About Christianity

i have a friend who works in a hospital as some sort of trainee doctor. and she sees many kinds of patients. she always tells me about her experience in the hospital. well we talk nearly every night, if we have the time. yeah, and so, there are happy stories, and there are sad stories. as for me, usually i am quite emotionally detached because i am not the one witnessing the events and well, i am not related to them in any way, even if they are suffering.

and if you want to call me heartless or what, you think again. are you really able to feel sad for someone you don't know? or is that sadness just an emotion you forced upon yourself so that society sees you as a compassionate human? whatever the case, it doesn't really affect me. well the point of this post is not this.

we always pray and ask God for the little and big things in our lives. from the passing of exams to getting a pay rise, from getting married to raising up a kid, from asking for healing of sickness all the way to the peace in middle east, we ask God for a ton of things. and always, we ask for good things. natually, who would ask for bad things? no sane human, according to my logic, would do such a thing.

but you know, life is not always smooth. the (little) tragedies in our lives, they do happen.

and what if, one day, we finally met with the (little) tragedies in our lives? why do i bracket the word little? because i know, for many of us, no matter how 'tragic' our lives are, it is still not counted as tragic. to some, what we have gone through may be a lot, but to others, like what i always say, they would gladly take over our position add 10 times the suffering. but nevertheles, it is still a tragedy to us. so it is up to you to say if your life is tragic.

today, the story was about a cute atheletic teenager, in a famous school, with a brigh future ahead, suffering a stroke and end up in hospital, and is suffering from cognition problems now. also, she cannot walk or talk properly now. imagine, that happens to us. then, what will you do?

honestly, i don't know what i will do. to accept the good things from God, we take it for granted sometimes, and sometimes we do show our gratitude and really appreciate it. but what if one day, God decided to bring us down? then, what will we do?

it is very nice to read an inspiring story such as that of joseph and job in The Holy Bible, but it is totally another thing to experience that ourselves. to lose what we have earned for, to see what we have gone. how will we feel?

maybe, then it will be a test of faith again. will we trust in God again? even though we know there is a God, will we still follow Him. i have a friend, who told me he believes in God and His existence, but that he would rather go to hell than to trust God again. will we, end up like my friend?

sometimes, life is really hard. honestly, if i am in the position of that teenage girl, i would rather die. suicide (don't come and talk to me about how it is wrong to suicide). and the problem now is, she doesn't even have the capability to suicide.

how great is our faith? sometimes we may think we will die for God if the time comes. dying is easy. serious. but living in a state worse than death? will you still keep your faith? you have to think carefully, and answer it.

somewhere along, i read a quote which goes something like, 'i do not pray that God will remove your burden. but i pray that God will give you enough strength to carry it.'

talk is easy, right? i think, all christians should ask ourselves this question. how far would you go to believe in God? no matter what happens? if that is really what you think and believe, good for you. for those like me who are unsure, i think, we can only pray and get in a deeper relationship with God. for me, i don't dare to say i will still believe, because, this kind of thing never happened to me before. and so, how will i react? i seriously don't know.

faith. this is one of the things we need to enter heaven. without it, we will definitely go down to hell. and now, what will you do to keep your faith? how far will you go and keep that faith? this is very important, now that (i assume) most of us are still in a blissful position, we can think what we can or will do if that situation ever comes. because, if you don't, and one day you find yourselves like that cute teenager who lost nearly everything, and if you lose your faith, then, what will happen to you?

losing faith at that time, let's not talk about going to hell. by losing faith, you have effectively thrown away the most effective support you can ever have, that is God. i know it is easy to talk, that's why i can talk so much.

one day, if ever you or me end up having a (little) tragedy in our lives, i hope, we can still keep our faith. because, i think, that is the one thing most important for you. at that time, perhaps the most important thing to do, is to keep your faith. so i hope, all readers of this post will be able to keep your faith no matter what happens.