Let's get serious, let's get real!

excerpts from KD's sermon in workers prayer meeting. i'm gonna crash on my bed soon so i'll fix the wording later. happy reading peeps!

it was taken from the second book of Timothy, chapter 3. it is said that in the end days, men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

and this does not happen to just unbelievers but also to the people who confess themselves as Christians, looking religious on the outside yet denying it inside.

stop and think for a moment.

am I a true Christian? or am I just a nominal Christian?
know that every work that we do will be tested with fire in the end, thus our intrinsic value will be revealed, our nominal value gone.

This can happen because we were led to confine our Christian life into a box of time and space, only when we're at church. Our worship, faith, service, ministry becomes superficial because it is not actually in our lives! It is reduced into mere 2-3 hours :( He is the God of our life, not just the God of our church.

let's take a common example. Worship is now reduced to just singing. That is what we call worship nowadays. But do we really live what we are singing? Is it just words we sing about or words we live by? Worship needs to be our life. Worship needs to come out from the heart that knows the Lord. Do you really know whom you worship?

Anything that you believe that doesn't affect our life is useless. It is wasteful. There is no medium ground, either you do it seriously or don't do it at all. Yes for all, or not at all.

These days and time, life is becoming more and more superficial. Take time to ponder on deep questions of life, what do I want in this life, what am I here for? Take time to think of the purpose of your life. Learn to leave our old life behind and let God rebuilt our new life. Strong life is build on conviction, purpose and value. Living by faith is to live with conviction, holding fast onto something that we will never let go, and let it be God, that we won't ever let go.

If my faith doesn't influence my life, it is dead faith! Dead faith equals to no faith, it gives false satisfaction.

We must not let spiritual laziness to creep into our life. If you know that your spiritual life is not right, must not we pray to God to help us?

"Grace is opposed to earning, not effort"

Grace is kairos, when you hear God speaks to you, listen and follow because the time of God (kairos) is not always there. It is maybe your only chance. God works in His time, in His sovereignty and in His will. When you hear His calling, respond to him.