Just started on this new daily devotional reading..Shen gave it to me...it's pretty gd..the 1st lesson as all abt HIs creation...God placed everything in place, neatly and beautifully =) and the best part is, He saw that it was good! thats the amazing part, dont you think!? He knew what He created and why He created them was good. Looking at ourselves, He created us! and He saw that it was good..Us, creating us was good! Moreover, we were specially made in His likeness, made to be like Him...how often do we forget this very fundamental aspect of creation and even of ourselves! Reflecting deeper, we see how the Father made everything with a purpose, a function.. and that includes the reason He made us...to be just like Him, and this was good.
But the bigger qn is: How often do we reflect the image of Jesus...? barely...n i say that for myself...we all struggle...and i believe many will agree that we shld continue to struggle to be like Him... that we shld keep struggling to be like Him more than struggle to do things for Him, coz we were made to be like Him! that's our purpose here on earth, that all of us were made to display Christ! of course, it isnt easy at all...but let's 1st begin with praying 4 such a desire..tts what i told myself...
Indeed, this lesson was something that struck me hard as i thought through the questions and words in the reading... i begin to think..God, it is really so difficult to be just like You...we are imperfect...how to be like You a perfect God? Teach me...cleanse me....help me to focus on what is important to You, more than what is merely important Lord..
And it did not end there...It was as if Christ was standing next to me saying: Child, everything i allow to happen, just like everything you see that I have made, is for a purpose a reason..the birds, the animals, the sun, the stars, they all were put in place for a specific purpose and so are you and the things i allow to happen around you...and i simply took comfort in those words...The Father Himself has heard my cry... and He is responding and reminding me that whatever has happened happened for a reason He knows..
So i told Him, Lord help me to not be bitter, to cont to heal me and that i will try my best not to dwell on unhappy things that have happened but to remember, there is a specific reason... Well, you might say, this is such a common teaching everyone knows, and can say but how much, how often do we practise what we preach, what we know of Christ and therefore reflect Christ in our lives....?
Yes, it is an ardous road ahead but when we don't see His hand, trust His heart...just as how Jesus, on the cross, continued to trust the Father's heart...Persis, keep striving to be like Jesus - trusting the Father all the way and reflecting Christlikness..this is good in the eyes of the Lord...Thank you Jesus....
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Err hello Persis, I dunno if I should even post this...but...you do realise that every historical & scientific evidence says creationism never happened right? I mean, saying the world was created ~6000 years ago is claiming it was created 8000 years after the domestican of the dog. Not to mention that every field of science says evolution is a fact, and actually proven 2 years ago that we evolved from apes by DNA sequencing. But anyway, I don't mean to spoil your mood here, just thought I'd bring it up in case you didn't know.
So yeah, how are you lately? Havn't seen you online much. We should all catch up on msn convo with christina, lay san, mei, etc...
Hey Persis that's a great post :D Sounds like you're finding your feet on solid ground again :D
Hi Phillip! Would be interested to know where you got that info from could you quote me some references? :D
I'm assuming you're asking for the comparison of genome sequencing between humans (homo-sapiens) and chimpanzees, showing we both evolved from a common ancestor. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVRsWAjvQSg. Basically have a look at Hillier et al.'s work. I have more references indicating similar conclusions if you want a complete list, but I'm sure this single video is enough.
I suggest you watch the entire video so that you understand why creationism = intelligent design (simply a renaming of the same claim, and both are false). And hopefully there will be one less person making this claim. :)
Sorry about the double post, I hope Persis doesn't mind. I've located one of the key papers you can download: http://www.bx.psu.edu/miller_lab/dist/chr2.4.pdf (can't be bothered posting the copy I have on the net).
And apologies about the mistake, it was actually about 4 years ago when it was proven. If you want to view the presentation of the paper in the video it's at 00:35:00.
As evolution is right, creationism is false. If creationism is false, genesis & the original sin is...(and we know how the rest goes).
UPDATE YOUR BLOG GIRL!!!! :D
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