The Truth

Some say the world is falling sick, I would say that it has been sick for thousands years. Things changed. The telecommunication technology is getting advanced with time; it improved the efficiency of the connection among human beings. Previously, we just had cell phone to make voice call, that time the connection wasn’t that good. Right now we have internet which is available most of the area and smart phones are getting cheaper when the new model is being brought into the market. People can get on the line and communicate with another through internet with their smart phone. Of course, the speed of the connection is still improving, now it is considered sufficiently fast.

However, what surprised me the most is that people are not really comfortable with face-to-face communication. And this kind of communication is somehow getting a long way behind the efficiency of internet communication. We don’t like to converse with people who are physically present around us but we choose to chat with the people far away from us with the electronic device. Maybe people around you are not as important as the people you chose to chat with. But wouldn’t it be weird to see all people coming out for lunch and each of them having their faces down looking to their phones and being silent throughout the lunch. Normally, people find it normal and acceptable because everyone behaves the same. In my opinion, the behavior of majority never has the right to determine the norm but the Creator of the world who created for His purpose does. This phenomenon is considered common but abnormal. We are given a mouth not only for gustatory enjoyment but for communication. Our God communicates in trinity for eternity; they dwell in one another in love through the communication of love. We were created so to manifest the love of God through communication.

Besides that, I realized that people nowadays choose to get involved into topics which are not heavy and head-aching. They prefer to talk about something funny or casual instead of something critical or serious. When you talk about hobbies and entertainment, they never failed to be active in that conversation, but when you would like to know about their opinion on something serious, silence normally becomes their reply. I believe it is either they choose not to give any comment or they really never thought of that before. Normally, when I shared some ideas and opinions with other people, I am actually looking forward some feedback. Some might disagree what I said, but sadly they don’t seem to be confident enough to present their opinions, some just anyhow disagree my points without having their own opinions just because they don’t think it is right to comment on other people.

In my opinion, human right is being protected in a very superficial way. We all know that we have our human right being protected in this post-modern era. If you violate my right, the whole world would punish you, because this is the age of humanism. Therefore, no one can force me to do something that I don’t want to do. But we often misunderstand this kind of human right and abuse it most of the time. We would say:  “I have my own human right and you should take care of it, you shouldn’t give any comment on my life, get away from me and take care of your own business please.” However, this mistake influences us in a way that makes people to be over-protected and vulnerable. Eventually, we can’t take unpleasant comments and unfavorable words from honesty, most of the time we would overreact. However, I really hope my friends can realize that differences are not scary at all, but the fear of facing differences can kill us. Don’t we have the right to speak and make our stand clear? What makes us so afraid of revealing the differences by telling the truth we believe?

However, some often say: “Different people have different opinions. I can’t say yours is wrong.” What is the message of the statement? They refuse to comment or they don’t know how to entertain you? I am really surprised of how often I got this sort of reply in my life. I believe someone is trying to draw us from the truth and I can tell. We spend time on reading the most popular book, facebook and look how people enjoy their lives. The old folks spend time to look for the latest news from newspaper, try to stay up-to-date. But all these things that we can know are other people's things, mostly irrelevant to us. But that's all we like to know! In fact, what should we be looking for? We should be looking for the truth of life, shouldn’t we? The truth that give you a new and everlasting life. A life that you never had before! A life that your spirit desires ever since you were born! But what we are afraid of? We are afraid of knowing the truth that we never want to accept. Humans throughout the history tend to run away from God, as what Adam did after he sinned against God.

It is sarcastically paradoxical enough to see that we need someone to tell us the truths but we are afraid to face them. My friends, it is well saying that everyone has their own thinking. But what I would say next is that not every thought is true in the eye of God. (Judges 21:25) In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes (Proverbs21:2). Every man's way is right in his own eyes, But the LORD weighs the hearts. We don’t want to live under the sovereignty of God; we want to be independent from God. But what we need the most is the truth, the purpose of living. The Word is the only savior that can save us from this miserable world.