1Timothy 1:5
"The goal of the command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith."
Pure Heart = Soul
Good Conscience = Mind
Sincere Faith = Spirit
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
"LORD... Fill your Holy Spirit in ME!"
Well... life is like this, you wake up, you go to work, you come home or go out to eat dinner then you go home and mess around with your hobbies (t.v. reading, writing, editing, etc.) then you go to sleep. Then on weekends you go out with your family or sleep at home and do whatever like you to do (of course some have to work). As the months go by... then it is time for a short break like a vacation. I don't know, i mean that's what i would do.
So that is the basics of life... here on Earth. As the world is spinning, people on Earth is warring with one another becos everyone want Power, Money....etc. you know "competition" and that is what is happening here on Earth today. Everyone wants to be the top country... like China use to be like a place people are afraid to go to, becos it was total communist (i mean they still kind of are... right??) And America is like the #1 country for the longest time and you know... that is the TRUTH.... and maybe that is why some people hates America becos they want to be the top country.... (i don't know, i just saying and wondering)
well if that is the case... this is just never ending and it is crazy and very very very frustrating if you think about it! I mean, we in this world have so much resources that if the whole world work together... no one would be starving right now. And if people are not "LAZZZY" (like me at times....sigh), and if people just try to help each other to solve problems and not be all selfish and greedy and mean and jealousy and envy and getting to the top of that and that and just never ending grudges and revenges (like me at times....ai ya ya) .... I say this world could a great world, a fun and loving world. A world where people just help each other and care for one another with out forcing upon one another... we be at such peace right now!
But sadly to say that is life here on our planet earth.
Again... I will tell you, if Jesus Christ didn't answer me that day.... i would of just say "Folk everything and everyone and just end my life right here! okay maybe not, i was a chicken....
But He did answer me!
Well, i went to India last year and if you read my testimony,
you will understand that in this video (in about 8mins onward), my friend Sam (in the blue cap) was praying this very simple prayer. Two ladies in the back started crying during the prayer... and you know Sam didn't say anything touching at all, it was just a simple prayer. These two ladies teared just like when God answered me that day (but of course my tear was way heavier and totally uncontrollable). I tell you the truth!
Well... life on earth is at most 100 years. You know God promise us Paradise... i totally want to go there for the PEACE! AMEN!
So that is the basics of life... here on Earth. As the world is spinning, people on Earth is warring with one another becos everyone want Power, Money....etc. you know "competition" and that is what is happening here on Earth today. Everyone wants to be the top country... like China use to be like a place people are afraid to go to, becos it was total communist (i mean they still kind of are... right??) And America is like the #1 country for the longest time and you know... that is the TRUTH.... and maybe that is why some people hates America becos they want to be the top country.... (i don't know, i just saying and wondering)
well if that is the case... this is just never ending and it is crazy and very very very frustrating if you think about it! I mean, we in this world have so much resources that if the whole world work together... no one would be starving right now. And if people are not "LAZZZY" (like me at times....sigh), and if people just try to help each other to solve problems and not be all selfish and greedy and mean and jealousy and envy and getting to the top of that and that and just never ending grudges and revenges (like me at times....ai ya ya) .... I say this world could a great world, a fun and loving world. A world where people just help each other and care for one another with out forcing upon one another... we be at such peace right now!
But sadly to say that is life here on our planet earth.
Again... I will tell you, if Jesus Christ didn't answer me that day.... i would of just say "Folk everything and everyone and just end my life right here! okay maybe not, i was a chicken....
But He did answer me!
Well, i went to India last year and if you read my testimony,
http://ricebowltruth.blogspot.com/2010/01/living-understanding-of-truth.html
you will understand that in this video (in about 8mins onward), my friend Sam (in the blue cap) was praying this very simple prayer. Two ladies in the back started crying during the prayer... and you know Sam didn't say anything touching at all, it was just a simple prayer. These two ladies teared just like when God answered me that day (but of course my tear was way heavier and totally uncontrollable). I tell you the truth!
Well... life on earth is at most 100 years. You know God promise us Paradise... i totally want to go there for the PEACE! AMEN!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
The Burial of Jesus
John 19:38-20:9 (New International Version)
The Burial of Jesus
38Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jews. With Pilate's permission, he came and took the body away. 39He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.[a] 40Taking Jesus' body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs. 41At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. 42Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.John 20
The Empty Tomb
1Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"
3So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus' head. The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen. 8Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9(They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Understanding the Spirit
Live by the Spirit
16So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. 17For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.
19The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
And Sat. decided to walk around the downtown area and ended up at MoCa!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Married to the Porn!
The truth is nobody really likes to hear the truth. I, myself don't like to hear the truth, cause the truth can really hurt... why the truth hurts is another topic.
But the truth is that about or should i say almost.... all the male race in this world who are normal human species that has accesses to DVD and TV or a computer with internet access, WE men and some even be women will be watching and wanking to P O R N!
And that is the TRUTH!
Well... Porn is and can be addicting if people don't watch out, weather it be men or women, in today's society... in this day and age, WE people just do whatever we want as long as it feels good and you know I'm nothing killing or hurting anyone i'm fine.... cause our LUST has taken over the our LOVE.
So i'lll just cut the chase and get to the point!
Porn can be harmful and can really mess you up on your perception of sex with your wife and your MARRIAGE and many other adultery type of junk which can really hurt people.
The reason i want to tackle on this topic is becos it is a problem, and we can't just say that PORN is bad and not really analyze it and talk about it or debate about why this is bad or maybe is not that bad? So we are not here to judge porn or people who act in them nor the people who watch them... but lets analyze it.
PORN is basically just an ACT, a show,... like Acting in front of a camera, for a movie.
So for example... (not that I done it before, but since I did study film in school and this is how a production should be... i assume) When they make a porno video, regardless how low the budget it is....
they still have to think about ideas, like what kind of sexual act will be hot and be a turn on to the audience. So you know they will come up with various sexual positions and camera angles etc. . And also they have think about costumes, color of the lingerie, the hair style, make up, high heels which all there can be a turn on factor etc.
So now they have the set (even the setting got to look a certain way) and the actors & actress ready with the sexy make up etc. Now, the actress must know how to act... act really "horny" or "slutty" and moan very slowly sexily and loudly (you know... to build up the scene). That is why there are Porn-Stars becos they really act better lusty/sluttier than the other porn actresses... they don't necessary have to be pretty but attractive.
So basically Porn is a fantasy... you know like sexual fantasy some people dream about and it becomes reality on video. Like maybe some men would lust being with 2 females or being in an orgy, with a certain race etc. etc.... Its like a FANTASY come true in front of your eyes!
And the whole purpose of the porn industry is to make money off you and to get you HOOK on it like a visual drug. Just like any other muti-media industry! Once your hook, you will want more.
The more you watch, the more you lust.
The more you lust, the more you want.
The more you want, the more you get.
The more you get, the more you watch.
So that is the cycle of being additive to something like PORN.
Well.... i have many male friends that feels that there is nothing wrong with watching porn becos they are single, but even the married ones feels that it is normal to watch porn, since there is nothing wrong with it, since it is just me and myself and i and the computer. And some would say "Well, i'm not hurting anyone and its not like i'm sleeping around with some other woman!" etc. etc.
So this is the honest truth. Most men and some women think there is nothing harmful with Porn.
But when we really look at it closely, I personally think Porn can really hurt a loving couple's marriage. I read it in the papers with movie stars or just someone famous married to beautiful wives being sex addicts or married couple divorce becos husband rather wank to porno. So there is alot of sad breaks up in marriages becos of being addictive to porn.
First of all, if you LOVE your wife and respect her with all your heart and mind and soul and spirit, wouldn't you rather be making love to your real human precious wife rather then wanking off from a fake fantasy that will only make you lust more!
Another example... pretend or if you are married....what if you keep on wanking to the same porn star becos this girl just always turns you on and gets you off... So your thinking, well I'm not hurting anyone, i still love my wife. Then one day at work a new girl comes in and she look almost like the porn star that you always love to wank off to... And now, the lust will start and slowly your wet dream will be true. Then adultery begins.... and that leads to fights with wife and slowly a divorce and sometimes it could even lead to murder.
One more example, what if one day your watching the porn and you stumble into a video that stars someone you know.... what if it is your MOM? What if it is your daughter? What if it is your girlfriend??? etc... that can be pretty mess up and hurting!
So being a broken man.... who believes in LOVE (not that I am perfect that i don't stumble)... but I do wish to see that married couple grow old in love till they die.
Here is some silly ways that I have try to think up for married couple to do.
1) Love each other.... (not the most creative, but this is the basic)
(Soften your heart and FORGIVE and LOVE! Remember why you guys first got married???)
2) Still have Romance with one another! Go out with each other... like dating! Go to Disneyland! Surprise each other with fun things that each other likes, but not all the time till the point your sick of it. Be creative with romance... Growing older in age doesn't mean we all got to be old and boring and just go to work and wait for dinner time and stuff....
(la La laaaa LAAOOOVVVEEEEEEEE!)
3) Be attractive for each other! You know, I have seen some sexy couples get married and after 3 years later or so, they just look like all FAT and like out of it and no one cares! Don't be like that! You got to look good for your wife and for your husband!!! And being atrrative, your whole doing so is becos you LOVE each other! Growing old doesn't mean you got tobe all unattractive.!!! GEE WIZZZZ
3a) Also one very important thing! Don't make each other JEALOUS... don't be all flirty with the opposite sex other than with your own wife or your own husband!!! This is the worst feeling of all.........Respect each other with LOVE!
(This a film by Jean-Luc Godard... this is love with a Robot, a robot who became alive and finally understands love...)
4) Okay.... i think this is the last long thing. SEX! Well... since now you all kind of know how a PORNO is made, married couples should be each other's PORN star. That's right, start buying sexy lingerie, make up, role play, mini skirts, high heels and start acting out your fantasy. ... enjoy your sex since now you are MARRIED couples that is your advantage and privilege. BUT remember! Husband, you must ask for your wife's permission if role play is possible. RESPECT one another. Ultimately Make beautiful LOVE To each other as ONE! For you guys are IN LOVE!
5) If you really want a PERFECT marriage, there is none and that is the truth. But there are beautiful marriages, i have seen them. I have seen old couples holding hands walking at night and that is a good sign for marriage. Or maybe that could of been her son that looked old...hahaha
(Another Jean-Luc Godard film and is wonderful!)
But the truth is that about or should i say almost.... all the male race in this world who are normal human species that has accesses to DVD and TV or a computer with internet access, WE men and some even be women will be watching and wanking to P O R N!
And that is the TRUTH!
Well... Porn is and can be addicting if people don't watch out, weather it be men or women, in today's society... in this day and age, WE people just do whatever we want as long as it feels good and you know I'm nothing killing or hurting anyone i'm fine.... cause our LUST has taken over the our LOVE.
So i'lll just cut the chase and get to the point!
Porn can be harmful and can really mess you up on your perception of sex with your wife and your MARRIAGE and many other adultery type of junk which can really hurt people.
The reason i want to tackle on this topic is becos it is a problem, and we can't just say that PORN is bad and not really analyze it and talk about it or debate about why this is bad or maybe is not that bad? So we are not here to judge porn or people who act in them nor the people who watch them... but lets analyze it.
PORN is basically just an ACT, a show,... like Acting in front of a camera, for a movie.
So for example... (not that I done it before, but since I did study film in school and this is how a production should be... i assume) When they make a porno video, regardless how low the budget it is....
they still have to think about ideas, like what kind of sexual act will be hot and be a turn on to the audience. So you know they will come up with various sexual positions and camera angles etc. . And also they have think about costumes, color of the lingerie, the hair style, make up, high heels which all there can be a turn on factor etc.
So now they have the set (even the setting got to look a certain way) and the actors & actress ready with the sexy make up etc. Now, the actress must know how to act... act really "horny" or "slutty" and moan very slowly sexily and loudly (you know... to build up the scene). That is why there are Porn-Stars becos they really act better lusty/sluttier than the other porn actresses... they don't necessary have to be pretty but attractive.
So basically Porn is a fantasy... you know like sexual fantasy some people dream about and it becomes reality on video. Like maybe some men would lust being with 2 females or being in an orgy, with a certain race etc. etc.... Its like a FANTASY come true in front of your eyes!
And the whole purpose of the porn industry is to make money off you and to get you HOOK on it like a visual drug. Just like any other muti-media industry! Once your hook, you will want more.
The more you watch, the more you lust.
The more you lust, the more you want.
The more you want, the more you get.
The more you get, the more you watch.
So that is the cycle of being additive to something like PORN.
Well.... i have many male friends that feels that there is nothing wrong with watching porn becos they are single, but even the married ones feels that it is normal to watch porn, since there is nothing wrong with it, since it is just me and myself and i and the computer. And some would say "Well, i'm not hurting anyone and its not like i'm sleeping around with some other woman!" etc. etc.
So this is the honest truth. Most men and some women think there is nothing harmful with Porn.
But when we really look at it closely, I personally think Porn can really hurt a loving couple's marriage. I read it in the papers with movie stars or just someone famous married to beautiful wives being sex addicts or married couple divorce becos husband rather wank to porno. So there is alot of sad breaks up in marriages becos of being addictive to porn.
First of all, if you LOVE your wife and respect her with all your heart and mind and soul and spirit, wouldn't you rather be making love to your real human precious wife rather then wanking off from a fake fantasy that will only make you lust more!
Another example... pretend or if you are married....what if you keep on wanking to the same porn star becos this girl just always turns you on and gets you off... So your thinking, well I'm not hurting anyone, i still love my wife. Then one day at work a new girl comes in and she look almost like the porn star that you always love to wank off to... And now, the lust will start and slowly your wet dream will be true. Then adultery begins.... and that leads to fights with wife and slowly a divorce and sometimes it could even lead to murder.
One more example, what if one day your watching the porn and you stumble into a video that stars someone you know.... what if it is your MOM? What if it is your daughter? What if it is your girlfriend??? etc... that can be pretty mess up and hurting!
So being a broken man.... who believes in LOVE (not that I am perfect that i don't stumble)... but I do wish to see that married couple grow old in love till they die.
Here is some silly ways that I have try to think up for married couple to do.
1) Love each other.... (not the most creative, but this is the basic)
(Soften your heart and FORGIVE and LOVE! Remember why you guys first got married???)
2) Still have Romance with one another! Go out with each other... like dating! Go to Disneyland! Surprise each other with fun things that each other likes, but not all the time till the point your sick of it. Be creative with romance... Growing older in age doesn't mean we all got to be old and boring and just go to work and wait for dinner time and stuff....
(la La laaaa LAAOOOVVVEEEEEEEE!)
3) Be attractive for each other! You know, I have seen some sexy couples get married and after 3 years later or so, they just look like all FAT and like out of it and no one cares! Don't be like that! You got to look good for your wife and for your husband!!! And being atrrative, your whole doing so is becos you LOVE each other! Growing old doesn't mean you got tobe all unattractive.!!! GEE WIZZZZ
3a) Also one very important thing! Don't make each other JEALOUS... don't be all flirty with the opposite sex other than with your own wife or your own husband!!! This is the worst feeling of all.........Respect each other with LOVE!
(This a film by Jean-Luc Godard... this is love with a Robot, a robot who became alive and finally understands love...)
4) Okay.... i think this is the last long thing. SEX! Well... since now you all kind of know how a PORNO is made, married couples should be each other's PORN star. That's right, start buying sexy lingerie, make up, role play, mini skirts, high heels and start acting out your fantasy. ... enjoy your sex since now you are MARRIED couples that is your advantage and privilege. BUT remember! Husband, you must ask for your wife's permission if role play is possible. RESPECT one another. Ultimately Make beautiful LOVE To each other as ONE! For you guys are IN LOVE!
5) If you really want a PERFECT marriage, there is none and that is the truth. But there are beautiful marriages, i have seen them. I have seen old couples holding hands walking at night and that is a good sign for marriage. Or maybe that could of been her son that looked old...hahaha
(Another Jean-Luc Godard film and is wonderful!)
But seriously... with God and the words of God, couples that become selfless toward each other and care for one another, LOVE will grow & stay.
Marriage should grow like a tree.
Wrap around each other.
Growing old together!
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The Great Sin By C.S. Lewis
The Great Sin.
From Mere Christianity by C S Lewis
I now come to that part of Christian morals where they differ most sharply from all other morals. There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. I have heard people admit that they are bad-tempered, or that they cannot keep their heads about girls or drink, or even that they are cowards. I do not think I have ever heard anyone who was not a Christian accuse himself of this vice. And at the same time I have very seldom met anyone, who was not a Christian, who showed the slightest mercy to it in others. There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves. And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in others.
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now, we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
Does this seem to you exaggerated? If so, think it over. I pointed out a moment ago that the more pride one had, the more one disliked pride in others. In fact, if you want to find out how proud you are the easiest way is to ask yourself, 'How much do I dislike it when other people snub me, or refuse to take any notice of me, or shove their oar in, or patronise me, or show off?' The point is that each person's pride is in competition with every one else's pride. It is because I wanted to be the big noise at the party that I am so annoyed at someone else being the big noise. Two of a trade never agree. Now what you want to get clear is that Pride is essentially competitive - is competitive by its very nature - while the other vices are competitive only, so to speak, by accident. Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better-looking than others. If everyone else became equally rich, or clever, or good-looking there would be nothing to be proud about. It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone. That is why I say that Pride is essentially competitive in a way the other vices are not. The sexual impulse may drive two men into competition if they both want the same girl. But that is only by accident; they might just as likely have wanted two different girls. But a proud man will take your girl from you, not because he wants her, but just to prove to himself that he is a better man than you. Greed may drive men into competition if there is not enough to go round; but the proud man, even when he has got more than he can possibly want, will try to get still more just to assert his power. Nearly all those evils in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of Pride.
Take it with money. Greed will certainly make a man want money, for the sake of a better house, better holidays, better things to eat and drink. But only up to a point. What is it that makes a man with œ10,000 a year anxious to get œ20,000 a year? It is not the greed for more pleasure. œ10,000 will give all the luxuries that any man can really enjoy. It is Pride - the wish to be richer than some other rich man, and (still more) the wish for power. For, of course, power is what Pride really enjoys: there is nothing makes a man feel so superior to others as being able to move them about like toy soldiers. What makes a pretty girl spread misery wherever she goes by collecting admirers? Certainly not her sexual instinct: that kind of girl is quite often sexually frigid. It is Pride. What is it that makes a political leader or a whole nation go on and on, demanding more and more? Pride again. Pride is competitive by its very nature: that is why it goes on and on. If I am a proud man, then, as long as there is one man in the whole world more powerful, or richer, or cleverer than I, he is my rival and my enemy.
The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began. Other vices may sometimes bring people together: you may find good fellowship and jokes and friendliness among drunken people or unchaste people. But pride always means enmity - it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that - and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison - you do not know God at all. As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshipping an imaginary God. They theoretically admit themselves to be nothing in the presence of this phantom God, but are really all the time imagining how He approves of them and thinks them far better than ordinary people: that is, they pay a pennyworth of imaginary humility to Him and get out of it a pound's worth of Pride towards their fellow-men. I suppose it was of those people Christ was thinking when He said that some would preach about Him and cast out devils in His name, only to be told at the end of the world that He had never known them. And any of us may at any moment be in this death-trap. Luckily, we have a test. Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil. The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object. It is better to forget about yourself altogether.
It is a terrible thing that the worst of all the vices can smuggle itself into the very centre of our religious life. But you can see why. The other, and less bad, vices come from the devil working on us through our animal nature. But this does not come through our animal nature at all. It comes direct from Hell. It is purely spiritual: consequently it is far more subtle and deadly. For the same reason, Pride can often be used to beat down the simpler vices. Teachers, in fact, often appeal to a boy's Pride, or, as they call it, his self-respect, to make him behave decently: many a man has overcome cowardice, or lust, or ill-temper, by learning to think that they are beneath his dignity - that is, by Pride. The devil laughs. He is perfectly content to see you becoming chaste and brave and self-controlled provided, all the time, he is setting up in you the Dictatorship of Pride - just as he would be quite content to see your chilblains cured if he was allowed, in return, to give you cancer. For Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
Before leaving this subject I must guard against some possible misunderstandings:
(1) Pleasure in being praised is not Pride. The child who is patted on the back for doing a lesson well, the woman whose beauty is praised by her lover, the saved soul to whom Christ says 'Well done,' are pleased and ought to be. For here the pleasure lies not in what you are but in the fact that you have pleased someone you wanted (and rightly wanted) to please. The trouble begins when you pass from thinking, 'I have pleased him; all is well,' to thinking, 'What a fine person I must be to have done it.' The more you delight in yourself and the less you delight in the praise, the worse you are becoming. When you delight wholly in yourself and do not care about the praise at all, you have reached the bottom. That is why vanity, though it is the sort of Pride which shows most on the surface, is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration, too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a child-like and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are, in fact, still human. The real black, diabolical Pride, comes when you look down on others so much that you do not care what they think of you. Of course, it is very right, and often our duty, not to care what people think of us, if we do so for the right reason; namely, because we care so incomparably more what God thinks. But the Proud man has a different reason for not caring. He says 'Why should I care for the applause of that rabble as if their opinion were worth anything? And even if their opinions were of value, am I the sort of man to blush with pleasure at a compliment like some chit of a girl at her first dance? No, I am an integrated, adult personality. All I have done has been done to satisfy my own ideals - or my artistic conscience - or the traditions of my family - or, in a word, because I'm That Kind of Chap. If the mob like it, let them. They're nothing to me.' In this way real thorough-going pride may act as a check on vanity; for, as I said a moment ago, the devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one. We must try not to be vain, but we must never call in our Pride to cure our vanity.
(2) We say in English that a man is 'proud' of his son, or his father, or his school, or regiment, and it may be asked whether 'pride' in this sense is a sin. I think it depends on what, exactly, we mean by 'proud of'. Very often, in such sentences, the phrase 'is proud of' means 'has a warm-hearted admiration for'. Such an admiration is, of course, very far from being a sin. But it might, perhaps, mean that the person in question gives himself airs on the ground of his distinguished father, or because he belongs to a famous regiment. This would, clearly, be a fault; but even then, it would be better than being proud simply of himself. To love and admire anything outside yourself is to take one step away from utter spiritual ruin; though we shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.
(3) We must not think Pride is something God forbids because He is offended at it, or that Humility is something He demands as due to His own dignity - as if God Himself was proud. He is not in the least worried about His dignity. The point is, He wants you to know Him: wants to give you Himself. And He and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble - delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life. He is trying to make you humble in order to make this moment possible: trying to take off a lot of silly, ugly, fancy-dress in which we have all got ourselves up and are strutting about like the little idiots we are. I wish I had got a bit further with humility myself: if I had, I could probably tell you more about the relief, the comfort, of taking the fancy-dress off - getting rid of the false self, with all its 'Look at me' and 'Aren't I a good boy?' and all its posing and posturing. To get even near it, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.
(4) Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call 'humble' nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him. If you do dislike him it will be because you feel a little envious of anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He will not be thinking about humility: he will not be thinking about himself at all.
If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realise that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.
From Mere Christianity by C S Lewis
I now come to that part of Christian morals where they differ most sharply from all other morals. There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. I have heard people admit that they are bad-tempered, or that they cannot keep their heads about girls or drink, or even that they are cowards. I do not think I have ever heard anyone who was not a Christian accuse himself of this vice. And at the same time I have very seldom met anyone, who was not a Christian, who showed the slightest mercy to it in others. There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves. And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in others.
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now, we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
Does this seem to you exaggerated? If so, think it over. I pointed out a moment ago that the more pride one had, the more one disliked pride in others. In fact, if you want to find out how proud you are the easiest way is to ask yourself, 'How much do I dislike it when other people snub me, or refuse to take any notice of me, or shove their oar in, or patronise me, or show off?' The point is that each person's pride is in competition with every one else's pride. It is because I wanted to be the big noise at the party that I am so annoyed at someone else being the big noise. Two of a trade never agree. Now what you want to get clear is that Pride is essentially competitive - is competitive by its very nature - while the other vices are competitive only, so to speak, by accident. Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better-looking than others. If everyone else became equally rich, or clever, or good-looking there would be nothing to be proud about. It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone. That is why I say that Pride is essentially competitive in a way the other vices are not. The sexual impulse may drive two men into competition if they both want the same girl. But that is only by accident; they might just as likely have wanted two different girls. But a proud man will take your girl from you, not because he wants her, but just to prove to himself that he is a better man than you. Greed may drive men into competition if there is not enough to go round; but the proud man, even when he has got more than he can possibly want, will try to get still more just to assert his power. Nearly all those evils in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of Pride.
Take it with money. Greed will certainly make a man want money, for the sake of a better house, better holidays, better things to eat and drink. But only up to a point. What is it that makes a man with œ10,000 a year anxious to get œ20,000 a year? It is not the greed for more pleasure. œ10,000 will give all the luxuries that any man can really enjoy. It is Pride - the wish to be richer than some other rich man, and (still more) the wish for power. For, of course, power is what Pride really enjoys: there is nothing makes a man feel so superior to others as being able to move them about like toy soldiers. What makes a pretty girl spread misery wherever she goes by collecting admirers? Certainly not her sexual instinct: that kind of girl is quite often sexually frigid. It is Pride. What is it that makes a political leader or a whole nation go on and on, demanding more and more? Pride again. Pride is competitive by its very nature: that is why it goes on and on. If I am a proud man, then, as long as there is one man in the whole world more powerful, or richer, or cleverer than I, he is my rival and my enemy.
The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began. Other vices may sometimes bring people together: you may find good fellowship and jokes and friendliness among drunken people or unchaste people. But pride always means enmity - it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that - and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison - you do not know God at all. As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshipping an imaginary God. They theoretically admit themselves to be nothing in the presence of this phantom God, but are really all the time imagining how He approves of them and thinks them far better than ordinary people: that is, they pay a pennyworth of imaginary humility to Him and get out of it a pound's worth of Pride towards their fellow-men. I suppose it was of those people Christ was thinking when He said that some would preach about Him and cast out devils in His name, only to be told at the end of the world that He had never known them. And any of us may at any moment be in this death-trap. Luckily, we have a test. Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil. The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object. It is better to forget about yourself altogether.
It is a terrible thing that the worst of all the vices can smuggle itself into the very centre of our religious life. But you can see why. The other, and less bad, vices come from the devil working on us through our animal nature. But this does not come through our animal nature at all. It comes direct from Hell. It is purely spiritual: consequently it is far more subtle and deadly. For the same reason, Pride can often be used to beat down the simpler vices. Teachers, in fact, often appeal to a boy's Pride, or, as they call it, his self-respect, to make him behave decently: many a man has overcome cowardice, or lust, or ill-temper, by learning to think that they are beneath his dignity - that is, by Pride. The devil laughs. He is perfectly content to see you becoming chaste and brave and self-controlled provided, all the time, he is setting up in you the Dictatorship of Pride - just as he would be quite content to see your chilblains cured if he was allowed, in return, to give you cancer. For Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
Before leaving this subject I must guard against some possible misunderstandings:
(1) Pleasure in being praised is not Pride. The child who is patted on the back for doing a lesson well, the woman whose beauty is praised by her lover, the saved soul to whom Christ says 'Well done,' are pleased and ought to be. For here the pleasure lies not in what you are but in the fact that you have pleased someone you wanted (and rightly wanted) to please. The trouble begins when you pass from thinking, 'I have pleased him; all is well,' to thinking, 'What a fine person I must be to have done it.' The more you delight in yourself and the less you delight in the praise, the worse you are becoming. When you delight wholly in yourself and do not care about the praise at all, you have reached the bottom. That is why vanity, though it is the sort of Pride which shows most on the surface, is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration, too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a child-like and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are, in fact, still human. The real black, diabolical Pride, comes when you look down on others so much that you do not care what they think of you. Of course, it is very right, and often our duty, not to care what people think of us, if we do so for the right reason; namely, because we care so incomparably more what God thinks. But the Proud man has a different reason for not caring. He says 'Why should I care for the applause of that rabble as if their opinion were worth anything? And even if their opinions were of value, am I the sort of man to blush with pleasure at a compliment like some chit of a girl at her first dance? No, I am an integrated, adult personality. All I have done has been done to satisfy my own ideals - or my artistic conscience - or the traditions of my family - or, in a word, because I'm That Kind of Chap. If the mob like it, let them. They're nothing to me.' In this way real thorough-going pride may act as a check on vanity; for, as I said a moment ago, the devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one. We must try not to be vain, but we must never call in our Pride to cure our vanity.
(2) We say in English that a man is 'proud' of his son, or his father, or his school, or regiment, and it may be asked whether 'pride' in this sense is a sin. I think it depends on what, exactly, we mean by 'proud of'. Very often, in such sentences, the phrase 'is proud of' means 'has a warm-hearted admiration for'. Such an admiration is, of course, very far from being a sin. But it might, perhaps, mean that the person in question gives himself airs on the ground of his distinguished father, or because he belongs to a famous regiment. This would, clearly, be a fault; but even then, it would be better than being proud simply of himself. To love and admire anything outside yourself is to take one step away from utter spiritual ruin; though we shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.
(3) We must not think Pride is something God forbids because He is offended at it, or that Humility is something He demands as due to His own dignity - as if God Himself was proud. He is not in the least worried about His dignity. The point is, He wants you to know Him: wants to give you Himself. And He and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble - delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life. He is trying to make you humble in order to make this moment possible: trying to take off a lot of silly, ugly, fancy-dress in which we have all got ourselves up and are strutting about like the little idiots we are. I wish I had got a bit further with humility myself: if I had, I could probably tell you more about the relief, the comfort, of taking the fancy-dress off - getting rid of the false self, with all its 'Look at me' and 'Aren't I a good boy?' and all its posing and posturing. To get even near it, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.
(4) Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call 'humble' nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him. If you do dislike him it will be because you feel a little envious of anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He will not be thinking about humility: he will not be thinking about himself at all.
If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realise that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.
Knowing the Folking Truth!
Here is my testimony (this happened during 2004-2005)...
***just keep in mind that during that time I was always smoking marijuana daily and I was very much addicted to it! That was the only happiness in my life.
During 2004, I was like going into this NEGATIVE space; not only I was negative but almost EVERYONE around me was being really negative toward their own life and toward my life. For example I kept on hearing people saying "how come you still live with your parents???" "how come you drive this car, why don't you save up and buy a BMW etc.???" "How can you be happy with that job???"...etc.
Basically I was confuse, frustrated, and depress with how come ALMOST Everyone of us are mainly into material goods and MONEY??? Why do we base "happiness in life" upon on - making lots of money, have the best cars, eat the best food, have the most expensive house, the sexiest woman, the richest man, etc. etc. and all the best pleasure in life there is?
Through this frustration, I was looking for some answers about our existence on Earth. Like... "why are we here on this planet Earth and and why are we here for and the purpose of life?
And since no one around me can tell me the answers to these questions and because pressure from family and friends; all I wanted to do was to make a lot of money just so I can prove to them that I am better than what they think I am. So it was sort of like a revenge toward friends and family, i also had selfish pride. I was lost in this materialistic world.
One Sunday morning I woke up watching TV and this preacher called "Joel Osteen" was preaching about God, well he didn't really talk about God (if he did, I would of turn the channel), but he preach about our daily life and it makes sense to me... and in the end of the show, he would say "if you want Jesus Christ to be part of your life say this prayer with me." Joel also said " You will find joy and peace in your life!" I was like... who is Jesus Christ... I mean, I seen pictures and heard of him but didn't really know what he did nor did I know he is so controversial.
I was like "HA, this is stupid, why would some stupid prayer to someone who is dead, whom you can't see or touch or answer you back... make me feel Peace, Love, Happiness and Joy??? Is not like I will make lots of money and buy a house and have a nice and sweet vacation life?! It was a very silly idea to me!
But because I was kind of applying Joel's preaching, I was doing a bit better with people at work (since I was just so angry with my life and people in general... and work was a gossip land, which really didn't help with my yelling at all). So through out each Sunday morning, I would turn on the TV and find myself listening to Joel Osteen and going " Wow, he really makes sense!" But still, there is still emptiness in my life... so one Sunday (about 4 months later) I decided to try that prayer which Joel Osteen always talked about "asking Jesus to come into my life" I thought to myself, what is there to loose? I mean this dude- Joel Osteen have like 50thousands folks in Texas listening to him and he is a young dude like maybe in his early 40's (pretty successful)... So I decided to give myself in and prayed .... asking Jesus to come into my life and to forgive my sins.... .
Well after the prayer... nothing really changed. In fact, my relationships with friends and family didn't get better, it got worse, cause they kept on telling me to do this and that with my life (which is always related to MONEY!) But for some odd reason, as for my own inner self... I was getting better and happier. But still at times I had yelling sessions with people at work and with my parents etc. I just couldn't control my crazy temper.
Being defeated by them and having some sort of confuse depression... I keep on praying to God saying "WHO are you??? Why are we here? Why is everyone so against me and Why is this world so full of people just wanting to live lies and cheat in order to get money & pleasure in life... is that the meaning of life and happiness??
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A STRANGE ENCOUNTER (NOTE: remember that I was always smoking weed)
That morning I remember it very clearly. I woke up and did my daily smoking of weed and cigarettes.... and that morning I had a very big fight with my mom and my auntie (who was visiting) and we were arguing about money and president Bush etc. and I totally made my mom cry so sadly... So rushing off to work piss and angry and kind of suicidal, becos I felt life is just meaningless and worthless...
I was driving to work and eating a Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwich (which I eat almost every morning for breakfast). The drive was local, going through some hill side (on Colima road to Norwalk), so the radio was very loud, messy and static. I was thinking and frustrated with why is everyone so hard up on having the best job and making lots of money, etc. I was sad and piss with how people can be so selfish... and it really bugs me that my family and friends, who thinks that MONEY is everything in the world!
As I try to change the radio station, my Peanut Butter and Jelly got on the radio dial. So I use my napkin and try to clean up the thick Peanut Butter & Jelly on the Radio Dial and the stations just kept on changing and changing in to other music and morning talk stations. As i was going through some hillsides (which explains the staic on the radio stations). I said to God "God Who the F*** are YOU! Why can you answer me NOW!!! Why does everyone just think that Money is so important!" And as I asked the question about " Why is money so important to everyone in this world..." the Preacher man from the radio shout out in a loud and clear voice saying "Becos they love this world and do not know the love of God!." ( I again forgot exactly when the preacher said, but this is what I remembered)
And not only that, the weird and oddest thing was, I started crying and crying like a baby... I couldn't stop my self from crying and it felted like someone was squeezing my heart ; but that squeeze was a great and joyful feeling that I couldn't explain it! And the crying lasted for 40sec. to one minute or so... It was an awesome feeling like someone or something has came upon me. When I came back to myself again, it was like I was in a trans and I completely stop crying, I was wide awake. And the weirdest thing was... all my feeling of frustration was gone!!!! But I was all shaken literally... my body was just numb not from smoking weed (i wasn't high any longer, i was wide awake with a great shock and kind of scare...)
Well, the story didn't end here with the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich... I mean that day could of been just some coincident that the radio had a Preacher man answered my question... But after that day, I began to really pay attention to everyone and everything around me. And I began to try to pray as much as I can that night and every other night. And slowly God reveal more of Himself to me and I was led to this Bible in the house. It was odd, becos, no one in my family knows Jesus or God or the Bible. But later I found out it was my Auntie's ex-husband's Bible (whom past away a while back from cancer). And when I opened the Bible it led me to alot of answers about life. I didn't go to church right away. Half a year or a year later, I moved to Chinatown and God led me to FCBC (my home Church in Chinatown).
This is the truth - J. C. Cho
If you want to know Christ, say this prayer with sincere faith and you will know the truth!
“Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from you. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward you. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your will for the rest of my life. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.”
***just keep in mind that during that time I was always smoking marijuana daily and I was very much addicted to it! That was the only happiness in my life.
During 2004, I was like going into this NEGATIVE space; not only I was negative but almost EVERYONE around me was being really negative toward their own life and toward my life. For example I kept on hearing people saying "how come you still live with your parents???" "how come you drive this car, why don't you save up and buy a BMW etc.???" "How can you be happy with that job???"...etc.
Basically I was confuse, frustrated, and depress with how come ALMOST Everyone of us are mainly into material goods and MONEY??? Why do we base "happiness in life" upon on - making lots of money, have the best cars, eat the best food, have the most expensive house, the sexiest woman, the richest man, etc. etc. and all the best pleasure in life there is?
Through this frustration, I was looking for some answers about our existence on Earth. Like... "why are we here on this planet Earth and and why are we here for and the purpose of life?
And since no one around me can tell me the answers to these questions and because pressure from family and friends; all I wanted to do was to make a lot of money just so I can prove to them that I am better than what they think I am. So it was sort of like a revenge toward friends and family, i also had selfish pride. I was lost in this materialistic world.
One Sunday morning I woke up watching TV and this preacher called "Joel Osteen" was preaching about God, well he didn't really talk about God (if he did, I would of turn the channel), but he preach about our daily life and it makes sense to me... and in the end of the show, he would say "if you want Jesus Christ to be part of your life say this prayer with me." Joel also said " You will find joy and peace in your life!" I was like... who is Jesus Christ... I mean, I seen pictures and heard of him but didn't really know what he did nor did I know he is so controversial.
I was like "HA, this is stupid, why would some stupid prayer to someone who is dead, whom you can't see or touch or answer you back... make me feel Peace, Love, Happiness and Joy??? Is not like I will make lots of money and buy a house and have a nice and sweet vacation life?! It was a very silly idea to me!
But because I was kind of applying Joel's preaching, I was doing a bit better with people at work (since I was just so angry with my life and people in general... and work was a gossip land, which really didn't help with my yelling at all). So through out each Sunday morning, I would turn on the TV and find myself listening to Joel Osteen and going " Wow, he really makes sense!" But still, there is still emptiness in my life... so one Sunday (about 4 months later) I decided to try that prayer which Joel Osteen always talked about "asking Jesus to come into my life" I thought to myself, what is there to loose? I mean this dude- Joel Osteen have like 50thousands folks in Texas listening to him and he is a young dude like maybe in his early 40's (pretty successful)... So I decided to give myself in and prayed .... asking Jesus to come into my life and to forgive my sins.... .
Well after the prayer... nothing really changed. In fact, my relationships with friends and family didn't get better, it got worse, cause they kept on telling me to do this and that with my life (which is always related to MONEY!) But for some odd reason, as for my own inner self... I was getting better and happier. But still at times I had yelling sessions with people at work and with my parents etc. I just couldn't control my crazy temper.
Being defeated by them and having some sort of confuse depression... I keep on praying to God saying "WHO are you??? Why are we here? Why is everyone so against me and Why is this world so full of people just wanting to live lies and cheat in order to get money & pleasure in life... is that the meaning of life and happiness??
_________________________________________________________________________
A STRANGE ENCOUNTER (NOTE: remember that I was always smoking weed)
That morning I remember it very clearly. I woke up and did my daily smoking of weed and cigarettes.... and that morning I had a very big fight with my mom and my auntie (who was visiting) and we were arguing about money and president Bush etc. and I totally made my mom cry so sadly... So rushing off to work piss and angry and kind of suicidal, becos I felt life is just meaningless and worthless...
I was driving to work and eating a Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwich (which I eat almost every morning for breakfast). The drive was local, going through some hill side (on Colima road to Norwalk), so the radio was very loud, messy and static. I was thinking and frustrated with why is everyone so hard up on having the best job and making lots of money, etc. I was sad and piss with how people can be so selfish... and it really bugs me that my family and friends, who thinks that MONEY is everything in the world!
As I try to change the radio station, my Peanut Butter and Jelly got on the radio dial. So I use my napkin and try to clean up the thick Peanut Butter & Jelly on the Radio Dial and the stations just kept on changing and changing in to other music and morning talk stations. As i was going through some hillsides (which explains the staic on the radio stations). I said to God "God Who the F*** are YOU! Why can you answer me NOW!!! Why does everyone just think that Money is so important!" And as I asked the question about " Why is money so important to everyone in this world..." the Preacher man from the radio shout out in a loud and clear voice saying "Becos they love this world and do not know the love of God!." ( I again forgot exactly when the preacher said, but this is what I remembered)
And not only that, the weird and oddest thing was, I started crying and crying like a baby... I couldn't stop my self from crying and it felted like someone was squeezing my heart ; but that squeeze was a great and joyful feeling that I couldn't explain it! And the crying lasted for 40sec. to one minute or so... It was an awesome feeling like someone or something has came upon me. When I came back to myself again, it was like I was in a trans and I completely stop crying, I was wide awake. And the weirdest thing was... all my feeling of frustration was gone!!!! But I was all shaken literally... my body was just numb not from smoking weed (i wasn't high any longer, i was wide awake with a great shock and kind of scare...)
Well, the story didn't end here with the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich... I mean that day could of been just some coincident that the radio had a Preacher man answered my question... But after that day, I began to really pay attention to everyone and everything around me. And I began to try to pray as much as I can that night and every other night. And slowly God reveal more of Himself to me and I was led to this Bible in the house. It was odd, becos, no one in my family knows Jesus or God or the Bible. But later I found out it was my Auntie's ex-husband's Bible (whom past away a while back from cancer). And when I opened the Bible it led me to alot of answers about life. I didn't go to church right away. Half a year or a year later, I moved to Chinatown and God led me to FCBC (my home Church in Chinatown).
This is the truth - J. C. Cho
For we brought nothing into this world, so we can not take anything out of it either. If we have food and covering with these we shall be content. For those who want to get rich fall into temptation and many foolish desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root to all sorts of evil, for some by longing for it have pierced themselves with many grieves. But flee from these things you Man of God and pursue righteousness, Godliness, Faith, Love, Perseverance and Gentleness.
1Timonthy 6:7-11 (from the Holy Bible)
“Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from you. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward you. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your will for the rest of my life. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.”
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