The Single Blessedness Dilemma

For a guy in his late twenty’s, writing a post about singleness is probably a bad thing to do.

For one, a lot of us believe that a guy at this age is primarily a good stage to become serious about life and get into a romantic relationship. It will strengthen his masculinity and take out questions of his sexuality at one point.

But on a deeper scale, and in a christian perspective, when is the right time to be serious about it? And how do we cope with pressure of being “in” for such a time as this?

Of course, I believe I’m no expert of these topics and to be candid about it, is single since birth. I’ve been a part of quite a rare populace wherein singleness seems to be a better idea rather than being in a relationship.

Of course, I’m not saying I’m not into the “relationship” idea and I strongly believes that we as God’s creation is wired for it.

In the end, who knows what might happen to my next post about this issue again.

Notes on “Nature of Spiritual Thirst”

Thirst is one of the most powerful spiritual symbols in all of scripture.

John 7:37

Jesus was on the feast of Tabernacle when he shared this message.

“With joy you will draw water from the wells from salvation”

In this scenario, it was at this climax that Jesus stood up and declared “if anyone is thirsty,let them come to me…”

What was wrong with the crowd,is as wrong to the many people today.

3 Imp. Nature:

1. To gain spiritual thirst,we must desire for it.

Notice the condition that Jesus lays down, “if anyone…” It refers to someone who is seeking, those who are thirsty and looking for God.

The first thing that we need to do as christians is to seek God. It’s a lifestyle and not a religious sect. It’s more of seeking God of your life. That is the real trademark of a real christian life.

People are not thirsty in developing their relationship with God. Jesus knew that they were following only the ritual of the feast of tabernacle.

We develop our relationship with God when we thirst for God.

We have to thirst ps. 42:32 like how David cried out Ps.63 and expressed his desire with God.

We will never have a close rel. With God unless we thirst for him. The question is “do we have the spiritual thirst that God refers?”

Beautitudes example

Your christian life is boring because you failed to develop a thirst and hunger for God.

Enjoying life in earth, you survive,you thrive bec the secret of having the thirst and hunger for God.

We’re must fill up our spiritual tongue and ask Jesus bec he is willing to fill us up.

2. To gain spiritual thirst, we must come to Jesus

The Lord JC is the only satisfaction that we can have in this earth.

King Solomon, the richest king, tried everythong drinking in this polluted well and he tried but he failed.

Ecc. 2 was written at the end of his days. He gave a diary of his earthly experience as a king.

Solomon became a party boy but gained nothing of it and declared “meaningless, everything is meaningless!”

Wine doesn’t work and will only give you hangover and a liver disease.

The eyes of men are never satisfied, as King Solomon said and found out utterly meaningless…

Solomon became the playboy of his day, 700 wives and 300 concubines.

Some men struggles with their mother in laws.

Finally, Solomon tried wisdom and saw that it is better, the more that he learned, the more he knew that everything is futile without God.

Ecc. 12:13

Solomon found out that at the end of life, he realized that it is only fearing God and keeping his commandments that gives meaning to life.

Only God can satisfy the needs of your heart alone. This thirstiness can satisfy through Jesus. That’s why we need to have a spiritual passion for God.

The way to Jesus is not holiness, the way holiness is Jesus. The root of all of it is Jesus and the fruit of these are spiritual blessinsgs.

If you would like to gain spiritual thirst, you must not only desire it but also you must come to Jesus to obtain it.

The infilling of the HS is an imp. Part of our spiritual life. It’s an everyday event for a christian life bec that is the desire for God for each one of us.

The verse in Jn. 7:37 is a practical advise for our spiritual life

If you desire an experience which is eternal in nature,all you have to do is to thirst and hunger for Jesus.

Desire is the main imp. Factor as believers. Our testimony depends upon our desire to include God in our lives to share the goodness of his kingdom to others.

So,how can you testify unless you are filled with the spirit of God?

The world will try to substitute your quench but will not satisfy eternally.

3. To gain a spiritual thirst, we must make a decision

“Let him come to me and drink…”

God will lead you to the water, but it’s your decision whether to drink or not.

That’s the problem with some christians, they are drinking on the well only on Sundays.

When you come to Jesus, he will provide us living waters. A spiritual contentment that can satisy all your needs.

Conclusion:

If you are tired of living without the zeal of God, the Lord invited you this morning for a spiritual renewal.

His invitation is simple “if anyone is thirsty, let him come to me…”

The First Quick Post for 2012!

It was just five days ago when everyone was crazy about 2011 and can’t get over the idea of what might happen this 2012.

For 2012, it’s going to be a rocky and rough road for me. There are a lot of things to do,prioritize and decide on that I sometimes wish it’s still 2011.

Although I have  lot of things in mind for 2012, I’m still thinking positive on a lot of great opportunities.

I’m actually starting my “bucket list” to be accomplished for this year on top of my busy schedule.

Like 2011, I believe God is doing something great and opportunities are opening up even before the year ended. This year will be a year to behold and a year for the Lord.

My goal for this year is to become excellent in the task at hand and more probably focus on developing my “backbone” for ministry.

Lastly, I believe this will be a year of prosperity and favor. I’ll write more about it in the coming days.

Happy 2012 and be excited to what lies ahead for this year!

10 Things I’ll Do This Christmas

I was down with flu and can’t get out of the bed for two straight days. It was an agonizing experience feeling cold (with no one to hug), enduring  a scrutinizing back pain and a really bad headache. At the same time, I lost my appetite in eating and I  kept on sleeping for long hours.

My housemates were very concerned because I kept my door locked most of the time. Well, the reason for that is because I usually sleep topless and they might barge in without me knowing it.

Thanks to Twitter, I was able to update myself on whatever was happening outside and of course, give an idea to the world that I’m still alive and kicking.

Now that I’m fully recovered, I’m back to my old self again and back to work. Well, that is before the BIG Christmas break comes in. I’m more or less in Christmas break mood already with some deliverables done and a few that will start not later than 1st week of January 2012.

With these things in mind, I finally decided to write down a few things that I’d probably will enjoy doing for the next 10 days of Christmas break. Here are the top 10 on my list for now:

1. Sleep 8-10 hours daily
2. Movie Marathon with nephews, nieces and everyone in between
3. Party with old colleagues, friends and family
4. Go to the beach
5. Go to Cebu, Bohol and Leyte (?)
6. Pamper myself at the spa (alone)
7. Read 3 good books
8. Speak at a camp
9. Blog all the time
10. Never open my corporate email for the break

You probably would think that it’s an entirely boring list but hey, I’m a boring man and has not done any of these things for so long since I started 2011. It was a rough and hectic year indeed!

Did I forget to mention that I lost weight? Wohoo! And I’ll continue to make sure I lose more during the break by eating with no rice and less sweets! Wohoo!

Now, I need to prepare my stuff for work. TTYL!

Samsung Galaxy Ace, Blackberry Curve and Me

A couple of weeks ago, my team mate sold her hubby’s android phone for only P 10,000.00 and I grabbed the opportunity to buy something good out of my income. I mean, who would dare not buy a Samsung Galaxy Ace on a mark down price of P 3,000.00 on the market?

It’s a good phone and I’m loving every bit and parts of it. (Shuckz!)

And after a couple weeks (again) later, I decided to buy a blackberry curve 8530 phone at P 9,000.00. (Uhm, I hope you’re not SHOUTING in disbelief!)

Okay, call me “crazy”, “gastador”, “stupid”, “unwise spender” and all the other names you can call me but I already did and nothing changes the fact that in this economic crisis and my 13th month bonus, I wanted to spend on something I’ve been vying and dying for almost more than a year now.

But here’s the catch: I bought the two phones on an installment basis and I’m nearly ending on the first item I bought for and the other one lacks half the amount to close the deal. In short, I’m not wasting an entire 13th month bonus and my monthly salary for a “luho” that is too hard to say “NO” to!

So, which of the two phones would you think will last longer? Which one is better in terms of specs, applications and aesthetics? And how does both differ from each other?

(Share your thoughts please…)

And before I entirely forget, this opportunity led me to delete 348 contacts out of 708 on my old phone. I guess that’s something to go “gaga” again.