Search Engine Optimization

What is a search engine?
A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers. The search results are generally presented in a list of results and are often called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike Web directories, which are maintained by human editors, search engines operate algorithmically or are a mixture of algorithmic and human input.
(source: wikipedia.org)

What is search engine optimization?
It is the process of improving the visibility of a web site or a web page in search engines via the "natural" or un-paid ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. Other forms of search engine marketing (SEM) target paid listings. In general, the earlier (or higher on the page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search and industry-specific vertical search engines. This gives a web site web presence.

Methods of search engine optimization
The most basic is getting indexed. We don't have to do anything because the webcrawlers from google or yahoo will just find us, but this will not ensure us of a high rank in the search engine. Some things must be done to improve our page rank.
1.editing its content and HTML and associated coding
- this both increases its relevance to specific keywords and removes barriers to the indexing activities of search engines.
2.promoting a site
- this increases the number of backlinks, or inbound links. the more you click the link towards the site you are promoting, the more 'vote' it will have for the ranking in the search engine, especially google.
3.google webmaster
still working on it...I don't know how this works
4.cross linking
-the same concept in promoting a site, but this involves more connections to other websites.
a) Reciprocal link
a mutual link between two objects, commonly between two websites to ensure mutual traffic. For example, Alice and Bob have websites. If Bob's website links to Alice's website, and Alice's website links to Bob's website, the websites are reciprocally linked. The more link exchanges we have in two or more sites, the more we will have higher rankings in search engines.
b) Resource linking
A resource link is a text link in the results pane that takes user to informational material such as Help, Web content, etc. If we put more resource links that lead to other relevant websites, then we can increase our search engine ranking. Maybe this is not an advisable idea because google may have done some measures to prevent spamming. Thus, we cannot significantly increase our rating.
c) Forum signature linking
If we enter into forums relative to ending cyber crime and use the link to our site as our signature in the forum, we can build up more backlinks unless there is no 'nofollow' attribute in the forum which instructs search engines not to increase the rating of the site.
d)Blog comments
Leaving a comment on a blog can result in a relevant do-follow link to the individual's website. Most of the time, however, leaving a comment on a blog turns into a no-follow link, which is almost useless in the eyes of search engines, such as Google and Yahoo! Search. On the other hand, most blog comments get clicked on by the readers of the blog if the comment is well-thought-out and pertains to the discussion of the other commenters and the post on the blog.
5.link farming
This is usually done by a group of web sites that all hyperlink to every other site in the group. It is like a business conglomerate in the internet on which several websites connect to one another. The more connections, the higher the search engine rank. This may not be applicable to our site in its early stages because we still don't have enough links to other websites which links also to another, but in the later time, maybe we can grow more.
6.obtain a backlink from the web directory
A web directory specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links. With a backlink to a web directory, we can have a link to other web sites and many opportunities to obtain connections. With more connections comes a higher page rank.

Top 10 search engine optimization techniques
The 10 Great SEO tips for your site
#1 Content
As cliché as it sounds this is the number one for any search marketing strategy, it is impossibly important to ensure that you have content worth viewing. Without this one simply step to ensure that there is a reason for someone to be on your site, everything else is useless. There are a lot of great sites to find inspiration for writing great content that works.
I suggest we copyread the contents of our website for grammar errors to make it look professional. The idea of the website's aim is there, but cyber crime is a very general term. It is good to specify some of those cyber crimes that we are targeting so that people who are only concerned in fighting a specific cyber crime can also be attracted. It is because not all people that what is disturbing them is a cyber crime. For example, if they are annoyed by spam mails, they won't necessarily key in 'cyber crime' but 'spam mails'.
#2 Incoming Links
A link is a link is a link, but without the simplest form you aren’t going to do well in search engines. The more links you have the more often you are going to be crawled. It is also important to make sure that you have the proper anchor text for your incoming links. The easiest way to gain quality links from other sites is to link to sites to let them know your site is there and hope for a reciprocal link. It is also important to make sure that you have content that is worth linking to on your site.
It's like hitting two birds in one stone. If we target specific cyber crimes, we can create many links in our site. This creates many pathways for the crawler to travel through. If we post links to other sites that talk about the specific cyber crimes and partner with them to post also a link to our site, we can increase our visibility to crawlers.
#3 Web site title
Making sure that you have the right web site titles for your pages is extremely important. The keywords you place in your title are important in order to ensure that your topic is understood by Google. One of the primary factors for ranking is if the title is on-topic with the search results. Not only is it important for robots to index and understand the topic of the page either. It is important for click-through rates in the search results. Pay attention to what you click on when you are searching in Google, I know that I don’t always click the first results. Using great titles and topics on your site will bring you more traffic than a number one listing. Most of the time it is within the first page, but I skim through the titles to see which looks to be more on-topic for my search query.
In this case, our HTML title tag is 'End Cyber Crime'. This is perfectly fit for our home page. If our page is talking about a specific cyber crime, we should change the HTML title tag of that page which deals a specific cyber crime. This can attract the crawler to direct the search to that specific page.
#4 Heading tags
When you are laying out your site’s content you have to be sure that you are creating the content flow in such a way that the heading tags are based on prominence. The most prominent of course being the h1 tag, which says “this is what this block of copy is about.” Making sure you understand heading tag structure is very important. You only want to have one (or two) h1 tags per a page. It is important to not just throw anything into an h1 tag and hope you rank for it.
I suggest we change our h1 tag from 'Welcome to EndCyberCrime.com' to a more newspaper headline-like header which is direct to the point and is talking about the content of our site. Our current h1 tag looks more like a greeting rather than a direct title that talks about our site. We should ask ourselves, 'What would a cyber crime victim ask if he wants to end cyber crime?'.
#5 Internal Linking
Making sure that your internal linking helps robots (and visitors!) to find the content on your site is huge. Using relevant copy throughout your site will tell the robots (and visitors!) more effectively what to expect on the corresponding page. You do want to make sure that on pages you don’t want to rank in Google that you add a nofollow tag to ensure that the ranking flow of your site corresponds with your site’s topic and interests. No one is going to be searching Google to find out what your terms of service or privacy policy are.
The same though as number one and two. Take for example Facebook. It is a very interactive website that accommodates many users around the world. With many users comes many internal links. With many internal links comes many external links. This is a very popular trend nowadays. If we enable users or those willing to help our cause to create profiles, forums, friend connections and the like, we can increase the number of our internal and external links. But I'm still not sure about this idea because hackers might infiltrate our site and spy on our plans in our forums.
#6 Keyword Density
Ensuring that you have the right keyword density for your page and sites topic is paramount. You don’t want to go overboard and use the keyword every 5th word but making sure it “comes up” often is going to help you rank better in search engines. The unspoken rule is no more then 5% of the total copy per a page. Anymore then this and it can start to look a little spammy. Granted, you aren’t shooting for 5% every time. It is really all about context and relevance— just make sure it is good, quality copy.
This means we use the words that are relevant to our site more often in our web content. If we overuse the keywords, we might be marked as an artificial site or spam site. But we don't have to worry much about this if we have a forum within our site, talking about troubleshooting and sharing ideas to fight cyber crime. The members themselves type the keywords in their posts.
#7 Sitemaps
It is always a good idea to give search engines a helping hand to find the content that is on your site. Making sure that you create and maintain a sitemap for all of the pages on your site will help the search robots to find all of the pages in your site and index them. Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask all support sitemaps and most of them offer a great way to ensure that it is finding your sitemap. Most of the time you can simply name it sitemap.xml and the search robot will find the file effectively.
We have this. We just have to update our site maps with the changes in our site, like new pages.
#8 Meta Tags
Everyone will tell you that meta tags don’t matter, they do. The biggest thing they matter for is click-through though. There will be a lot of times when Google will use your meta description as the copy that gets pulled with your search listing. This can help to attract the visitor to visit your web site if it is related to their search query. Definitely a much overlooked (as of late) ranking factor. Getting indexed by search engines and ranking well is just the first step. The next, and biggest, step is getting that visitor that searched for your keywords to want to click on your search listing.
#9 URL Structure
Ensuring that your URL structure compliments the content that is on the corresponding page is pretty important. There are various methods to make this work, such as modrewrite on apache.
#10 Domain
It can help to have keywords you are interested in ranking for within your domain, but only as much as the title, heading and content matters. One very important factor that is coming to light is that domain age is important. The older the site or domain, the better it is not spam and can do well in search results. The domain age definitely isn’t a make or break factor but it does help quite a bit.

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http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch18_:_Configuring_DNS
https://www.google.com/webmasters/verification/verification?hl=en&siteUrl=http://www.tipstheless.blogspot.com/&continue=https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dashboard?hl%3Den%26siteUrl%3Dhttp://www.tipstheless.blogspot.com/%26sig%3DALjLGbPkGQefyyLcXO0wvrzAdkQsMt9zZA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Webmaster_Tools
Top ten SEO techniques:
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Header Tags
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My Graceful Exit

I'm not calling it suicide. I just know it would come.

Death is inevitable. It will surely come. But I know better than I used to. I know will not really die. I will just sleep--or so i thought.

Death is waking up from this perishable space-matter-time world. It is a transition from a wretched world to a better one-- far better one.

I know my time would come. But what can I do? I can't escape it. Maybe I just have to make the most out of it.

It's no use prolonging my stay as the world is so busy doing. A single meaningful death is better than million meaningless lives. It's better to live a short life full of love than to live a long one without it.

I'm thinking of a graceful exit... one that will bring more people to realisation of the secret things of God. Perhaps martyrdom. Perhaps a peaceful one. Whatever it will be, it's significance will be in the hands of God.

A Beggar

Many times I was approached by beggars of different ages, gender,and looks. But I don't give them anything, at least, not all the time. Many times I asked myself what to do when faced in such situations.

What would I give? How much? Should I run away? What would he do with the money I give him? Is he a part of a syndicate? Why don't he look for a job? Why should this man so dependent on people? Doesn't he have what it takes to feed himself?

Sometimes I find myself looking away, or pretending not to look at the poor person--or pretending to be one-- so I could spare the little pennies I have. Sometimes I give what I could spare just to ease up my conscience. Rarely I treat the beggar with a little food, perhaps a piece of bread and a drink--just to make sure the money would somehow go to somewhere worthwhile. And once, ONLY ONCE, I did what I thought was impossible for me to do: to share something I hold dear, the Word of God.

I wonder why there are still people like them even in the super-power countries. Good or bad government, there are still beggars. Even Jesus Himself said,"You will always have the poor among you..."

Maybe the problem is not really eradicating poverty. Only God Himself can make one man rich and another poor. Some uneducated people go rich. some college graduates end up in slums.

Maybe the problem is the absence of Christ in the hearts of men.. "...but you will not always have me." [Jn. 12:8]

I still do have compassion for my poor brethren. I know what it's like to be poor, to have nothing. I know deep in my heart that I want to help them.

What would Jesus do?

It was not written that he gave them money. Instead he gave them what they needed. He healed the sick, make a blind beggar see and many things.

Peter and John made a crippled beggar walk in using the name of Jesus.

I wish that I have that kind of faith to say “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.”. I haven't done that too. I still don't have the boldness.

I have clothes, money, and most importantly, a deep and experiential knowledge of Christ, but I learned that we are no better than beggars. We have nothing. Everyday we 'beg' God for forgiveness of sins. We are very reliant on God. We cannot even work for our own righteousness. Still God graciously forgives us every time we confess our sins to Him.

I can only give what I have.

An Empty Pot

Often I find myself spinning around in an endless cycle of unsuspecting events that I thought that would change me.

I thought I way driven by my emotions all along. I thought I could get what I want all the time. I thought Francis Bacon was right when he said 'I think therefore I am'.

I was awfully wrong.

Time is fleeting. I can only be once of who I am in a moment. One moment pass and it's nothing. One 'me' pass and there's another 'me' coming.

I can only be young once, child once, alive once, do this thing and that once. And when eveything is over, nothing ever remains.

This then is the truth that was so elusive to me: That someone, a Master of the Universe, one not bound in time and decay, is holding me together. I can only see what I can, feel what I can, and perceive what I can. Someone out there sees everything, knows everything and feels everything.

I realised what I have been doing was moving in ways that I want like a stubborn piece of clay. The hands of God were guiding to a shape He desires, but I kept on moving. He never gave up though I bacame as hard as rock. He broke me, melted me in fire and molded me again.

He wanted to shape me into the image of His Son. Now I'm an empty piece of pot; an artwork only He knows what; a tool ready to be used in His own time and purpose.

How To Love

Not by a quick 'yes' nor an immediate 'no'
Nor by having less or by having so and so
But by being patient for God to let you know
And by being kind for you shall reap what you sow

Look at what others have and you will be bitter
If you are proud you'll somehow think that you're better
But love does not envy for God is your Father
Nor boast for we are no better than each other

Answer rudely and you'll add fuel to the flame
Stop self-seeking for all the glamor and the fame
But answer gently to wash away all his pain
And put others first so you will not live in vain

When your brother heaps burning coals over your head,
Or stains your white robe with his blood so crimson red
If he throws you a stone, better throw him some bread
And don't make a list of the wrongs he's done and said

If you find yourself drowning in the sea of lies,
So are your brothers dating with evil and vice,
Rejoice in truth and shut your ears from evil cries
And protect your brothers before their spirit dries

One day you'll find the one you love cheating on you
All hope is gone and you don't even have a clue
But love always trusts, must be pure and always true
Always hopes for day to come in a night so blue

Most trials and persecutions may weigh you down
And many failures can crease your forehead and frown
True love always perseveres and can never drown
Though with many failures it runs towards the crown

But there's a love that is so hard to comprehend
That He went down to earth with many hearts to mend
The Righteous One gave His life for a sinful friend
So great was His love for He loved them 'til the end

God Through the Years

In place where Satan has his throne were captives.
Light shown upon those who sought the Lord in darkness.
For they knew the Lord will reward him who believes,
So they stood their ground amidst the rage and madness.

Waters splashed. Seas churned. Rivers dried as blue turned to red.
They did not love their lives much as to shrink from death.
Rushing wind blew by and gave life to all the dead.
They stood up at the sound of the Almighty's breath.

Then the Lord brought back the captives to Mount Zion.
He made us taste the first-fruits which we ourselves are.
On the holy mountain stands the Lord's foundation:
Israel of God, the Lord's beloved nation.

The Lord redeemed us while we were in deep slumber.
Now we are those who dreamed, believed on things unseen.
Our hearts are filled with laughter as we remember
The great deeds of our Lord. So many have they been!

We got into the boat and caught nothing all night.
Day came and the Lord God threw our nets to the right.
Then the Bride will say in her heart 'Who bore me these?'
'Come all of you who weep! Come to my wedding feast'

And the nations look upon then who sow in tears.
And they see the image of the One they have pierced.
Gone are the sadness, worries and the needless fears.
They shall say 'The Lord has been with them through the years'

Now open the gates for the captives are coming.
Let all the watchmen shout to them who were lost:
'The Lord is merciful from the beginning'
'Give praise to Him--to the Lamb who conquered the cross'

Never Again

Never again will I close my eyes,
Or pretend to be blind, to sleep and die.
Never again will I find one reason
For me not to give myself hope.
Even though a thousand may rise against me
I will not fret, I will not bow down.
For they can never harm someone like I;
Who is already a wind passing by.
Look at me and see, take away your envy.
What am I compared to you?
What am I to those around the corner?
Empty are these words
To those who themselves are empty.
While the world goes forth,
I find myself going against its flow.
There's no meaning nor rhyme
In this world where all things may die.
Spend money there and spend time.
But everything will cease.
Until the last empty space is revealed.
And the last of it will be filled.
And the strong will stand up and die.
In the end, never again...
Never again will I hear good bye.

I Came For the Trash

I have had a fair share of parables in my life—most of them were from my Teacher. One day, I never thought I would be a part of a great one.

One day, my mother told me that someone has called my father to deliver hardware goods to some faraway place I knew nothing about. Unfortunately, my father was in USP Mabini gathering unused cartons for extra cash. Because I don't have anything to contact him, I was sent there with sore knees, still wearing my pajamas, riding a small bicycle under the heat of the sun.

When I arrived at the school, I told my father about the new delivery so I went home with him riding his multi-cab. Just after we arrived home, he sent me out again to USP to continue what he had started. That meant I had to bike my way up again.

Then I arrived in the school still wearing my pajamas. I saw the students in uniform staring at me as if I'm a trash collector. Others didn't notice me at all. Then I thought to myself, they didn't know I was valedictorian in elementary, rank thirteen in the graduate class of the most prestigious high school in Cebu and a civil engineering student in USC.

That time, it was different. I didn't go there to study. I went there to continue what my father had started. I went there as a trash collector. I came not for the students but for the trash.

I remembered my Teacher that time. He had also been a trash collector as I was. Maybe when He came down, He may have somewhat similar thoughts as I had when I arrived in the school. He was and is the Prince of Heaven after all.

After I finished doing my task, I remembered His very words: For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.

What More Could You Ask For?

When you ask for a friend,
His hand is always raised;
Ready to care and defend,
And wipe that tear off your face.

When you walk along the road,
With danger in every corner.
You are safe in his sight.
He's a friend like no other.

What more can you ask for?
What more can you seek?
A friend as precious as the gems
No one else can compare
What more can you ask for?
Don't ask for any less
I wish you could know him
A friend you can depend.

When you want to be heard
He's always there to listen.
When you want to be understood,
He knows how you're feeling.

If you're searching for answers,
He already had them all
For he knows all of them
All you need is to listen.

What more can you ask for?
What more can you seek?
A friend who always listens
While others only hear
What more can you ask for?
Don't ask for any less
I wish you would seek him
For in him you shall live.

Break in a Song

Sure-footed as a deer
Nothing can hold me back
For Your word I hold dear
No matter how my enemies attack
Even if the mighty falls below.
Your mercy is my heart's only cry.
But my strength will surely fail.
Without yours I would die.
You took me from the depths.
Held me up with your hands,
Tucked me closed in
Your tender loving chest.
What I want you may withold.
What I need is what you've told
My life is in your hands,
Though my heart goes cold.
I love the way you call.
I want to walk that place
That Beautiful Land of grace
To see you face to face
I want to be free!
Free from this cursed world.
Cursed!
Cursed is this world!
Flee from its shackles all you people.
Don't turn back.
For this place is going in ruins.
Run to the Rock.
The City of Refuge.
The Truth will set us free.
Oh Mother of the brave, Zion.
Break in a song.
"Holy is the Lord."

A Message

Dear child,

I know your struggles and your hardships. You have been searching for a place of your own. Happiness was something you desperately look for but you are looking for it in the wrong places. You long for love but you are doing more of the asking than with the doing. And you do not know where you are heading and what your sins can do to you.

Child, though you barely know me, I know you very well. I knit you together in your mother’s womb. I have heard your prayers before you have uttered them. I have written your life in the palm of my hands. And I have kept your tears in my heart.

I came down to you to take the punishment that is meant to be yours. I endured the cross so I may have you for eternity.

See, I have done everything for you. My grace is sufficient. Come; let me guide you to the path of righteousness. I have not left you any pictures of myself but I left you my words of eternal life.

May you find your way back to me dear child. Though you have been unfaithful, I am faithful and my arms are wide open to accept you in my dwelling.

Love,
Jesus Christ

My Culture Shock Experience

All my life, though I have never been to other places but Leyte, Samar and Cebu, it still seems that I have never had left the very place I once was born. Every place in this world is the same for me. That is why I thought I would be immune to what they call a 'culture shock'.

It remained true until I left the world to die and raised up again.

It all started when my life went crazy. Though I was used to extreme struggles, my efforts were no more than futile. Then I figured out to call a timeout.

I decided to inquire of the Maker my purpose in life. I read His words which now currently compiled into the worldwide best-selling book. It's the only information I needed.

I left home. I left everything—my family, my studies, my life—everything just to know where I really belong.

For almost three months, I spent my life in a place where God is the most important treasure. And in that period of time, I greatly changed.

The culture in that place was very different that any other culture. Contrary to the idea of cultural relativism, I finally found the culture that is above any other—the culture of being holy.

Who wouldn't be culture shocked? Everything in that place is just so brand new. The air we breathed was the presence of the Lord. The clothes we wore were the righteousness of Christ. The food we ate was the Word of God. The language we spoke were the language of angels. Our religion was taking care of the orphans and widows in their suffering and preserving ourselves from being corrupted by the world. The water we drank was the Spirit of God. There was no night in that place. There was no sun because the light in that place was Jesus Christ. We went to school were the Teacher was Jesus and we were graded according to our humility. No other wisdom can equal the wisdom that was taught to us. Everything in that place was the opposite of all the cultures of the world combined.

In a span of almost four months, I became a different person, a different creation, a different being.

When I went back to my previous home where everything was not how it was before, it seemed that I was away for centuries—longer than the eighteen years of my existence. The reverse culture shock was greater than the previous. It felt like I was in another world when I came back.

Then I was sent again to school—where everything taught has already become useless in my eyes--having given the wisdom it takes for man to live. My eagerness to learn in a worldly school suddenly faded as though it had never sprang up.

In the world I had returned to, those who were smart were given high grades; those who want to be great make others inferior to themselves; beauty is only skin deep and people are living by sight and not by faith. Everything in this world is corrupted.

My desire to return to the place I belong burned in me like fire in the furnace. I wanted to escape the world once again. I don't live in this place.

As the song goes: Comparisons are easily done once you've had a taste of perfection, and perfection is found only in the Lord Jesus who is forever to be praised. Amen.

And that was my culture shock experience.

Who Am I?

Men ought to regard me as servant of Christ and as am entrusted with the secret things of God. Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. I care very little if I am judged by others or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me.

God has put me on display at the end of the procession, like a man condemned to die in the arena. I have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to men. I am a fool for Christ. To this very hour I go hungry and thirsty, I am in rags, I am brutally treated, I am homeless. I work hard with my own hands. When I am cursed, I bless; when I am persecuted, I endure it; when I am slandered, I answer kindly. Up to this moment I have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.

I am a minister of the Gospel of Christ. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. I am a witness am not my own. I am not of this world. I am not under the law. I am not a slave. I am not inferior. I am not alone. I am bold. I am not ashamed of who I am. I am an ambassador for Christ. I am jealous for the saints with a godly jealousy. I am an intercessor who stands in the gap. I am Christ's. I am the friend of God. I am a servant of God. I am a part of the Body of Christ. I am one of the saints in Christ Jesus. I am the Bride of Jesus Christ. I am a fellow citizen with all the saints in the Kingdom of God. I am the temple of the Lord and the Holy Spirit dwells within me. I am redeemed. I am bought with a price. I am Blood bought. I am valuable to God. I am one in which God has an inheritance. I am reconciled to God. I am made clean. I am saved by the Gospel. I am born again of incorruptible seed. I am a new creation. I am in Christ Jesus. I am complete in Him. I am free from the control of man. I am free from sin. I am free from the law of sin and death. I am free from the curse of the law. I am free indeed. I am called according to His purpose. I am called into the fellowship of His Son. I am called to peace. I am called to liberty. I am called to His eternal glory. I am God's field. I am God's building. I am a branch connected into the Vine Jesus Christ and His life flows through me. I am healed from my infirmities. I am immune from every sickness and disease. I am an epistle of Christ, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God. I am Abraham's seed. I am an heir according to the promises made to Abraham.. I am part of a chosen generation. I am a member of a royal priesthood. I am a citizen of a holy nation. I am one of His own special people. I am an heir of God a joint heir with Jesus Christ. I am member of the household of God. I am nothing without God, but because of Jesus Christ, I have become a co-inheritor with Christ, partaker of His Divine Nature, co-equal with believers at the foot of the cross, a cell in the Bride's body, part of Christ's body, and Christ is part of the Trinity

That's just who I am, for this life is not about ME; it's about JESUS.

Trinity Unveiled

So many have tried to solve it.

So many have failed.

They knew it was a mystery--

A mystery so hard to explain

A mystery forever

But who knows the mind of the Lord

Than the Lord himself?

The Trinity--One God, Three persona.

The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

God in three forms.

The Holy Trinity

Creation's point of view.

The nature of the Creator can always be determined in His creations in the same way we recognize the fingerprints of the potter in his art.

The universe encompasses all the creations. It actually is composed of two different words--'uni' means 'one', and 'verse' means 'sentence'. It also indicates that God actually created the universe in one sentence.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 

Notice that it covered the three major trinity of the creation namely time (beginning), space (heavens), and matter (earth). The three are not independent on one another. Each one cannot exist without the other two.  

Space is the container of matter and no matter can occupy the same space in the same time.

The same trend goes with God Himself.

The Father is the thought behind everything.  

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14

The Son is the manifestation and the image of the invisible Father.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. Colossians 1:15

I and the Father are one. John 10:30

 Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. John 14:9b

And the Holy Spirit is the experience driven by the Son.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. John 14:26

Faith, Hope and Love

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13

God can also be related to the three gifts that will remain. Since God will never fade away, the three can stand as a trinity same with God.

The Father.                    Faith begins from hearing the Word.

Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ. Romans 10:17

The Son.                        Love is the manifestation of faith.
The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. Galatians 5:6b

The Holy Spirit.            Hope is what you get because you received the faith.

But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we hope. Galatians 5:5

The three will always stand as one.

The faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel. Colossians 1:5 

We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 1:3 

But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. 1 Thessalonians 5:8

As If

Yeah. It's been i long time since I wrote something in my page. I've been so troubled lately and my budget for internet surfing is tight on its neck.

I suffered a bit of a writer's block since I wasn't myself these past few days. Lately, I couldn't find my place in anything that comes my way. I have some companions but I still feel that I am alone. I don't know. I'm not supposed to.

It's strange though. I'm not used to writing in this kind of way. I have so many ideas in my mind that I badly want to blurt out. But something's blocking me. It's not the computer. It's me.

I don't know what's happening to me now. It seems like everything is not so sure. Maybe I'm just afraid. Afraid of myself.

Not sure eh? As long as I breathe, I will always know that in the midst of all uncertainty, the existence of my Father and my true identity remain as the eternal truth of which I can hold on.

I won't lie to myself. Up to this time, only few really read my blog. I'm not fooling myself. Well, as long as I am able to express my deepest thoughts not to mention the shallowest of them.

Dear reader, bear it with me. God is not yet done with me. I'm still under construction as long as I am in this body.

TipsTheLess: What is Love?

Most teenage girls and boys and mostly all the people in this present age define love as a feeling of attraction or care to opposite sex. Let's face it. Love today has been given a bad name.

How many times have you said I love you to someone? It's like sugar in our ears whenever our crush tells us those three words. It sends a feeling of euphoria and chills to our spine. It's the feeling of being in love.

Love. You hear it in movies. After being said, then off to bed they go and make love with no care to the world.

Love. Teenagers this day express it with holding hands in public, kissing, and caressing with sweet moments of being alone. Eventually, it will lead to unwanted things.

Paul in his letter to the Corinthians defined love as patient and kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

When you define love as a noun, it's not love at all. Love is not a feeling of attraction. The world defined it the wrong way and confused it with something else. Lust is often disguised as love.

Love is a verb. It is doing. You can't love with feelings. How can you love if you don't feel like doing it?

Some say if you love a person, you should fight for him or her. Well, not all the time. Love is not self-seeking. Love is putting others first. It is letting go of the things you wanted most for the sake of love. When you love, you don't put your desires first. Even though it hurts to let go of the one you love for the best, it only means that your love is true. If you love someone, you should go for what is best for the one you love.

Love is patient. It waits for the best to come. When we love someone, we wait patiently for it to come. We don't search love. Love finds us.

Love does not envy. If we are not contented with what we have, we envy. Don't feel sorry if the one you love loves someone other than you. Rather, be thankful that you know what love really is.

Love is not easily angered. It doesn't keep a record of wrongs. If we love someone, it is easy for us to forgive and be merciful. No matter how many times we are wronged, love always is stronger to forgive.

There are still many definitions of the enigmatic word called love. The truth is that the greatest love that any one could ever know, is the love that overcame death for the one who is not even worth dying for.

Jesus Christ said that there is no greater love than for a man to lay down his life for his friends. It is not easy to die for a righteous person. Let's face it, it's not even easy to die for the apple of our eyes. How much harder it is to die for someone who has wronged you several times just to save his life?

Jesus Christ IS the best definition and the best expression of true love. He left his glorious throne in heaven to live like dirty humans as a subject. He took the punishment that was supposed to be ours. He laid down his life for us who are worthy of hell so that we may have life in him.

Before it stayed in our deceitful hearts, love was nailed to a humbled cross.

Love is eternal.

Where is Justice?

Perhaps one of the most elusive desires the world seems to be blindly running after, justice is being searched in the wrong places for quite a long time.


Always in every crime, accident and in every unpleasant circumstances, the victims -- usually those who remained alive-- groan for justice.

Unfortunately, not all of them has been heard. For many of them, justice has become a thing exclusive for the rich. They have been deprived from the very thing that they needed, only because they don't have the power to defend themselves. And worse, the rich is just too powerful for them to face.


Such a terrible life!


If someone has been killed in the family, vengeance is their justice; others a demand for the killer to give them the help in burial; and others is for the guilty to be put in prison to suffer an inhumane fate as a payment for what he has done. But can that kind of justice bring the dead back to life? No indeed! Instead it asked for another life to be sacrificed or perhaps to act as a wage for the grimly act.


And it leaves wounds unhealed and a loss unreplaced. But at least that is how the world made them think.


However, there lies the real question those who demand justice should ask. Not where. What.


Justice is the upholding of what is just, especially fair treatment and due reward in accordance with honor, standards, or law. Those who disobeyed the law must be punished so that justice may be observed. Without the punishment, the law is not at all being followed. Because of that, justice depends on the law. Justice and the law should therefore coexist.


There are many kinds of constitutions in different nations. Some laws in one country are not in the other. Some sound fair in one country and ridiculous  for the others. With different kinds of laws governing different places, different kinds of justice are being demanded.


For example, in the Philippine constitution, a person guilty of murder should be put to prison, while in one country, say Death country, murder is legal. Justice is observed in the Philippines if the person guilty of suce crime is put to jail, but not at all in Death country.


With imperfect laws come imperfect justice. Justice perfectly implemented in an imperfect law is still an imperfect justice.


There is, however, one perfect Law. It is the Law created not from futile minds of dust-born human. It came eternally from the Creator Himself,--the Almighty God-- the one who created everything.


The Law governs everything in the universe; from time, to space, and to matter. Nothing is above the Law except of course the one who created it. It doesn't give any favors on anyone under it. All are naturally submitted to it; rich or poor; young or old; whether they like it or not.


From this perfect Law comes the perfect and only justice. In this justice, punishment don't come easy. Since the Law is spiritual, any violation requires a very heavy punishment.


Spiritual violation is called sin. In the letter of Paul to the Romans, he said, “For the wages of sin is death”(Rom. 6:23).


A more disturbing fact is that in the same letter he said, “All have turned away from God. They have all gone wrong; no one does what is right; not even one” (Rom. 2:13). Therefore, if all have disobeyed the Law ant not even one, then all are lawfully guilty to be put to death.


Who then can impose judgment of death on another person when he himself is guilty as well? The guilty cannot judge the guilty because both are under judgment.


The good news is that the Creator doesn't want to condemn us to death because of His great love for us. He just can't cancel the Law that required punishment because the weight of sin requires a payment fot the Law to be fulfilled.


Because of the Father's great love and mercy, He did not make us pay the wages of our sins. Instead He made His own Son pay it for us. “But because of our sins he was wounded' beaten because of the evil we did” (Is. 53:59).


“For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son and whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (Jn. 3:16)


Justice was and is served through the punishment and death of the Son, which in turn deemed us innocent for the crimes we committed if we believe in Him, accept him as our personal Lord and Savior, and allow him to lead us to the path of righteousness. Because of this, we ought to give mercy to others who were given the same mercy as us.


Where is justice? Justice is in the Word of God nailed to a cross.

Three Trees

There were three trees who were bragging their dreams against one another. They were Richard, Powell and Rex.

Richard: Time will come that I will be the richest wood of all. I will live in a castle because my owner will make me as the most beautiful treasure chest. In me, there will be so much gold, silver and all the riches that the two of you can imagine.

Powell: Think again, Rich. Someday, I will be the biggest ship in the entire continent. The whole forest will be so jealous of me because rich, famous and powerful people will ride in me in the vast sea. I will bring them to their destination and they will praise me for my beauty. How about that?

Richard: Hey Rex. Why are you so quiet? Don't you have a dream to brag about?

Powell: Yeah Rex. Mister Money here is right. What do you want to be?

Rex: Oh me? I just want to be a tree here, standing tall above all the trees. Nothing fancy like your dreams. I just want to be the king of all trees--the king of the forest.

Powell: Oh, I'm in the sea so I'm no subject of yours, pal.

Richard: Me too.

The Three: Cheers to our dreams!

Loggers came and cut Richard down. He was very excited of what he has to become. He could almost smell the sweet fragrance of castle perfumes and feel the tender texture of the castle carpet.

To his dismay, he was made into a manger, not a treasure chest. He was put in a barn full of stinking animals and not in a castle he always dreamed about. Oh how much he longed for that sweet smelling fragrant and shiny jewels. And now, this?

"Lord, why have you made me like this?"

One night, a weary couple came into the dark barn. It was his first time to see people coming in for quite a long time. The woman was in labor. And then the cries of a baby boy. The husband inlaid some cushions in the manger and placed the bouncing newborn baby to sleep tenderly in the humbled manger.

Later, some shepherds came in the barn and praised the baby boy saying that he indeed is the Son of the living God.

Richard was dumbstruck. All his life, he dreamed of holding the riches of the earth in his belly. He had never dreamed of being the first bed of the Master of the universe who came down from heaven to save the many. He became a treasure chest after all, but not for the treasures of the earth but for the source of them all.

 

Next, the axe came upon Powell. Like Richard, he was also excited for his fate. However, creases on the foreheads of shipbuilders. Powell is just too thin and too weak to be a ship. So instead of making him into a ship, he was made into a small boat.

Powell had always wanted to sail the seas but the people threw him to the fishermen in the lake. Only poor people were able to ride on him, most of them were fishermen. 

"Lord, why have you made me like this?"

One night, several people rode him to cross to the other side of the lake. One of them was asleep. Suddenly, fierce winds beat his sail and almost torn it apart from the boat. Huge waves were towering above them as if it were ready to devour them whole. The end has come and he will spend the rest of his life under the depths of the lake. 

Just when all hope is gone--as if it were--the men woke the sleeping man who was with them. They were crying out to him as if he could help him. Then the man stood up and gave a command to the wind and waves to be still and it did. If he could take a breath, Powell would have made a very deep sigh of relief. Who is that man that even the waves and wind obey him? And he heard the men saying that the man indeed was the Son of God.

Powell was overwhelmed by the happiness that he had never even dreamed about--to be the boat to carry the Son of God and his disciples to whom he would send to give hope and strength to the weary.

 The last of the three, standing alone tall among all the other trees, Rex couldn't help but marvel at his exaltation.  Yes, he was complacent knowing that he's the one left on top.

To his dread, loggers came to cut him down. The pain of his downfall pierces to his heart. So much for exaltation, and so much for majesty. Gone are those days. The heathen axe beasts cut down his treasured crown of glory, leaving him stripped off his bark. They left him bare, useless and beaten in the dark where no one would even care to pass by. 

He dreamed of being on the top, high above the others. Day and night, he enjoyed every moment of his reign until the tables were turned. Fear and anguish were his friends throughout the days since his fall.

When finally, he saw the glimpse of daylight and the warmth of noon as the doors finally open. Some men took him and gave him to a battered, beaten and wounded man to be carried somewhere he thought he would loathe all his life. He knew this isn't what he hoped for. The chamber felt like heaven for him compared to the shame of being carried by a man who is like a lamb ready to be slaughtered. Everyone's eyes were on the man. He knew those were on him too. And he knew those weren't looks of praise but of disgust. As if adding pain to insult, he was made to stand up on a cursed hill surrounded by angry mobs carrying the wounded man bound to him by nails on his hands and feet. The blood of the man trickled down his once glorious trunk.

"Lord, why have you made me like this?"

Not long after, after a loud cry, the man died. Then a strong earthquake shook the whole planet. He saw a Roman soldier bow down before the man and cried out that he was indeed the Son of God.

His shame was drained like the great waterfalls. His disgust and bitterness were washed away from him like a storm. The shame he thought that would end all his confidence turned out to be the greatest honor that anyone would have received, that is, to be able to carry the Son of God and clothed by his precious blood.

And so it was. The three trees did not achieve what they dreamed about.

But God made them into something that even their dreams couldn't fathom.

In Constant Battle

Can a seasoned warrior stay in battle for days without stopping? Surely they too must put a stop on their seemingly endless struggle for strength and victory.


So many days have gone by that I have been suffering an absence in my very own self. Maybe it's just a case of teenage intrapersonal battle raging from within. I don't have any mortal enemies in the people around me. My arch-rival--who is by the way, myself-- always gets me into thinking that maybe I was meant to fight off his self-destructive nature. I wasn't always so successful all the time.


I have won wars before. Mind games against other people was my hobby when I was still dead. I was never a genius but it was fun sometimes to be able to read the minds of my enemies. And yet, I do have limitations. The more I go on destroying other people's swagger, the more I sink myself in the quicksand that I have always avoided throughout those days. I never really have known my enemy back then. All I was aware of is that I'm battling the shadows of something yet unknown to the depth of my ignorance.


It felt like I have two 'selves' living in me. One was the ignorant and one was the wise--although I'm not yet fully wise but I have been fully ignorant. Paul of Tarsus was right when he said that the Spirit is in constant battle with the flesh. What one likes, the other hates. When one wins, the other one loses. And of course when one is hurt, I would also be hurt even though I love one and hate the other, after all, the two are in me.


It's tough to be caught between the battle. I'm in constant struggle to be purely on one side and not in the middle. I love the Spirit and I want to defeat my flesh, but sometimes it appeared to be the opposite. God forbid.


In those times, the Spirit taught me very important lessons. One was about emotions. I dislike emotions so much that I would do anything just to suppress myself from exposing myself to it. It's disappointing that battles against emotions do get a toll of me most of the time. Many people have stumbled simply because they treat their emotions as their master, unfortunately unaware. It's suicide to follow what your heart desires, for the heart is the most deceitful of all things and nothing can compare to it. It hurts to avoid doing what your heart wants you to do simply because you're aware that it's wrong. But hey, savor the victory because emotions are hard to defeat even with the toughest warriors in the planet and most importantly because you saved your butt from burning in hell.


Then there are the worthless cravings, indulgences and the like. As a slave begotten a son by the High King, I am soon to be a prince someday. Someday I would be living in total luxury in my Father's mansion in heaven, and then what, should I continue to enjoy myself playing with mud? By no means! But I am still incomplete, still in training. I feel a great disgust on myself whenever I run after things I don't want.


The thing is, no matter who you are-- rich or poor, tall or short, young or old-- you are in constant battle the moment you know who you are and who the enemy is. If you don't know the truth then you don't really know anything at all. You are on the losing side if you live in the dark. The battle was even tough on those who know the truth. How much more on those who don't?


So then, it was not easy for me. I took a side; trusted in my Master; and that's all that matters.


Victory.

Prayer in Trouble

Praise to you, Lord!

You called me amidst

the storm.

I will worship you

in my suffering.

I will praise you

in the storm.

You sent that to make me stronger

Like a candle in the dark,

Your mercy shines brighter

under the shadow of judgement

Your love radiates

around rings of hate.

Lord, though I am shaken,

you held me tight and

made me still.

I called you, Lord!

I called you on top of my lungs.

I can barely hear you

The thunder is so loud.

I can barely see you.

Because the rain is so thick

I can barely feel you.

I am covered in numbness.

And though my senses

fail me.

My strength now lost,

my will now dying,

I still know you are there.

The Cost of Faith

The heavens declare

your holiness, Father.

What is the worth of you

glory?
What can equal your price?

Nothing! For you, O Lord,

are priceless.

The wealth of the whole world

can never equal your value.

You are not even worth my life.

My life itself is worthless.

For I am but dust

from the lowly earth.

It was you who made me

as precious as diamonds.

It was your Son't blood that

lifted me up.

What can I give

that you have not given?

What can I let go

that you have not taken?

To my oppressors I say:

"Take away my wealth.

Take away my things.

Tear my house down!

Starve me from food.

Take away the ones I love.

Take away my life.

But you can;t take away my Jesus.

Do not abandon me, Father.

Do not forsake me.

For the cost of my faith

is not a timed prayer each day.

My faith cost me nothing

but a lifetime of praise 

to your Holy Name.

May my life, this broken life,

radiate your glory and

shower your love,

though the Spirit of your

beloved

who is within me.

The Lord Gives Joy

When I am down, the Lord

 lifts me up.

My Father loves me as his own.

He comforts me in my pain,

suffering and grief.

Lord God, thank you so much.

Thank you so much!

I rejoice in the presence of

the Lord.

Amidst the pain, I find

shelter in the Lord.

The enemy wants me down,

but my Father, the Lord

keeps me up.

His Word will never fade.

It is my assurance.

He gives my face a smile.

Indescribable joy.

I rejoice because the Lord

is my Father.

The Lord is my Strength

Lord, hear my desperate cry!

This is for your name. 

 Though they hurt me with 

their words,

They say that you

are not real,

I will praise you Lord with all

my being.

You sent me like a sheep

to a pack of wolves.

I do not fear

For you are my shepherd.

Watch over me, Eternal Master.

I am weak and helpless.

In the presence of my enemies,

I am alone and small.

They think they can

crush me.

They are giants!

You strengthened David,

your servant.

No doubt, you would

strengthen me, your child.

You are my strength, Lord.

Amen. Amen!

The Lord Provides

Lord, remember your promise 

to your servant David:

"I was young and now I am old,
       yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken
       or their children begging bread."

You O Lord are my provider.

You feed the birds in the sky.

You clothe the butterflies with

robes more colorful than that 

of Solomon's

Remember me, Father!

You have begotten me as 

your child.

I will not lack anything if

I only have you.

You see my needs O Father.

You know me more than

I know myself.

Protect the glory of your name Lord.

Don't let them say:

"Look! He is begging and

asking for money.

His God doesn't provide."

Don't let your enemies gloat

over you, my King.

They rely on their wealth alone,

those godless people.

Don't make them boast that 

they are more powerful than you.

They are consumed by greed.

All of the things Lord,

let you will be done.

The Lord's Battle

Lord, I am trembling.

Take hold of me.

I see myself as the enemy.

And you are my ally.

You drew the line of battle.

You light up my path.

I know which side to take.

In you there is victory.

The battle is in my head,

But the war is yours.

It is raging in my hands.

Lord, the victory is yours.

Though in the darkness of death,

I walk its path blind.

You light up my feet

To keep me from falling down.

So I have come to this time,

in the crossroads.

What have I to choose, Lord?

You have the choice.

It may be now or never.

I do not fear.

For I have you forever.

The Lord Helps

Oh Lord, King of the universe,

You come to my aid at times of need.

May your name be glorified

in the things you do. Be xalted.

The Lord helps me everytime.

He hears my desperate cry.

He calls out his ministering angels

to help me, his child.

The Lord fills me up with his Spirit

He enables me to battle

my human unbelief.

My Father calls me to his banquet

And I answer him:

"Yes Father, I am coming."

He runs to me instead

and carried me into his arms.

I am weak, Lord. I can't walk

in a holy place.

My feet hurt. I'm easily stumbled.

You gave me strength. For you, O Lord, 

are my strength.

My mighty Fortress, Strong Tower.

You never waste a moment.

So to you I rest my soul.

Rejoice O heaven!

The REAL Standard for REAL Men

 

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 Is it really about the brawn or the wits? Is it really about the intelligence or the number of girls running after you? 

^"Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment." Jn.7:24

Let's take this to court but no mere human can really set the standard for real men. Who else but God?

To start of, let us delve into the world of the layman--what the world established as a common standard measure of musculinity.

Gold. Wicked as the world is, money is the thing that's making its world go round. It seems like to a man, money can do the most help and pleasure to his miserable life. With money, he can buy anything to sink his teeth into. Perhaps it could somehow satisfy his insatiable hunger for lust and anything that his flesh could ever ask for.

Glory. Talking about bragging rights... To the world, the more "packs" a man has in his abdomen; the more muscles he has in his futile body; the more he passes the rare human standard of being handsome, the more he has the rights to brag about himself. Surely, every man in his childish thoughts wants to be worshiped for the strength he has, much like Nero in his hay-days.

Girls. Oh yeah. Those days of running away for the girls crazy about you surely would turn up the volume of every man's daydream. How could a politician win if he has no votes at all? In the same way, men cast their votes and quality by the number of girls under their arms. The more girls they entice with their own bravado, well... How 'manly' can they get especially if he brags with his homies the number of times he went to bed with his prey.

Muscle. Men can fight. If he knows Jujitsu, Tae Kwon Do, Kung Fu, Boxing, etc., he can establish his dominating presence among his peers because of his fighting swagger. Men would fear him and women would like to have someone like him to be their protector. His strength is in the way he fight. 

Now, on to the real standard.

The most handsome man to ever walk on earth was of course, Adam, the first man, since his looks were patterned exactly after the image of God.  

So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them. Gen. 1:27

He has a perfect DNA until he sinned and darkness reigned on earth since that day until the second Adam came, the same man who spoke about judging by real standards.

 Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come. Rom. 5:14

Real standards are not from earth but from heaven. It came not from the ones being judged but from the one who is worthy to be the judge, the one who created man. Here then is the real standard from heaven:

Not Muscle But Spirit.  It's not all about fighting back. Real men can control their emotions and let love to his brother overcome him rather than his anger. Man's real strength is not tested in his capability to fight nor his capability to forgive. Real men take the blows and turn the other cheek.

'But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.' Mat. 5:39

And after all, war is waging in this wicked world and the real warriors, the real strong men, don't fight against the flesh but against the wicked deceit of the Evil One.

'For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.' Eph. 6:12

Not Girls but Men. Happy is a man who, along with the Real Man, build the Kingdom of God by doing his part in bringing more souls to God. 

"Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men." Mk. 1:17

He leads men to the Righteous one not by means of force or deceit but by means of Truth. Parallel to the world's standard, the more souls a man reaps for heaven, the more apparent his glory will be upon the return of the Christ who started it all.

Not Glory but Surrender. A real man knows that he is nothing but a mere cosmic dust. He knows his insignificance compared to the enormous creation that is unfathomably vast. 

As for man, his days are like grass,

       he flourishes like a flower of the field;
  the wind blows over it and it is gone,
       and its place remembers it no more.
 But from everlasting to everlasting
       the LORD's love is with those who fear him,
       and his righteousness with their children's children- Ps. 103: 15-17

Man's real wisdom is in his acceptance of his foolishness and his dedication for the eternal wisdom of God.  It's not in the way he hates but in the way he loves. 

For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength. 1Cor. 1:25 

And it is not in the way he values his life but it is in the way he would lose it for his friends.

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. Jn. 15:13

Not Gold but GOD. What is money when you have everything in God? Every pleasure in this world would eventually fade and man's lust for worldly pleasure will never be satisfied. Joy is found in the Lord alone.

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,

   "Never will I leave you;
      never will I forsake you." Heb. 13:5

 A real man knows that real wealth is in his contentment of what he has. Blessed is a man who takes delight in the Lord for he shall be blessed.

More of these are found in the Word of the Almighty God, for He said:

Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and fair dealing [in every area and relation]; yes, you will understand every good path.
For skillful and godly Wisdom shall enter into your heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to you. Prov. 2:9-10

  

Judging by the real standards, ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH?