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Monday, April 07, 2003

aiya-yah. the battle of essays wages on. i'm attempting to write a single line 12 font times new roman, 6 page essay on the correlation between language disorders (aphasia and schizophrenia) and the origin of language. yeah that is perhaps one of the few fascinating things that i'm doing at the moment. At the same time, i'm driving myself crazy with an overload of tv watching, crappy lunches and coffee.

well going to church has been more interesting for me lately because of the SARS epidemic. My pastor thinks we should have more faith in God and not disgrace ourselves and dishonor Him by avoiding church. If we say we serve and believe in a God that is ominpotent and we call him Jehovah Jireh (God our healer) then we should not be anxious that we will catch SARS when we attend church. I agree with that totally. However, a very convincing argument can be made is that we have to be socially responsible and think about other people who might catch SARS as you board the bus to go to church...Well no matter how convincing that may be, for me sunday is still the Lord's day and to go to church is a gesture of honoring Him. If I cannot trust my God to protect me, who else is gonna protect me? And if i ever get the virus going to church, even then i pray i will never point a finger at my God. it's not about accepting my fate passively as my ancestors did because i know if i die, whoopee, heaven's just round the corner. But returning back to the argument about being socially responsible, you might ask me "How about your own family members? Don't you care about them and spreading IT to them?" I could say to just have faith which is the simplest thing but for those who are wondering how faith can work in such a situation when rationally you're not doing the right thing, perhaps the prayer of Jabez would be of comfort to you as it was to me.

Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him in pain." And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, "Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!" So God granted him what he requested. 1Chron4:9-10

Amen. No evil, no pain God.

posted by happyhannon at 7:30 PM