Passion of Christ and the Important Things

"For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16

Beautiful and perfect verse this is. But an important note: the bible is God's word as a whole, not one line or one verse, or even one book from it. God's words are written as a combination of books that consists of great promises that we yearn yet are so huge that we may find it overwhelming for us to bear, but, through God, we will be blessed in our lives and desires as long as they are focused in and toward the Lord.

Brothers and sisters, believers and pre-believers, I am a Christian, who is as imperfect as any one of you, who lives a life with as many hurdles and challenges alike, and one who struggles the same way of life between worldly desires understood as "needs" in the society we live in against the values and humble fundamentals of meaningful life and, the walk with Christ.

Along our bumpy paths that will never smoothen, the Lord walks with us and soothes our struggles with comfort and faith, and all it takes is a willingness to humble our hearts - hearts that are hardened and burdened by the seemingly natural yet manipulative percieved fate. All God asks, is for us to throw away some pride to look at ourselves, see and acknowledge the ugliness and imperfection we have, and turn to Him, so that He may embrace us with grace, mercy and the beauty of His great love.

Let us all look at the lives we live, the jobs we seek and the ideals we run after, what are we searching and working for? The obvious component is practical survival, but again, are we working to have enough, or working for an "ideally bigger portion"? Of course, I am no saint and money's never enough for anyone (money is just the best example when discussing lures and greed), point is, are we simply living for a worldly hope for better living, say a bigger house, car to drive, more shopping, nicer food? Again, I can't deny the infinate times I wish I had a list from A to Z, and dream to earn X amounts to afford them all... But, this dream ultimately is an ideal, an empty hope that is like buying toto for a $10million prize or like a fable that will not exist out of a whoof of clouds...

I shared in cell my opinion about why it could be difficult to reach out to people: it's like we are all seemingly "able", "independant" and "well" in our lives that having what people call a "religion" appeared "obviously dispensable". It seems easier to bow down when we're down and out, to shout in our hearts in a silent yet desparate cry to ask for help from the Lord (believers and non-believers alike) to say that we can't cope and we need Him. But I certainly hope that more and more of us will realise what it means to be "nothing" without the Lord. I used to joke with an ex-colleague about her work in the airport, that out of the airport, we're nothing! We'd have to start from scratch to get into new cultures and the ropes of stuff. "Nothingness" is way more complexed then feeling useless, I interpret it as "meaningless, hopelessness and disbelief in life".

This sharing is inspired by the play I watched tonight staged by Westside Anglican Church. It depicts a life so typical of all of us and emphasizes on the arrogance we hold on to for seriously no other reason than a certain pride (that's my way of describing it). It's just so important to humble ourselves and know that there's a God, and He moulded us, sees us, hears us, picks us up and continues to mould us in His kingdom and for His kingdom.

Passion of the Christ, is like a version of "pop-Christianity" I feel, simply because of its media nature. But, God works in wonders, and no matter what conditions the hearts were as people watched this movie, it didn't matter so much how they felt before watching it, in my view at least. The good thing is, all of you, whether you liked it, wanted to believe it or otherwise, a seed was planted in you, to have imagined or visualized what Christ did for all of us, and that you have at least then once heard, of God's love for all of us.

And the emphasis of this is: the only thing which people acknowledge as constant is change which we adapt to, and the next comes along before we're done with the first. But there is actually another one constant in our lives, and that is God - to whom we need to avail our lives and hearts to be tuned to, to be in His consistant love.

God bless to all, and have a great Easter Sunday! While I may not be terrific to share the gospel, I wish that at least one if not some could benefit and have a certain willingness to recieve the Lord. If you've been touched even by the slightest bit or can relate to any single word, don't even have to think twice to say your first prayer in your hearts to God, to ask for a somebody in His kingdom to help you know Him more, and prayer for a path to draw you to Him; perhaps you could just speak to your Christian friends or anyone, certainly, doors are wide open for you =).

With love.