Liver's Life

The Liver’s Life

No, I am not an organ; I am a liver….

Anyway, Life is boring as usual. The agony of waiting to watch Catching Fire and other movie is the norm.

I’ve been laid down sick with a fever and a cold. Go figure. Those are two unlikely companion diseases. Not only that but they left my joints and muscles feeling like they were run over. Nasty, but now I am better, but my brother is laid down sick.

We are finally going to get a wireless connection as we were using a mobile connection which could be used only one at a time and didn’t allow our Kindles or phones to use it. Hurrah.

I NEED more games. Someone give me a gift card.

Divergent is a good book. Pick it up and read it… NOW.

Adieu. 

Love and Respect

Loving God

Matt. 22:36-38

“Master, which is the great commandment in the law?”Jesus said unto him, “‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.’ This is the first and great commandment.

We all know we should love God, but what does it really mean to love him? This will run several posts, but the first thing that comes to mind is respect. Respect. Something a lot of people lack now a days, but if you love someone, don’t you have respect for them. Without it, a relationship is doomed to failure. What I find interesting is the great respect the Old Testament prophets had for God. I remember hearing somewhere that they would take a bath every time they wrote God’s name. That is a lot of work, and they didn’t take the presence of God for granted, because whenever God spokes to them, off the shoes came.

I find that respect for God is going down among believers. I mean I know God doesn’t require us to do the thing that the OT people did, but nevertheless I think we take our familiarization with God overboard. God still deserves respect, because as Christians we should love him.  

The Bow and Solomon

The Bow

The bow is the first actual ranged weapon mankind came up with. You could count throwing spear, but let’s stick to bows. Bows were some of the earliest weapons and formed a major part of warfare even earlier than swords. Simple to make and use against large formations, bows became one of the most important part of warfare.

All major armies used it and or the crossbow which is counted under the bow. The bow was utilized mostly on chariots, later on horseback, and usually in unit support. It discouraged large marching units(until the phalanxes). After this towards the medieval area the bow began to die until it was overshadowed by the musket. 

Of Solomom

Proverbs 1:24-33

The rest of this chapter is Wisdom’s speech on how even she has a limit on grace. When destruction comes on a fool, she will sit and not respond. There comes a time when it is too late, the plummet has begun, but she also promised to protect those who listen to her. A vivid difference between the fool and the wise man, don’t you think?

What It Means To Be A Christian

What It Means to be a Christian (ten easy steps.... okay maybe more) 

I have been reading three books, Crazy Love, which I agree with for the most part, The Gospel According to Jesus,  which I can agree with in no way, and Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, which I like immensely.  These three books have caused me to think about what it means to be a Christian. I mean what are the basics of being a Christian and why should we do them and basically why and what?

I believe a lot of Christians now a days should just be called believers and not Christians, because Christian means little Christ. How can we call ourselves little Christs if we hardly know our Bible or spend little time in prayer. Oh yeah, there are some ‘good’ Christians on the outside but on the inside? This is why I want to write this. I will outline the major point of Christianity that people tend to skip over not realizing they are the most important. Bear with me as we crash into Christianity. 

History of Weapons

History of Modern Warfare

Have you ever wondered how we got from the sword to the modern jet? Well here I will describe(slowly) the history of modern weapons back to the middle ages such as the various types of swords throughout history to the modern machine. I will guard you step by step, or rather weapon by weapon.

First of course, we must start with the sword and progress quickly about its developments till the medieval swords where I will slow down. The sword was the most basic weapon throughout history. The first weapons were plain daggers until the art of making swords stronger was discovered. Then came the bronze age in which weapons were made of bronze. This made swords a bit longer but still they were harder to make than the modern sword and less durable. After this development, iron came into use making swords much easier to produce although slightly less effective than a good bronze.

Eventually iron dominated the field of battle, and steel came into use found first by the Asian countries. Few long swords were in use at this time although there are some example of long swords before steel became prevalent. This leads right up to the medieval sword and here I will stop. 

Relationships

Relationships

Yes, the thing which everyone has a different view on. A lot of people don’t even have a definite view on it, and I don’t either. This is a touchy issue with most people especially teens. Heart breaking often is just about the norm in a teen’s life.

Now a lot of people are starting young with relationships. I know someone who had her first boyfriend when she was seven. This is dangerous, I believe. Relationships are getting too common and binding like they should be. Some 5 year old already have a ‘bf/gf’.  The heart is a tricky thing. The more it gets broken, the less it can give winding up into broken marriages.

Another thing is that the younger you start or are, the easy for the relationship to either send you into pre-martial sex etc. Without the experience of a life and good principles, it is easy and with a constant string of relationships and shows of affection, it is even easier.  I am a teenager so I know the pressure of the world that you HAVE to have a relationship. But in the words of Mr. Smith, my Bible teacher, “That is a lie straight from Hell.”

And finally, we should never get with someone who is not a Christian. Missionary dating does not work. It is dangerous because eventually, if we fall in love with the person, we will rationalize marrying them.

Keep in mind you standard and never, no never compromise. 

PS Sorry about the delay in posting. 

Life in the Third

Life in the third, no wait, first, oh never mind…

Well life is busy. We have a visiting pastor and another two people coming. This means we have been cooking and cleaning a lot. My feet are generally sore most of the day.

Other than this, it has been insanely hot, and the electricity went off all of yesterday afternoon till around 9 in the morning. Ugh oh, and again today.

At friend’s house we played Life and Settlers of Catan which are two great games. I still have no idea why Word does not count Catan as a real world. Oh well.

School seven days a week is killing me. Oh the life.

We finally got our electrical fence up which makes our house look like a prison. It keeps shocking me when I open up the gate. Safety comes at a price. Although, our garage door doesn’t work well and as we were driving our car into the garage, it stalled on the upward slope. One of our staff, the my dad, my brother, the pastor, two random guys, and I was what it took to push that car up.

I am reading Le Miserables, and I wonder why can’t the French stay on topic. Same thing in the Three Musketeers.

Well Adieu