Day 16

So here's a thought. Why do we act like it's taboo to talk about God? I mean, when we go and talk to each other, say hi to each other, it seems so foreign to ask about how your spiritual life is doing or about what God is doing in your life or just to share how your relationship with God is doing? Why is that? Why is it that in schools, at work, we feel kind of ashamed to pray? It's not illegal.

Just slight update for peopel to know, it's not illegal to pray in schools in the States, just general assembly prayer is not allowed. Actually, this is a good thing because you don't want people who aren't believers in Christ muttering words of prayer when their hearts are not there at all. It's kind of like the Roman Empire under Constantine - you would be persecuted if you WEREN'T a Christian, so everyone suddenly became Christians which made it hard to tell who really is a follower of Christ and who just doesn't want to die.

Anyway, getting back to topic - the thing is that we should really make an effort to stand up for Christ always. We are to be salt and light. We have to get in there, we have to make a difference wherever we go. I feel like this is the constant thing I'm learning throughout my studies - it is important to stand for Christ even in the face of a society or culture that has lowered His importance. In our culture, it's kind of like everyone says they believe in God, well, yeah, whatever. The thing is that us Christians need to remember that we are ona mission here. People are dying constantly. People need us to reach them. But the problem I think, is that Christians try outreach very aggresively ONLY. We need to not only go out there and share, we need to live the life too. People look at us and measure our faith by who we are. Even if its unfair, like how Christ should be the measurement, not us. However, as tehy say, we may be the only Jesus Christ peopel will be seeing. We need to make sure wherever we go, we make the world better because we are the torchbearers, carrying the Holy Spirit wherever He leads. We have to back up what we preach with how we act. We can't be saying Christ is the number one in our lives and not love our neighbor. We can't say Christ is number one in our life and get hammered/drunk regularly. We can't say Christ is king when we go to places that will nto glorify Him. We need to make a difference, and that means that we can't get so stuck on the mentality of getting pampered. We should be used to getting rejected...

there's this one movie where a guy says, "If the whole world says the love of your life is ugly, would you care?" The friend says, "No, cause I know they're wrong." In the same way, we should be like that with God. To paraphrase the Rock, "It DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THEY THINK." What matters is that we know who God is and we can share that with everyone. And if they say God doesnt' exist and that they get offended, well, sorry na lang.

Well, I have a meeting to run to. ChannelS is comign along great. Mike Dan is working and doing wonders with all the content. Let's pray it comes out as beautiful as it looks on the computer. Coming out last week of July :-) God willnig.