Dear God,
                The coolest passage in the Bible (at least for now)?
Romans 8: 1-13

Wait. Wait, does this say what I think it says?

So when I read this, I was all like-

Does this say that as long as your mind is strong, your body's sins are forgiven?

"By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh," Oh. My. God-ness (I will never take the name of the Lord my God in vain. Ever). It does say that.

But, "Those who are in the flesh cannot please God," so even if our sins through our flesh are forgiven, we do not please God. The whole situation is nuetralized: we neither please God nor displease him (as long as our mind is strong).

But as I read on, I saw that the Spirit of God not only make ones mind strong, but also ones flesh.

So in the end, it is the Holy Spirit that will make all things good for us; They (as in the holy spirit/ Jesus/ God: I refuse to believe on the Holy Spirit as male, They aren't even a person!) will make us strong so that the weak, forgiven flesh will become as strong as our Holy-Spirit reinforced (for lack of a better word) minds.

This passage shows the freedom of christianity, it shows that You love us and understand that we cannot help but sin! It shows that You care for us, and You are giving us the choice, the freedom, to do what we want, but You are suggesting that we take Your help (which of course, we will take eventually!) without forcing us to take it.

            Christianity is a religion of freedom and choices :)     

Cheers.

Dear God,
                It's Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week- home stretch. I broke my lent yesterday to watch a movie that wasn't even worth it. Technically, since Jesus only fasted for 40 days while our lent season is 46 days long, I've got a 6 day buffer, but I feel like a terrible person (probably because I broke my lent for something so stupid, with the lamest excuse ever).  I should redo yesterday; I wish we could do that.
           Have I ever completed my lent? No, I have not.
But maybe that's the point; maybe we only have to try our very best to do what Jesus did. Maybe the whole point is to fail and realize the sacrifices Jesus made for us. Maybe.
           Through lent do we realize our human weaknesses, or do we overcome them? This lent all I learnt was that I am an extremely shallow person who is incapable of being happy without watching happy endings in movies (I've been watching final scene clips on YouTube all through lent, because technically they aren't movies). I've learnt that I rely on human things to make me happy, but the thing is, I am human. Jesus gave up earthly things for 40 days, but I can't. Why? Jesus was human then too.
           I think that the point of lent was to make us stronger humans. It was supposed to make us understand that there is so much more to life than just earthly pleasures. It was supposed to make us less dependent on our human tendencies, and make us more like God, like Jesus.
          So this holy week, I'm going to try to lose my human tendency to sin. I'm going try, and I'll keep trying till I do it. I see now that the point of lent is to try your best to be more like God. When you fail, it only teaches you how strong Jesus was, and when you succeed, it shows you that human pleasures aren't nearly as good as God's idea of pleasure.

        I'm sad I broke my lent because my decision had been conscious. I thought about it, but I still did it. But I'm happy because I know that, as Jesus did it when he was human, it is possible to do it.

Cheers.

Dear God,

                Do you think that the world is bad today? We all do seemingly bad things but don't even feel it. Some things that seem so right in our eyes are wrong according to the Bible. It seems like a silly question to ask, but who's right- the Bible or the people? I often think of the Bible as an incredibly sexist book; times have changed haven't they? Shouldn't that make things different?
                For example, dating is a thing today that was absolutely forbidden in the biblical times (when you married someone you didn't know and had kids with them; case closed). Today marriages come out of love and long-term relationships, and they're full of love. But these long-term relationships are preceded by a number of short ones which don't work out but are a part of life; they give us memories and make us who we are. Casual dating, I admit, is wrong (unless one's looking for love, one should not go around and just have sex). But sometimes short-term relationships were serious and just didn't work out. These short-term relationships are also considered adultery, I know. But how, other than by dating, can we find the one who's supposed to be our soulmate?
                  In the biblical times, marriage was more like the thing to do; a rite of passage. Today, it's more of a luxury; a lucky chance. Today, people marry because they love each other and want to spend the rest of their lives with each other, not because it is what you do at the age of 35 (or 17 as in the case of the biblical times). Today, it feels so wrong to marry someone without at all dating them first. How can you spend the rest of your life with a stranger?
                Is our gut feeling against instant marriage wrong, or is it time for you to tell us how to live again? I would prefer if we had some sort of clarification. Times have changed.

Cheers.