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Apr 12
2010
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"Happy Birthday" is code name for "Wow. You're getting old!"Posted by Jae in Untagged |
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Just read a bible passage and thought of people who have birthdays coming up, or have birthdays that just passed.
2 Corinthians says:
16Therefore we do not lose heart.
Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
17For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.
For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
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You just turned 25, or you just turned 30 or 35.
This has been the oldest you have ever been.
Go to the bathroom now.
Basically, even if you look at yourself in the mirror and see that "outwardly you are wasting away,"
we don't need to "fix our eyes on what is seen."
Don't worry about the wrinkles on the side of your eyes, or your asian eyes that are getting SMALLER every year.
Don't pay attention to your sense of fashion that seems to be deteriorating, where now you are mature enough not to spend too much of your budget on the new trend to keep up with your friends.
(well, also because you don't have many friends left. they are all married, dead, or both.)
You see that expanding set of love handles? Look at those handles in love and know they are only "light and momentary troubles."
Soon "an eternal glory will far outweigh them all."
I'm not exactly sure what this eternal glory will look like but it will OUTWEIGH your fat, "your fat ugly body."
(I'm only mimicking your evil voice, the one that talks to you in the morning sometimes to discourage you)
So, don't lose heart.
(not only because that too is going to deteriorate)
Don't lose heart because "what is seen is temporary,
but what is unseen is eternal."
Amen.
