Negative Effect

Our classroom scene:

Miss: ___, what is your opinion on the Protestant belief that we should only put our faith in Christ alone to be saved and not by doing good works or joining a church? Is it a positive or negative effect?

____: Negative po. Kasi po di naman natin kailangan umasa sa Kanya para maligtas tayo. Tayo lang din makakapagligtas sa atin.

Miss: Ayon ang paniniwala niya, kanya-kanya tayo ng beliefs...

I'm so sad that I cannot do anything at this place. Everyone's so opinionated that everybody is dying here. What I try to voice out will be labeled as a mere opinion. I cannot even do anything, not even to blurt out morsel of words to even shield the truth. Their lives are screwing up because they don't know for fact that there is joy in knowing God personally. But who am I to speak? They will laugh at me.

It seems so nonsense to them. Having a close personal relationship with some divine being whom you can't even see. I am so afraid that they will laugh at me and push me away. They might even say that they don't need God in their lives.

But who are they rejecting in the first place? It is not me, but the authority of Jesus. Still, it makes me feel sad that all I can do is pray- pray that God will give me a chance to use me to voice out His word with their prior understanding and unbiasness.

It is so hard these days. Everyone is so stubborn-hearted that I feel so weak to even fight for God's word.

Still, what is that barricade to God Himself? This I must face along with the minority. If He wants me to say something, then He will provoke me to speak up. Nothing is impossible with Him. As He has always promised, He will provide all the way.