National Dean's List 2008

Aww man, Kevin? National Dean's List 2008?? Haha! I know what you're thinking, a dude like me struggling with college especially Calculus! Hey it'll come true! God willing! If I work hard towards it, with faith and strength divinely given, hey! Why not? Perhaps a Nobel Price Laureate? Hey, I have big dreams man! Dream big, pray hard, work hard; there's a BIG GOD UP THERE! He'll never stop untill He has finished His divine plan for your life! Yes, and He is well working in me! Amen to that!

Life isn't about doing well in exams, getting good grades and getting into an Ivy League. Here's a question. What lies beyond that? Upon graduation, your focus will be on your career. Then, you will experience a paradigm shift to impressing your boss, getting a life partner, buy a big house, big car, CEO at 27 and retire at 30. What's next? Another, shift.. Another life transforming process. Now, your wealth will be invested into your health. And your aim could be living a healthy life, leaving a legacy and making sure your kids will not follow your mistakes and to live a good and prosperous life (hopefully they'll be better then you, in all aspects, not to make mistakes; as some would say having a high probability percentage due to traits inherited in their genes, courtesy of you) What happens next? You breath your last, the final puff of oxygen. From the very first you breath as a baby crying (a newborn baby's cry is seen as a good sign medically; that you are functioning properly). You closed your eyes. And the very moment you open it again... Where would it be? Reincarnation? Hell? Heaven? Ressurected? Having your physical entity being dimished? As a Christian myself, I believe that you'll be in God's arms. He'll give you a hug- like a brother, like someone you've known for so long, like a parent who'd waited patiently; expecting the return of a child :- "Well done my good and faithful servant" this will be the very words He'll speak to you. Oh yeah some folks might ask what language is He speaking to you? An African, a Japanese, a Portuguese and believers from all nations will be using a heavenly language only understood by those who speak it. Don't ask me. I've haven't been there, and I don't know what it sounds like.
And we'll be with Him forever and ever.. Sounds like a fairy tale right? Not! It's better than that! It might sound rather gay. ( for guys, you've probably heard of phrases like "Jesus loves you", "I love Jesus" or " Jesus is my Lover") You might think that Jesus is gay, or He is rather someone who loves everyone with no particular reason. You might even argue that He is loves everyone so that He could win people's hearts (kinda like lip service?). As a matter of fact, LOVE of Jesus is not a gay love or "one night stand love", it is a love that is absolutely perfect for us. He loves(perhaps it could be replace with; He's crazy over you!) us unconditionally. Not of the way you look like, who you are, your grades, your name. No! He accepts you just the way you are. Just the way you are.. He knows your heart's deep desires, your thoughts even right now when you read this. He is delighted over you. He even knew you even before you are born, he knows your name knowing what your parents will name you. He knows eveything. EVERYTHING.. Hey, not to scare you. Don't treat God like some Intelligence Agency, He just knows everything for He is God. Oh yeah, you might aslo heard of the "Holy Spirit/ Holy Ghost". Trinity? What nonsence is that? You might ask.. Well, you know chemistry, one matter could exist in three form? Solid, Liquid and Gas (yeah I know plasma, the forth state of matter, lets just leave this out for a moment). Same goes for the Trinity (which consists of God the Father aka Big Daddy aka Jehovah aka he has many names, Jesus and the Holy Spirit) all members of the Trinity coexist simoultaneously. Trinity =three in one. Get it dude?

Well, I hope you understand what I've been typing so far.. You've probably watched movies having actors and actresses so happen to curse using God's name.... Exorcism, or maybe the famed Da Vinci Code. You have plenty of questions. Wherever you're from, you could be God loves you just the way you are. Need more questions? Approach that Christian friend of yours. Ask him/her what's this Jesus thing all about. The answer is more than your question. Perhaps even deeper the meaning. Don't believe me? Give Jesus a try..