Ever heard of the need for vegetables? As a child, my parents would unceasingly ask me to eat my vegetables so that I become a tall healthy individual. I would resent the nagging+the vege and hope at any and every opportunity to not have those plates of greens. Now as I grow up, I realise the importance of eating vegetables and thus would out of fear ensure my meal has some form of vegetable on it. Now that that's accomplished, the usual things my parents would say now are, study hard and stand up straight. Apparently though I know the importance of them both, one so that i can earn big bucks, the other so that i can still remain tall without the fact that I would look like the hunchback of Notredame. Just like a little kid, i would drag my feet and do those stuff. Maybe when I grow up, just maybe, I'll see the light
I guess God's just like our earthly parents. Or vice versa. He would tell us what's wrong wants us not to do it. He tells us what's right and wants us to do it. Like prayer and reading the word, we would never understand why we need to clock that hour or that few chapters but I guess as we grow to understand, we realise its importance. Now that we grow older, God expects more from us. No more vegetable talk. He wants us to be useful for His kingdom. So we face trials and people and much more. And God expects us to be fruitful. To multiply what He has given to us. I guess many just like me would drag our feet to do what He calls us to. But now He expects a willing heart. And the list just goes on.
Life is progressive. I guess that temptations that I face is so that I realise that without God, I cannot overcome it. And so as I wrestle with my mind, I pray God will do something lest I fall into temptation.
On a side note, I'm really irritated with the fact that I have to press shift every time I press the letter I so that my I would be capitalised. Why can't they have it on auto mode so that I don't need to constantly remind myself to press the I. It's utterly torturous!
Erratic sleep timings are bad. No more 2 am, 3 am nights for me. I need to sleep by 12 so that i can be energetic the next day + have beautiful skin. I think praying also adds on to the " we'll grow more and more into His likeness and image!" haha
//looking at the border picture