This weekend, i was so burnt out from so many worries and concerns that i had, i got very little done and just managed to do household chores and eat at mcdonalds which everyone knows is not good for you, especially with all the transfat in the food. i regreted getting the set meal which was loaded in grease. i held up my french fries to the sunlight coming in through the windows and could see little pockets of brown oil bubbles float up and down beneath the potatoe surface. i threw the entire fries away, double loaded on the coke, and headed back to campus. my weekend was like those fries, loaded with potentiality to explode into some disastrous thing that was innately no good- something so seething with garbage from the world that i almost forgot what a glorious presence of the Lord was in everything.
sunday morning's word was taken from Romans 6: 1-15, and i was reminded of all the good God wanted me to parttake in. not only for the usual mundane things but for the eternal adventure of enjoying him forever. if we are saved by grace, should we keep on sinning, asks Paul? no way~! because God has so much more abundance that He wants to share with us, if we linger on that basics and keep on asking for God's grace in those basic acts of clumsy sinfulness, we will indeed miss out on God's best. and how do we remind ourselves of the garbage around us? by reminding ourselves of who we are. we have an identity that is so sure and strong. we need not wobble and drift in purposeless experimentation. we are God's people and and His children. that's a powerful identity and a privilege. and secondly, we have reasons not to act in sinfulness abandon, because of our identity. the days are evil and every entrapment will only keep us blinded to our true purposes and the futile and vain leads to waste and putrid decay, something i've seen in enough people's lives to have seen its dismal and ruinness ways firsthand.
reason and identity: sin leads to death and our lives are His...
