Make Your Own Title For Me

It’s interesting how a friend can encourage you to do something that you don’t feel like doing at all, but when you do that thing, you suddenly realize how much good actually comes out from it.

Miss Van (lol if you’re reading this), actually managed to make me do my quiet time. So I started by reading from the daily devotional book that she gave me. And then I read the whole of Proverbs 29, as was linked to there.

By God’s grace, it actually allowed me to learn a lot about knowing God through moral inspiration (God’s inspiration), and through our own idealistic principals about the Lord. Of course the latter is what Christians should not seek to follow. Well, I guess quite a lot of Christian friends do suffer from the latter syndrome, and I’m not afraid to admit it too.

For long I’ve had my own idealistic principals (as the DD book said) of being a Christian. I still do go down the crooked path now and then, but I’m still aiming to do the right things in life. I pray that my other friends would too. I guess even from a non-Christian context, the wrong path’s always the self-reliant path. We always need encouragement from friends and family, but most of all, we need to humbly accept the feedback (be it good or bad) about ourselves to ever live life to the fullest.

I guess it is pride that always gets the better of many, but as hard as it seems, we should learn to hear more from others rather than just from our own minds because our opinions about ourselves, our characters and our actions are often very biased and one-sided (literally). The fact that my mother nags at me, or when my friends tell me that I’m doing it wrong, reinforces the underlying love they have for me.

Anyways, here’s something interesting from my student bible.

Five Dangerous Responses – Inner attitudes can destroy you
1. Anger will destroy you before it destroys anyone else. Control your temper! (one more way of being less prone to heart-attacks eh?)
2. Pride will lead to your downfall. Humility is far more rewarding.
3. Jealousy grows like a cancer.
4. Fear of people is unnecessary if you trust God.
5. Conceit is ugly. A conceited person forgets God’s place in his/her life. (Definition of conceit: A favorable and especially unduly high opinion of one's own abilities or worth)

That’s all folks!