Wednesday, January 23, 2008
law, debates, God
God first. for seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all that i need would be added on to me. (Matt 6:33) unfortunately my spiritual life has been stuck at gear 1 for quite some time now. faith is an issue. for faith undergirds all that i believe in, and so without faith all is lost. yet faith is so difficult to sustain, and i feel Him pulling away from me. for while all have fallen short of His glory, i've fallen far short. and i've yet to repent. in my comfortable existence sloth has bound me in chains.
law next. and how i wish this were true for the way i lead my life. justin told me he'll probably read more of the constitution this sem than the bible. and i will probably do so too. the most important book i'll read in my life, yet after holding on to it for so long, i've never finished reading it. much less delve into its meanings.
and the debates. i've always liked to hear a good debate. debates are like warfare, without the actual blood and gore. yet a good verbal sparring could result in bruised egos and is just as exciting. i went to the law-medicine debates yesterday and it was quite entertaining. the law debaters were undoubtedly more eloquent, but the medicine team was good as well. at least better than i could ever be. their 3rd speaker in particular could hold her own against any competitor i know from law. anyway, the motion was 'it is bad for society if lawyers earn more than doctors'. law was (of course) the opposition. but somehow medicine changed the motion into something more like 'it is bad for society if lawyers earn a lot'. that, for me, meant that the proposition has failed to discharge their burden.. haha.. so even though i didn't stay for the results to be announced i felt that law had clearly won it. but yes, i admit that i'm not really impartial.
okies. gotta go back to my books (again). lots of work to be done.
God first. for seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all that i need would be added on to me. (Matt 6:33) unfortunately my spiritual life has been stuck at gear 1 for quite some time now. faith is an issue. for faith undergirds all that i believe in, and so without faith all is lost. yet faith is so difficult to sustain, and i feel Him pulling away from me. for while all have fallen short of His glory, i've fallen far short. and i've yet to repent. in my comfortable existence sloth has bound me in chains.
law next. and how i wish this were true for the way i lead my life. justin told me he'll probably read more of the constitution this sem than the bible. and i will probably do so too. the most important book i'll read in my life, yet after holding on to it for so long, i've never finished reading it. much less delve into its meanings.
and the debates. i've always liked to hear a good debate. debates are like warfare, without the actual blood and gore. yet a good verbal sparring could result in bruised egos and is just as exciting. i went to the law-medicine debates yesterday and it was quite entertaining. the law debaters were undoubtedly more eloquent, but the medicine team was good as well. at least better than i could ever be. their 3rd speaker in particular could hold her own against any competitor i know from law. anyway, the motion was 'it is bad for society if lawyers earn more than doctors'. law was (of course) the opposition. but somehow medicine changed the motion into something more like 'it is bad for society if lawyers earn a lot'. that, for me, meant that the proposition has failed to discharge their burden.. haha.. so even though i didn't stay for the results to be announced i felt that law had clearly won it. but yes, i admit that i'm not really impartial.
okies. gotta go back to my books (again). lots of work to be done.