Still reading The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure. Amazingly God spoke through that 2day. a quote from Dr Airton regarding the salvation of his 2 servants: 'I'm sure they'd die on the cross if I asked them to, but it wouldn't be for the Faith: it'd be nine parts pride and cussedness and one part loyalty to me.'
the passage really speaks the truth... know a no. ppl who r converted Christians not because of God's salvation, but because of their own pride. Thinking that 2 pull out would be hurtful 2 their pride.. and just hanging there... reali painful even at the sound of it... (B4 my dad's buddhist fever.. he actually was a 'baptised Christian'... but reali he understood nothing, just hang himself there 4 almost 6-7 yrs b/c he felt he had 2.)*sigh*
And what about us: we who think we are sure that we follow God because of His salvation? When we act kind, when we help our friends, when we do work, are we doing them all for Him? or the element of pride more or less comes in when we do such services for Him??? And pride is such a subtle thing that most of the time when we have it.. we won't know it.
Therefore we have to ask Him to constantly make us broken pieces, flow His wisdom through us so we can see our probs, and let us continue learning from Jesus' spirit of wholeheartedly serving our Father.
PS. a no. of u asked about adding links
this is the official guide:
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=110&query=links&topic=0&type=f
Updated my own links 2... ^0^
Cheers everyone and God bless.
God speaks through a book.^^
Posted by
YN
Monday, December 06, 2004
1 comments:
thx yn!!! ;p will update links when have time...
ummm, yah, i can readily identify with those who were stuck with pride and not really fully understanding Christians... coz that was me for many years once upon a time... before i began my search for truth... i'll recount my whole search for truth in one form or another sometime in a future blog post ;p hehe...
anywayz... there is yet hope for them, jus keep praying and let them experience God's love for themselves, through you and through others, and encourage them to actively discover what life is all about through the gospel... ;p easier said than done, of course... i have much to learn and do in this respect, especially with regard to my family...
anyhow, i should be sleeping ;p elective start tomorrow, yay!!!
cheers,
dave
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