I started writing last year in October. When I began, it was because I had a passion to write, and also that I liked the idea of having a blog; thanks to constantly following eunicesmiles.wordpress.com. :)
Other people may have different reasons to blog: fame, an extra source of income, fashion, boredom... The list is probably inexhaustible. The important thing is not why we started but what keeps us writing.
The same concept can be applied to almost every part of living. Take Medical School for instance. There are different reasons for studying Medicine: you want job security; stable high income; your friends want to be doctors; it's your passion to save lives; you've seen the movies: Grey's Anatomy and House; science is cool and medicine is just another science; your parents are health workers and medicine is all you've ever known; your parents made you do it... Yet another inexhaustible list.
Other people may have different reasons to blog: fame, an extra source of income, fashion, boredom... The list is probably inexhaustible. The important thing is not why we started but what keeps us writing.
The same concept can be applied to almost every part of living. Take Medical School for instance. There are different reasons for studying Medicine: you want job security; stable high income; your friends want to be doctors; it's your passion to save lives; you've seen the movies: Grey's Anatomy and House; science is cool and medicine is just another science; your parents are health workers and medicine is all you've ever known; your parents made you do it... Yet another inexhaustible list.
It doesn't matter what brought you to school. What you should focus on is what you're doing here right now and what you want to get out of it. Most of the time, your priorities will not align with everyone else's, but knowing what you want will keep you stable. The more you follow a particular "trend" or "norm" of decision-making, the more you lose yourself.
God created you to be unique. Don't get lost in the crowd.
Most importantly, your Christianity depends on nobody. Whatever made you a Christian doesn't determine if you stay faithful or fall away. If you're a new convert, were born a Christian, are dating a Christian, or even got your Christianity from watching a YouTube video, what you do NOW matters most.
Are you going to slow down your Christian practices because "Christians are hypocrites"? Do you feel that portraying a high level of spirituality will make you appear hypocritical? Do you think you cannot just keep up with what Jesus asks of you so why bother trying? Are you more interested in just laying low, minding your own business, and "keeping things simple"?
I don't know about that, but I'm sure of two things:
1) Right now, you have all it takes to be absolutely perfect - regardless of your origin; and
2) Giving that up, for whatever reason, is denying yourself of the future you rightly deserve.
God created you to be unique. Don't get lost in the crowd.
Most importantly, your Christianity depends on nobody. Whatever made you a Christian doesn't determine if you stay faithful or fall away. If you're a new convert, were born a Christian, are dating a Christian, or even got your Christianity from watching a YouTube video, what you do NOW matters most.
Are you going to slow down your Christian practices because "Christians are hypocrites"? Do you feel that portraying a high level of spirituality will make you appear hypocritical? Do you think you cannot just keep up with what Jesus asks of you so why bother trying? Are you more interested in just laying low, minding your own business, and "keeping things simple"?
I don't know about that, but I'm sure of two things:
1) Right now, you have all it takes to be absolutely perfect - regardless of your origin; and
2) Giving that up, for whatever reason, is denying yourself of the future you rightly deserve.
I do not claim that I have already succeeded or have already become perfect. I keep striving to win the prize for which Christ Jesus has already won me to himself. Of course, my brothers and sisters, I really do not think that I have already won it; the one thing I do, however, is to forget what is behind me and do my best to reach what is ahead. So I run straight towards the goal in order to win the prize, which is God's call through Christ Jesus to the life above.
- Philippians 3:12-14
You must be perfect - just as your Father in heaven is perfect!
- Matthew 5:48
I consider that what we suffer at this present time cannot be compared at all with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.
- Romans 8:18
And this small and temporary trouble we suffer will bring us a tremendous and eternal glory, much greater than the trouble.
- 2 Corinthians 4:17