Concerned

Reading about some of the latest happenings around the world has left me rather concerned, almost depressed in fact. First from the Dark Knight killings in Colorado, to the shooting in New York due to a dispute at work, to the British assassinations in the French Alps, to the murder of a US ambassador and several others in Libya, and finally to the killing of two innocent British policewomen in Manchester - it is almost unthinkable as to how depraved our world is. It makes me so sad to think of the two promising women, young women at that, who had so much potential and so much ahead of their lives, only to have their lives taken by a madman who gave himself in shortly after the killings.

Yet, it really brings into mind Romans 3:23, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God". These incidences are greatly illuminating in terms of showing how chaotic and sinful the world really is. They definitely bring out the imperfections and sinfulness of man and these really remind me all the more to rely on God's supreme sovereignty and less on my own foolish thinking.

More of God; less of self.

Those things that a man can not amend in himself or in others, he ought to suffer patiently, until God orders things otherwise. Thomas À Kempis' The Imitation of Christ is a wonderful book; a book of great importance - perhaps second in the Christian's arsenal after the bible. Even a mere chapter a day is great gain. i should start reading more.