The Need to Pray More

Christians are always admonished to live Godly life daily.  The Bible speaks of how God living as a man on earth and was unhumanly treated  but still become triumphant over sin.

For someone like me who has spent 15 years in an Adventist school and has grown up in an Adventist family – we are always reminded to do this.  But now I realized that it is not easy to live a Godly life when you don’t have a personal conviction that you can overcome sin or temptations.   I do pray — several times in one day but still i fall.   It is so easy to talk ill of someone, it is so easy to kill someone even without the use of guns or swords — bt just by our tongue, we could kill many even our own family.   So sad.

How can we live a Godly life when the following abounds in mass and so strong: selfishness, jealousy, hatred, theft, hunger, worldly treasures, drugs, sex, money, alcohol, gluttony.  Not just  all that — it seems in everything.  When too you take too much of everything is already a sin.

Am sure, God has read my thoughts here and even before i have penned it down, He has read it in my mind.  Somehow He will understand that am having a hard time shunning sin eventhough i prayed daily.

If i have prayed now i guess I need to pray more and earnestly.  

Chorister

The other day, she excited inform me that she is one of the officers in her class.

• D: Mom, I’m one of the officers in our class.
• M: Congratulations! What? a president, vice president, secretary….
• D: Noooooooooooooooo! (giggling)
• M: So, what’s the office then?
• D: A chorister!
• M: (laughing) really? And you know what you gonna do with that office?
• D: Of course, I do. I will be the song leader in any class activities. I like it!

My reaction? I was laughing and laughing at her and told her my experience when i was still in my elementary years.

Later, she asked me if she can join the Little Trumpets Class. I then told her ok and yesterday, she came home late because she joined the practice. Right now, she came abit late too but just changed her uniform and went back to school for the practice.

If it is just right to always push and push — i would really push her but i realized, it does not work well if her interest is not like mine. So, whatever she asks of that she wanna join or learn, I give in — except for the violin lessons. I let her stopped her violin lesson because it is not improving because she does not yet have her own instrument.

Hopefully, I could find means soon.