lumière de monde
Light of the world
You stepped down into darkness
Opened my eyes let me see
Beauty that made
This heart adore You
Hope of a life spent with You
So here I am to worship
Here I am to bow down
Here I am to say that You're my God
And You're altogether lovely
Altogether worthy
Altogether wonderful to me
King of all days
Oh so highly exalted
Glorious in heaven above
Humbly You came
To the earth You created
All for love's sake became poor
And I'll never know how much it cost
To see my sin upon that cross
And I'll never know how much it cost
To see my sin upon that cross
matt redman
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
the pressure is on, and it hits me so hard as the days go by. Im not refering to prelims, im refering to my christian walk.
You noe sometimes i really admire the christians, not becos i am one, but because they remain faithful even though they face persecution after persecution. Its kinda irritating sometimes, and each time i hear some one arguing or criticising christianity, it makes me feel that the world is becomign bleaker and even more hardened. Its hard not to feel that that way, when even the closest ppl ard u begin to view u wif skepticism and its juz really annoying.
I mean how many times have we heard the non believing ppl say christians are so-and-so-and-so, and then they laugh abt it. I dunno i think its juz really wrong n disrespectful. Take for example the south korean team that went to taliban, my classmates actually turned ard to me and ask me why "u all christians like that de ah?" i mean like wads the problem, why cant we do it? u noe. And then becos of one issue they link it back to christianity n they complaint abt christians n how we act again. i dun c that happening to the muslims. Like why dun u go ask the muslims, "haiyo y u all liek that de anyhow bomb ppl?", the answer is qutie duh rite? its becos they hav no link at all to this suicide bombers, n so we udn anyhow link them to our muslim frenz. im not being mean or anything, im juz using the muslims as n example. True, we christians do send alot of mission trips alot but u got to noe the full story before u jump into conclusions.
For christians, we believe that onli those that believe in Jesus can go to heaven, soemthing liek a pass, but it still doesnt guarantee the entry to heaven. But the point is that, at the stage of our conversion, we are deemed saved and thats it, if we die we go to heaven, whiel the rest may not go to heaven. I dun really care whether ure trying to argue this point wif me, abt whether non believers can go to heaven, my point is that, we are gg n ure not. N then thinkin abt it, y do christians try so hard to reach out to u ppl? Its qutie disheartening if u hear ppl say "haiya church again" "u all onli go find frenz" and "onli suck money onli" that sorta stuff. Like think deeper please. Why do ur frenz persist on bringing u to church, its like we dun need that little bit of money that u wud giv, im not even sure the visitors actually giv, and frenz u can make frenz everywhere, church isnt the onli avenue rite. We are concerned and we care for u ppl thats y we persist n hold on to our hope. Its not liek we get credits or merits or wad not, we do not accumulate points that eventually guarantee our access to the pearly gates. think. n dun criticise all the time. Wud it hurt to go for juz one day, ok afew hrs to be exact? I dunno, sometimes i jzu wish for more understanding n a deeper n more thoughtful view b4 u ppl make comments the next time.
