Big Deal

By on January 2, 2013 in Christian Living

Jesus ChristRecently, I wrote about getting serious in our country. Now, it’s time to apply the ‘seriousness’ in serving the Lord.

As we had celebrated the New Year, some of us may have our New Year’s Resolutions. I do have mine. It is to serve the Lord more serious.

I’m a Christian for nearly 20 years. I have a faith. I studied and read the Bible. I pray. I go to church every Sunday. I share my faith. But I realized that these are not enough. I realized that I haven’t been that serious in the service for our Lord. I realized that while serving Him, I still had reservations and serving Him half-heartedly. I have a fear that following Him entirely would cast me out from the society. But that’s the point of Christianity. Jesus already warned us about it; that following Him would make us different from this world and it will hate us for it (John 15:18).

As you can notice, one of my favorite Christian quotes was written by my favorite Christian writer, C.S. Lewis:

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

It says that Christianity is never slightly important. It will only be senseless or infinite important. If God doesn’t exist or if Jesus was not as He claims to be, our works as Christians are meaningless. But if everything that the Bible says are true, our service will not be in vain (1 Corinthians 15:58). We know the many rewards that our Lord has promised us and aware of the punishments to those who rejected Him.

I realized how seriously that the Father loved us that He gave His only begotten Son and Jesus was so serious in His business that He willingly gave His life for us. In return, they deserve genuine faith, worship, and love from me. They both deserve nothing less than the best of what I have and what I can do.

They gave me the perfect home to live in. They gave me the perfect people for companion. They gave me perfect equipments to survive. They gave me pleasure and strength to heal. They gave me a chance to be with them when I failed them. They revealed themselves to me. There can be no more perfect things than these for me.

 

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Doomsday Preppers

By on December 29, 2012 in Christian Apologetics, Science

Doomsday Preppers

image by: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/doomsday-preppers/

It is not my intention to follow up the previous post about the end of the world. It’s just happened that I had a thought on a very early morning that I couldn’t go back to sleep. The title is from a show on National Geographic Channel.

The show features people (Americans) who are preparing for the end of the world or doomsday or apocalypse or whatever they call it. They dig holes, tunnels or use their own basements as hideouts for catastrophic events. They store lots of foods and search for alternative sources. They are training to use guns for protections.

On the latest End of the World Mayan prediction, there is a story about some Chinese built a large ball that they could use as hideouts when the doomsday happens. They even called them as ark based on the Biblical Ark of Noah.

These scenarios made me think about the Bible prophecies about the last days when the unbelievers will hide on the caves because of the fear of the Lord. (Revelation 6:15-17 and Isaiah 2:19)

For me, these two pictures are no different from each other. Although the former may not be intended to hide from the Lord (because most of them, if not all, doesn’t believe in God), but the catastrophe that they fear will precede the coming of our Lord.

Note that aside from these private, improvised hideouts, all of the famous survival locations in the US and other parts of the world are created underground or inside mountains.

Doomsday

http://www.silohome.com/

The following Bible prophecies will occur on the Great Tribulation. The Great Tribulation is the worst time that humanity will ever experience (Matthew 24:21). In these times, people will experience natural disasters, famine, chaos, etc. Thinking that these occurrences is the end of the world, people will start to hide in their ‘caves’ until they will realize that the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ is true.

As Christians, we are not much bothered about the Great Tribulation. We all know that as believers, our Savior will snatch us out of this world to avoid suffering and this is the time that our sacrifices and faith will be rewarded. We know that the current natural disasters and chaos only proves that everything that is in the Bible is true and His coming is near. Truly our faith in His promises makes us calm, confident, and gives us peace of mind in whatever will come.

survival condo

http://www.survivalcondo.com/index.html/

And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? – Revelation 6:15-17

And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. – Isaiah 2:19

Cheyenne Mountain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Mountain

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