The 4 sheets of paper
The more i look into my life, the more i really feel sinful and disgusted with myself, especially my past. It's true when people say the past will always return to haunt you. In this case, i'm still struggling for forgiveness, the courage to forgive myself for whatever i've done. In light of God's forgiveness for me, by right, i should already feel forgiven, but i just can't, yet. I believe i will, eventually, with god by my side.
This issue is just like a garden. On the surface, there are many pebbles which you can pick up easily. But unbeknownst to us, beneath the surface, there are actually so many boulders. I'm currently at this phase or digging a little deeper into my heart, and reaching out to these boulders. No point hiding or running from my past. I must learn how to forgive myself.
That said, i totally agree with this sentence "The world's best computer cannot even be compared to the brain of a retarded ant". I forgot who said it, but i will remember in due time. God is so magnificent to have created us, humans, as the most powerful computers on the planet.
Think about it, how much space can a hard disk on a computer store? And a human brain? Almost unlimited. A capacity to store all those information in our entire lives, whether good or bad. All our achievements and all our mistakes, our guilt and the ability to process and think through all those information, it's just amazing isn't it?
And, our brains, unlike our hard disk, cannot be overwritten and erased at our whim. We can never ever delete the unhappy and painful times, the guilty times and just retain the happy times.
Ok anyway, there was once this brilliant man, who once asked a question during a group meeting with a christian leader. "What do you tell a man who knows that there's a God but does not believe that he has sinned?"
And this leader wisely said, " When you go home, take out 4 pieces of blank paper.
On the 1st sheet, write down all the times you said yes when you wanted to say no, and all the times when you said no when you wanted to say yes, and all the times that you've lied to people in your life.
On the 2nd sheet, write down all the things that when disclosed to the public, or to your family, would cause grave embarrassment to you and would bring shame to yourself and your family.
On the 3rd sheet, write down all the things that you've done to people which you never ever want people to do to you.
On the 4th sheet, write down all the good things you have done which is worthy of praise.
This man, went home and did just that. What do you think happened?
What are the things on your 4 sheets of paper??
Do you dare write out this 4 sheets?
This issue is just like a garden. On the surface, there are many pebbles which you can pick up easily. But unbeknownst to us, beneath the surface, there are actually so many boulders. I'm currently at this phase or digging a little deeper into my heart, and reaching out to these boulders. No point hiding or running from my past. I must learn how to forgive myself.
That said, i totally agree with this sentence "The world's best computer cannot even be compared to the brain of a retarded ant". I forgot who said it, but i will remember in due time. God is so magnificent to have created us, humans, as the most powerful computers on the planet.
Think about it, how much space can a hard disk on a computer store? And a human brain? Almost unlimited. A capacity to store all those information in our entire lives, whether good or bad. All our achievements and all our mistakes, our guilt and the ability to process and think through all those information, it's just amazing isn't it?
And, our brains, unlike our hard disk, cannot be overwritten and erased at our whim. We can never ever delete the unhappy and painful times, the guilty times and just retain the happy times.
Ok anyway, there was once this brilliant man, who once asked a question during a group meeting with a christian leader. "What do you tell a man who knows that there's a God but does not believe that he has sinned?"
And this leader wisely said, " When you go home, take out 4 pieces of blank paper.
On the 1st sheet, write down all the times you said yes when you wanted to say no, and all the times when you said no when you wanted to say yes, and all the times that you've lied to people in your life.
On the 2nd sheet, write down all the things that when disclosed to the public, or to your family, would cause grave embarrassment to you and would bring shame to yourself and your family.
On the 3rd sheet, write down all the things that you've done to people which you never ever want people to do to you.
On the 4th sheet, write down all the good things you have done which is worthy of praise.
This man, went home and did just that. What do you think happened?
What are the things on your 4 sheets of paper??
Do you dare write out this 4 sheets?
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