and as he heads up the stage and makes a speech, he'd start off with, "As much as I want to thank my mom and my dad for this award, I don't have any.."
How in my right mind did I come up with such a statement? Well, my desktop's "bible quote of the day" (thank google) gave me this message and it lead me to think about a whole lotta stuffs, just wanna pen it down here.. :) my blog's too messy to have my innermost thoughts posted onto it. it'll be too jarring to the eye.
Anyway, the bible passage for the day is this: "But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." Mark 10: 43-45
It got me to think that in all the movies the world can ever make, none of them can match the amount of twists in the story of Jesus (and whoever caught the last episode of "the dreamcatchers" channel 8 9pm show might agree with me that the ending's super cheesy and predictable). A messiah is coming to save mankind and while the people of that time expected a super strong Herculean muscle-packed-tua-tua man
with millions of soldiers to deliver the people of Israel from the Roman oppression. Instead, all God delivered was a twist and sent the people's Messiah in a form of a baby borne in a stable where "ox and ass are fed" in Bethlehem.
like uh, bummer dude, you sent a baby to save us?
another big twist God pulled from his brainy director's mind was to send his Son to die on the cross. The most shameful and humiliating death ever known to man at that point of time. The twist? Jesus, by doing so, saved us from our sins, so much like the Matrix when Agent Smith shot Neo and as we thought that all was lost, he gets a kiss from damsel Trinity and voila, he revives and manages to stop the bullets shot by Smith. How he does it? we'll never know. So much like what Jesus did, we'd never know why either.
if you read the bible, there're plenty of other twists in the story, like when the Pharisees wanted Jesus to judge the prostitute, He threw another stunner and said "let him who is without fault at all throw the first stone" John 12:32. Like woahhh, who'd think of that eh?
so like I said, God is the quirkiest director I've ever known.
But I feel that it was not only in the bible did our "quirky" God gave the twists of the stories to. In our everyday lives, just when we expect or want to have something and we pray so much and so hard for it, God so happens to answer our prayers in very different ways, in "twisted" ways. For me, one of the examples I can give right now that is in my head is when I chose my JC after my O level results. As much as I hated to go to CJC and wanted to go to SAJC, I could not get the points I needed to enter that college. I'd ask myself.. WHY GOD WHYYYY? The answer? one of the happiest moments of my life was studying in CJC, I have learnt so much in those 2 years of my life that really applies to me today, and right now, I'm so glad that I was able to study in a school like it.
These twists come when you least expected it and it never fails to give you a pleasant surprise or a lesson learnt from God. You know when you were in cathecism class, your teacher would ask you what image would you picture God as, like a father, or teacher. For me right now, God is my director of my life. So God...
Keep 'em twists comin'! :)
Benjamin Tan
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