Well, I watched a inspiring video today and I think that it is worth watching because you may find it links closely to you, your life and your after-life...
Therefore present to you "How will you measure your life" from Clayton Christensen
Human, as a creature of limited mind, often binds to the sense of hieraki, unconsciously.
We though that the more a person earns, the more succeed he or she is;
We though that the more a person involve in charity, the more holy he or she is or going to become;
HOWEVER, is that truly the truth?
How will you really measure your life? Is that really the way life is measured?
Does God measure you by the money you earn?
Does God measure you by the certificate you ever received?
Does God measure you by choosing the way you measuring yourself?
*If you don't think or not sure whether you are trapped by this sense of hieraki. Just have a flashback about how you treat the people happen to appear in your life. Well, that explains a lot of things in my life, especially when i look back how i treat people differently according to a hieraki in my mind.
Now, not to mention that everyone has different perspective in way or ways to measure our life. Even our parent, would have different opinion with us. Personally, there is few messages in the video above i'm agree with. First, we shouldn't focus on own achievement. In fact, God have put everyone of us in different situation, what we should do is make use of our character and ability to help the people around us.
Second, God don't measure us by the charity we have done. Nah, don't get into confuse or conflict. It is true we should make good use of ourselves to benefit people around so that our presence make difference to others. However, still this is the truth ----God don't measure us by the charity we have done. Often with our limited mind of hieraki, we taught the the more charity we done, the more the God is willing to open His heaven for us. But charity can't wash the record of sin. It is a topic about Sin vs Charity now.
Lets go on with some analogies. A criminal who killed is not allowed to wash his record by doing charity. A person who did a lot of charity is also inevitable to be judged too if he commit a sin.
THEREFORE, charity is obviosly not an aspect God measure us.
To be honest, i also used to measure myself with the knowledge i have, charity i have involved and joy i can bring to the people around. It is this limited mind keeps me away from understanding His grace.
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9
Last but not least, it is inevitable we measure ourselves, but we have to understand the fact that God who is almighty don't use the same eyes of us to measure us. He don't even measures us, He loves us disregard how "valued" or "cheap" we are in human eyes. God bless..
It will take just seconds to read this and change your thinking..
Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs.
His bed was next to the room's only window.
The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.
The men talked for hours on end.
They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation..
Every afternoon, when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.
The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and colour of the world outside.
The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake.Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every colour and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.
As the man by the window described all this in exquisite details, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine this picturesque scene.
One warm afternoon, the man by the window described a parade passing by.
Although the other man could not hear the band - he could see it in his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.
Days, weeks and months passed. One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep.
She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.
As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.
Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside. He strained to slowly turn to look out the window besides the bed.
It faced a blank wall.
The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window.
The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.
She said, 'Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.'
Epilogue: There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own situations. Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled. If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy. 'Today is a gift, that is why it is called The Present .' *The origin of the letter above is unknown. Only now i know that, why is "NOW" also known as "Present". =D It is all because, Today is a gift..
"Your mind must be stronger than your heart because your heart doesn't knows how to difference between what is right and what is wrong. " *Quoted from one of my friend's status on facebook.
My OS : No! you don't.. It is the heart that pumps blood and keep you living..XD
HAHA, but your mind decide your living..
Given that,
Brain = Rasional
Heart = Emotional
Well, what is the ratio of this 2 elements in your life?
Hm,, personally, i prefer 2kg brain n 1 kg heart.. XD
Well, when emotions getting flood, i still have more of rational to choose my act.. hehe
BUT, emotion is still good..
It is flavoring to our life..
The peace, joy, passion.. (Well, i don't include "love" because it is an action rather than an emotion)
Hehe,
i would like to "touch" about the ration of soul and flesh too..
but in such case, i don't choose the ratio of 2:1..
Instead, 3:0... XD
but wait!
Which S.I unit that applied to soul? What about flesh?
haha..
be blessed peeps..
So,
some pay full adoration and reverence over money, some on Facebook, games, technology, coupling, boasting, or maybe friends..These eventually become the "deity" in their own life..which they found most important and essential.
However,
is such worships bear "fruit"?
We shall see it..
Then,
how should people worship God?
The English word "worship" comes from two Old English words: weorth, which means "worth," and scipe or ship, We can see the Old English word -ship in modern words like friendship and sportsmanship – that’s the quality of being a friend, or the quality of being a good sport.
So worth-ship is the quality of having worth or of being worthy. When we worship, we are saying that God has worth, that he is worthy. Worship means to declare worth, to attribute worth. Or to put it in biblical terms, we praise God. We speak, or sing, about how good and powerful God is.
There we know, in spirit and truth we worship the Al-Mighty and graceful God.
It doesnt matter where the worship takes place..
But what more important is,
knowing who You are worshiping..
There is three kinds of worship. There is
worship that involves speaking, and
worship that involves listening, and
a worship that involves doing.
There is a worship that expresses the heart, and worship that involves the mind, and a worship that involves the body. There is a worship that is giving praise upward, a worship that is receiving instructions from above, and a worship that carries out instruction in the world around us.
We need all three types of worship. Some people focus primarily on speaking or singing praise to God. Praise is good, but if all we do is praise God, without ever listening to what he says, we have to ask whether we believe the words we are saying. If he is really all wise and all loving, then we need to be attentive to what he is telling us, because he is worth listening to.
Similarly, all talk and no action does not show God the respect he deserves. Actions speak louder than words, and if our behavior isn’t changed by God, then our actions are saying that God isn’t important — he’s a nice idea, but not relevant to our day-to-day lives. When we really believe that God is worthy of every praise, then we will be willing to listen and to change the way we live in response to such a worthy God. We will trust him and seek him and want to please him as much as we can. Worship should affect our behavior.
