Today, i feel upset. And i felt better after reading Bible.
I am sad because one of my secondary schoolmates is gone, without any prior symptoms. I heard from my friends that he was sick, and i am not sure of the actual details of his death. Though i have been 10 years not contacting with him, but as being a human, i felt not right when someone who you know is gone in sudden.
I couldn't recall how did i know him during my secondary school time, but i was shocked when i got to know that he was the one who asked for friend request at my facebook a month ago. I seldom check my friend request list although i am an active facebooker, because there are many students to ask for friend when they come to this uncontrollable broadband world, which i don't really prefer to add them into my friend list. So, it was my regret to him. His incident recalled my memory back to 2 years ago, when one course-mate of mine, was gone due to the hit-and-run accident, and also the irresponsible attitude of the drunken driver, we believe that.
I was kinda lost when i just learnt that he has gone. I pray, i ask God. I asked God to give me some directions to console myself. I asked God to pull me off from keep sinking myself on this incident. And then, God granted me these words after i randomly pick-and-read the sentences in the Bible,
I am sad because one of my secondary schoolmates is gone, without any prior symptoms. I heard from my friends that he was sick, and i am not sure of the actual details of his death. Though i have been 10 years not contacting with him, but as being a human, i felt not right when someone who you know is gone in sudden.
I couldn't recall how did i know him during my secondary school time, but i was shocked when i got to know that he was the one who asked for friend request at my facebook a month ago. I seldom check my friend request list although i am an active facebooker, because there are many students to ask for friend when they come to this uncontrollable broadband world, which i don't really prefer to add them into my friend list. So, it was my regret to him. His incident recalled my memory back to 2 years ago, when one course-mate of mine, was gone due to the hit-and-run accident, and also the irresponsible attitude of the drunken driver, we believe that.
I was kinda lost when i just learnt that he has gone. I pray, i ask God. I asked God to give me some directions to console myself. I asked God to pull me off from keep sinking myself on this incident. And then, God granted me these words after i randomly pick-and-read the sentences in the Bible,
But God, who is rich in mercy,
out of the great love with which he loved us,
even when we were dead through our trespasses,
made us alive together with Christ.
(Eph.2:4-5)
out of the great love with which he loved us,
even when we were dead through our trespasses,
made us alive together with Christ.
(Eph.2:4-5)
And you,
who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
God made alive together with him.
(Col. 2:13)
Therefore,
if anyone is in Christ,
he is a new creation;
the old has passed away,
behold,
the new has come.
(2 Cor. 5:17)
who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
God made alive together with him.
(Col. 2:13)
Therefore,
if anyone is in Christ,
he is a new creation;
the old has passed away,
behold,
the new has come.
(2 Cor. 5:17)
I am the resurrection and the life;
he who believes in me shall live.
(Jn. 11:25-26)
he who believes in me shall live.
(Jn. 11:25-26)
By then, i understood. God is trying to send me the message that, the eternal life is always there, when the old has passed. Behold, and the new one has come. God uses the struggle to renew and conform us, to be one of His family, like Jesus Christ does.
My deep condolence to his family and the beloved one. Hope they could go through this tough time with the strengths given by God.
