Following God, meaningful life...
Well, the theme this time is kinda the same as many of my other posts but its different still...and i can't help it if that was the message God had for me again, He kinda of gave me even more answer that i need in my life yet He also taught me that i need to move from just finding the answers to life but really to live it out in my life.
That was btw, the message at church this morning...the scripture was taken from the story in the Bible about the rich young man who asked the Lord, a very fundamental and important question, that is, HOW CAN I HAVE ETERNAL LIFE?...and the Lord told him to give up everything but in the end he walked away. Firstly, the speaker said that these days, many young people and people are searching for spirituality, realising that the things of the world, such as fame and fortune and all that stuff are really all EMPTY. It seems according to him that spirituality has become fashionable. Thus, so this same desire for something more to life, brought the young man in the story to seek an answer. The Lord told him to sell all his possessions, of course this isn't really the way to have eternal life but faith really is...but anw so this was sort of a test to see if the young man was really willing to give up all his possessions to follow Christ. This is because to really follow Christ, we need to focus on God and not the things of this world...
So this is how the message came through to me. The key thing i guess is that discipleship does not equal to spirituality and vice versa. We must do more than seek the answers but to really follow Christ we need to just focus on God and not cling on to material things or things of this world.
This i guess, really spoke to me because i admit that many times i desire for so much and so tend to focus at times too much on the things of this world, i.e. like material things, pleasures and watever. The thing is that there isn't anything wrong in enjoying all that life has to offer, but the focus has to be on God. Then, i really always ask this question, so if i'm unable to enjoy life as fully as possible, and maybe don't have like intangible things in life like experiences and relationships, i should still be happy and content then?...but i know that this should be the case, My relationship with God is all that matters. The trouble is that sometimes i still seem to get affected by the fact that there are things i want in life...so really it spoke to me in that sense. And, really i'm always looking for all these answers...i need to really follow God and really not get dragged down by things i feel are missing in my life. So, yea...
That was btw, the message at church this morning...the scripture was taken from the story in the Bible about the rich young man who asked the Lord, a very fundamental and important question, that is, HOW CAN I HAVE ETERNAL LIFE?...and the Lord told him to give up everything but in the end he walked away. Firstly, the speaker said that these days, many young people and people are searching for spirituality, realising that the things of the world, such as fame and fortune and all that stuff are really all EMPTY. It seems according to him that spirituality has become fashionable. Thus, so this same desire for something more to life, brought the young man in the story to seek an answer. The Lord told him to sell all his possessions, of course this isn't really the way to have eternal life but faith really is...but anw so this was sort of a test to see if the young man was really willing to give up all his possessions to follow Christ. This is because to really follow Christ, we need to focus on God and not the things of this world...
So this is how the message came through to me. The key thing i guess is that discipleship does not equal to spirituality and vice versa. We must do more than seek the answers but to really follow Christ we need to just focus on God and not cling on to material things or things of this world.
This i guess, really spoke to me because i admit that many times i desire for so much and so tend to focus at times too much on the things of this world, i.e. like material things, pleasures and watever. The thing is that there isn't anything wrong in enjoying all that life has to offer, but the focus has to be on God. Then, i really always ask this question, so if i'm unable to enjoy life as fully as possible, and maybe don't have like intangible things in life like experiences and relationships, i should still be happy and content then?...but i know that this should be the case, My relationship with God is all that matters. The trouble is that sometimes i still seem to get affected by the fact that there are things i want in life...so really it spoke to me in that sense. And, really i'm always looking for all these answers...i need to really follow God and really not get dragged down by things i feel are missing in my life. So, yea...
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