Imagine buying a beautiful laptop. Once home, you started using it, realised that it was taking ions to start-up. You brought it back to the shop, the seller opened up the "brain" and to his horror, the software is XT!
I chanced upon this notice in modern Shanghai. It is hard to believe but it is true and it is real. "Please do not pee or poo in the alley. There is a toilet at the clock tower". That's the message. Perhaps, with this, you could further understand why I often mentioned living in Shanghai is sometimes, harsh.
The city is progressing very fast, in my opinion, faster than the people could handle. Outwardly, it is a nice modern city with all the high-rise buildings, mega malls, branded goods... stripped away all these, you will actually see that people are still living in the past.
This little notice made me think deeper into our lives...
Some homes are such. Five stars condominium living, driving the lastest Merz series (sorry, I am no car expert), dinning at upmarket restaurants, peek behind the facade, you find a family on the brink of splitting. No, nothing wrong with all these. If we could afford them, yes, enjoy it but NEVER allow such things to supersede more important things such as relationships with your spouse and kids. Likewise for some churches, superb buildings, jam-packed services, dug deeper, you find souls lost, souls thirsting for more, dying for the basic love of fellow Christians....
I guess, God knew it from the start, 1 Samuel 16:7 "The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."
It's all about the software.
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