january 20, 2001
11:35 am

as of this moment, the majority of the people is rejoicing because the erap administration has already fallen. few hours from now a new president will take her oath .....millions of people are celebrating victory, thousands of pro-erap supporters are outraged because they think they've already lost, anti-erap people have now entered mendiola wanting to enter the malaca�ang palace to fasten the exodus of erap, the whole philippines is anticipating, the whole world is watching and what are we doing...???

i think it is not a good testimony for us christians to rejoice and celebrate about the downfall of a person. he may be corrupt, he may not be a good leader, he may be a sinner, but God still loves him.the song "Jesus friend of Sinners" reminds me of His love for erap....and for all of us sinners. . all have sinned and fall short of God's glory....but here we are...condemning the president....not thinking that we are also to blame. we are sinful as the presidents is. who are we to blame him ? who are we condemn? we are the same...the only difference is that his sins are publicly known....publicly judged by the whole philippines...we are wrong to think that he deserves all the blame, curse, and hate in this world...lets put ourselves in his shoes...how would we feel if people are happy to have you punished....friends suddenly turning their back on you........you becoming a disgrace to your family, you being labeled as "bobo" , and all the bad things anyone could think of a man???? we may not be corrupt like him, robbing the people's money, having different relationships, but we have no right to condemn him....because we are all sinners.........

let us be happy that somehow,the philippines would change...after all what is happening, good things would come....but let us not rejoice for erap.......let's pray for him.....for him to accept everything that has happened ....for the Lord to touch his heart....for him to seek the Lord, and start living for His glory....that is all we can do as christians....it is not impossible because all things are possible with God.....

as of this writing...12:09 pm...erap has already resigned..few minutes from now a new president will take her oath.... makes me ask of what will happen to our country.....??? will we have a better futter with gloria macapagal arroyo as president??? no one knows......that is why we need to PRAY, PRAY, and PRAY.......PRAY that this new one will act according to the will of the Lord ............

God is truly good and faithful....let us be reminded that these happened because God has a plan for the philippines.... i just hope and pray that nothing more like this would happen in the future...i now hope that we have learned our lesson.....

many people are rejoicing because erap has already lost....let us not rejoice about this as christians..but .let us rejoice that God is still working in our lives........

the events are not over...this is just the beginning.....let us take this as an opprtunity to come to the Lord and seek for His wisdom..let us pray that people would acknowledge the goodness of God and stop shouting "mabuhay ang mahal na birhen"! (people sure never learn..... ) :)

offer up a prayer now.....and start being good filipino citizens....

may the Lord bless us all!
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