Time for Cool Change

"The most constant thing in this world is CHANGE." - Heraclitus

Yes it is. And one thing I really believe about change is it's INEVITABILITY. Change is something that we cannot avoid and usually happens at a time that we do not expect to happen.

There are changes that is in favor to us but sometimes it could also be painful that we are left with only one choice - ACCEPT.

Our world is in a state of flux that normally what we can just do is to go with the flow. Nothing is permanent. All of a sudden, there will be changes that would come in our career, lifestyle, mindset, standards, the way we fix ourselves, people need to let go of and material things gone old with the time.

Changes that are too many to mention, perhaps, if I'm going to say it one by one, I don't think reading this blogpost in just a day would be enough.

People change. Who says who's not? But there's someone I know who is UNCHANGING. He is someone who definitely changed everything in me and someone who unexpectedly turned my life around.

If there's something I would boast about and always be proud to say, that is..

"I KNOW JESUS."

It was late February 2010 when I had the coolest change in my life - THE GIFT OF SALVATION.

Receiving Jesus as my Lord and Savior is the most wonderful event in my existence and I will never ever regret.

17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! - 2 Corinthians 5:17

He not just changed me nor just removed my stain away, He gave me a totally new life.

I'm not saying I no longer sin, I honestly still am. But what is just so amazing about God is the grace I am receiving yet I do not deserve to have. 

Feeling bored with life? Why don't you try to have some cool change? If you think the time is not yet, let me tell you.. NOW is the perfect time. 

"..I have come that they may have life and have it to the full." - John 10:10

Let us not attach ourselves with things that are temporary and never lasts. Pursue whatever is eternal and I believe the one that stays forever will never be seen by our naked eyes nor would be touched by hand.

The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever." - Isaiah 40:8

Enemies No More

To love is easy, but loving your enemy is a different story. When we say enemy, those are the people who oppose you, persecute you and keep on saying things against you or for some that we consider enemy simply because we don't like them. Be it from your relatives, classmates, from organization you are in, in a workplace or it could be the person you just envied about. Did you ever had the feeling of wanting to slap their face even just seeing them from the distance? Or that all your blood goes to your head just hearing that person's voice? If does, you are not alone. I just remembered a fat and gay office mate I had who brag things about me and could really ruined my days while working with him. Of course, being a person who hate attention I was just silent at the corner but what he didn't know is that I already imagining him being crucified upside down or sometimes while he's sitting on his swivel chair I'm thinking of grabbing the back of his chair and to knock him off the ground! But again, that was just imagination. Too mean, right? But to be honest, I hated him. Now let me just ask you this, how do you feel whenever you are thinking of negative acts to others or revenge? Does it brings peace in our hearts or it just loads more angriness and makes it heavy? If you'll ask me, based on my experience I will choose the latter. Second of the greatest command in the bible is to love your neighbor as you love yourself (Matt. 22:39) and along with that command is God is asking us to love our enemy (Matt. 5:44). Maybe you would ask God if He is crazy, but come to think of it, does our enemy cares if we are mad at them? Would be beating them in the ass could help us grow spiritually? I don't think so. Investing any negative emotion to someone who are not really worth it just only causing you to sin. Instead of putting hatred into your heart why don't you just look for reasons to love that person?

♥ Remind ourselves that we are first loved by God (1 John 4:19). As God being the author of love and made us feel we are loved we don't have the right to withhold it from other people.

♥ We have to know that saying 'I love you' to God is saying the same thing to our enemies. We cannot love who is unseen if we cannot love who we has seen (1 John 4:20). It may not be the easiest command but if we really love God it will never be an issue.

No one is perfect, we all have flaws, we all have sinned but still we are accepted. While you are asking your enemy, "Why are you like that?!" and keep on looking for things that are unacceptable from them... as what James Bryan Smith once said, try to take the opposite route and ask this.. "What is the good I can find in you so that I can accept you?" or "What wonderful qualities I can find in you so that I can value you?" Let's look at them as how God sees them and embraced them in a way we are embraced by God.