Everybody needs help

I had quite a number of conversations with my friends lately. Once again I found that people need God by all means. Some friends are getting lost in their lives especially when they are dealing with the problems regarding relationship. They wanted to be devoted with loyalty but somehow the tendency of getting bored in a long-term relationship frustrated them at ease. It doesn’t mean they don’t love their beloved anymore; it is just very difficult to fight against the sinful nature which draws them to get something new by dumbing something old. I encouraged my friends to fight against the bad desire and never think of the choice of surrender. Life is a battle and we must make it a good fight!

One of my friends is trying to help his girlfriend to discover the love of God. I encouraged him to do so with wisdom and caution, and also with constantly prayer. Thank God for giving me the chance to share with him how he should preach in order to help her girlfriend knowing the real Christianity. That is very simple with three main points. First one is that we are sinners ever since Adam has sinned against God in our history and we can never get salvation on our own by keeping the laws. Consequentially, we know that with this fallen stage we are staging right now, it comes to a conclusion that Christ is the only way to salvation. Therefore, it is a must for us to repent and run from the damnation of righteousness and get into the amazing grace of God. However, the spiritual battle hasn’t ceased, we still need to fight with the Holy Spirit against sin during the process of sanctification.

After that, I met a friend and had a talk with her. One of her close relative is gone and her death made her wondering of the purpose of life. I was very sorry to come to the knowledge of this bad news; anyway I was glad that she begins to wonder the purpose of life. I shared with her about this topic and I frankly mentioned that life with man-centred purpose is vain. We discussed about the existence of the ultimate truth, while she doesn’t really believe in such an ultimate truth. There is only a true and real fact in the world which can never be subjective but only remain objective forever. For instance, we need oxygen for breathing, we can’t live without it. It is not the thing that we can argue with unless you don’t want to live anyway by stopping exhalation and rejecting the oxygen to be drawn into your lung. In this real world, we are bound to a common law which is made objectively. We have no reasons to deny the existence of ultimate truth.

With all these conversations, I strongly believe that prayer for the friends around me is always essential and significant enough. May God bless them by using me to help them constructively in their lives. The helplessness of witnessing them struggling with the problems doesn’t taste good to me. Let us help each to other to search for the truth in our life time and embrace that forever.