Do you think the world is a cruel or a lovely place to live in ?

Thank you for sharing your insights. As a baby Christian, I thought being born-again meant life would become all sweetness and roses, but God lets us know that we will be beset with various trials and adversity, as was our dear Savior. While I'm not a fan of pain and suffering, He let's us know that He is "Immanuel" (God with us) by our side through all our trials, and, that if we persevere in His righteousness, He will one day say, "Well done, good and faithful servant." I sure long to hear that. I, personally, am weary of adversity, yet God is the GLORY and the "lifter of my head". He has given me "legs" to stand when I fall and faint. His strength gives me joy, when I've none left. He tells us to"lean not to our own understanding", but to trust Him in all joys and sorrows. Without Him, I am nothing, but when we abide in Him and stick really close, He shows us "great and mighty things".

For sure heaven is always a better place to live in and the fruit in there must be great.Well,we haven't been there before but we can get to know thta from the Bible.Frankly speaking,I can't wait to go there since living on earth is just so tough no matter what kinds of Biblical answers we already have.I mean when we experience pain,then it is truely pain and we just can't deny it. I mean it will not be a matter of explaination and rational stuffs anymore,it is a matter of experience.There are times,even a righteousness person like Job will still has tons of questions,and I can never compare myself with this great character of the Bible.I am just a sinner and even I am washed by the blood of Christ already,but I am still struggling and whestling with the power of sin everyday.As long as I am living as a human,I still have to experience all those painful experience in this life.For sure we have hope in Christ but we just can't avoid all those cruel experience from this world.I hope that God's love and grace will always be sufficient to us when we experience tough time in life.And I hope God will always reveal Himself to us in a new way through all those painful experience.Have a good day.

Wow,you are the fastest response that I ever have,just within one minute.Super and thank you.I think you must gone through many unhappy events in life before you will said so.I think many people in this world surely experience lots of hard time and unhappiness.Look at the news in everyday life: killing,earthquake,war,hatre,suffering,etc.It really makes this world a cruel place to live for lots of people.But all these just because of we are living in a sinful world.I think there are still another side of the coin.We need to see love action that offered by many people as well.Look at the donars to many charity foundation and we will know that we need to appreciate for people who cares.Well,thank you for your response anyway and have a good day.

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Oh, I just love to talk about new Zealand.Since I have just received another 17 cents with the mylot search engine by searching new Zealand.Ha ha ha, alright,oh oh....Anyway, I went for a trip to this lovely country in November, 2008 and this place was just so good in everything . I enjoyed going to the zoo and played with theb animales or just to see them in a near distance.I enjoyed my trip to search for one of the smallest dolphins in th world with the tour boat.I also enjoyed the special dinning experience in Aukland where I ate one of the best Angus Steak that I have never had before.I especially enjoy the gondola experience in Christchurch. The view was just so lovely.I still remembered the railway trip to pass the alpine and seeing more nice view through out the country in only one day.It was quite an adventure for me since I was travelling alone and everything was so perfect except one thing. One day I was taking a local tour and see things around in Aukland. I was in the upper seat with a well covered tour bus. I oepned the windown and wnated to see things clearly and breathe in some fresh morning air. Unfortunately, some kinds of bird pass by and lay an egg on my head. The egg york and everything about egg has hitted my forehaed and the guys head behind me. Although it was an accident but it didn't cause us any harm. We all laugh in the bus and said , " it was truely a fresh egg in the morning" We then all laughed about it and finsihed our trip well.

sorry about two posts there. I don't know what happened... _Derek

Oh,Charles Swindoll.I know who he is .He is the principle of Dallas Theological Seminary at the moment if my memory is correct.He is ine of the well respected pastor in the United States.I agree with what he said about attitude.However,to maintain a positive attitude towards bad times in life is not that easy at all,especially when it is a self-related issue.I think it really needs lots of training before we can build up such an positive attitude.I think the bIble does give us all the guildline to positive thinking but still human cannot act it out by his own strength.That's why we need Jesus and His Holy Spirit to help us in such a cruel world.By looking at this life,it will alwyas be frustrated as a result since the Bible had already told us that this world and everything in this life will be past away.We only enjoy this life with a heavenly attitude,not just positive attitude.Because oince we know that there will be an eternal life after this life,and justice and judgement will be totally fulfilled by the everlasting God,we then truely have hope and strength to keep on living in such a world.Otherwise,seeing the world is getting worse everyday and it is a fact and not just only an attitude issue,we are just so hopeless.Thank God,He is still in control and everything is going on according to His plan,even the devil wnated to make the world a mess but he can never win,since Jesus has already won the battle on the cross.As what the bibke said in JOHN 3:16.For God so love the world that He gave His only begotten son,whosoever believes in Him ,shall never die but have ever lasting life.Well,I think that's our hope and the only hope and comfort as human.Thank God for his hope and His word,no matter how tough the situation it seems to be in this world.

Hey, i like the image you are using as your icture.I forgot about what kind of coin is that .Tell me what coin is that if you will because I think I have one but I can never figure it out what country this coin belongs to.On the other hand,I don't think you have to be like those who won't care about anything in this world.I think your caring attitude should remain.Why? Our creator,God is a caring God.As the bible states that "For God so love the world,that He gave His only begotten son.Whosoever that believes in Him(Jesus),shall never die ,but have ever lasting lif." (John 3:16)I think God really care about this world,otherwise He would never send his son to die for all of us(including you and me).Remember when He first created the world in Genesis Chapter 1 of the Bible,he always said "it is good" right after each creation day.It was the sin of human who destroy all the good ness out of the human will and making everything a mess in this world.Will this world be any better,No ,this world won't be a better place and war,pollution,terrible thing and unjustice will always be there until the Final judgement day arrive. Howewver,who will accept God's saving grace (Jesus) will have their way out and live in eternity with a great a beautiful new world in the future.Our body will end but ouR spirit will last forever.Where our spirit will go ,namely heaven and hell is our own choice in this life.I hope you will make the right choice by accepting Jesus as your lord and saviour now,THAT'S God 's plan and that's the only way out to mankind.I hope you will enjoy your life much more after you have make that decision.God bless you.

To some extents, I cannot agree you more.We may have seen so mang bad things about the world, but, survival the fittest, as human beings, we have no choice but try our best to make the world a better place to live.What do you think of it?

Thank you for your response .I lik it when you said : How many times have we given up and how many times have we takem=n things positively and tried to put things in place."Yes, There are certainly up and down,loss and gain,right or wrong in this world and in this life.How ever,we should never give up even the situation is not that positive to us.Some how,I think our lif eis jsut like a battle field,and we are at war at all times.Who are combating with.Probably the devil and also ourselves.The wrose enemy is "self".It is an enemy that You have to lve and hate aat the same time.How many times,we hurt ourselves and fail ourselves.For sure people in this world will hurt us and make us upset too.But if we can fix up ourselves,then the outer influence can not disturb us that much.How can we have victory over ourselves?I think it is hard and we cannot do it alone.Without the help of God,we can never be able to win over ourselves.Thank God that with Jesus our saviour,we can have a way out and actually it is the only way out.Human jsut keep on changing all the times and people will betray us in times.Only God Himself and His only begotten Son ,Jesus can win our trust.For God will never fail us.So ,I would encourage you to think about accepting jesus as your Lord and Saviour today.And your life will be different and full of hope in this hopeless world.God bless you.

Yes , there are just so many people in this world who will do things to harm others and there are also some other people who will help others and be ablessing to others as well.I rememeber I involve in a volunteer work once to help to play with some kids and help them to make some craft in a Ymac social services.It waas quite an interesting experience to me and I have also leart how to make an Indian Kite with the kids as well.Helping other is such a happy experience and most of the time,we are growing with all this experience as well.I give and I also receive. I teach and I also learn in return.Whow is a real blessing to who? Maybe we are blessed by those peole we help. Actually they are the on whose helping us in understand ourselves more and more everyday.Well,the wotrld surely need lots oof help,and I don't think I can do everything all by myself.I am not even trying to act like a saviour of the world as well since Jesus already took this role.But I think as long as we don't miss any opprtunity to help other s, we can at least have some positive contribution to this world.At least ,this world will be abetter palc eto live for many others whose life surely needs more help than others.I hope you and I can at least be a part of this helpful team.Enjoy your day,God bless you.