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4 weeks left to reading week. I can’t wait for reading week to begin. I just want this semester to be over (more on why so in a blog post after this semester ends).
5 essays due, 2 Saturdays of MIDCs, 2 full weeks of coaching, next Sunday’s selections.
The craziness begins. Sigh.
has been a humbling experience. I’ve learnt more about myself and others. I’ve learnt not to have such unwarranted and arrogant expections and I’ve learnt to work with others that I wouldn’t otherwise consider working with (something I’ve realised that I need to change too). Yeah, so we broke but couldn’t make it on Sunday, but I learnt far more. In the end, that’s the aim I guess.
Plus, I’ve learnt to trust God too and know that He is in control. I haven’t felt such peace for a long time, when I finally put my competitiveness to rest.
There’s a great amount of controversy surrounding abortion. Is it murder? Is it murder after a certain time?
To me, I do believe that abortion is murder, whether one is raped, careless or just plain thoughtless. Carelessness and irresponsibility are easier causes to call abortion “murder”. But what about rape? To me, God is just as concerned about the unborn child as He is for you. The reason why Christians cry out against murder is not only because everyone has a ‘right’ to life, although it is related, but also because we believe that God is sovereign and has the right to decide when one lives and when one dies. Addititionally, we are all “made in His image”, the unborn child is as much in God’s image as the mother or even the rapist is. To say that in a situation where we support abortion because it is a situation of rape would be to suggest that the unborn child wasn’t made by God or made in His image, and that it is different from a situation where the mother just couldn’t be bothered with taking care of a child.
You may argue that I am being heartless, a fanatic and simply don’t understand what others are going through. Maybe so… But I just simply think that it’s inconsistent. Before one comes to tell me that the mother wasn’t at fault and so she shouldn’t have to bear the blame, let me say that I am sympathetic, yes, it wasn’t her fault. But before you call for murder, just renounce Christ and His salvation for you, because after all, He shouldn’t have had to bear the blame of your sin. I’m not condoning rape and I do believe that rapists should be brought to justice, but I just believe that a lack of guilt and responsibility does not justify murder.
But let’s tackle another sticky issue of when life is formed and therefore when is one taking away life and commiting murder. Most of the arguments for abortion say that before a certain time, the foetus is simply a group of cells, unformed and without the ability to think or feel, thus it isn’t a human and we can tolerate abortion because it isn’t murder.
And yet, God knows who you are before you even came into being. Your frame was not hidden from Him when you were made and He saw your unformed body (Psalm 139). He knew you before you were formed, evidently, you were precious to Him even when you were just a clump of cells. In essence, life begins at conception. Once the process of growth begins, it’s begun.
I’m not trying to shove ideas down your throat. If you’re not a Christian then I certainly am not targetting you or your views. If you are a Christian, I’m not saying that you must buy it. It is my opinion and I just ask that you give it some consideration because I think that Christians have been inconsistent for far too long.
One of my greatest fears is to be left alone, to be forgotten by friends. I know that many times I don’t do much for helping myself in that respect. Sometimes I just look at my friends and I get afraid of being forgotten, replaced, backstabbed. The past weekend didn’t make me feel much better.
Lately, I’ve learnt that I can’t expect people to do what I’d do for them. It’s unfair because different people have different ways of functioning and I can’t put my mould on them.
Arrogance is a terrible thing, it makes one place him or herself on a pedestal, elevated above others. They expect others to conform to what they feel and want. You think that you’re better than others and you can’t swallow the fact that others don’t think the same way.
There’s an arrogance in me that I find repulsive; a moral self-righteousness that also is highly disturbing. Then I remember what we learnt in YG yesterday, about submitting to one another out of reverance for Christ.
If I submit to my friends for fear that my friendship will be lost, then it is for the wrong motive, for I will not be truly satisfied. I have learnt that once I submit everything to God, all that I need will be added to me. I don’t need to worry about friends, team mates, positions, because it is up to Him and everything is in His hands. For I know that even if I don’t get what I want in the short-term, that He works for my good, simply because He loves me.
Whoever said that love was always rosy and wonderful was deluded and wrong. It’s just a long, hard slog and it’s always an uphill task. You keep trying to want to make the other person happy, but they don’t every seem satisfied.
But yeah, the person was deluded, and horribly, horribly wrong.
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