Sunday, January 29, 2006
when i go over to the states to study,
i am going to join the
threadless 12 club. :)
and i do hope i put on
minimal weight over CNY.
and a belated statement fulfilled:
PRIDE
"Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall." - Proverbs 16:18this is one that may be easy to understand, but extremely difficult to see whether we have fallen into or not. and i think that thats the scariest part of it all. :pride, to put is simply, is the inability to depend on God, spiritual blindness, ignorance to God's intervention and an overdependence on oneself. yet most of the time, we think that we are not prideful, but that thought in itself is pride.
we who have temporal souls should not speak as though we fully comprehand the eternal things of God.
pride leads to non-teachablily, fruitlessness and a perpentual spiritual dryness as we tell ourselves again and again that we're alright with God, we just have to 'work harder'. but most of the time, it is we deceiving ourselves.
the greatest lie is when he who starts it believes in the lie itself.
now, this includes 'spiritual' lies - are our lives really us, or has pride taken over to mantain that 'oh-i'm-a-great-spiritual-being' facade in place?
PUAY! :)
// 1:22 AM //
Sunday, January 29, 2006
when i go over to the states to study,
i am going to join the
threadless 12 club. :)
and i do hope i put on
minimal weight over CNY.
and a belated statement fulfilled:
PRIDE
"Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall." - Proverbs 16:18this is one that may be easy to understand, but extremely difficult to see whether we have fallen into or not. and i think that thats the scariest part of it all. :pride, to put is simply, is the inability to depend on God, spiritual blindness, ignorance to God's intervention and an overdependence on oneself. yet most of the time, we think that we are not prideful, but that thought in itself is pride.
we who have temporal souls should not speak as though we fully comprehand the eternal things of God.
pride leads to non-teachablily, fruitlessness and a perpentual spiritual dryness as we tell ourselves again and again that we're alright with God, we just have to 'work harder'. but most of the time, it is we deceiving ourselves.
the greatest lie is when he who starts it believes in the lie itself.
now, this includes 'spiritual' lies - are our lives really us, or has pride taken over to mantain that 'oh-i'm-a-great-spiritual-being' facade in place?
PUAY! :)
// 1:22 AM //
