My Journal

Although there are many missionaries, pastors, one must be truly called by God to serve, to be a true servant of God.

The
calling of God is not ambition. One must be clear of God's calling. If
one is unclear, how could he dare to serve? humility? Nay, such
humility is fake and it's even worse than pride. An excuse from
responsibilities.

True, there could be mistakes, but one must be bold to keep working for God, if mistakes were made, correct them immediately.

Nonetheless,
if one is not called by God, one cannot even begin presume these
responsibilities. As Martin Luther once said, one must in fact run away
from these as if running away from hell's fire. (According to Dr.
Stephen Tong, I have yet to confirm this myself).

Anyway, one who
is called must also be holy. Then there's a question where if one
sinned, would that void his calling? The question would be relative.
Because God's calling is up to God, not up to man. However, God's
servants must also keep themselves in check with God. So, only those
who are called by God would have to honestly search for the answer as
to why he sinned, what's next. Many however, would just take God's
forgiveness for granted and presume that God's still using them, while
in fact they were actually being pitied by their congregations hidden
by the fake respect shown by the congregations. Therefore, there's no
absolute answer to this.

As to telling if one is called by God. I
would say it is easier to tell if one is not called by God than to tell
if one is truly called by God. Nonetheless, in time, either answers
should be quite clear. It is just sad that many would be afraid to
"judge" this. It has become a habit where even when one admitted one is
not a christian, other christians would still like to believe this
answer to be abstract, relative, and therefore still assume one is
christian...or...almost christian, and "preach" but actually treated
him as if he's christian. Therefore, it is clear that the Truth has
been obscured once more. Very sad.

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Sure, no problem.

When God respects human freedom, that means God let them continue sinning against Him.

Then you might say, oh, I chose to become a Christian, I choose to do charity, I choose to comfort my close ones, all these good things, how can they be sin?

From man's point of view, yes, you actively used your freedom to choose. However, in the fullness of the event, you were not able to choose this if God has not at some point "fixed" you. For we have no freedom of such eversince they are corrupted when Adam fell, until Christ dwell in us, giving us a renewed life, thus obtaining such freedom.

Then you might say, well, what about non-believers, buddhists, muslims, many of them do good, charity, but they don't believe in Christ. Then you see, when they have achieved their charity, they will not glorify God, they will not give praise to the one true God, hence, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. The motive was already of selfish intention. Nevertheless, by these deeds, they could gain God's acceptance, while salvation is still yet a second phase, so that they will know, all praise is left for God, not for themselves.

The Truth shall set you Free. And Christ is the Truth.

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I was leaving Bryant Park on recent Wednesday after an evening chess game while I saw demonstration of animal rights (http://www.nycanimalrights.com) in front of the park right in front of the seasonal fashion show which is held in the park.

I began to think, are the fashion people really after beauty? or fame? or money? If beauty, with what kind of praise? Definitely not towards God. How can one even pretend? Be it animal skins or not.

Nonetheless, beauty if good in the eyes of creation. Thus, I must be careful when I judge such. Yet, is there any loss if the fashion shows were not as they were today? When God created man, he was asked to be the master of the world. Having dominion over the creatures of the air, land and sea, yet, out of self satisfaction, mankind has abandoned their duty for their own purpose. Do they really think God exists not? Or do they use the term "god" as a symbolic call for attention?

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I realized I must be more direct. I tend to use a lot of illustrations to circle around my point before I hit the point, fearing that others might not be able to grasp the sudden hit.[@more@]

AWOL, please have some disserts.

Who are they?

1. Those who keep quiet when they are not supposed to.

2. Those who voice when they are not supposed to.

3. Those who think they are wise to avoid controversies, but go for controversies when they think they know how to solve them. (For they should have humbly learned diligently the causes and solutions of each controversial issue first rather than judging it using their already existing pride.)

Why are they so "brave" in doing all these? Because it is very easy for their conscience to just disappear when things get out of hand. They are irresponsible, they are AWOL deserters. Beware of them. They are good at pretending at qualities they are not of: loyalty, faithfulness, caring, wise, etc.

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I have noticed those who seem to show great deal of support in either the right or wrong are hypocritical because they soon disappear irresponsibly.

"Support" is not the same as "faithfulness".

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