Simple Living At Odds With the World Part 1
This weekend was the first sunny, almost summer-like weekend here, and we spent it outside most of the time, enjoying God's creation by the lake. And no, we did not go to the lake where everybody else goes for we prefer quietness and solitude over being seen, we prefer watching herons and geese rather than other people in their activities, and we also prefer listening to birds chirping and the bullfrog's call rather than a radio blaring or other people's vain babblings.
One of the topics we discussed this weekend was this:
There seems to be one thing that stands between God and many people nowadays, and that is the fact that they care about what other people think. Most people care more about what their relatives, friends, neighbors,co-workers and even strangers they pass by on the streets think about them than about what God says is important. They dress up, use make up and elaborate hairdos, buy a car that can compete with their neighbor's, and try to blend in with society as best as they can, while at the same time standing out as being special, yet not "strange" or "weird" or "peculiar". Even if they claim to believe in God, they try to be just like the other girls at college, and don't even find it odd that you cannot tell a Christian lady from any other girl there, they all look the same, wear the same clothing, eat the same things, and are all equally carried away by the cares and concerns of the world. It's obvious that people place man above God in this respect, since they care more about what everyone else thinks than what God wants.
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