Believe God Exist; Day769; Berlin Wall Lessons

And he who believes in (has faith in, clings to, relies on) the Son has (now possesses) eternal life. But whoever disobeys (is unbelieving toward, refuses to trust in, disregards, is not subject to) the Son will never see (experience) life, but [instead] the wrath of God abides on him. [God’s displeasure remains on him; His indignation hangs over him continually.] [Hab. 2:4.]  John 3:36

believe- (verb) accept as true; take to be true

Everyday, I’m finding tiny reasons to spend a few minutes of my time reading the Bible, study the daily devotional and most of all observing my daily life.  I take time to examine what went on during my full waking hours and at the end of the day I reflect and pause for a few minutes to see what surprises I have at hand. Today is no different and I’m not surprised anymore.  The scriptures that I studied daily is taken from Billy Graham’s daily devotional website.  Those are preset scriptures that has been planned/put together long time ago by his team or Billy Graham himself.  But the life that I’m living is random – the things that I do or the books that I read or the materials that is coming into my lap or the people that I interact daily are not .  But many times throughout my Christian life, I get this two things in alignment by itself.  What I mean by that? – the scriptures that I am studying coincides to what I am experiencing in my daily life in real time [Input-Output alignment].  How do you explain that?  Say for instance today, the scripture is from John 3:36, I study the scripture first thing in the morning and later in the day I came across p.246 of the book that I’m reading and then tells me to watch a video called Berlin Wall and in that video, a screen comes up with the banner below that reads:

You can’t change the world
But you can change the facts
And when you change the facts
You changes point of view
When you change point of view
You can change the world

My version:
How to change the world?
1. Change point of view [belief system]
2. Transform yourself to a better person
3. Influence one person at a time [at home, at work, a blog reader]
4. Change the person
5. That person repeats Step #3
6. The world changes – one person at a time

Life is exciting when you believe in God.  There is always a surprise.

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Berlin Wall, 8th Habit Video #13
I was trying to look for the Berlin Wall video in YouTube that came with the 8th Habit book but unfortunately nothing is posted there.  I have no time to encode the video to .wmv at this time so no video to get the point across.  Anyway, it’s about the Berlin Wall, Germany was divided into two parts by a physical barrier known as the Berlin Wall from 1961 to 1989.  The video emphasized more on the after effect of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  After the fall, two mindsets existed and began to emerged.  Here’s my notes on the video.

Berlin Wall Lessons
1. Barriers in people [not just physical but spiritual/emotional]
2. Wall prevents communication
3. Barrier cannot be broken in a short period of time [slow process]
4. People are different [division exist even after the wall was taken down]
5. We label people even after the barrier is broken [oh, he/she is from the other side]

West Berlin Mindset
1. Luxury
2. Materialistic [buying big house, nice cars]
3. Career 
4. Freedom

East Berlin Mindset
1. Insecurity [likes the security of the old regime of wall]
2. Hard time adjusting to the freer country
3. Critical of the new generation
4. Very slow in adapting to the new life

Lesson Learned:
Adapt to the new environment immediately because sooner or later, you will.  Why not just do it!

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PLAN:

2-Minute Stay Ball Exercise
2-Minute Sword Practice
2-Minute 15-lbs Dumbbell
Daily Bible Devotional
Journal
25 Yards Subsurface Swim
Workout-1 Mile Swim
Read 20 pages

READING LIST:
The 8th Habit p.270 of 328
Data Protection 2010 Step By Step p.39 of 360

DO:
0500, End of Sleep,
0515, John 3:36 [read more]
0600, Leave for work
1800, Dinner
1900, Read