Okay so I DID read Chapter eight - but just did not post anything about it x]
Okay I really can't talk about my reading unless I quote stuff, sorry :
But anyway, chapter nine is talking about making God smile :]
How? Just being ourselves - through everything we do loving him - and that's all He really wants. He doesn't care if we don't end up mature or successful or perfect (because no one is), because He keeps in mind that after all, we are just dust.
It's the most important commandment - "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind".
Warren says that obedience unlocks understanding - it some aspects I find it true, yet I don't understand it. I guess it's those things that on the world, people can't explain.
"You are merely a clay pot shaped by a potter. The clay doesn't ask, 'Why did you make me this way?'" True, we don't question God about ourselves, because we're exactly the way He wants us to be. But, how do we know? How do we know if we need to push further or not - to be the clay He's wanted to mold? This is always troubling me.
I guess I just need to remember that I am only breathing because of Him - and I need to love Him in return... 說實話，我還是覺得「愛」這個感覺 對我來說還是一點 abstract.. 因為在個地球上，我從來沒感受到真正的愛。。我沒有真正的父親，也從來沒有顯示對別人的「愛」。也許我還在長吧。
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Chapter ten talks about surrender~
The only thing stopping us from wholeheartedly surrending to God is ourselves - and our pride, fears, and confusion.
Some people often think that we can actually take control of our life, that we are the ones that are able to plan every detail of it - when obviously, we are not. We're like trying to steal the steering wheel from him, and because of the struggling and frustration, horrible things may go astray.
CS Lewis said "The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because he made us. He invented all the different people that you and I were inteded to be... It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own".
到這個時候，我就會想 － 我一直都想要個「personality of my own」。我一直以為，能到這個 是要自己去找出來的。可是事實是要從耶穌找出來的。我怎麼都沒想到？
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: I see how necessary it is for me to constantly go to church and read the Bible - or else my faith may slowly diminish. Lately, I've been just reciting Psalm 4 every night instead of actually reading the Bible. God feels happy and I feel happy when I actually know and understand His word instead of just memorizing everything, so I'm going to to start actually reading again.
"Be my everything."
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