Today a friend shared on God's Word with us. His message struck me. I fully agreed that some times we went too advanced and we forgot about the basic. I experienced this even before i became christian. In our daily life as well, we'll experience this. How? Baking cake for instance, i used to bake butter cakes during my teenage. Em..after i started to work, i met up with friends that can make cheese cake. So, i learnt to make cheese cake. I love to eat and most of my friends like to eat, so during CNY or some of my friends' birthday, i'll make it. Now, if you ask me how to make butter cake, i can tell you that i almost forget. Now, i seldom bake cakes and now i learnt to make other things like Sushi, pasta and pies, sooner or later i'll forget how to make cheese cake.
So in order to avoid losing the basic, we need to continue practising it. Likewise, we as christians can go too advanced and forget the basic. But what is the basic? This friend of mine gave us this thought, we have eyes and we have the ability to read. So, we can read the whole bible and we can study the whole bible. How about those who do not have the ability to read?? How are we going to share with them the Good News? We can know the bible very well, but we may not really have the close relationship with God. We some times can care too much about the theology and etc. But mind we check ourselves, have we forgotten the basic.
Mark 12:28- 31 when one of the teachers of the law asked Jesus which is the most important commandment. Jesus said love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your souls and with all your mind and with all your strength. AND love your neighbour as yourself.
The teacher of law was expecting one commandment from Jesus but Jesus gave him two instead. We love people even our enemy because we love God. If we claim that we love God and we do not love people around us, do we really love God? We in a way disobey him. We can be actively serving in church, CF or we can know the bible well etc, but are we really living a life that match what we claim? Are we really doing/ serving out of love or just do for the sake of doing?
Let us reflect and change the way we live...
