Marriage

Marriage should be a pursuit for every person. The thought of God hopefully creating a human to spend the rest of your lfie with and to have a baby is exciting, satisfying, and joyful. People marry for those two reasons: family and growing old with your significant one. I desire these two aspects of marriage. Although, some people marry for some shallow reasons such as security, finances, and sexual pleasure. In the moral way, you should marry because you love that person and that you think and have faith that God has chosen that person for you, NOT fo ryour own benefits. Marriage results in different ways and have its different effects. A happy and God-glorifing marriage would be blessed by God which is the best effects that there can be. Marriage that ends in a tragic divorce can ruin lives; a person in a divorce may become financially unstable after a divorce. A marriage with children that divorce can make the hearts of the children resentful as they get older, unless the divorce was for a good cause like to get away from a abusive, alcoholic father or a irresponsible, drug addict mother.

Drug Use

People use drugs for many reasons. It may be to escape depression or/and stress. It may be to do it because "everyone" else is doing it. People may use drugs because he or she thinks it's cool. A addict would use the drug or drugs he or she is addicted because their body craves for it, and he or she thinks that he or she "needs" it to get by. I smoked marijuana in middle school and throughout high school for many reasons, such as my friends were doing it, older people that i knew were doing it, to escape from the depression, anger, loneliness, and pain of my father's death, to have fun, from being bored(sometimes i thought there was just nothing else to do than that), and for the most significant reasons, which is that I didn't know or even think that there was better things to do in life. Some people may be born into drug use, for example, a terrible neighborhood. Also, a baby born with a drug's chemicals in his or her body. Someone could've been forced to do use drugs such if they were in a gang. Drugs effect us physically of course. The effects on physicality depends on which drug it is. Marijuana has a lot of tar, so it would damage your lung function. Marijuana also lessense a man's masculinity; they get weaker. After a long time of using marijuana, your mind can start to function slower or a lot slower. Marijuana is also a gateway drug, which mean it leads to other drugs and most likely will lead one to more dangerous drugs such as cocain, heroin, and crystal meth. Drug use can not only tear your life a part, but hurt the lives of the people that are close you such as your family and bestfriend(s).

Teen Sex

Teen sex is a habit that has conquered our culture today. Pornography, immoral people, R rated movies, sinful nature, and satan influences teens to fornicate. Some teenagers that have sex may ultimately ruin their lives or teach them a valuable lesson that they could teach to others. Unfortunately, a teenager may have sex and become a sex addict. A teenage female may become pregnant and be left alone, because the father was too young and ignorant to know how to deal with the circumstances a baby caused. However, a teenage female may learn a lot from taking care of a baby on her own, gain immense wisdom, gain inner strength, and teach her child or children the things she has learned from her perseverances.

Rules

A rule is a standard which implies what’s right and wrong. There’s a saying, which is “Rules are meant to be broken.” People just say that to his or herself to give his or herself an excuse to break a rule. According to that saying, God created the Ten Commandments for us to willfully and unashamedly break them; that’s nonsense. God created the Ten Commandments for us to measure ourselves to it, abide by it, so that we can live joyful and righteous lives. I’m writing about this topic, because I break rules everyday in some way. For example, I drive my friend’s car quite often and I don’t have a permit or driver’s license. Rules are bugging me, because some rules seem unnecessary. For example, Virginia State’s law indicates that 18 years olds must hold a permit for 9 months and complete a state-approved driver’s education program to receive a license. This rule that Virginia has established is unnecessary and why don’t they honor International permits or licenses? I had a permit in Korea thinking that I could change it into a license when I go to college. I don’t want to hold my permit for 9 months and do a driver’s education program AGAIN. How am I going to find the time to complete the program while I’m in college? Why didn’t Virginia’s DMV think about the college students that don’t have license, and that has to do the program, work, and go to college at the same time. This rule is unnecessary. They should at least alter that rule to this: Any persons from the age of 18 and older must hold a permit for at least two months to receive a driver’s license. This rule gives every permit holder of the age 18 and older two long months to learn how to drive; two months is a lot of time to learn how to drive, because learning how to drive is easy. Although, God says to be subject to your authorities and there’s no other way I can get a license, so I have to get my permit and hold it for NINE months. May God give me patience with this rule.

Sick

I hate being sick. I was vomiting last night and my diarrhea started last night too and it still hasn't gone away. I hope i'll be back to normal by tomorrow morning, so I can work efficiently at work, and exercise efficiently in the weight room too. I think it was what i ate for dinner at the cafeteria last night. I had a humber and two slices of pizza. They tasted really really good, but wasn't good for me. Kind of similar to sin right? Seems good, but isn't good for us. I asked a nurse at Light Medical on campus what I could eat that wouldn't make it worse, and she told me that i have to go on the BRAT Diet. The BRAT Diet is Bananas, Rice, Apple Sauce, and Toast. I've just been eating bananas, apple sauce, and bread, because I don't have a toaster.

first day

today was my first day of my job; in which i'm a custodian. i have to wake up at 5:30 am to make it to the schilling center at 6 and that's when work starts. I work from 6 am to 8:30 am. The janitor that i work with is Sue, and she's a very nice and sweet lady. She's from Pennsylvania and has three sons. She thought it was interesting that I'm from South Korea and we talked about many things such as the conflict between South Korea and North Korea, school, and a lil' bit about marriage. I cleaned the desks and boards with her help and she swept. I vacuumed the mats near the doors of the Teacher Education Hall. Even though I have to wake up at 5:30 am, I think i'll enjoy this job, especially the paychecks. But what's most important is improving my work ethic and meeting and building relationships with more people.

Crossroads

I want a relationship with You, but I also don't,
Prone to live by sin, so it's hard to live by You,
either a lifestyle of lies or living by the Truth,
worldly happiness seems so good, but I know You are better,
many other philosphies or religions seems like they're true,
although you are the best and ultimate,
nothing overshadows You,
Ultimately, I must make my decision,
living for me, which is sexual pleasure, glory, depression, and emptiness,
or Your road, which is Truth, Love, Wisdom, and eternal happiness.

Longing for her

How long do I have to wait for "her,"
Why is it so hard to find "her,"
Circumstances are making me lose hope,
fidning temporal satisfaction in sin to cope,
with the depression and pain from the absence of love,
not concerned with sexual pleasure but only blessings from above,
fearing that God has no one for me,
only tears apart my heart badly,
I need "her" to pacify my heart and mind,
Lord, help me to fathom that these things just take time.

what a wonderful...

i dont know the name of the song that's going through my mind, but it is by Jeremy Camp. The chorus is really moving and it goes like this, "What a wonderful maker, what a wonderful Savior, how majestic your whispers, and how humble your love, with the strength like no other, and i dont know the rest." "What a wonderful maker" interest me, because He is that. I forgot i think half of what I learned in GNED or Evangelism, which is that our world is so precise there must be a Creator. For example, the Earth and Sun is in its precise place so that something doesn't happen i forgot that part..haha...Although, my Bible teacher in 12th grade told me that there's a spider that does back flips all the way down to a waterfall and goes all the way down to the bottom and lays eggs and goes back on top of the waterfall to do the same process all over again. My teacher's argument was that there must be a Creator to have a spider to do something that random and mysterious. It makes sense and it's true.

what's goin on

i just took two tests that i studied for really hard and i think and hope i aced them. im so glad tests are over for another short period of time so i can just do homework and relax a little. i started going back to the gym and eating protein bars. That's been really fun and good. Well, i'm going to be a custodian working on campus. Sounds good that im getting a job, right? However, this job is from 6 am to 8:30 am. God is going to have to get me strength to get through this. I usually wake up at 730 to relax and study a little and eat breakfast. Now i have to wake up at 530 am and go right to my job with maybe a little snack like peanut butter crackers; that's not breakfast, but it's something.

I've been getting so caught up in doing my homework and studying for tests, I can't even have time to sit down and actually perceive the material of my classes so that i can take it to heart and apply it to my life. I really despise this fact. I want to be able to do something with this material not just cram it in to my mind ace a test and then forget about it. But when i think about it i actually do have time, i'm just not using it wisely. Instead of listening to music for an hour i could really learn my class notes. the weekends go by so fast, it's ridiculous. It's already sunday. I gotta make the best of today as i can. be as productive as i can be and efficient as i can be. gonna go sleep now. peace

My XX-Girlfriend

Her name is Shaina Naomi Escribano. The love of my life. We were together for 11 months and then i screwed it up. And we dated for another 2 months and i screwed it up again. She's very sweet, kind, forgiving, LOVING, humourous, and smart. I used to think that i was going to spend the rest of my life with her. I wish that we dated our last two years of high school than our first two years of high school, because i was a very immature and ignorant boy my first two years of high school. But i think if i was measured to what i knew then, i was a good boyfriend. But now that i look back on how i treated Shaina and our relationship, I realize how immature and ignorant I was, because i'm more mature and wiser now. Our first kiss was on her birthday. I loved hugging her and holding her hand, i think she loved doing the same thing to me too. I don't understand why i dont have a girlfriend, i know that i'm a lot better than some of these guys at our school that i know how to treat girl, but somethings just dont happen when you want them to. God works in mysterious ways. I can't fathom Him. He has a plan and all i can do is just live my life and let His plan go into its order. I fear not being a husband and father. That would really hurt me if God won't let me have those precious opportunites in this one and only life that i have on Earth.

Money

I hate money. Money is so powerful. Unfortunately, our selfishness is taken advantage by money. Some women marry men just because they have a lot of money and that disgust me. Some people take lives for money. Money doesn't only have a negative connotation to it though. Money is given to poverty, money is used to provide missionaries to spread the Word of God in foreign countries. Loans and Grants are given to students who can't afford to go to college to receive higher education. I wonder how many professors at our school can honestly admit that they are professors to serve God and not for the money. I also wonder why it cost so much money for higher education. Wisdom and knowledge should be free....

Social Life

having a social life is extremely important in life. I wouldn't be who I am today if I didn't have a social life with my group of friends. Im not boasting that i have a good social life or anything like that, it's just that i'm glad that i hung out with the people that i did growing up because it was awesome and i learend a lot. there are advantages of a social life, first of all, you will have another source of joy in your life, second, you'll learn more about life and how to treat others, and lastly, you can see how God is creative in his Creation. The advantages of a social life consist of more than three things. There are no disadvantages of a social life. Although, there are no disadvantages of a social life, but it does have its consequences. For example, a student must be able to balance his or her day between socializing, academics, exercise, and many other things. If socializing is the biggest part of a student's day, he or she won't have enough time to do his or her homework efficiently or to study properly. I'm sure every once in awhile for some students or all the time for some students that they socialize more than they're supposed to and have to cram information in their head for a test the next day. Being a great friend is better than being a great student, but we also have to know our limits. And if our friends lived by that same truth, we wouldn't have to worry about cramming for tests because all of us would know that we are being great friends in giving each other time to do homework.

Facebook

Facebook is a great system of communication. There are many other things you can do on facebook such as post your pictures, videos, songs, and music videos. I dont do all of those extra things, I just like to talk to people and stuff. I didn't like facebook when I first started to use it. I guess because I wasn't used to it and maybe everyone felt that same way. I started to like it after awhile and especially when i found out there's like hundreds of beatiful girls on facebook. You can join different groups on facebook like if your friends created a group. I think sometimes facebook is a little unorganized or it's just me. When i created my facebook account, it says that I'm in Liberty '10's network, but i dont know how that happened because i'm graduating in 2011. Facebook has been advantageous for me, because i can keep in touch with my friends that across the world and across the country.

Dating

Dating can be stressful sometimes especially when the couple's differences conflict with each other. For example, my ex-girlfriend didn't want to see me as much as I wanted to see her; this relationship only lasted for about a month, because we didn't spend that much time with each other. We said in class that that are rules in a relationship such as you can't cheat. I disagree on that kind of term or label. There aren't any rules for couples to follow such as "You shall not cheat," but the couple should already have that in their hearts and to not do that willfully and not be bounded by a rule but by their love for their significant one. Dating can also be life-changing. Every time that I had a girlfriend, I would make her the center of my world. I would want to be able to talk to her every day and she would always be on my mind. I turned down a job once for which was for only a weekend for i think 50-100 dollars to spend the weekend with my girlfriend in which we didn't even hang out on. I shortened my study times too. dating sucks

I hate it when u study really hard for a quiz and you show up to class ready for it and the teacher decides to rescind the quiz. It feels good for a friend to call you to say happy birthday, people in your hall say to you happy birthday, and to have friends leave you comments that say happy birthday to you on facebook. Today's convocation was really cool. I always wondered who was "LaHaye" because i saw that name on the front of the student center and ice center. Now, i know that those two facilities are named after him because he gave it to Liberty University, which is really generous of him and it glorifies God. It glorifies God, because it shows how generous Christians are and how Christians want to do the best things for their brothers and sisters in Christ. Anyway, I'm reading Songs of Solomon right now. I'm reading it, because it's about love and that's what i desire right now and for the rest of my life. So, i need to know what the book of the truth says about love, so that i find the love that God wants for me. If, there's one for me....

9/10/2007

a year or two ago, i didn't think i would spend my 18th birthday at Liberty University. In one hour, and two minutes from now i'll be eighteen years old. I feel like i'm older than eighteen though. Fortunately, I lived to be this old but my father can't call me and say to me, "Happy Birthday Son." There something about me and my birthdays and that's that i dont ever want anything. Well, this started to happen when i was in 10th or 11th grade, but before that i always wanted video game systesms, money, and clothes. I dont know why I dont ever want anything anymore. Maybe God is telling me there REALLY IS NOTHING in this world that can satisfy me. God, thank you for letting me live to be 18 years old. thank you for all of yours blessings, for your love, and your goodness. I pray that you bless me with something for my birthday tomorrow and I pray that I'll be satisfied for what ever the blessing, gift, or present is. Thank you for everything. I pray in Jesus' glorious name, Amen.

.......

It's Sunday afternoon and i just got done studying for a my clst quiz tomorrow. i have this blog and one more to do later today and to be on track with the class. I also have to study for a GNED quiz tomorrow. I have a math test and clst test later this week. I think i would be more motivated to study right now if i wasn't so hungry. I only ate once today and it barely filled my stomach; i have about ten french fries and 5 buffalo wings. I dont really want to talk about anything deep or meaningful right now because i'm lazy. Both of my roommates sleep on the top bunk and one of them fell off while he was sleeping and hit my laptop and now my screen has some cracks in it. They are internal cracks though and my laptop is operating perfectly, so i'm alright. I'm just glad that my roommates is okay, although he says that his ribs are bothering him and he has a bruise on his ribs. Anyway, i gotta go study now.

Home

The best thing about Korea for me is is that all of the relationships i had there. I had a lot of friends but the amount of friends isn't what i value. I had a close group of friends that i always hung out with. I knew some of them for abut 5-6 years and i knew some of the others for about 4 years. So you can see that my friends and I were pretty close. I can recall in middle school when we used to go on top of buildings and light up bottle rockets, we used to through eggs at a booth of a security guard, and we always hung out late at the movie theatre or anywhere just being good friends with eachother. I can recall when some of my friends were there for me when my father passed away when we were in 9th grade. We used to shoplift together, get in trouble together. Growing up with my friends throughout high school taught me a lot. You know what they say, "You live to learn." And then you use what you learn and apply to your life. One of my friends told me this quote and this is it: A good friend would bail you out of jail, but a best friend would be in there with you saying, "man, we're screwed."

If

If I had a car, I probably would've gone to my relatives' house this weekend.
If I had a girlfriend, I probably would be with her right now and not doing this blog.
If I was taller, I probably would have a girlfriend.
If I could still play basketball, I would probably be playing tonight after I hang out with my girlfriend.
If I was in Korea, I would be sleeping right now.
If I went to a secular college, I would be falling into temptations from left to right.
If I didn't get saved, I wouldn't be at Liberty University.
i dont know why i'm doing a blog like this right now. Anyway, i'm feeling sleepy. It's weird, because I got a good 8 hours of sleep and that usually keeps me fully awake, but I guess i needed to sleep more.

My decision

I've decided to take on Clayton King's challenge, which is to stay single for the rest of the school year. This process is going to take a lot of discipline, because I'm taking on this challenge but at the same time I "want" a girlfriend. One thing I learned in school and in my life is that there's a big difference between "wants" and "needs." I need food, clothing, shelter, love, and wisdom. I don't "need" a girlfriend to live my life, but I immensely and extremely "want" her. So, wants are things that you dont need to have to live your life. If people learn this, it'll help them out a lot. This is one reason why I stopped buying and playing video games, because I dont need to do it and after I stopped, I didn't even want to play them. It started my junior year when I noticed that the only things that I needed in my life was love, food, clothing, and shelter...not smoking, drinking, fornication, video games, an expensive cell phone, and an expensive mp3 player. Like I said before, God hasn't brought a few girls into my life where i could start a friendship with them since I've been at Liberty, so maybe this challenge is neccessary for me. Maybe God's trying to teach me something through this. And I'm not joking about this, not having a girlfriend at this point in my life can be considered as a tribulation. Maybe God is trying to tell me that there's some things I need to discover about myself to help me be who I am when I'm with my girlfriend/wife.

Some things I'm Learning

Today in GNED class, we watched a video on a man discussing what a worldview is, nihilism, theocentric, anthropocentric, syncretism, and contradictions of beliefs and morals. All of these topics were interesting to me, but what got me going was when the man discussed syncretism. Syncretism is the indiscriminant blending of concepts and ideas from opposing systems. I think this term may apply to a lot of people, but it definitely applies to me. I believe that God is a loving God, but sometimes when i'm feeling sad, down, or callous, i start to believe that God is unjust and harmful; that's a straight-up contradiction. The Bible says that women shouldn't have high position jobs in the Church such as a pastor, but i believe that they could, i mean why not? If they love the Lord and want to serve Him in that way to minister to His people, and if it's God's will it would happen. Why does God let women be Pastors, if in His word, He abolishes it. There are a few more contradictions within me, but its to personal to blog about. I think we have blends of what we believe is true and of other things because, we want to live by the Truth, but at the same time our sinful nature influences us to live by worldly pleasures. We, then start to believe in the Truth and what the world is telling us is right and then it just makes your life a very difficult!

YES! It's the weekend

finally, it's the weekend! it's going to feel so good sleeping in tomorrow. I'm going to have a busy day today. I'm going to the mall after my last class to sell my Kobe Bryant autographed cards, i'm going to buy some shoes, and give my friend some money because he's spent a lot of money on gas partially for me. And after that i'll probably just hang out a little bit, blog again, and go watch a movie. I'm excited about watching B.J. Harris tonight; it's going to be really cool.
Saturday, is Liberty's second football game this year. I hope it will be a closer game than last time, because close scoring game are always the most intense and enjoyable games. I despise watching games when one team just totally blows out the other team; it's tedious to me. This weekend, I will also do all of my homework, catch up on my blogs, and study hard.

Mesmerize

I started to play basketball when I was about 8 years old. I played for almost 9 years of basketball. I miss going to the gym on a daily basis and play basketball for three hours or more with my friends and other people that played at the gym. That time period is what my friend, Chung, and I call it the "good, old days." I miss playing at my high school. I played JV basketball at my public school, but when I transferred to a division 2 private school that position changed. I became the starting point guard for the varsity team and I had a lot of playing time. My junior year was the best year of my life for the sake of my basketball experience. I miss hearing my friends and teachers cheering us on. Being a leader of a basketball team was so great; I loved being the piont-guard and co-captain of my team. I had a lot of fun playing at my Christian high school. I learned a lot, because during the season God discipline me by spraining my ankles. And through that discipline, he told me to stop sinning and doing certain things. God let me tear my ACL and have knee surgery. I was so excited and ready to try to walk on the varsity basketball team at Liberty University, but I guess God had other plans for me. Things are turning out okay even though I can't play basketball, so i'm just hoping my life will become better throughout the school year.

how my day is so far

I'm very tired today and because i'm sleepy, i can't think critically in class or concentrate. It's my fault that i'm this tired tho. After english class on tuesday, i looked on blackboard and saw that there wasn't a homework assignment due next class, so I assumed that there was no homework. However, when i checked blackboard last night, I saw that we had a homework assignment so i stayed up to about 12:30 am doing that assignment. If i fell asleep then, i would be more energetic today. I stayed up to 2 am just thinking and rolling around, I just couldn't go to sleep.
I thought about a girl that I kind of or more like barely know, but she's so pretty. I thought of how I could get a chance to talk to her person, but I've seen her only twice since school started; I see her like once every blue moon! Anyway, the funny thing is i was thinking about staying single for the rest of the school year, but that changed when i saw that girl again at the Rot. I know that you shouldn't base decisions only on feelings, but feelings do have a big part in what you do. I dont know what i'm saying or going into, but i really want to talk to this girl or in fact i need to talk to her.

God has been answering my prayers. I've been praying and asking others to pray for me to wake up early enough to make it to class. I don't only wake up early enough for class but i also wake up to eat and then go to class. I'm happy about waking up in time for class, because I get really upset when I miss a class due to my desire to go to class and learn.
Today, i'm going to go to GNED class and hopefully learn a lot. I hope that i can pay attention and understand everything that Professor Weider teaches us. i really like this class because i already got a blend of it in high school. I'm really happy that my Bible and Philosophy teacher in high school prepared me with knowledge and logic to understand and keep up in GNED class.
After both of my classes today, i'm going to go eat and then work out. After I workout I'm going to go do some homework and then hang out with my friend.

My Response to Clayton King on what his message was on tuesday night

Clayton King discussed many things on tuesday night, but at the end of the service he challenged all of the students there to commit to be single until May of 2008, the end of the school year. I expressed already in one of my previous blogs that i intensely want a girlfriend. I'm looking for the one that i could spend the rest of my life with; the next girlfriend that i have, i want her to be my wife. I'm debating on accepting this challenge for many reasons. Firstly, I could focus more on doing what I want to do. Secondly, I won't be pressured and always concerned about having a girlfriend. Lastly, I'll have more time to discover who I am and try to right my flaws through God's will. The three reasons I have to not have a girlfriend are really reasonable, but it's hard, because i know that i'm ready to start and engage in a serious relationship. It's also hard, because i just desire to be with a girl to hold hands with, talk on the phone with, to walk around with, to buy food and other stuff for, to take care of, and to LOVE. Father God, as I have this on my heart and mind, show me the path you want me to take this school year, make sure that i'm content and in serenity with whatever happens this school year, and i just ask that your will will be done in my life.

I wish...

I wish i could have one more day with my dad. I would just tell him how much i love him and appreciate him and tell him that i'm sorry for doing some things.
i wish i could still play basketball with a strong knee. If I never tore my ACL and had knee surgery in the beginning of my senior year, i would've done extremely well my senior year and gained more skill. Honestly, i think i could've walked on to Liberty's bball team.
sometimes i wish that God wouldn't make our lives complicated, but discipline and tribulations are passable. They are passable because if God never disciplines us, we would not learn anything. Through tribulations, we gain wisdom and recognize that God is omnipotent, we can't control our lives, and that we NEED Him. It's baffling to me how we make all of our decisions, but at the same time, God is in control of everything. He sees that we can't make things right, so why doesn't he do it?...and while nothing right happens it seems like God isn't there and it's up to us to live our lives our own way...i dont know

My prioritization

Since junior high, my prioritization was friends before sleep. I've been hanging out alot lately and really late too. When I get back into my dorm after I hang out i still stay up and do other things. The reason why i'm concerned about my prioritization is that I miss one of my favorite classes yesterday morning, Contemporary Issues. I love that class, because the whole time the professor is teaching you something significant, especially in our world today. I woke up twenty-five minutes after the class started and it just bummed me out. I was concerned also that it was my first unexcused absence, however, one of my classmates told me the professor didn't take attendance. Even though i'm happy about my professor not taking attendance, i'm still upset that I missed out on a lot of good discussions and a chance to learn something practical and self-helping. I'm going to do my best now to sleep before midnight. All i have to do is tell my friend that i need to wake up on time for class and he would understand, because he is my friend and that's what friends do.

I'm Totally Consumed by the Spirit of the Age

I can see how the philosophy of our world today effected me sadly. Existentialism has corrupted my mind and heart. Existentialism is basically being your own god, creating your own reality and truth, creating your own morals, and doing what's convenient to you. If that definition isn't exhaustive enough then I'll make an example. It's a universal truth that murder is wrong, but when some has the philosophy of existentialism they forget that truth and make their own truth. One could be really angry, depressed, or insane and forget that universal truth and do what they feel like doing at that moment(doing what's covenient for them) and kill someone. That's existentialism, not abiding by universal truths and doing what's convenient to you at each moment not considering any universal truths. I'm an existentialist everyday from lying, lust, cursing, and many other sins, because I'm too weak to live up to the universal truths and have to abide by something lower which is my truths. Surely, existentialism and materialism too is the Spirit of the Age today. Many of us seek money and only that, believing that that will solve all of our problems and make us happy. However, we shouldn't seek things that our shallow like money, getting high, and all of the other temporal satisfactions. We should seek what is true because what is true will always be true, it's everlasting. And we should live by the truth and not our own truths. If all of us live by our own truths, there would be no hope. Yes, there are good people in this world, but there isn't any impeccable people in this world, so we can't rely on our own truths and desires because we are all sinful, we must live by the ultimate truth of a being that's perfect, God. May God have mercy on all of us, because we have left him at some piont in our lives to live by our own truth and not by Him who is the Ultimate Truth.

The Power of the Mind and Faith

I've been thinking about this title a lot and it's truly amazing and interesting. Our minds are really powerful and impacting. If we have a faith in something and we truly believe something with our mind, we make our own reality. For example, if I have a faith that God is a unjust God and is evil, the reality of my life is going to be based on that because that's what my mind believes. And of course our faith reveals itself in our actions. If I believe that God is evil and unjust, I'll most likely be an immoral person and hate Christians. It's basically the philosophy of the famous philosopher DeCarte(I think that's the correct way to spell his name, but I'm not sure) and his philosophy is "I think therefore, I am." The fact that we can make our own reality is scary, because people that desire to do evil things can unfortunately take advantage of that truth. Faith and our minds are just so powerful. Osama Bin Laden and all of the muslims that fought for him believe that they must kill everyone who isn't a believer of Islam, which is called a jihad. However, we all know that it is WRONG and a SIN if we murder someone. Yet, they believe that doing a jihad is good for their god, so that's why they desire to do it.
The power of faith and the mind is dangerous, so we must know what we are putting into our minds and what we have faith in because if we have those two wrapped in and around the wrong thing, we can do something tragic.

A little some of me right now

I came to Liberty University all the way from Seoul, South Korea to pursue higher education. Higher education is important and is something right to pursue but it always depends on the reason why you want it. I dont value being extremely rich or wealthy. I value love and wisdom. I came to Liberty University, because I feel that God has called me to go to college here and I really think he has because first of all I'm here and things are falling into its place. I met a really cool guy who's become a good friend of mine. I believe that God has brought me here to be friends with him, but I also need to obtain as much wisdom as I can from my classes for my future. I also came to Liberty University seeking a girlfriend and one girl that I can spend the rest of my life with. I'm not one of those men who likes to play around with girls and go from one girl to the next. I'm ready to give my heart one woman for the rest of my life and I hoping to God that I find her soon, because I desire a girlfriend immensely. But I haven't met a lot of girls and I dont know why but God will let it happen when it's the right time. I'm seeing that things are falling into its place, so i'm hopeful that I'll get a girlfriend.

Some truths we can't know;some truths we do know

Why does God break us down and take gifts and lives away from us and make us wait anxiously and in pain and depression for a long time to mold us into what He wants us to be?
Why does God let innocent people die without them meeting his Son, Jesus as their Savior before they die? I dont know what the Bible says about this but hopefully he makes exceptions for those that die without meeting him and that they go to Heaven. It's just baffling how that tragedy occurs, because it seems like God is just letting people go to Hell. And since He's omnipotent he should stop tragedies like that from occuring. However, Satan is in control of this world and that's the valid reason why tragedies like genocides occur and why our world is as sinful as it is today. Yet, He that is in us is greather than who is in the world is what Jesus said. 'Tis true, but we can't overcome Satan just because God lives within us because we are inadequate, weak, and sinful. If a non-Christian or athiest was reading this, he or she should be asking then who will overcome Satan if humanity can't. God tells us the answer in his Word; that Jesus Christ will ultimately conquer this world when he comes again and overcome Satan and give us followers the victory.