Study Blues Encouragement and My Burden...

For my friends and myself,

should we ever feel time is not enough,
or if we think our effort is not enough,
especially in our study, revision, assignment, homework, thesis...
let us remind each other:

So I tell you,
don’t worry about the food or drink you need to live,
or about the clothes you need for your body.
Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes.
Look at the birds in the air.
They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns,
but your heavenly Father feeds them.
And you know that you are worth much more than the birds.
You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it.
And why do you worry about clothes?
Look at how the lilies in the field grow.
They don’t work or make clothes for themselves.
But I tell you that even Solomon with his riches was not dressed as beautifully as one of these flowers.
God clothes the grass in the field,
which is alive today but tomorrow is thrown into the fire.
So you can be even more sure that God will clothe you.
Don’t have so little faith!

I believe we will make it through our study difficulties...
not only that but I dare to dream that it will be a grand effort...

Originally I intend to stop here but it does no justice...

Don’t worry and say,
‘What will we eat?’ or
‘What will we drink?’ or
‘What will we wear?’
The people who don’t know God keep trying to get these things, and
your Father in heaven knows you need them.
The thing you should want most is God’s kingdom and doing what God wants.
Then all these other things you need will be given to you.
So don’t worry about tomorrow,
because tomorrow will have its own worries.
Each day has enough trouble of its own.

(Jesus, The Bible, Matthew 6: 25-34, New Century Version)

Yes I remember this:
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;
and all these things shall be added unto you.
this is the same word in New International Version translation of the same above...
What is "these"? = our needs: food, drink, clothes, shelter, ...
But as I said I dare to dream of finest lily clothes, so maybe my wants as well though it may be insatiable...

Seek ye first is the formula for every success,
yes "these" refers even to success...

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Some may want to add:
Matthew 11:28-30
But I beg to differ,
I reserve this not for study blues...
its just not in the context of what Jesus wants to say

But best be when

We have tried our best to be good...
...but somehow we never become good...
that's when we should take comfort in:

Come to me,
all of you who are tired and
have heavy loads,
and I will give you rest.
Accept my teachings and learn from me,
because I am gentle and humble in spirit,
and you will find rest for your lives.
The teaching that I ask you to accept is easy;
the load I give you to carry is light.

(Jesus, The Bible, Matthew 11: 28-30, New Century Version)

I do not believe Jesus came to take away all the troubles in this world,
instead he wants to lift up one critical trouble:
Man can never be good enough to be good...to ever come near to God's standard of good...
That's why Jesus also said:

I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me
(Jesus, The Bible, John 14:6 New International Version)

Jesus brings us to God.

I know you know I am no righteous man,
but Christians are no holy men since birth...
we all started rotten... and am still trying, though will never be righteous... due to my fallen nature
but because Jesus died to save us all...
...God sees Jesus as the price paid to declare us all good forever... *we are viewed as being good in God's standar*
(Jesus is like a paid ticket into God's club)
(Jesus paid the ticket for everyone)
question is do we accept this act of Jesus,
if we don't, then we just said, "No, thank you" to the ticket...
(Yes we can say "No, thank you", its our life... that's why we can do whatever we want without any thunderbolt from God)
But if you say no... I'm gonna miss you, dude... and that's my heartache...