Uncertainty Avoidance

Uncertainty avoidance was one thing that I learned this week from one of my subject about cross culture. It measures the extent to which people in a certain culture avoid uncertainty (according to textbook definition). It basically says that there are some cultures that don't like to be uncertain in regards to everything that they do in this life.They consider uncertainty as life threatening and must be reduced (again quoted from the textbook :D:D).

I was sitting there in the lecture room thinking, "yup, thats me!"  I am one of those people who doesnt like being uncertain. I would plan most of the things that i need to do beforehand so then i know what am i doing and if needed, i would spare sometime to think about plan b just in case plan a doesnt work the way i wanted it to be. I dont always do that these days, but most of the times i would.

I need something that is certain, something that i can hold on to and depend myself onto. I need more than hope because hope is not certain.

I need an assurance as well in regards to what is going to happen with me after i die?? am i going to hell or heaven?? what am i gonna do later on?? I certainly want to go to heaven and i dont think that i want to go to hell because its an unpleasant place to be in.

Then God showed me that there is this CERTAIN hope where i can hold onto everytime i need. And that hope is Jesus :D:D Many might wonder "why am i so into this Jesus thingy and so sure that he can give me the hope that i need?" Well here is my reason

• The bible says that Jesus died in my place to take away my sin. Which means that I dont have to do good works to go to heaven. I always fail to do so and that makes me uncertain whether i will go to heaven or not. Jesus did everything that needs to be done and its completely done.

Now in Jesus, i have more confidence to say that i am certain i am going to heaven because Jesus did what needs to be done in regards to my sin and i dont have to worry about being uncertain about heaven again only because I keep failing to do things that pleases God.

^"For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority. In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ"

(Colossians 2:9-11)