i just watched the movie hangover, thinking it was going to be a funny movie cos i heard someone in the lift in ttsh say she was laughing non stop during the movie. it was NOT a good movie. i hated myself after watching it cos it's like a sin movie man. argh. i asked God to forgive me really for not stopping myself halfway into the movie. feel so grossed out now. then i realised some lessons i drew from this:

1) we are all sinners. i've actually stopped repenting of sins for awhile, thinking i'm OK in the area of sin. but i realised today, we must realise that God's standard of holiness is so high, and we are called to repent of our sins and ask for forgiveness. Brokenness is so impt in our walk. the moment we think we are ok before God, that we don't need his grace and mercy, that's the moment we start becoming like the pharisees and becoming lukewarm and drifting away from God.

2) The world is really fallen. i felt so gross after watching the movie and i guess i grasp abit of why God would want to destroy the whole human race during noah's time. when there's all sorts of sexual debauchery and sin and crazy stuff. the human race just messed up big time. We must be in the world but not of the world. there are clear values and principles that we must live by as christians and be SET APART. john 17:1-18

as christians we cannot afford to start compromising and drift into worldliness in our language, our values, our thought life. we must resolve not to sin against God. but we will fail, and we must realise that it's all because of God's grace and mercy that we can come to Him. We must have that posture of brokenness and humility. we cannot be sinless, but we can sin less. that's growing in maturity and growing deeper in God.