The only thing to treat evil is with Love of God

Hi peeps! i had so much thoughts during class just now. so glad to see shireen and darren there... i thought i will be the only one la!


anyway what I gonna talk about will have no link to the title above. The above title was just some thoughts triggered off in the afternoon. Jude shared with me once that God does not treat evil people the way we will want them to be treated. cos he wants the most evil person to return to him

which ties in with mass today, when father said that we should not worry bout the wrong things we did yest, but think about how to lead a christ like life tomorrow. which is also in line with today's class on how even Saul, the person who persecuted the early disciples became an instrument of God.

ACTS 10:15
what God has made clean, you have no right to call it profone

ACTS 10: 28
God has made it clear to me that I must not call anyone profone or unclean.

simply, we are not to talk bad about other religion, race, country or colour. It is so easy today to blame people for the wrong things which happen around us which breeds evil. For me, a good example will be simply saying foreigners are not religious people, raise academic standards and thus I don't like foreigners. which breeds devilish thoughts(sins in me)... something i need to reflect on.

Guilty of anything??? anybody?

because what we eat is never unclean, it is our words, actions which may be unclean


& jean thanks for coming! so sorry for the erm.. know u were tired and u had to come out of the car... sorry for the carelessness! my mind was still on the lesson!
It left such an impact:

read ACTS- 9:1-30 on conversion of Paul

In experience, Paul discovered Jesus. In discovery of Jesus, he discovered God.

After the explanation of the whole ACT, i reflected on it and really become part of me and suddenly, lots of inspirations just keep running thru my head.


The series of events Paul Went thru:

God's experience
persecuting Jesus.
believe in risen Lord
believe in risen Lord
go on a mission

What is our God experience? when and how did we exp Him

each of us have our own God experience, that is the start of us knowing our Christian life. By our life experience with God, we are chosen instruments, witness of Jesus, to spread the catholic faith by actions, words, and not by bugging ppl to become one.


Acts 7: 2-53-
we are witness to God's grace, who saves us. (salvation history)


I was reminded once again of the word Commitment.
what is our mission?
what is more important in our lives
why do we struggle?

correct me if i am wrong, it has been something i have been praying about these few weeks since my return. Then was revealed in class to me today. My jaws literally dropped

It was response to a question I asked Jude a while back.
-why we struggle

Stephen the deacon, the 1st martyr-an example for all disciples to follow. he lives his life according to the word of Jesus, reached out and touch people's life, faced struggles along the way, every disciple must do the same.

many parallel can be drawn between Jesus and Stephen:
-proclaim the good news
-strong faith
-got in trouble for proclaiming the good news
-get trialled
-get condemned
-executed
-die same way as Jesus

because the end result is all that matters:

"But Stephen filled with the hol spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right on the father. 'I can see heaven thrown open' he said.

Acts 7: 55

Stephen, with the grace of God, power of the spirit, saw his glorification,

and we disciples are all called to glory



In summary:

In times of evil, what do we use to counter evil? evil can = war, materialism, internal fight with masturbation, stealing, so what do we use?- weapons, words, weak points of people?
Simply God's love though the use of the only "weapon he gives us"-our brain
the best and most dangerous weapon of man- the human brain!
Through history, Arts, music, plays are expression of oneself, reflection of one's culture, that is why we can't lose them, or take them for granted. Its is the fundamental that keeps us grounded

Each of us have our own God experience.

We are the apostles of today, we save the lives of others, not us, then who?

For me, the homework for today is to reflect on the struggles i face. For now, i only can think bout troubles like balancing faith and school work, helping the poor-like Christians are to help the poor right, but how to carry it out and how frequen?(I really wonder if giving 10cent to every little boy and gal doing cip is counted), struggles with how I should treat people(simple things like not being angry with drivers on the road, people digging nose, burping in front of me to things like lying???) in summary- guess its struggle with putting God in perspective in my lifestyle.

But I guess there is more to struggle. so that explains the homework!

shireen, darren! what is your take for today

praise Lord for our cell group! i feel so inspired to write because I know there will be a lot of response. right collin, eve, kenny, cons?