T he only good news that we ought to know and remember is that Jesus Christ had already won the war against sin and death. He has made it possible for us to join Him in the afterlife. All we need now to do is accept Him as He is. God is alive today and it may be sometimes be difficult to see this. The world and its demonic nature has still made it look like that only worldly things matter and that the ultimate goal of each one is to achieve their own personal happiness. This is the biggest lie of all, that we should do all to make us happy. Individual happiness at the expense of someone else is the biggest deception of all. The truth is, our lives are never really about us. It is ultimately about God and about others. It is about how you can provide and give joy even at our own expense. This is the model of ultimate and genuine love that Jesus shown us at the cross. "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends." - John 15:13 "But
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?" |
Matthew 16:24-28 I'm finding a lot of good stuff in the most unexpected of places nowadays. In Tiktok of all places but I am also happy that at least God's presence is also felt in places where it is foolishness that gets a lot of views and is popular. There's a group of Christian Tiktokers which mentioned about this but in slightly different way. They said that notice how opposite God's and the devil's directions are. The devil's way is very attractive to everyone and is easy and is practical but in the end it eventually leads to death and suffering. Imagine a young guy or girl wanting to enjoy their youth, goes to parties everyday, travels everywhere, tries drugs and then eventually wreck their lives in the end. On the opposite end, God's way is that you are called to sacrifice, to delay gratification and in the end is the sweetness of success and victory. To die everyday so that in the end you'll fully live. Imagine an athlete who wants to be on top of his/her game. The nights that they say no to discos, the food that they crave but refuse to eat, etc and they eventually end up the top players in their sport. Please realise that we are spiritual beings having a temporary human experience. Our home is not the world we now live in but the kingdom of Jesus Christ. We are like whales and dolphins who live in the sea don't belong to it. Just like them, we make effort to go to the surface to breath because we don't really belong in the sea where there is no air but on the surface. |