11:16 PM
