Truths About LIFE

Each of us has different views about life, some enjoys it but some don’t. Some look at it as exciting but for some it is frustrating. What is life? Do we really know everything about it? I would like to give three simple truths on how I define it personally.

1. LIFE IS A MATTER OF CHOICE. God created man with minds that can decide for their own. Apology for those who believes in destiny but I believe that life is a matter of choosing. I believe in a fact that God already has plans for us even before we are born yet it is our choice to follow or not to follow. Who are we today are the product of our decisions in the past and who we are tomorrow depends on what decisions we make today.

2. LIFE IS UNPREDICTABLE. What happens in the past will never be the same today, or even tomorrow. Life is full of surprises, new challenges waits as we continue to unfold its chapters. Nobody knows what will happen to them in the future; even a fortune teller cannot tell what will happen to him/her in the next hours. King Solomon of Israel once said, “Boast not thy self of to morrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.” It is of a truth that there is no assurance for tomorrow.


3. LIFE IS SHORT. Life is likened to a vapor that appears in a short time and then it vanishes away. Days run so fast that you would not even realize it ends. If you would recall the days where you used to play in the sand, when you ride the school bus, when you first met your first crush, it just like yesterday, you even did not notice that wrinkles on your face starts to appear and that you needed to buy a dye to color your hair. Life may have given you thousands of smiles and tears but this one thing is for sure. IT HAS AN END.

Three basic truths about life: Life is short, it is unpredictable, and thus we don’t know when it ends, so make the best choice out of it. Will you live it with sense, or waste it with nonsense?

Winning and Loosing in Facing the Giants

“If God will not give us a baby, Will you still love Him?” a question asks by Grant Taylor to his wife when he found out that it is impossible for them to have a baby. I wonder how many people living in this world would say YES to this question.

From the movie, Facing the Giants, Grant Taylor is a coach of a football team, where winning is so hard to get. He is a husband for four years but never been a father. One day he decided to talk to a doctor, the doctor told him that it is impossible for him and his wife to have a baby. After a while, while looking for his assistant coach, he saw the parents and the school board planning to petition him as coach. It was the hardest time of his life, but what is inspiring about this man is, he never asks God why, but blessed Him instead.

It is easy for us to say a prayer of thanks or even sing praises to God when everything seems alright. What if the doctor tells you that you have a cancer and you only have one more year to live? Will you say, Lord I praise you and glorify you, thy will be done? Or Lord, why me?

Remember what Paul said, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”  Everything has a purpose, whether the situation is good as winning or bad as loosing, let us all put into our hearts the motto of Shiloh Eagles, “Praise God when we WIN and Praise God when we Loose.” Win or Loose, God deserves our praises.

Less Than a Cup of Water

A fog is a mist of cloud on the ground that can cover 1 to 2 kilometers of your block. Others look at it as a wonderful phenomenon, but for some it is hazardous because it decreases visibility that can cause street accidents. Do you know how much water does fog contain? According to Michel Verheughe, top contributor of http://answers.yahoo.com, at 15 C, which is the average temperature at sea level, on earth, a cubic meter of fog contains roughly 13 grams of water. If the temperature falls to 0 C, which is the freezing point, then the same cubic meter of fog (saturated air) can contain only roughly 5 grams of water. 13 grams of water is just less than a cup of water.

Worries can be likened to a fog, though it is psychological, it affects our entire being. It makes things complicated and makes the future unclear. It stops us from doing our plans because we fear that it will not succeed, in that case many opportunities are wasted because of it. Many of us became slaves of worries and that includes me. There was a time I also suffered from it until I read what Paul said, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and of a sound mind.” Paul was true, why do we worry when God is with us. God is great, His power covers the entire universe and worry is just like a less than a cup of water. 

Relationship Pyramid

Pyramids of Egypt are one of the best sceneries we have nowadays. Pyramids have base, it is the first stage of a pyramid which is the widest part of it. As they grow higher the parts become narrower and smaller. The last part is the tip, the highest but smallest part of a pyramid.

Relationships on the other hand, can also be likened unto a pyramid. It also has its base and a tip. The first stage of a relationship is the time where both couples are starting to know each other. Both of them have their own circles of friends. As times pass by, their love grows deeper, thus, they become closer to each other and the people around them becomes lesser and lesser until they will come in a point where only the two of them remains together. This is the time, when relationship becomes harder, conflicts will start to arise and no other people around to help you solve these issues. Some relationships overcome such problems, where both couples live happily ever after, however, many relationships do not, and they often reach the tip separated, lonely and unhappy.

What is missing in these relationships is, they do not know what to put on the tip. Some put their money, careers and ambitions to it. They forget to put somebody to be with, as they stay together, as they face different situations in life. Somebody who can be their shelter during the rain, somebody who can be their comforter during the pain, somebody they can lean on. They forget God. 

Love in Action

Many people define love in many ways but never understand it very much. There are those people who know it, teach it and preach it but don’t truly live with it. Some people would say “I’ll cross a thousand rivers” but when they were asked for a little favor they walked away and say sorry I can’t do it. True love is not measured on how you define it but how you do it.

 “It was for his bride, he left His throne in glory,
  it was for his bride, he chose to be born in a manger,
  it was for his bride, he suffered, bled and died” – Pastor Mike Layson

What a wonderful thing to know that a God so mighty, humbled himself because of LOVE. God did not just say “I love you son” but He gave up everything to show His love. Love is a sacrifice. Love without a sacrifice is vain. Sometimes, loving someone needs to have a consequence, and that consequence could sometimes be your entire life. 

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” 
  ~ John 15:13