Light The World

anyone of you know that you are special??you are unique, no one else like you in the whole world…even for twins, thay may look similar outside, but they can’t be totally the same, especially inside of them…yes, God is awesome, He created everyone of us, every people in this world, since the beginning of the earth until now, different…and God has a special reasons for that, just like a product designer who has a lot of reasons why he creates a product as it is…

just like Nokia, for example, in one time of product launching, they may launch several types at once, some maybe have similar looks, but all different, each of them has a special purpose to be made like that…maybe for some people the low-end one is good enough (i remember one of my friend who still loved his old Nokia 8250 even there were a lot of much better ones), but for other people, the high-end is better…but in the other hand, some people may think bad of the others…so it’s just a different perspective on what is good and what is not…but i’m sure in a creator’s perspective, what he created is good…

the same goes with us human…God created us good, perfect…some people may have big bodies, but some are small…some have round face, some with long face…some have white skin, some have darker skin…so many differences, but all of us are good in God’s perspective…

but there comes the devil that tries to make some standards of good and bad for us…he makes us have a thinking to be in those standards, if we don’t have the “good” standards, then we are bad…then we started to think bad of ourselves, we have no more confidence in ourselves, and we tried so hard to become someone “better” even it may hurt ourselves…

i have a friend here, a girl, who is quite good looking i think, and i think a lot of people likes her…but she always says that she’s fat and ugly, because of her past when people around her built those thinkings to her…she always tries to have a diet although her body is ideal enough, and she thinks that no good man will like her because she says she’s ugly…sometimes we are just trapped into similar kind of thinking like this…

don’t let our selves being deceived by the devil all the time, and the only way to get out from it is just see ourselves from God’s perspective…don’t listen to what people says about us, especially when it’s a bad thing, but listen only to what God says…and stop also making standards to people, saying bad things about them…believe me, every one of us, including YOU, are precious in His eyes…

Last week there was some hot issue about Indonesian government (Communication and Informatics Department) blocking websites because they have a video which is said to offense the Moslems. The video was created by a Dutch and raised acts of protest in many places in Indonesia, asking the creator to be punished (killed), burning Nederland’s flag, and demonstration to the Nederland’s embassy. Then the government decided to make regulations about internet publications.

Their first act was blocking websites that contain the video. They are youtube, multiply, myspace, metacafe, and rapidshare. Now it’s the netters’ turn to raise protests. It’s really not wise to stop the publication of the video by blocking those sites. Well, as for myself, I can still access those websites with some web proxy, but I disagree with the act. It’s like killing a rat in a house by burning down the house. Those websites isn’t guilty. We can get many useful, educating contents there (although indeed I admit also a lot unnecessary or even bad contents).

What I want to say here is about respecting the authorities. I concern about the reactions the netters gave. They were starting to mock, insult, curse on the government. Although I also don’t like the way the government act, I only remembered that God wants me to respect my authorities. In Romans 13:1-2 says “LET EVERY person be loyally subject to the governing (civil) authorities. For there is no authority except from God [by His permission, His sanction], and those that exist do so by God’s appointment.(1) Therefore he who resists and sets himself up against the authorities resists what God has appointed and arranged [in divine order]. And those who resist will bring down judgment upon themselves [receiving the penalty due them].” (Amplified Bible). A person I know ever said this “when you don’t agree with authorities above you, you can be critical, but in the end you still have to obey them”. These control me from doing the same as the netters. I raised the objection through some petition I got, but I control my emotion. I still have to respect them. Even if they are wrong, I believe only God can change them because still they are from God.