Being righteous, Christian way

In this world of relativity, they say being righteous is relative. What is right for a person might not be right for another (those who are thinking a lame stuff, something to do with directions, please wake up for a while). This is true in real world. Take this for example: 'white lies'... Is it right or not? For my standard, no.

Let me sidetrack a little bit from my main point here. It is still not right to lie even when your circumstances force you to do so. Reason being, there is almost no such thing as white lies... 'White lies' fundamental meaning is lies that are harmless. But what if the so called 'white lies' being found out at the point where you are being asked... Now you are harming yourself, which contradicts the basis of 'white lies'.

Oh and of course 'jocose lies' fall on different categories with 'white lies'. My view on 'jocose lies'... As a prankster myself, inevitably 'jocose lies' would still be there. For entertainment sake, sometimes my friends enter the DoTA game we set as other people. In itself it is a 'jocose lie' isn't it? For me do it, but reveal it by the end of the day, at most. (PS: I am not convinced that 'jocose lie' is a lie after all)

But (let me back to my main point here) in real life, it is pretty hard to keep my own standard of righteousness... Lets just say it is very very difficult in answering truthfully that I cant hand in this lab report on time because I am lazy. Ring a bell, anyone? Well, people might argue that my standard of righteousness is the standard of a pope, maybe. Oh come on, such a small lie wont hurt anyone, right? It might even be beneficial in the long term. But no, as a proclaimed Christian, the only standard is Christlikeness. No compromise.

Having said that, it IS impossible for a person to be righteous 365/24/7. Yup, I said that. It is impossible. Only by God's grace a person can be right-ed. Which is saying that a person, no matter how 'holy' he is, has no capacity at all to be righteous. But let us examine this.

It is impossible for me to remain righteous for a year.
It is still impossible for me to remain righteous for a month.
It is near impossible for me to remain righteous for a day.
It is quite possible for me to remain righteous for an hour.
But it is very possible for me to remain righteous for a minute.

So, my prayer from now on would be something along this line. 'Dear God, would You mind guiding me each minutes, so that I can live in righteousness every hour? N while we are at it, would you please guide me each hour, so that I can be righteous every day?'

For a person ass holy as me (misspelling and irony intended) it might be impossible. Yeah, it is impossible I think. But if God has invoked my heart to embark on this lets-try-to-be-righteous journey, I guess He would enable me. After all, nothing is impossible with Him... Let's see how long I can last...

PS: This post is actually not intended to be a long one. But maybe God wants me to write as I used to write... Note that I havent write down my thought (deep thought, that is) for pretty long time. I searched my blog up to April 2008 but found no such post... Sigh, how people can change...