Something, No, Everything, Is Going Wrong....

Dear Readers,

I apologized for not being constant in my updates on this website/blog. Life have been really busy for me and I hardly even have time to sit down and watch a movie (but I still do find time for it haha).

This question has been in my mind recently, “What do we actually need from this Person we call God? Our world is too real and contains so much entertainment and life that we do not need God.”

Come, let us face the fact. We live in a world where we can have access to everything we want through the computer screen in our tiny little room. We have fun friends around us who constantly asks us out for drinks and movies and stuff like that. The entertainments we have around us are more than satisfying. There are malls, movies, there’s clubs and bars to dance and have fun, there’s sports and football, there’s cyber café for us to release our stress. There are a lot of forms of entertainment around us nowadays. And you know what? We can never have enough of such things. If you have the money, even better, you can enjoy yourself more. If you are not so rich, you still can find so many ways to have fun, fun and more fun!

So the question is, “Where is God in the midst of all these things?”

Does God really have to be a part of these activities? What does it matter if God is not in my mind?

What scares me is that we Christians are being so sucked up by the world to the point that the world is the only real, tangible thing we know and God is just an invisible being, a mystical person maybe, and someone who we can never feel as real. Don’t you agree with me that you sometimes feel like this?

I mean, there are a lot of things we can do and they are way more fun than church activities and much better than going to church on Sundays. We can make a trip down to KL to party, to shop, to watch movies, to hang out with friends, to eat, to drink and to do everything under the sun. So what is the point of me going to church? All I know is that I am a Christian and I am saved, so why the need to be in a church?

I am beginning to put myself in the shoes of the many Christians around me and thinking for them as well as for myself. All these questions are real questions that many of us have.

Sigh.

The cloud of deception thickens, soon the rain will pour. The world is deceiving us, making itself more real than the Person who made the world and everything in it. The creation becomes the centre of attraction and everybody loves the creation but does not know or even want to acknowledge the Creator. It is like admiring the Mona Lisa painting without giving a thought about the artist. Or walking down the Great Wall of China, taking photographs and having fun and not listening to the tour guide telling you about the history and how it was made. And even if you listened, you do not bother.

Dear Readers,

Get yourself together. Spend some quiet time to think. Is life all there is around me? Is there more to life than this?

Remember, we are in the world but we are not of the world.

Concerned Citizen of Heaven,
Zlwin Chew

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