Day 23: How We Grow

I read chapter 21, and 22. I would like to respond to the readings on here, but it'd be too much and 23 is... interesting...

... there's a dried teardrop on the first page of Day 23's reading.

I know we're not supposed to believe in numbers and signs but.... seriously? And how come out of all the readings I've read so far, this one seems so familiar ( I swear I am not playing around ). Is this a test... or actually something?? : Well just to be safe, I'm going to keep treating this like a test.

Well anyway, the quote I want to focus on is "We grow older, but never grow up", Which is true in many aspects. We can grow older, but to grow up we need help, as does anything else in this world... something I never really thought of. I keep thinking that people have to learn to grow up by themselves, because sometimes making mistakes might be the only way to teach oneself to grow ( that's just one way to grow though ... ). But now I know what the Holy Spirit is actually there for - it is the same spirit in God (Jesus), and all believes who have accepted Him as their Lord and Saviour, something like clogs working in this body of a clocktower to help us moving and 'ticking' and living, where we need to constantly maintain ourselves and make sure we are moving in the right direction, not stopping or ticking backwards.

Growing takes time, and I guess I need to be constantly reminded of this and not rush anything - and that I am constantly receiving help from the Holy Spirit, even though I may not feel the spirit within me.

Though we are all children of God, "We are not meant to remain as children" (Ephesians 4:14)... at least when we get to Heaven, we will not be children anymore.

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Oh, and actually I do kind of want to gloss over Day 22 a bit.

Earth is not supposed to a perfect place, with no problems, where everything is okay where there 沒有悲傷的時候，心痛的時候，凡事都過的很順利。 "Remember, Heaven is not earth."

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The Bible warns... "Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out .... Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down it to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you."　the book of ROMANS :D
[I am going to read Romans after I read Job... even though I feel like I might have already read through Romans already = =] ... to elaborate on this quote? haha :D

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I can't wait to meet Jesus.