I'm sorting through my iTunes and (finally) deleting off songs which I dont even really like
2000 more songs to go! I had to pause it because it was distracting and how am I supposed to be typing out a post when I'm belting out the best of the 90's.
Ah. So...
Good news! I am recovering ~(^o^)~
As expected, my body was too heaty as such, my temperature was yoyo-ing and i had a helmet of headache.
*stops to hydrate self*
Yesterday was a day of pain.
1. Woke up with a splitting headache to the splitting sound of my alarm
2. Woke up still with a headache to the sound of my ringtone.
3. Looked at phone to discover Aisha is calling.
4. Had to bicker with family why I can go to church and not tim sum when I'm sick. Tim Sum? really?
5. Got to church to discover I dont know where Bible Study is
6. Am 1 hour late for Bible Study
7. *1 hour later* Had to admit to Brother Philip that I didnt go for Bible Study because I couldnt wake up.
8. Had to drive in heat and headache to Subang and back to Klang and then back to Subang.
9. Went for Chinese torture treatment which involves those harmless looking cup things that sucker onto my back and being scraped with some stone-antler-thingie. It was so painful, I could not even speak. Finished up with a almost as painful head, arm and leg massage. Cost? RM50. I know how to teach my kids a lesson when they fall sick
10. Then, had to down a glass of black liquid so bitter- there is no comparison. It is a bitter as artificial sugar is sweet x 2.
11. Drove back to Klang.
Haha. But I'm fine today and my headache is almost completely gone. I bet its many thanks to the bitter drink too.
So what I really came here to talk about is what happened yesterday between 11-1pm.
Pastor Henry had all us youth come down to the main hall to share a message with us and this is what I got from it.
He talked about how the bible is the book of facts then highlighted the passages and scriptures that told us "The world is round" and "the world is suspended". It isnt flat or resting on pillars or the shoulders of Atlas (a Greek god, or was it demigod, who was punished by Hera, if i recall correctly, and made to carry the world on his shoulders for all eternity or at least till he could trick someone into doing it.)
He talked about how in the traceable history of all the religions of the world, they all believe that the world is F L A T.
Hundreds of years before the brilliant scientists of their generation came up with the illuminating fact that the world is round. it is suspended in space or that it orbits the sun (the Catholic Church eventually offered an apology stating they were wrong) it was written there in that book called The Bible, yo.
But of that service, what really got to me was this one line "You can be very religious without being Godly"
For a short moment, it confused me. Then I realized what it meant.
It was like those priests who condemned Jesus and denied him. They were religious. Probably the most religious in those times. But what they lacked was that close and intimate relationship with God. If you were a priest in those days who had a close and intimate relationship with God, I bet He would have told you, "Hey, listen. I'm sending my only son down from heaven so just do what ya gotta do, aight?"
Look at John the Baptist. When Jesus came to him to be baptized, John said that it was Jesus who should be baptizing John. John knew the truth.
What was the difference between these men of God? I bet it has to do with their relationship with God.
One thing that is stressed very often in Church is that "God is not looking for obedient servants but for worthy sons and daughters"
We have been left a legacy, yo!