Insanity as a Good Thing

I just finished reading chapter 5 of Holiness of God by R.C. Sproul.  This is a very good chapter; very entertaining to read as well.  You have this man who insults people and make absurd comments that boggles your mind.  Martin Luther, the man who changed the thinking of Christians that we're justified by faith alone, is the man that Sproul talks about in chapter 5.  I had some chuckles of what Luther says to people that critizes him.

Yet, this is a man who knew his sins.  The man who continually confesses his sins to God for he knows just how sinful he is.  The man who says "if the Great Commandment was to love God with all the heart, then the Great Transgression was to fail to love God with all the heart."  How simple is that!  And yet, it's not simple to be practicing for we all don't love God every second of our life (it's what we wish to do).  The man who knows just how majestic and powerful our God is that he feared to even continue the Mass because he did not know what to say when he was up on the altar.  Oh, how I wish I could be like this man, who feared God and knew of his sins in this world.

I finished Isaiah about a week ago.  Isaiah as well knew just how sinful he was.  He knew why the world was being punished, of God's anger toward his people.  Isaiah knew just how unworthy he was in front of God in Isaiah 6.  And yet, God has kept his faithfulness towards his people, continually promising them of a Redeemer, a Savior.  Promising them of Jesus who will be the Savior of this world.

Starting Ecclesiastes, the speaker knew just how sinful the world is when he continues to seek after wisdom and knowledge.  He knows how worthless things of the world is, how certain things aren't answered because we simply can't find that answer.  And yet, the speaker at the end knows that God is to be feared and we need to be doing works of this world with a joyful heart.

What do i find?  God is an amazing God.  I can't help but see that I am a sinner, a worthless, horrible sinner that is not worthy of knowing God.  It humbles me and breaks me to the point where I feel like I'm in a fetal position of emotional breakdown...

I wish to be "insane" like Luther.  I wish that we all be "insane" like Luther so that we may taste the righteousness that is by faith alone.

Happy Holidays!... almost =]

Wow it's been a while since i updated.

School has been where I spent part of my time. Finals week was just last week, and I just came back from CCM retreat!

I've learned a lot from the speaker, speaking about very relevant stuff for us as college students: purity and lust, finding a spouse/future, no excuse for being young, and pursuit of holiness. Something we struggle with constantly as college students (could apply to young adults as well). One thing I've learned that in the past, I have been asking God for a significant other to come into my life. I've never realized that I had to change for the better for my significant other to come by. Not solely for her, but for God as well. And when I do change for the better, I've realized that if I were to become celibate, how I've changed ultimately is by God's grace and for God. That I am pursuing this righteous life because that is what God ask of us and us to do it not as a burden but as a joy for Him! What an amazing God!

Thank you all for the encouragements! I enjoyed reading them and I appreciate what you wrote =]! I hope all of you will know God a lot more throughout the year. I'll make my efforts to meet up with the freshmen and ask the upperclassmen their time for dinner and lunch.

Happy Holidays! Enjoy these pictures in celebration of the upcoming Holiday! =]