HOORAY! REJOICE WITH ME, SAY REJOICE! IF THIS IS NOT ENOUGH, USE THE REJOICE SHAMPOO!

DAVID IS NO LONGER A TRAINER IN HIS URBAN JUNGLE AND THIS MEANS NO MORE STAYING IN AND LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT PALMS DOWN! :D The best deal of all, is that i get to lie down on my ULTRAMAN bed everyday! :D Swee right?

Yes, as much as i rejoice over the passing out this week has also been an astounding week for me in terms of truth confrontations with God. This simply happens when you find time out and take a book and read it while your back is against the beanbags and chilling wind from the ceiling air conditioner blows at you. :D How i wish my house was like this. :/

To cut the whole long story short, i shall type a short extract of what i read that caught me thinking. :D Friends and family, think about it.

Honestly, the question that reverberated within my mind was just this question:

how many faces must you have?

While religion works to restrain our actions from the outside in, God always works from the inside out. Only this kind of change lasts. Its sustaining power comes not from the spirit of God, but from your desire to become the person God dreams of. Your motivation is not what others think of you, nor even the consequences of your actions if you choose another way, but your longing to have the image of God revealed in you. You simply want to be a different person.

When we lack integrity, we might alter our decision based on who others are or even how we feel about them. If we admire someone or aspire to be valued by that individual, a lack of integrity will cause us to conform to what we believe that person wants us to be.

Jesus only had ONE FACE. When we show different sides of ourselves to different people, we become two-faced at the very least. When we lack integrity, we find ourselves being several people, depending on the circumstances. We subdivide our lives and justify our differing values systems based on context. Our character becomes a product to be sold. We become personality salesmen rather than people of substance.

Gosh, what do you think? Honestly, it just caught me really thinking if we are always seeking for people’s approval by our actions, praises and eyes on us. The worse thing that could have ever happen here is this, YOU JUST CAN’T BE THE PERSON OF SUBSTANCE. Just how long, will we continue to act in this stage of life? Can we just choose to be who we were really made to be?

Can i be real honest with you? The only word that came across my mind when i read the above extract was this 'PATHETIC'. Stop living in a world where you have to perform for others, you can choose to live your life with one face. Just like how Jesus did.

The below extract is what i love most.

It is in this state that we become people of integrity. It’s more than ”what you see is what you get”. Integrity is not just about who you are, but who you seek to become. When we have integrity, we don’t need to pretend. We are well aware of our weakness and shortcomings. Integrity is not about being flawless, but being ‘flaseless.’ When you watch a person of integrity, you can know what’s inside him or her. The individual in transparent. You can see what’s inside the heart and witness the light emanating from within.

Lastly, i like how Mark Twain puts it.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. But then again, if you are a liar, you’d better have a great memory. When we tell the truth, that’s all we haev to remember. When we live in deceit, we haev too many faces and lies to keep track of.

So friends and family, let’s be people of only one face. People who can choose to be real but yet helping each other to grow closer with God. Many times there are hurts and backstabbing in relationship just shows that how ‘pathetic’ we are that we do not know that we are drowning in our insecurities. To those who are watching others drowning and only keep watching, just who are we trying to be? Are we so blinded by our own un forgiveness that we do not realize that Christ won’t forgive us as well? Wake up, we all need one another. If in this family, we can’t be one face then i wonder how long and how much energy do you have to last you through this life?

I dare to tell you about my past, but i am not condemn because i have moved on and i know that God has already forgiven me. To you, i never need to have many faces, but just one. The real me- the man that God has dream of me to me.

So dearest family and friends, this is who i am.