Meaningless

True wisdom is when you realise that everything on earth is meaningless... well, not everything.. but everything that you can see and touch... all meaningless... It is the things that you cannot see and touch that matters the most... Love, God...

Wrote a long blog entry on what I think taekwondo is... on how taekwondo should be like.. then I realised that that blog entry is totally outdated... yes... it is thousands of years outdated... I wrote that entry as if the world has not fallen.. as if man can truly attain perfect wisdom and perfect 'do'... This is impossible in a fallen world... And yet... in the presence of so much imperfection, God still allow shadows of greatness to exist... But they are only shadows... As hard as we try.. none of us will be perfectly humble.. none of us will have perfect fighting spirit... None of us will be perfectly moral. In the face of adversity.. most of us will fall...

So I am not here to tell you what to do... I guess we all already know what we have to be... We have to be hardworking, humble, kind-hearted, determined, disciplined, pure-hearted and God fearing... But how many of us can be all of the above 100% of the time... None... We all fail..

So perhaps these expections and laws and rules were all set as bench marks... as ideal states... but no one was meant to completely attain them... Instead, we are humbled by these bench marks and forced to turn to the only perfect man (Jesus) to get our justification and righteousness..

Pride comes when we feel that we have attained the ideal states... this occurs either when we have attained some amount of success in life (we are talented, rich, capable and married to the perfect husband/wife)... or when we determine that we have contributed so much to our society (or company)... that we deserve some kind of recognition and respect...

Pride is such a dangerous thing... It creeps up to you unsuspectingly... and you might even like its presence.. you do not know it.. but once you begin to think thoughts like "Why is this girl so unkempt and rude, I will never be like that... I hate such people."... You are guilty of pride... Simple as that... Self righteousness is the most common form of pride...

With that said, I am the first one to raise my hand when it comes to sins of pride... Sometimes, I am so proud I am disgusted by myself... Either way, I don't feel condemned by this pride any more than I feel condemned by the fact that I am human... Pride and all other sins come with the fact that we are human... I try my best to keep myself in check.. but like Apostle Paul... I keep finding myself doing things that I do not want to do... and not doing things that I should do... But all praise to God.. for God works in amazing ways... His strength is perfected in our weakness..

Read an interesting quote off this book in my Mum's bedroom... About Crack pots... Imagine a pot that is thrown on the floor... it is cracked.. Now imagine if you put a light into the pot and cover the pot with a lid... You notice that the light is only able to shine out of that crack... Yes... as you have predicted... the moral of the story is... God's light can only be seen through the cracks of our lifes... that his strength is need perfected through our weakness.. As such, weakness itself is no longer and embarassing thing... failures and mishaps are not embarassing events.. Instead, they are necessary events to break us and mould as into perfect vessels of God's grace and light...