Contentment and Total Depravity...

What does it take to satisfy someone or maybe yourself??? Is it being the top student??? Is it being the top dog in your job??? Is it having a whole bunch of titles added before your name??? Is it having a wife with a few kids and a happy family??? Is it having all the money in the world and relax in your bungalow??? Is it knowing that you have eternal life in heaven??? Or is it knowing that Jesus died for your sins???

The truth is neither of these can satisfy one's self... Well, you might deny it, but as a fellow sinner, I can tell you there shall never be a limit in what we want!!! Maybe it's due to our imagination that triggered all these cravings... Still want to deny??? Take Adam for example, pre-Fall, he was the perfect man, he even lived under God's rule and had everything, the whole world in fact... But, as you know, he ate the fruit... He was trying to seek knowledge outside of God because the snake told him that he will have the knowledge of good and evil if he eats it...

Post-Fall, I feel that we don't even deserve anything!!! We are so sinful that we can't even be a moralistic person, how do you think you will even fare in God's standard??? You don't think that we're all immoral??? Try this, how often have you said thank you??? I bet you say it almost after every few sentences, but what I'm trying to ask you is in so numerous times of saying thank you, how many of it were just to be polite and how many of it really stem from a thankful heart??? Get what I mean now??? Still not satisfied of my claims???

Try this one, whenever you manage to help someone, after helping him/her, they'll thank you(not sure if they really meant it or not though), few days later you bump into that person again, but he/she JUST says hi or might not even bother to look at you... What comes to your mind??? Wished that you never helped them??? This is all because we do things with an expectancy whether it may be big or small... My point is, in whatever we do, we already have a motive for doing it - which is to want something back... Now, tell me on what account can you still say you're a good person now...

We're all so sinful that we can't even live to our own standards, how can you say that you're not a sinner before God?! Because of our extremely sinful nature, we don't even deserve to breath the next breathe... Just imagine you're already drowning in the deep blue sea with sharks, struggling to gasp for air, but you're still thinking of which shirt you'll be wearing tomorrow... Absurd??? But this is the true reality of our sinful nature...

Henceforth, the five points of Calvinism- TULIP, fits in nicely...

God bless...