About Christianity

i have always hated studying. and because of that, i usually put off studying till the last period, around 3 months or so, and cramp either one or two year's worth of work into that few months, depending on which examination i take. the result is that during that 3 months or so i have almost absolutely no play, and practically stay at home to study every free time i got. after the exams i would be very exhausted, and took very long to recover from the mental tiredness.

i don't like studying, and i still study. i know it is no fun, yet i still try to score for examinations. why? everyone knows, it is because we have to score to have a better future. not that scoring for academic examinations will ensure a bright future, but it gives a headstart. a headstart makes a lot of difference. that is why people work hard for it, to widen the headstart between oneself and other people. nothing wrong with it.

is there even a lesson from this story? yea i guess so. the same thing can apply to chrisitianity. walking the narrow way and the broad way. it is hard sometimes to do the right thing. i hate that feller and i don't want to forgive him, but i have to. i want to pay him or her back for what he or she had done to me, but i can't. i have to keep my mouth from saying swear words. i cannot engage in sexual immorality like other people did. there are a ton of things i cannot do and another ton of things i need to do.

but people still go through it. why? like exams, the life we experience now will determine where we go in the future. even in exams, we have to depend on luck sometimes. will i be sick on that day of exam? will the questions be set much harder this year? will they input the wrong results when they compute our scores? even if i get good results, will i definately get a good job next time? even with this much uncertainty, people still work for it. how much more, should we work for the goal, for the place in heaven that will definately belong to us if we work for it? of course, getting to heaven is by faith and by grace, but we still have to work for it. you cannot expect to get to heaven if you do not refrain yourself from every sin in the world, right?

like preparing for exams, we are preparing for eternal life. it is not fun, it is sometimes tiring. sometimes we want to give up. but then, is it worth it? like failing for exams, sometimes people cry. we know we don't want to fail. we put so much effort for something 'small' like exams when compared to eternal life. we should also, put in a greater effort to walk the narrow way. when we lack strength, all we need to do is to pray and ask to be strengthened, to be encouraged, to be refreshed. that way, we won't pile up our stress and tiredness like what we do during exams when we do last minute work. chrisitianity, shouldn't be last minute. we would'nt know when we will die, or when is this world going to end. we have to be prepared at all times.

i know i don't want to fail my exams. and this life, is something like an exam. if we pass it, we get to heaven. if we fail, we get to go to hell. and i know i definately don't want to fail. what about you? even if you don't like it, even if you see other people enjoying themselves, will you walk the narrow way? will you work for it, for the eternal life and treasure that will never fade away? not that examinations in our real life is not important, but if we can work hard for something that worldly and with so much uncertainty, can't we also work much harder for something promised and something with perfect certainty?