About Christianity

so i said i got a camera in my last post. maybe i should continue a bit more. the reason why i bought a camera was to take pictures, of course. pictures of who? me and my friends. i have 3 best friends, and after seeing them going off one by one to overseas, some may not come back anymore except for visiting, i realized that i did not really have pictures with them. why? we were together since i was 13, and had seen each other pretty often, so there was no need.

after they went off, i guess it would be good to buy a camera and start taking pictures with my friends. no, i am not a cam-whore. even if my friends were staying put in the country, it would still be good. maybe 10 years later, i can look back and remember the things i did with my friends. although the human memory is good, the pictures would still remind me of the things i would have otherwise forgotten. friendship is a precious thing.

what about a diary? i used to keep one, but not now. anyway, a dairy would also remind us of the things we do, the significant events of our lives. someone told me before to keep a diary about my walk with Christ. i thought i understood why. let me give a few reasons i thought up myself and you see if it makes senses. of course The Holy Bible did not say we have to keep a diary, but i guess it would help.

a diary about your walk with the Lord will record events, major or minor. or you may record lessons learnt from a particular event. sometimes, years into our walk in the faith, we might make mistakes that an immature christian would make, and that would be when we need to go back and see what had happened to us the last time we did the same thing. we cannot possibly remember every little thing, but we would remember the major things. going back, we could go back to our past to view our mistakes and try to correct our present sin before God starts thinking we need another lesson.

or sometimes, we knew christians who just started the walk. i guess every christian would go through more or less the same thing. sometimes mature christians forgot how it felt like to be an immature christian, and we talked in ways the immature christians would not understand. of course i am not saying i am a mature christian. going back, we could see how we thought back then, and use a 'language' to speak to them and encourage them in a way which is more familiar to them rather than a 'language' that they would understand but not be familar to them.

thirdly, it is our life. why would you want to take photos and keep a diary about your personal life? because it records events about people important to you. because you would like to treasure your memory with your friends. is not God more important? if you would keep a diary and photos with of your friends who are important, would you not keep a diary about God?

actually, i myself did not keep a diary. i always do not do what i preach. oh wells, think if my reasons for keeping a diary about your walk with God makes sense.