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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

But GOD Chose the Foolish Things of the World to,...

If some of you have noticed, recently I was playing this game called Crisis Action, a kind of first person shooting (FPS) game where you joined a team either Alliance or Rebels and fight the opposite team by shooting them to dead.


The thing I observed from the game was, its like a mini-world reflective of the real world.

At first, I really played badly, everyone hated me, voted to boot me out of the room because I was the culprit that the team lose. My bad performance, my death dragged down their scores. They called these people 'Noob'! They called you names you didnt want to hear and even use vulgar words to the extreme. And those who played better, they would said they felt so boring to kill us off.

And then as I practised more and more, to my surprise, most of the time I became the best players of the whole room (comprised of 8 players). And people started to praise me, "rey power! rey pro! hebat rey!" [rey is my nickname in the game]

And I realized one thing, we human always tend to look up to people who done better than us, those who working out more than us (looked muscular or fit), those who are more successful (earning more money and expanding their business), those who are smarter (knowing everything we don't). And I want to say there is nothing wrong about this or is it? But the thing is, apart from looking up to these people (or to say becoming inferior towards them), we find the sense of security by oppressing those who are weaker, worst than us.

I was talking to this good friend, who advised me with a good intention. He said if you wanted to blend in the group, if you wanted respect, you have to outdone everyone. Because this is basically how the whole group feeling now. Those who done better, the group was giving way to them. Those who done worst, people shut them off.

And to the world, this is totally the right thing to do. This is how we survive. The leopard runs faster, so it gets to prey on a gazelle. But guys, if you think this is the right thing to do, look up on the better, oppress the weaker, and if this is the voice we follow, may I ask you this question, what can Nick Vujicic do? If Nick Vujicic was confined to this world's rule, what can he do? He doesn't have any limbs, to the world, maybe he deserved to be executed, to be diminished from this system.



But God says otherwise. And in Christianity there is this thing called 'GRACE'. Grace is something people who doesn't know God, doesn't know love that couldn't understand. They will forever be unforgiving towards the weaker, the worst. They are the realist who think, strength is the key to survival. They wanted to be in control.

But God says otherwise.

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 mentioned,

26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called.Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast before him. 30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. 31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.

So, He chose Moses who was not very good with words to lead the Israelites out of Egypt (Exodus 2:1-24);


He chose a kid named David to fight the giant Goliath (1 Samuel 17);





He chose a group of fisherman to become His disciples 

 (Matthew 4:18-22; Mark 1:16-34; Luke 5:1-11);

and He sat down in the house of a despised tax collector Matthew, to eat with him (Matthew 9:10).

And do you know how the Israelites won the battle in Jericho? They just need to obey God by marching around the wall of the Jericho for seven days, and on the seventh day, the wall of the city collapsed and the army marched in and took over the city.






This is the difference between God and the world. When He sees the lowly, the weak, He encourages them with love. He uses nobodies.  The world would have eliminated the nobodies.

And so in Christianity, its not about how much we had done, or who we are. Its about how much God had done or who He is.


And it doesn't mean Christian can get by the days without doing anything, in fact God called us to run the race, but for a different purpose than the world, 


1 Corinthians 9:25 says,
Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.







So oppresing the weak is certainly not a thing for us to do, not if you claim to be following a gracious God. 

A parable from Jesus to end this,

The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard

20 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius[a] for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
“About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went.
“He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’
“‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.
“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’
“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’
“The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’
13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend.Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

Ahh, and one more thing they had done in Crisis Action, if they were unable to win the battle, they used cheat. And cheat had been justified in many ways as winning is more important :/











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