RE: Death

Yea, i know exactly what your talking about but in a sense its so far stretched that its sort of irrelevant. God placed us here to do his work, if we just simply follow that then death is not an issue. Why would He put us here and have us die w/o having anything done? You overcome the fear of death and love for material things by having faith in God on a more micro basis: daily life. All that you do and believe shapes who you are. In example us, exactly. We DEFINATELY are not afraid of death, or else we wouldn't be hanging out with Joe so much. But is our lack of fear a good thing? In the grander scheme, I don't think so. We do these things for fun and adrenaline rush, but oh well if we die, its over, no pain no misery. Or is there? Is our heart pure enough to enter the gates of heaven? Do we actually trust in God to provide or just neglect our responsibilities. Have we had a good relationship with God. Did we do our daily devotions..... Where is our heart located? From what your talking about, i mean theres nothing wrong with it and i totally agree but it feels like your basing your faith upon that belief. God allowed us to have pleasure and enjoy ourselves, so why not? I think this goes back to how you prioritize things relative to where God is in your heart.

On a further note, my sister came home tonight and we were talkign about college. Of course we talked about the "social life" of college. Yea, both you and I know that were gonna go to parties and stuff but I think parties are on a shady area if you have control of yourselve, but what if you dont? You see that drunk hot chick who wants to screw you silly, how do you act upon that? You're downing 3,4,5 shots and all your friends are egging you on for more, when do you stop? Here is what im struggling with: Is it better to know whats wrong and still do it (in moderation) or not even know whats right? So my sister pointed out a very interesting fact about colleges and fraternities. They see "eligible" candidates and they recruit them, sometimes with very very sly tactics. They want you in their frat. ok, sure, you tell them maybe frat isn't for you. What they do is they get their hot sorority girls to ask you.... WOH different story. What happens? That is the epitome of college dilemmas.

Death

So u kno that Resolved conference thing that alvina went to, well she told me to listen to the sermons... all 12 of them... online... today while i was packing i listened to the first one. it was about death. it was pretty good. the main point that i got out of it, is that until we face our death and are not afraid of it, we cannot live the way God wants us to. So pretty much, You cannot truly live, until you have died. funny thing, is that ive been talkin about stuff like this with my school friends recently. in Fight club, the author also says the same thing. Tyler durdin puts the main character in a life-death situation and tells him to let go and let the car crash. Accept the fact that everyone is going to die. "on along enough time-scale, everyone's survival rate drops to zero" only after you die, can u live.
This makes sense, because only after we face death, stare it in the face, do the unimportant things in life really become unimportant. material comforts, luxuries, deserts, fancy crap become unimportant. The truly important things will be God's kingdom. when facing death, people dont think "oh sht, i should bought that purse". instead they think "heaven or hell. i want mommy." In the end, God is what truly matters. so ya, i kno we pride ourselves with having breeched death on multiple occasions with Joe and stuff, but take a second to think about how to apply the philosophy of this to our lives. To die rite now, so that we can live for God.

-Ivan