Are we taking things for granted?
Are we taking things for granted?
Sigh* still not well after more than 1 week ... I have never been so physically down before - even mum's beginning to be worried ... =(
Went to a second doc yesterday (who gave me MC for yesterday and today) and got more medicines =( well, this time round the medication seems a bit more "effective" - at least my cough is much better, though still coughing ... but at least I'm not kept awake most part of the night just coughing and coughing - her medications really knock me out =)
I think sometimes in life, these are things we took for granted, isn't it? Good health, our family, opportunities to work and study, friends, etc.
I attended a night class on Wed - one which covers some major religion in our society, and it was something that interests me very much, especially when majority of my family members are not believers yet. I want to know more so that I can understand their beliefs better and also to know how to effectively witness to them.
In the introductory session, my lecturer showed us streets along some parts of our country which contain places of worship for some of the major religion here - can be easily up to 6 different places of worship of different religion just along a short distance apart from each other. He said something which I thought was so relevant and something which we had always taken for granted ... He said that in our country, we took it for granted that we can build a church and a temple next door to it, or a mosque and an Indian temple, etc - it doesn't happen in other countries at all! And here we are, taking religious freedom for granted.
See how many outbursts had happened in other countries because of a careless/thoughtless word spoken against another religion, and here we are, in a multi-racial, multi-religion country, and taking all these things for granted.
I guess most of us also take the chance of going to church for granted, so much so that if we can wake up on time, we will be in church. If not, then "let me sleep some more ..." sounds familiar ? How many of us make it a priority to be ready (I mean, spiritually) for church on Sunday morning? How many of us make it a point to get to church early (not just on time) so that we can prepare ourselves to meet with God? How many of us go to church to really listen, instead of being critical about the preacher or worship leader? How many of us go to church to really meet with God, and not just meeting with friends? Sadly, I think we treat God as someone we are overly familiar with, so much so that we don't accord Him with the respect and awe He deserves.
Let's remember also not to take our friends of other religion who have also all these while been so tolerant with us for granted. Let's take time to listen to them and understand their beliefs, before we plunge in to force the Gospel down their throat.
Are we losing our Christian witness? Are we taking things for granted? Must we learn through hard lessons before we knew the pain of losing something? Hopefully not.
Sigh* still not well after more than 1 week ... I have never been so physically down before - even mum's beginning to be worried ... =(
Went to a second doc yesterday (who gave me MC for yesterday and today) and got more medicines =( well, this time round the medication seems a bit more "effective" - at least my cough is much better, though still coughing ... but at least I'm not kept awake most part of the night just coughing and coughing - her medications really knock me out =)
I think sometimes in life, these are things we took for granted, isn't it? Good health, our family, opportunities to work and study, friends, etc.
I attended a night class on Wed - one which covers some major religion in our society, and it was something that interests me very much, especially when majority of my family members are not believers yet. I want to know more so that I can understand their beliefs better and also to know how to effectively witness to them.
In the introductory session, my lecturer showed us streets along some parts of our country which contain places of worship for some of the major religion here - can be easily up to 6 different places of worship of different religion just along a short distance apart from each other. He said something which I thought was so relevant and something which we had always taken for granted ... He said that in our country, we took it for granted that we can build a church and a temple next door to it, or a mosque and an Indian temple, etc - it doesn't happen in other countries at all! And here we are, taking religious freedom for granted.
See how many outbursts had happened in other countries because of a careless/thoughtless word spoken against another religion, and here we are, in a multi-racial, multi-religion country, and taking all these things for granted.
I guess most of us also take the chance of going to church for granted, so much so that if we can wake up on time, we will be in church. If not, then "let me sleep some more ..." sounds familiar ? How many of us make it a priority to be ready (I mean, spiritually) for church on Sunday morning? How many of us make it a point to get to church early (not just on time) so that we can prepare ourselves to meet with God? How many of us go to church to really listen, instead of being critical about the preacher or worship leader? How many of us go to church to really meet with God, and not just meeting with friends? Sadly, I think we treat God as someone we are overly familiar with, so much so that we don't accord Him with the respect and awe He deserves.
Let's remember also not to take our friends of other religion who have also all these while been so tolerant with us for granted. Let's take time to listen to them and understand their beliefs, before we plunge in to force the Gospel down their throat.
Are we losing our Christian witness? Are we taking things for granted? Must we learn through hard lessons before we knew the pain of losing something? Hopefully not.
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