Why suicide is not an option...

Taking away ones life will never be acceptable to God. He gave it to us, it is only Him that can take it away. (Deu 32:39 See now that I, even I am he, and there is no god with me: I make and I make alive. I wound and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.) 

 All humans undergo different struggles in life, may a person be rich, average or poor. And no matter what burden the world may bring in front of our doorsteps, suicide is not the answer to end the problem. And who among us got no problem, anyway? If we have troubles in our hearts that a friend, a relative or whomsoever cannot help us come up with a suffice solution- the most powerful thing to do is kneel down and tell Him all our troubles. If we have done something bad, and that bad thing lead us to such agony, repent and correct what we have done wrong. Taking away our own lives is an add on in the list of our sins. God is so merciful and He forgives those who are sincerely remorsing. (Psalms 103:8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.)

If God is with us, suicide will never be a choice. A man with God is always at peace. People commit suicide if there is no more in their hearts. But how can a man be hopeless if He walks with God? He will never anyone who entrusts everything to Him. Life here on earth is really full of heartaches and struggles. So, the best thing we can do is make the most out of it. Our main objective should be focused on not how we can give good lives to our children but on how we can guide them to Him. Not on acquiring properties or any forms of material things for extravagance, but on how to use these things to help other people know God. When Christ, was here on earth, He also suffered from hardships, He should be our example when hardships, temptations and problems come our way. (John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you,  that in Me ye might have peace. In the the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.) 

 God has promised an eternal life for those that will surpass all the trials here on earth. He permits troubles and problems come our way  in this life to strengthen our faith and endurance. Once we endure, He has reserved something for us: Happiness in that which is to come. (I Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nether have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.) Let us all bear in our minds that we are all passing by in this place called earth. There is an eternal life after our lives here end. And once it starts, it will never end. Meaning, investments here on earth are temporal. Its up for us to choose whether we want unending agony, or unending happiness. Feel free to take your pick. The choice will always be ours!

related links: 

http://esoriano.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/stop-suicide-is-never-a-solution-period/

http://esoriano.wordpress.com/category/atheist/

http://esoriano.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/perfect-justice-in-gods-perfect-time/

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Husbands and wives: Keep the LOVE burning

I just had a fun day with a friend today. We had a nice dinner in a nearby mall, and had some updates on our latest activities. As we progress on our tete-a-tete, we were able to tackle on a sensitive issue about this married "suitor" (that in the first, place she does'nt like) that is following her lately. Ironically, we were making funny adlibs while talking seriously about the issue hehehe. Well, thats the way of the friends when sharing stories. Anyway, One good thing is, she knows how to handle the situation.And I am so proud of her.

People often has the tendency of forgetting their vows when they got married. This conforms to both man and woman. Though in human norms, male deviants are a bit acceptable than female rule breakers. In  God's eyes, it is just the same. They vowed before God to forever love each other for whatever it may take and all are not allowed to break the promise.

It is so nice to hear that couples (legal couples, I mean) can together appreciate beautiful love songs like this one:

So, how can we a man and a wife keep their love as strong as ever? So, as advised by relationship counsellors here are those.

1. They say that firstly, you have to make your marriage your priority. Correction on this part: Always GOD first. We cannot do anything without HIS help.

Make a decision with your spouse to sit down and review this list of practical ideas for making your marriage great. Add anything that you think will work for you both that I have omitted.

2. Keep in touch.

Check in on each other during the day. Even it you happen to work in the same building, it is always nice to get a text or email saying 'You are still as beautiful as ever,' or 'You still give me butterflies.' Sometimes it is nice to know that your wife or husband is thinking about you. 

3. Do the unexpected.

Surprise your spouse with flowers, a gift, or a night out on the town with no alternative agenda and expecting nothing in return. Planning something special is an excellent way to infuse romance into your relationship. Sometimes even the smallest surprises can feel like the biggest.

4. Talk about your personal goals.

Sit down together and talk about what you want out of life, what you want to achieve as a couple and personally. Write these down. Review them and modify them every few months. This makes you aware of what your spouse wants and their goals.

5. Develop and nurture friendships.

Have friendships outside of each other. Do not become an exclusive couple that never do anything with anyone else! We all need friendships to develop and grow us.

6. Do not criticise.

Do not put down or criticise your spouse in front of other people. Instead, decide that you will both commit to build up and support each other when talking to other people.

7. Keep yourself in good physical shape. 

This may not seem important to you, but I am sure it is important to your spouse! Keeping yourself healthy not only will decrease the risks of diabetes and heart problems, but also help to keep the attraction alive between both of you. You do not have to spend alot on a gym membership, you can go walking or jogging together each evening.

8. Plan weekend getaways.

At least once a year plan to go away for a weekend. Team up with another married couple and they can babysit your children while you are away and then you can return the favor. It does not have to be an expensive weekend but it is vital that you get this time alone to spend with each other.

9. Do not let the sun go down on your anger.

NEVER go to bed harboring offence or hurt with your spouse that you have not already discussed. If you were disappointed, hurt or upset with their behaviour, discuss it. Do not enter into an argument but talk openly about what it was that bothered you and why.

10. Be quick to forgive and quick to say sorry. 

Bitterness and offence is like cancer. If left alone it gradually keeps growing and growing until it takes over. Do not let bitterness or offence at your spouse take over the love you once had. Talk things through. If you need to seek outside help like counselling, do so.

 

11. Compliment your spouse.

Take time to notice everyday things that your spouse does like preparing a meal, cleaning the house, doing the shopping. This shows your spouse that you appreciate them and the things that they do and you do not take for granted the effort they put into it.

12. Be there.

Sometimes all your spouse needs is someone to be there, not to shout, order or demand, but to love and support. If they are having a difficult day, respect that and give them space if needed.

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Breaking up is not the best results. In break ups, nobody wins but the evil named satan. Hoping that everybody will be helping themselves to save their marriages is a wishful thinking. But somehow, I always pray that some will exert effort to do so.

Just always remember this verse:

Ephesians 5:24-25 (KJV)

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it."

Nice reading, guys. Hope you learned something from this post. Til next blog!

Related links:

The Dilemma of a Faithful Husband Who Is A Misled Child of God 

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Strangers Again...

 I am getting mellow-dramatic. Yes, you heard it right. This "antipatika" is now turning to be emotional. But this is not my story, luckily.

I was compelled to write this blog entry because I really feel something bad inside me. At one point, I want to speak to some loved-ones indirectly. Its really true that at certain points, people get tired of enduring differences. People get sick of dealing with the same old thing. People forgot that they have promised to God to stay together- through thick and thin; for better or for worse; in sickness and in health- until death do them part. They Did'nt know that God commanded them to do love each other until death separate them because God knows that human emotions is so unstable and at any moment, it may collapse, and then the two become strangers again. Well now, I am telling why He ask couples to love each other always, in whatever circumstance it may be under.

I dont want to dig on what had transpired between them. I just hope and pray that in soonest possible time, everything will fall into places again. With God's help. Sometimes, things shatter because God wanted to remind us that we might be forgetting Him. As part of human instinct, people keeps on worrying on how to earn money for the future to sustain the kids, the daily expenses and everything else. But not this earthly things, there is more beyond.

Thinking of the kids even makes me sad. at surface, we can see them happily playing but we dont know what is inside their hearts. It is foolish to say that having parents living separately is common nowadays. Warning: Listening to impertinent counselors will ruin you. Impertinent counsellors always got impertinent ideas. as such, God ask couples to endure, if someone ask couples to go different ways, that someone is being used by demon because opposing God's will is an idea from satan. Do not be deceived.

Always put God in the center. That is the key. That is the most i can say.

I Peter 3:7

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Ephesians 5:24-25 (KJV)

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it."

Related links:

Love is lovelier the second time around with God 

A couple does not have the right to separate ways because no one forced them to live together 

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You are monkey's descendant. Would you agree?

The first time I heard about this flying spaghetti monster from a friend, I thought it was a new cartoon character on boobtube that children are getting crazy with lately. But when my preachers mentioned it again during our latest International Thanksgiving, I got curioused so I checked it out in the web. And I was so horrified on what this monster is all about. As time goes by, many crazy things are popping out, and this the most disgusting i found so far. This  flying spaghetti monster is actually a "religion" formed by atheists. They are so gutsy in insulting the existence of God and they even come up to the picture below using that spaghetti symbol in place of God and they  even called people as midgit. Maybe to make it sound that humans are not so important, I do not really know.

These crazy people are basing their belief in the theory of evolution which says that man originated from monkey. A theory that is, until now, never proven and never will be.

Man originating from monkeys is an idea I totally oppose because bible is stating otherwise. 

Genesis 1:26-27 

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 

If Darwin's Theory is true, then what is the proof that men originated from monkeys? There should be the so called link. But there is no link, only theory. The thechnology is now highly advanced, how come believers  these  Darwin's followers dont use DNA testing to prove that what they believe is true. Can you imagine a monkey's eye transplanted on you? Or kidney maybe? Of course, majority will say NO. But even if you say yes, it can't be as it is not compatible with human system. If atheists cannot prove the Theory of Evolution, then Christians can do otherwise.   

Genesis 2:7,“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” 

Men is from dust and this is being backed up by science's existing proofs- not just a theory. This is not a coinsidence but one of the perfect proofs that Bible is authentic.The human body is composed of chemicals found on the top soil. Oxygen, which is the most abundant element on the earth’s first layer, makes up 65 percent of the human body, and carbon, also abundant on the top soil of the ground, is 18 percent, and hydrogen is 10 percent. The 59 elements found in the human body are all found on the earths crust.  To understand more on the explanation, please read this.

Well, this happening is not not really shocking because bible has pre-warned  His children about these people who are disrespectful  of God. So there is nothing we can do but to just warn others about how dangerous these people are as they will bring humans to damnation.

(2 Timothy 3:1-5)

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Those who will go with them will surely experience the wrath of God in due time. These people who claim that God does not exist are high-minded, illogical fools and they will surely regret thei ill-manner treatment  sthey are showing towards God now. But it is never to late for them. God is merciful to those who repent and ask for His guidance. He wants everybody to be saved. (1 Timothy 2:4) IF they change their ways, God will surely forgive them.

Related Links:

http://esoriano.wordpress.com/2007/05/25/from-dust-to-man-a-scientific-proof/

http://esoriano.wordpress.com/category/science/

http://esoriano.wordpress.com/2007/05/07/a-sweet-evidence-of-the-authenticity-of-the-bible/

http://esoriano.wordpress.com/category/atheist/

Bro Eli, Mashable Awards finalist again!

After bagging the "Most Educational to Follow" award last year, Bro Eli Soriano is again one of the finalists for the Mashables Award 2010 under Best Web Video for his Truthcaster, a site where he does live broadcast on Wednesday nights. On this site, he also archives his previous tapings that discusses truth about the bible.

For those who do not know Bro Eli yet, he really is educational to follow. Why? Because he can talk about politics, astronomy, science, story of mankind,and  health. Mind you, he is a good counsellor, too. Just name anything under the sun and he can discuss intelligently with you. One thing more, he can openly discuss things that others may find a bit embarrassing to talk about. He is a straight-forward person with a very big heart.

In my almost eight years as member of the Church of God, I was able to follow and witness Bro Eli's struggle to keep up his vow to God, and that is to be the steward of truth. This promise has brought him a lot of heartbreaking experiences. One of which was, when those hopeless stewards of lies filed rape case against him having a very unreliable and no-credibity victim as their tool to pull him down. But nevertheless, of course, God's will was done. This opened doors for him and Bro Daniel to go worldwide and spread the Good Words to none-Filipinos. And now, he made it again to the finals for the Mashable Awards. Another feather on Church of God's cap. It only proves that if God's will, nobody can stand on His way (Isa 43:13).

In this year's finals, I bid him goodluck. May he bring home the bacon!