Absolute Answers

Have you ever heard anyone say that truth is relative? Maybe you’ve even heard someone say, 'Your truth isn’t necessarily my truth. What’s true for you may not be true for me.' Ever say that yourself?

Some people think that truth and standards of right and wrong change from decade to decade or from person to person. They make choices based on society’s or their peers’ definitions of right and wrong. Like Judges 21:25 says, 'The people [do] whatever seem[s] right in their own eyes' (Judg 21:25). Does that describe anyone you know?

Magazines, newspapers, and Internet carry story after story about lifestyle choices: a unmarried couple who lives together before marriage ('After all, we’re in love'); a person who finally decides to break 'free' of the shackles of heterosexual life to explore his or her 'true' nature as a homosexual; a teen who just wants to be free to express his or her sexuality; a pastor who decides to bless the union of a same-sex couple—the list goes on. If you didn’t catch those, just wait for the follow-up talk shows and movies. Many of these choices are made in the name of tolerance and other forms of political correctness. Those opposed to these lifestyle choices are viewed as intolerant, especially if society gives them the green light.

Wondering what’s truly right or wrong? The Bible provides definite answers. The Ten Commandments and other laws reveal God’s standards of right and wrong. Take murder for example. God says no to that. What about adultery? Don’t even think about it. Stealing? Ditto. But honoring God and your parents are good moves.

Although times change, God’s standards never do. 'Your eternal word, O Lord, stands firm in heaven' (Ps 119:89). 'The very essence of your words is truth; all your just regulations will stand forever' (Ps 119:160). Because God’s standards always are the same, some are quick to describe the Bible as old-fashioned or lacking in relevance. Others might ignore it because they resent being measured by its standards. What’s your view?
--------------Taken from Tyndale weekly devotion for teenagers--------------

So I ask. Do I have to obey my parents no matter how bad they treat me? And if so, what if they are in the wrong? Do I still follow according to their words? In times of sorrows and they do not provide the care and comfort that you require, but makes your day bad from right in the morni ng at 6.30, do I really still have to bother about all they have to say to me?

Yes! I do feel guilty of not obeying them, in a sense, but could they have done it in another way, satisfying both parties? Do they have to spoil the meaning of the new day? Act rash due to other reasons, not relating to the situation at all? Why?

I don't get their doings. They just made this whole day seem so unwelcoming. In the morning...6:30... NAGGINGS!!!...Black Faces!!! If it just wasn't enough. Scolding me for making a trip to CDAC just to return 10 bucks which I owe to the aunty who paid for me so willingly. It doesn't make any sense to me. Picking on me, thinking that I'm afraid of strangers when I'm not? SO YOU ARE TRYING TO TELL ME THAT I'M WRONG TO RETURN THAT 10 BUCKS? Just because I have CCA today and can't make it for tuition doesn't mean that I will delay the time to pay.

THEY DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THEY CHANGED ME! THEY DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THEY'VE HURT ME? Am I still worth living here? Is my presence ever accepted from them?

Just when I thought the days are getting better... It went not only this far today.
Out of all days to forget to bring my reed, I forget it today, on the day we have RI exchange. This isn't all, but naming them all would take me a long time and I'm having tuition soon.

Should I go to Church tomorrow? I have to usher, but I have to reach school by 12.30. This means that if I make a trip home to change into CO uniform, I have to leave Church by 10. And going to Church at nine and leaving at ten doesn't make much of a difference from me not going to Church. But who's going to take over me for ushering?

If only I could, I would be a missionary now. I would not be here in Singapore with people I don't wish to see. I'd rather be in a far away land, getting to know God's people and seeing His kingdom grow. What a great thing it would be. I'd rather have a life lead by God, for God than to be in somewhere I don't belong and satisfy no one. The days of mission are going to be better than anything I can think of now. Those tears of sorrows and joy. I can't seem to wait for the time to be a fulltime missionary. I'm not planning my life, because I know that when the time comes, God will just lead me to whatever He requires me to do. Whether I'm going to work in the future to raise money or just go into mission fields with only God as my provider, it's all up to Him. This life will be made acceptable to Him, by Him, because only He knows the right path.