One of the Grievious pains in Life
I'm reading an Article send to me through the email while doing my quiet time.
And I saw something that strikes grieve to my heart.
While her grandparents were Taoist, her parents converted to Christianity after her mother recovered from an
illness.
But I got very, very disturbed in my teenage years, because my grandmother is Taoist and the Christian
priest said my grandmother was not going to heaven,' she recounts.
So the young Phyllis searched for answers. In university, she joined the Buddhist society, the Baha'i society and even checked out the Tamil society to understand more about Hinduism.
In the end, she became a Baha'i as 'it was unequivocal in accepting that all religions worship the same god and so my perennial question - what will happen to my beloved grandmother - was solved.'
My question is ... in what way is that solved?
How is that solving the situation? Finding something more comfortable to believe in is not going to change your life or the fact of what thing is already is. When you are sick with flu, you don't go an believe some tom, dick or harry that magical stones will cure you. You look for a DOCTOR! Yeah! A doctor's fees may be more expensive. You may need to take horrible tasting medicines. But Truth is Truth. And all things beside or away from truth, even by the slightest bit is falsehood. Is that so difficult to understand? What logic is there? When you decide to believe a man's words that there is a simple cure? Just buy the stones at a cheap price. Put it somewhere in your house and you will be cured.
I really feel sad when I see people doing things like that. Just believe in something nice to hear.
This is a study done on students of Singapore.
It was not the only disturbing finding from her study, which involved 2,801 students aged 12 to 18 from six secondary schools. Its aim: To find out the nature of religious switching by adolescents, and how much they know about religions.
While 76 per cent said they were 'tolerant' of other religions, their idea of tolerance was 'not talking about it'.
And while a whopping 92 per cent expressed desire to find out more about other religions, the majority said they would do so from the Internet.
At the same time, Dr Chew found that they switched religions through an emotional process. 'They will usually say things like, 'I've a good feeling (about this religion)' or 'My friends influenced me'.
'So it's not a very rational decision, like what are the pros, what are the cons. It's not very cognitive. The switching process is usually an emotional one.'
The situation is grave. People are rushing to their graves. They are simply not using their cognitive skills...or in short brains. Dr Chew concluded...oh by the way she isn't a Christian and this is taken from the Straits Time.
This all reminds me of what Jesus mentioned ....
3For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
2 Timothy 4: 3-4
The second part of this verse mentioned
5But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
The first part
2Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction
Now we can see why there is an important need to share and tell the truth. Because we are at an age whereby...people will believe in anything...aliens, healing stones, etc...anything to make themselves feel secure and the Christians are sitting/ sleeping and not doing anything to tell their friends about the truth which they know ....all because they are afraid that people will view them differently or laugh at them or lose friends. Great friends huh? Even I am guilty of that.
And i believe therefore the verse ends with...
6For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time has come for my departure.
7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
8Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.
It's a fight...a race...it's going to be tiring...it's going to cost us a lot...and out lives. But we persevere because....of God's promise of a reward in the end.