Fast-forward button

For the last couple weeks, I have been thinking and stressing and exciting about Vancouver Canucks winning the Stanley Cup. I know that Vancouverites are also excited about it, and Vancouverites have their own way to support the team... The whole city even might turn into blue colour, especially now we are the Western Conference Winner....

(I really hope I am in Vancouver right now, enjoying the scenes.....)

Anyway, I am talking about watching the games, and I admit, it was pretty stressful when I watched the game, especially if it was game 7 and overtime (e.g., VS. Hawks)... I actually hoped that the player of the video (because I watch LIVE online) has a fast-forward bar, and I hoped that I can just skip the whole stressful part and just see the ending where we, of course, win the game...

Too bad, it could not happen... Fortunately, we did win the game...

I feel the same way every time I watch a movie or a drama on my computer. This time, I do skip the part that I don't like to watch, and I watch the part that I like...

Life, however, cannot be fast-forwarded or rewinded... We cannot change our past, and we cannot fast-forward our lives either, where we only see the ending that we like, and do not see the ending that we do not like...

That is why, we need to live our life fully, and live according to God's word.

God has loved us, and He has given His only Son on our behalf to bring us back into relationship with Him. Therefore, let's "... live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way..." (Colossians 1:10). So, at the end, we know that we will live with God in the New Jerusalem, where "nothing impure will ever enter [the city of New Jerusalem], nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names", our names, "are written in the Lamb’s book of life" (Revelation 21:27).