r-e-s-p-e-c-t

Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
-1 peter 2:17-

i think it is the influence of the free thinking of the world nowadays, that makes people lose their sense of respect. we were talking about it the other day at work that at school, children don't call their teacher "mr" and "miss" or "mrs" anymore, and even at home there is no respect whatsoever towards their parents. children getting rebellious and they think they know better. i like what les said in regard to this matter "they know their rights but they don't know their responsibilities".

young people no longer have respect to elders, just look at teenagers these days. the society is too free. norms no longer exist and it does scare me a little bit. where is common sense? common sense rules that when you see an elderly standing up in a packed train or tram, young ones should automatically offer their seats. that is part of respecting your elders. how many times do i see that happening? less than fifty percent of the time. pretending to be asleep or just not caring at all, ears all plugged with earphones. how hard it is to do? respect can be as simple as polite greetings and gestures, however not many people know how to behave appropriately. would you want to be treated like that much later when it's your turn to be the ones so-called elderlies? sad, isn't it, to see the world slowly rolling into anarchy. the society is getting more and more corrupted, and we just don't know what to do except sitting and waiting for the world to change, which never will if you don't start from the man in the mirror (pardon the pun :p).

anyways, what kills me the most is that we do it to God as well, oh repeatedly. the church cried yesterday, realising how awful we had been. so we bent our knees, prayed, cried out, repented and asked God to restore the fear of God into our hearts. we know there is grace, and we abuse it so freely, and we pretend that we are still good christians. it's too easy to fall into hypocrisy and fallacy. i will not repeat KD's "curhat" yesterday, but i am sure most of you are on the same page. i hope it is not just words once again but lives must change. let's really repent, coz, didn't it break your heart too?

let's start with stopping to be half-hearted, give the full and utmost respect to God who is worthy of every single honour, praise, glory and everything we can offer.