The Holiness Ladder

I really never been able to read the bible(entirely), but thank God our church made its way of really encouraging us to read it page by page.

Truly enough the Word of God is alive and is moving to those who are reading them. I am on my journey in the book of Leviticus 22. It touches me how God made us holy because He is holy himself.

I must admit living a holy life isn't that easy, however according to Philippians 4:13 says: "I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength", yes indeed, we Christians are able to do it; We just have to make sure what tools to use to fight for the battle. :)

Many people have asked me, why I haven't considered anyone in my life. Well, the answer is simple. I am waiting. I am holy waiting for the right man to come for it is good in the sight of God.

Never let your guard down. Keep on doing what God is telling you to do! Keep His word in your heart and you will live. God bless.

The Disturbed Spirit

There are two worlds that we are living in. If you are a christian then, this is very true to you but if you're not, maybe you won't really understand what I would like to say.

Christianity's beliefs and faith are vague from world's view. I am one happy person who loves talking. That's a fact! I love sharing those things that had happen to me to all of my friends. If you can put into words, I am as easy as ABC. I am a very oblivious person. My life is an open book to everyone. I used to be sheepish when my non-christian friends are shocked knowing that I don't have any little experience on the life that they're living.

It's stressful for me to hear that. Very painful that I compare myself to them and my spirit is disturbed knowing this. They thought that I have a very boring life and that I don't have a life itself. I contemplated on those thoughts and point of views and it's really hard to get my thoughts straight when it comes to life outside Christianity.

I may have not understood many things outside of my faith or never will I understand it at all. The disturbing part about it is that I am pushing myself to live a life like them. Live a life that is carefree and throw away what I've believed all my life.

My theory for myself is coming brighter now. That my beliefs are strong, they are solid strong! My God is a living God and everything about me comes with a purpose. What makes my spirit disturbed is myself. I am weak. Weak enough that I have been deceived, worn out and super tired of the things that are happening in my life now.

This is the most honest blog that I have ever done/wrote. Just like what I've said, I am an open book. But I put my trust to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, that He will push me, carry me and help me with all these things that I made myself.

Tell you, He won't be happy if I am thinking this about myself and I am very sorry for believing lies and for putting my self-confidence in Jesus down.

Please keep on praying for me.

God bless!

Living for Jesus

Jesus Christ is the greatest sacrifice. He is the One who redeemed us from all our sins. If He is the greatest sacrifice, that none can be much greater than Him, the things that we forsake in this world for His name isn't a sacrifice at all.

What we are doing for God, forsaking or should I say choosing God over the things that we want isn't a sacrifice. We must think and see the big picture of things that are happening around. We must be able to see what we are here for.

What we are doing for the Lord is an opportunity to give praise and glory to Him and to His name. It's a gratitude for Him who saved us from all our sins. Besides, what is it that we can best offer Him than our lives? He loves us, He redeem us. I think it's best to start walking forward to whom who's calling you.

Jesus started calling you even before you were made. It's your choice whether to answer or not. But let me say to you that, When God called you, He is calling you. His plans are much greater and much fulfilling than any kind of plans that you may have or other people may have for you. His reward is far much better than any material things here on earth.

It really pays to follow Jesus!

You are made to become God's worshipper

I woke up around 5:00 in the morning today(June 3) and went on to my devotion. God led me to Psalm 33:4-5 and it says:
"For the word of the Lord is right and true;
He is faithful in all he does.
The Lord loves righteousness and justice;
The earth is full of his unfailing love."

I guess my mind were not really away that time, so i read it for like five times before I saw what God wants to say about me today. I was astounded by what I've learned and realized that very moment and it gives me an indescribable feeling of happiness.

ok here we go. I know this is very grade school and I really don't mind if you find it very childlike observation. Anyways,

In verse 4, we all know that the word of God (Bible) has full of richness. It has instructions, commands from God, promises, blessings and many more. Moreover, it also says that it is right and true. If some people doesn't believe at what God is telling here then - let's stop. But it doesn't end there. King David adds on how faithful God in all He does. Does everything make sense now?

Let me rephrase the question. Is it easy now to obey God? well, God is true on every promise and blessings that He's giving us. So I guess this make our relationship to God more closer than ever.

In verse 5, this is my favorite, God loves righteousness and justice. That moment it hit me, BAM! Then I said to myself "God loves righteousness and justice". This gave me all the reasons in the world to live a righteous life. A life that is pure, noble, not compromising and not living in a double standard world.

If some people are living like one or treats you badly then it's not the reason to bounce the same attitude back to person. God gave us the reason to live life to the fullest and appreciate life through everything he has created. The earth is full of his unfailing love.

It is not half-full neither half-empty. God said it is full. This where being appreciative and being a very good steward comes in. If we can just see how marvelous everything God had created for us then I guess there wouldn't be any problems in our world today.

I am happy that I can share my devotion in here. I hope it blessed you just like what it did to me today. The bottom line of this is that we should be able to appreciate all things in our life in a way God created it purposefully. We are created to become His worshiper. God created us to give Him all the glory and praise.

If we cannot see His marvelous work, then I guess there wouldn't be any reasons for us to know Him and praise our God.

I praise God that He lets me see this. I praise God for you who read this!

God bless!

Responsibilities

In the account of creation in Genesis 1:28, God gave the first responsibilities over all God’s creation to Adam and Eve. It says in verse 28b: God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it, Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” This chapter talks about creation. However, what I would like to point out is that we as human beings have responsibilities about our environment and about our future generations

What we are experiencing as of the moment is the effect of what we did before, Global warming, greenhouse effect, floods, tsunamis and earthquakes. We take everything God has given us for granted. We didn’t care for our environment; we care less to what He told us to take care of.

I am not an environmentalist or a student who studies these things. I am not even close to people who went to the streets to fight for what I think is right. I am just an ordinary woman who observes and is concerned about my future children. I am a Christian woman who loves God and is very much moved about this truth that I’ve learned from Him.

I desire to let other people know about this absolute truth that comes from the Maker of everything Himself. I am appealing to everyone who can read this to change the way we live. If not, by the year 2010 some regions in the North Pole will melt what will happen after won’t be as good as what we think it is. A great part of India and the Philippines will go under water. It’s disaster coming right upon us if we don’t act on it.

When? It’s happening now. Climate change, viruses, floods. If we don’t stop conserving what we have right now, what will happen to our future generations? If we don’t stop emitting carbons what will happen to the world? The entire Philippines would go under water for real. I am not making up this blog or anything about environment. I am not giving scare to everyone. This is just awareness of what can happen if we don’t stop what we are doing. It’s 2009; we nearly have 6 months to at least make a change.

Let’s reduce, reuse, and recycle. Let’s call the attention of everyone who can understand us to help our planet, to help our future generation to live a much better life. Let’s act on the upcoming problem before it can be a big one.

I don’t need special attention on this. I am not even sure if there are reading my blog. But what I am sure is that I will make everyone know that Global Warming is real and its effect isn’t a joke for us. It’s coming and it is coming to hit us very hard that we cannot bear to survive.

God is serious when He gave His only Son for us to live and have a life. He is serious when He told Adam and Eve to take care of everything He had created magnificently. He is serious on us too. I don’t know if you believe on Him, but I do. I believe that’s why I am taking this action. This is the one thing I know I can do to help spread the news.

Now you know this, what will you do to help the earth? To help yourself? To help your future children?

It’s your choice, your calling. It’s either you act now or you act never.

God bless you!

PS

Observe what’s happening on the planet. It’s here. Everything that I’ve said here are facts. Research. Understand. ACT. NOW!

Left Behind

God is an amazing God. Many of my friends really doesn't take me seriously when I started to talk about Him. Well, what can i do? He's just part of me. Part of my everyday life.

Because God loves me so much(or what I mean was He loves Everyone, especially His children) that He wants them(or us) to learn the many good things He has for us. As one of my friends used to say that God moves in mysterious ways, Yes He does. We really don't have the slightest ideas of how God will work but if He is on the move His children will definitely know He's moving.

And I am so glad that God is moving in my life and He works magnificently on me. It's just sometimes I fail to recognize what He's trying to say to me as His child. I hate it when I overlook on things and really depends on my understanding when things in my life gets a little bit shaky and cloudy.

Yesterday was a very not-so-good day. I caught myself in a traffic jam where a 1 1/2 hour trip suddenly went to a 2 1/2 hours. The bus that I should get on that morning really just passed in front of me. I thought of running after the bus but when I saw some police enforcer then I though I guess there's another bus but I was wrong. I was late for work that day.

My day went fine. I learned many Hebrew words and I can't memorize them unless i put them into practice. Until after office I found myself on the same situation - again that night. The bus had already left and there's a huge pile of cars on the road. This situation is very tiring especially when you live in a province near the city and you can't get an apartment 'cause you're paying for your gym and you have a dog who's sick.

Well I know that God has many plans on me. I just need to be very patient. I mean to really be patient more on life, in love and with time. lol

I just can't believe that things are happening the way God planned it be. I mean God really is making sure that I understood Him.

When Love Strikes

We, as human beings are created for someone. Don't believe me? well, why don't we go down memory lane?

If you don't believe in the bible, well I don't know if you will agree with me or not but I do believe in God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

In Genesis Chapter 2, after our gracious and loving God created everything that we can see, feel and hear He created Adam - the root of all human beings. Then when God saw that he's not happy and he needs someone to be with him, He created Eve and the rest is history.

We are created out of love that is why we needed love. We are created that way. I wonder why there is a quarrel between lovers and when the moment that a partner decided to be with the other person; there are tears because the other one left.

I am a believer. I can somewhat understand the true meaning of love. The meaning of love can be found in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. If you will read it carefully, you will understand the meaning of true love and I guess there will be no person in the world who will cry because of a heartache.

.... > to be continued.... :)