Logging goes online

This is my new blog.

It is an attempt at properly logging my life's events and reflections.


Let's begin.

Today is Tuesday 25/08/09.
School today was 2 lecture back to back, before which I was home doing readings.
Ended, took a walk with Si Yi to talk, rode the City Cat to West End to have David get me home.
Moderately uneventful.



After prayer with Zhangs, something to reflect on:


Prayer
It doesn't change God. God's will is sovereign, why would some utterances from even the most contrite and sincere heart tilt His plan? --God will not change his plan.
So, why pray at all?
Because in prayer, we open our hearts and minds to God. We come into His presence, and we seek answers. Prayer allows God to guide us, to point us in the direction He chose for us. It allows God to plant seeds in our hearts. It allows God to speak to us, to comfort us, to command us.
Phi4:6 "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."


Pride - The utmost evil; the essential vice.

1 pride, superbia
				unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)

My latest self-diagnosis. 

"There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. I have heard people admit that they are bad-tempered, or that they cannot keep their heads about girls or drink, even that they are cowards. I do not think I have ever heard anyone who was not a Christian accuse himself of this vice. And at the same time I have very seldom met anyone, who was not a Christian, who showed the slightest mercy to it in others. There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves. And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in others."

-C.S.Lewis

Pride or Self-Conceit is the opposite of humility. 

It was through Pride that the devil became the devil.

We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking; they are in fact proud of being richer, cleverer, or better-looking than others.

Pride is essentially competitive in a way that other vices are not. The sexual impulse may drive two men into competition if they both want the same girl. But that is only be accident; they must just as likely have wanted two different girls. But a proud man will take your girl from you, not because he wants her, but just to prove to himself that he is a better man than you.

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God to be that - therefore knowing yourself comparatively to be nothing - you do not know God at all.

... To develop humility, one must first realise that one is proud. No step precedes this. If you think you are not conceited, you are very conceited indeed.

 

         This is the Genius Workshop

 

The Australian Constitution, based on the US Constitution of 1789, with portions of the Swiss Constitution copied as well. Includes provisions for human rights, to do away with a written Bill of Rights. The reason I currently have no life:

On a side note, I have recently realized the importance of Joy. That shall be a post for another time.