after writing the article, I felt that I’m too fat so I went out biking for 30 min. :P

then while biking I thought about this more, and I feel that this article will be incomplete (i.e. too pessimistic) without the following:

All that being said, our God is always full of grace and understanding.  He knows our weakness, He knows our struggles, and He is always waiting there patiently, waiting for us to repent.

Many of us try to escape responsibility, keep pushing things off, until we can no longer do so.  It may be the day that we found out our dream college rejected us, it may be the day that we graduated but not knowing what to do, it may be the day that we got that grade we can never think of on our report card.

Then we realize what we have done in the past, then we regret our decisions of the past, we wish that we can go back in time and make up whatever we did wrong, but it is too late.  But it is not too late, because as long as you’re alive, Holy Spirit will be waiting beside you, waiting for you to repent and accept him into your heart.  This truth does not only hold for salvation, but for everything in life.

It is never too late to repent.  It is never too late to decide to work hard, it is never too late to go back to God.  Because God always loves you, and Jesus has promised: “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.”  To man you might be at the point where it seems little can be done, to man it might look like there’s no way to get out, but nothing is impossible to God, and as long as you work for his sake, your work will never be in vain.

Yes, Noah preached the gospel for hundreds of years with no result, but he saved his family and become an eternal witness of God.  Jeremiah preached all his life only seeing one man get saved, yet his preaching influenced Daniel, Ezekiel, and they brought forth great revolution and testimony after Jeremiah died.  God will never left his children disappointed.

So let us bring forth courage, let us not afraid to repent when we realize we’ve gone the wrong way, let us obey and not grieve the Holy Spirit.

Amen.