borne identity

came home not long ago from Holland V. Called off plans to stayover at my friend's place.

I wanted to settle down at a place with TV screens, as i had very much wanted to watch some soccer. The places which met this criteria of mine aint hard to find at all. My friend & I strode into this somewhat considerably, relatively decent place. I mean, it does serve beer, but doesn't stall a bar so visible from far, or elevated chairs lining up in linear fashion. Mine is more of a cafe with a speck of influence from the pub located just across the road.

So something caught my friend's eye - 2 bottles of beer for $10. He was backing that simple option and was persuading me to go along with it. i mean, it was like one of the cheaper, value-for-money, item listed in the menu. easy going people will simply settle for it. I refused, 'i havent lost much innocence in these 2 years you know, i'm still as innocent as before' haa.. He went for mushrooms & water while i had a douse of cookie-chocolate-coffee concoction. i strongly felt that ticklish lure to just give in to his suggestion really, that excitement of beer going with soccer, all that merry making, its cuteness and simplicity coz its just 2 of us.
be careful not to assimilate into the world. Be among them, but keep your identity.

to fallen me. zureal:
its important to know what drives the desire to see perfection as the end result.
if the concern arises because its concerning God's kingdom and its glory, then its valid, justified and worthy. if our concerns are driven by personal standards, e.g. seeing that others aren't as 'godly' as you which is so belittling, its idolatrous. Its a thin line that separates the 2, so gotta be discerning. there's nothing wrong in the strive for perfection, just be careful of the motive behind wanting to achieve excellence. After all, we are supposed to work out our faith till its crowned, in due time to come, with perfection isn't it, no doubt its ultimately God that does the work, but that does not rule out human responsibility please, we are held accountable to God for it. So shouldn't we all see excellence as the vision to which we're working towards?

Philippians 3:10-14

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Vin