*a proverb*
3:3-4 (Amp)
Let not mercy and kindness [shutting out all hatred and selfishness] and truth [shutting out all deliberate hypocrisy or falsehood] forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them upon the tablet of your heart.
So shall you find favor, good understanding, and high esteem in the sight [or judgment] of God and man.
this is one of my favourite verses. after 31 odd years of life, these things i find are most important to me: mercy, kindness, and truth. it's hard to keep these things written on the tablet of my heart in a city like hong kong. this is a city that is gripped by the claws of greed and self-centredness, and it makes the line between conviction and corruption a little hazy sometimes. but this is what i'm reminded of all the time. in what we do at one_eighty, we are always dealing with people. and people is really the guage of the condition of our hearts, isn't it? people is what God cares about. we can draw out the best or the worst in each other, but either way, i'm convinced that at the end of it all, God will ask us how we dealt with people, not things.
a great article currently on the relevant website sums it up nicely. what is life all about and what are we all on a search for? what is our holy grail? what matters most? it comes down to a life of choices. what we choose to do/be today will affect where we end up tomorrow.
nothing is ever just for the moment. a sobering thought, isn't it?
3:3-4 (Amp)
Let not mercy and kindness [shutting out all hatred and selfishness] and truth [shutting out all deliberate hypocrisy or falsehood] forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them upon the tablet of your heart.
So shall you find favor, good understanding, and high esteem in the sight [or judgment] of God and man.
this is one of my favourite verses. after 31 odd years of life, these things i find are most important to me: mercy, kindness, and truth. it's hard to keep these things written on the tablet of my heart in a city like hong kong. this is a city that is gripped by the claws of greed and self-centredness, and it makes the line between conviction and corruption a little hazy sometimes. but this is what i'm reminded of all the time. in what we do at one_eighty, we are always dealing with people. and people is really the guage of the condition of our hearts, isn't it? people is what God cares about. we can draw out the best or the worst in each other, but either way, i'm convinced that at the end of it all, God will ask us how we dealt with people, not things.
Life moves too quickly, and none of us want to spend our lives looking back and wondering how we really got where we are today...
a great article currently on the relevant website sums it up nicely. what is life all about and what are we all on a search for? what is our holy grail? what matters most? it comes down to a life of choices. what we choose to do/be today will affect where we end up tomorrow.
nothing is ever just for the moment. a sobering thought, isn't it?
posted by jana* at 5:22 PM
