L-O-V-E.
You know what, this is something I still don’t understand:
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end
When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
- 1 Corinthians 13, The Message.
(The concept of) Love still baffles me. I guess that’s a good thing, haha.
The intro of the chapter started with this:
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
I’m always convicted whenever I read this chapter. 
It always puts me in perspective…
To put things simply, it says that if we think that we got it made as Christians when we have supernatural mega wowowow faith, immense spiritual wisdom and knowledge, receive dreams and visions, destroy the strongholds of th enemy… Well, we’re not even close. That’s not the point of “Christianity”.
Yeah, they’re not the point. I read 1 Corinthians 13 again and again and is one of my favorite verses, and yes, those are not the things that will make the headlines in heaven.
Of course, charity is good. Learning to do things in a spiritual warfare is equally beneficial… But it’s not really the #1 thing that will make God smile.
It’s love.
I’ve always wondered why love (those stated above) is the utmost thing.
And I just realized now. It’s because it’s love that made Jesus come for us. Nothing more, nothing less. So I guess the saying is true, “Love conquers the world.” 
And we ought to do the same to others. With the same measure we have received that we do.
Love even when they don’t act that they deserve it. Because we didn’t too, but Jesus loved anyway.
Love even when they talk about you behind your back, because Jesus gave love even to those who spitted on Him.
Love even when you don’t understand, because Jesus went through it as well but took the stand for us.
We can think of reasons why not to love, sometimes they outweigh more than the reasons why we should love but Jesus gave us the encouragements to be selfless: The Cross. The empty grave. The new life.
If He wasn’t selfless, where would you and I be now?
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Katatapos lang ng 1st sem… Last week.
For the second time around, I’m called a “freshman”. Haha.
And yes, di na ako yung last sa list of students. I remember reading my previous post (yung ‘I Got into UST MED”), nasabi ko dun, “Kelan kaya magkakaroon ng Z?” *Peace* Hahaha.
It s true that there will come a time when you would have to choose which exam to study for.
It is also true that you fall asleep not because you’re getting lazy… But because you’re really tired.
And it is also true that you will cry because of hardship. Well, ako, umiyak.
Never thought that this will be possible: Di makalabas ng building kasi wala nang oras, kaya sa cafeteria ka na naman kakain. At nauumay ka na nang sobra.
At umpisa na talaga akong mag-aral nang mabuti. 
Aside from the academic side…
There have been entrance’s and exit’s in my life. I have new friends. New culture. New environment. I have friends who left to study in not-so-near places.
I was reminded to say “No” to the things that will make me compromise my faith, my values, and my priorities.
I learned to enjoy the world, and at the same time not forget who I am, who I stand for.
Cheers to a great 1st semester~!
“We will never have more affection or passion for God than we understand He has for us. We will never be more committed to God than our understanding of His commitment to us.”
– Mike Bickle
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J is JESUS. :D
No one and nothing else for J. 
To the One who loved me even when I don’t find any reason to love myself. Thank You.
To the One who gave every thing up, even unto death. For me… For the whole world. Thank You.
To the One who rescued me from a life of bitterness, resentment, and pride. Thank You.
To the One who loved me so much that He did not want me to stay the same. Thank You.
To the One who holds me in the present and is very excited for my future. Thank You.
My life.
My everything.
My God.
My Lord.
My Savior.
Jesus.
Everything is a process… The Pat right now is sooooooooo different from the Pat 7-8 years ago. It was not done by self-help books. Nor by a system of beliefs aka religion… But only by His power.
His power changes. His power transforms. His power overcomes.
Till every tribe and nation bow before You
And I will not stop
Till they all see Your glory, see Your glory.
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