Today I had church, but I woke up like super late. 830, so I was late. Somehow an internal conflict occur within me while I was travelling. Many a times I convince myself things happen because God allows them to, and nly because of that. Then very often, that also become one of the excuse we use to defend our own doing. Today I was late, but why? Because God allows them to? Well, that should never be the answer. Because God is so wonderful and nice to us, so how could we push all the blame to Him. Then what is? God gave us free will. In this earthly world, another being govern the place and his name is devil. devil and free will together make us make the wrong decision. While God has the ability to create miracles, He rather give us free will because He so love us. But us, being so unworthy of even a small fraction of His love, were so unable to withstand even the smallest temptation. I complain I am tired, but compared to our Lord, what amount of pain is that! 

Today's sermon was a continuation of last week's, same speaker and same book- Doctor Soh and 1 Peter chapter 2. The scriptures were described as spiritual milk/food. No matter how mature we are, no matter how many times we finish reading the bible, there is never graduation, neither completion. For bible study is not a course neither is it a book. It's the only food to sustain our spiritual life. And like food, we cannot only depend on milk. But instead we got to move on to congee, solid food etc. Thus at each spiritual level, there's always a new understanding of the scriptures. 

1. Drink pure spiritual mile

2. We are living stones

3. Christ the corner stone and stumbling block

4. We are strangers and aliens to this world

5. Submit to authorities for the Lord's sake

6. Follow Christ to suffer for righteousness sake

These are the points outlined in today's sermon. The youth were having an outing to Pulau Ubin, but I decided to omit myself from going. Tomorrow's the orientation, so I think I should go home and rest for the big day. On the way home, I read the bible again, and coincidentally, I came across a very relevant interpretation - listening is absorbing and accepting information about God. Learning is understanding its meaning and implications. Obeying is putting into action all we have learned and understoo.