Tuesday, December 13, 2005
i dread wednesday... apparently every wednesday seem to be such a busy day. ok i'm finally getting back my voice, for the past few days, it sounds so off... haha... alright i have 2 quiz tomorrow and gosh i haven't study!! haha nvm, late night again... nothing new... oh the community service was boring, didn't really enjoy it. really enjoyed those time when i went to ttsh to do cip. those were the days... oh anyway, so happy... haha... >_< anyway here's from my daily devotions book. You’re sitting in school, listening to your teacher talk. You’re listening, but you’re not understanding. It’s as if the teacher is speaking a foreign language. You feel like raising your hand and saying, “Could you please repeat that? I don’t understand a thing you’re saying.” But you don’t do that, of course. You’d never do that. You would sooner smear your hair with bacon grease and jump into the grizzly bear pit at the zoo. Because nobody wants to ask a silly question in school, right? Well, no matter how silly your question may be, it won’t be the silliest question ever asked. That honor would go to a politician (who else?) named Pilate, who lived nearly two thousand years ago. He stood in an elaborate palace, dressed in regal clothes, and asked, “What is truth?” “What’s so silly about that question?” you might ask. Just this: at that very moment, the answer to his question was standing right in front of him! It would have been like walking into class on the first day of school, watching your new teacher write her name on the chalkboard, and then asking her, “What’s your name?” Because, you see, the prisoner who stood before Pilate was Jesus Christ, who said of himself, “I am the way and the truth and the life” (John 14:6, NLT). When Pilate asked, “What is truth?” Jesus could have answered, “he’s standing right in front of you.” You see, we generally think of truth as a concept or “idea.” It exists in our minds as a principle, or a quality. But truth isn’t just an idea. It is a person, and that person has a name: Jesus Christ. That’s why the only way to really understand truth and apply it to your life is by having a real, live relationship with Jesus Christ . . . because he is the truth! He doesn’t just speak the truth. He doesn’t just know the truth. He is the truth! That means that if you have trusted Jesus Christ for salvation, you have not only become acquainted with truth; you have the Truth himself living inside you! So you see, making right choices isn’t really about following a bunch of rules. It’s a relationship . . . a relationship with the truth himself. And the closer you get to him, the more he--through his Holy Spirit--will help you learn the truth, know the truth, and live the truth. AMEN!!
