I just completed my last paper yesterday. Yay! If you were to ask me how do I feel after I finished my paper, I was relieved and happy at first... and then I started thinking of what I should do to fill up my time before I start working.
It's time to catch up on my readings, time to pack up my stuff and move house, time to reflect on the past year and plan on how to improve in 2012..
I'm excited for a change. A new phase in life.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
A passage from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers. Let me know what you think =)
"Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God" (1 Cor 10:31)
Beware of allowing yourself to think that the shallow aspects of life are not ordained by God; they are ordained by Him equally as much as the profound. We sometimes refuse to be shallow, not out of our deep devotion to God but because we wish to impress other people with the fact that we are not shallow. This is a sure sign of spiritual pride. We must be careful, for this is how contempt for others is produced in our lives. And it causes us to be a walking rebuke to other people because they are more shallow than we are. Beware of posing as a profound person- God became a baby.
To be shallow is not a sign of being sinful, nor is shallowness an indication that there is no depth to you life at all- the ocean has a shore. Even the shallow things of life, such as eating and drinking, walking and talking, are ordained by God. These are all things our Lord did. He did them as the Son of God, and He said, "A disciple is not above his teacher..." (Matt 10:24)
We are safeguarded by the shallow things of life. We have to live the surface, commonsense life in a commonsense way. Then when God gives us the deeper things, they are obviously separated from the shallow concerns.Never show the depth of your life to anyone but God. We are so nauseatingly serious, so desperately interested in our own character and reputation, we refuse to behave like Christians in the shallow concerns of life.
Make a determination to take no one seriously except God. You may find that the first person you must be the most critical with, as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.
"Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God" (1 Cor 10:31)
Beware of allowing yourself to think that the shallow aspects of life are not ordained by God; they are ordained by Him equally as much as the profound. We sometimes refuse to be shallow, not out of our deep devotion to God but because we wish to impress other people with the fact that we are not shallow. This is a sure sign of spiritual pride. We must be careful, for this is how contempt for others is produced in our lives. And it causes us to be a walking rebuke to other people because they are more shallow than we are. Beware of posing as a profound person- God became a baby.
To be shallow is not a sign of being sinful, nor is shallowness an indication that there is no depth to you life at all- the ocean has a shore. Even the shallow things of life, such as eating and drinking, walking and talking, are ordained by God. These are all things our Lord did. He did them as the Son of God, and He said, "A disciple is not above his teacher..." (Matt 10:24)
We are safeguarded by the shallow things of life. We have to live the surface, commonsense life in a commonsense way. Then when God gives us the deeper things, they are obviously separated from the shallow concerns.Never show the depth of your life to anyone but God. We are so nauseatingly serious, so desperately interested in our own character and reputation, we refuse to behave like Christians in the shallow concerns of life.
Make a determination to take no one seriously except God. You may find that the first person you must be the most critical with, as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.
Monday, November 7, 2011
A retreat
I just came home from my Sub Zone retreat with the other leaders from my sub zone. It was a refreshing time to just relax and enjoy one another's company =)
We had water sports at the Mines. Currently body aches but yesterday was great fun.. I can say I'm less afraid of the water if I'm provided with a float. Okay, I must learn how to swim. heh.
BBQ at night and just playing until we're tired. Morning devotion and breakfast together, then played some more until it's time to say bye bye to our holiday...
Rest is good.
We had water sports at the Mines. Currently body aches but yesterday was great fun.. I can say I'm less afraid of the water if I'm provided with a float. Okay, I must learn how to swim. heh.
BBQ at night and just playing until we're tired. Morning devotion and breakfast together, then played some more until it's time to say bye bye to our holiday...
Rest is good.
Mission Trip
I miss the children at Raub, the villages on the hills, cooking and chatting with the women on the villages...
(this is a super overdue post)
I went to Raub a couple of weeks ago and I was expecting the worst: Getting insect bites, leeches, not being able to sleep or bathe, feeling extremely tired.. etc. HOWEVER it turned out to be a trip that I will never forget (in a good way hehe).
The children at the center were lovely. They enjoyed our company and the little things that we do. They are happy even if we don't do much but just play with the bubble gun. *blow bubbles*
I don't know if I have left my footprint in their hearts, but they have certainly left theirs in mine.
(this is a super overdue post)
I went to Raub a couple of weeks ago and I was expecting the worst: Getting insect bites, leeches, not being able to sleep or bathe, feeling extremely tired.. etc. HOWEVER it turned out to be a trip that I will never forget (in a good way hehe).
The children at the center were lovely. They enjoyed our company and the little things that we do. They are happy even if we don't do much but just play with the bubble gun. *blow bubbles*
There's one lil boy name Shadan who truly touched my heart (lil boy on the left of the pic). You can't see from this pic, but he walks with his hands because his legs were amputated when he was young. I managed get to know him more while the rest of the children were having their telematch. Hope he is well!
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Thank you
I had a nice Friday. Managed to catch up with Sther and Hann over late breakfast. Awesome people who will do great things for God in future.
Thanks sther for praying with me. I felt a lot free-er, I have new perspective. Love to pray and worship with you! Missed numi and blene... =(
And thank you Keith, my zone supervisor for tonight's Bible Study lesson. Really learned so much through the Word of God and through the discussion.
My faith was enlarged today! I'm smiling ear to ear. Sther, now I understand why just now you said you were happy haha.
Thanks sther for praying with me. I felt a lot free-er, I have new perspective. Love to pray and worship with you! Missed numi and blene... =(
And thank you Keith, my zone supervisor for tonight's Bible Study lesson. Really learned so much through the Word of God and through the discussion.
My faith was enlarged today! I'm smiling ear to ear. Sther, now I understand why just now you said you were happy haha.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
The missionary's goal
This is one of the devotion from My Utmost for His Highest - Oswald Chambers. As it has blessed me, I pray that you will be blessed too =) Don't forget that the more busy you are, the more you ought to spend time praying and reading the Bible.
In our natural life our ambitions change as we grow, but in the Christian life the goal is given at the very beginning, and the beginning and the end are exactly the same, namely, our Lord Himself. We start with Christ and we end with Him - "... till we all come ... to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ ..." (Eph 4:13), not simply to our own idea of what the Christian life should be. The goal of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful or to win the lost. A missionary is useful and he does win the lost, but that is not his goal. His goal is to do the will of his Lord.
In our Lord's life, Jerusalem was the place where He reached the culmination of His Father's will upon the cross, and unless we go there with Jesus we will have no friendship or fellowship with Him. Nothing ever diverted our Lord on His way to Jerusalem. He never hurried through certain villages where He was persecuted, or lingered in others where He was blessed. Neither gratitude nor ingratitude turned our Lord even the slightest degree away from His purpose to go "up to Jerusalem" (Luke 18:31)
"A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master" (Matt 10:24). In other words, the same things that happened to our Lord will happen to us on our way to our "Jerusalem". There will be works of God exhibited through us, people will get blessed, and one or two will show gratitude while the rest will show total ingratitude, but nothing must divert us from our "up to (our) Jerusalem".
"...there they crucified Him..." (Luke 23:33). That is what happened when our Lord reached Jerusalem, and that event is the doorway to our salvation. The saints, however, do not end in crucifixion; by the Lord's grace they end in glory. In the meantime our watchword should be summed up by each of us saying, "I too go 'up to Jerusalem.' "
In our natural life our ambitions change as we grow, but in the Christian life the goal is given at the very beginning, and the beginning and the end are exactly the same, namely, our Lord Himself. We start with Christ and we end with Him - "... till we all come ... to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ ..." (Eph 4:13), not simply to our own idea of what the Christian life should be. The goal of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful or to win the lost. A missionary is useful and he does win the lost, but that is not his goal. His goal is to do the will of his Lord.
In our Lord's life, Jerusalem was the place where He reached the culmination of His Father's will upon the cross, and unless we go there with Jesus we will have no friendship or fellowship with Him. Nothing ever diverted our Lord on His way to Jerusalem. He never hurried through certain villages where He was persecuted, or lingered in others where He was blessed. Neither gratitude nor ingratitude turned our Lord even the slightest degree away from His purpose to go "up to Jerusalem" (Luke 18:31)
"A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master" (Matt 10:24). In other words, the same things that happened to our Lord will happen to us on our way to our "Jerusalem". There will be works of God exhibited through us, people will get blessed, and one or two will show gratitude while the rest will show total ingratitude, but nothing must divert us from our "up to (our) Jerusalem".
"...there they crucified Him..." (Luke 23:33). That is what happened when our Lord reached Jerusalem, and that event is the doorway to our salvation. The saints, however, do not end in crucifixion; by the Lord's grace they end in glory. In the meantime our watchword should be summed up by each of us saying, "I too go 'up to Jerusalem.' "
Monday, September 5, 2011
Beautiful
How beautiful are the arms which have embraced Christ...
the eyes which have gazed upon Christ, the lips which have spoken with Christ, the feet which have followed Christ. How beautiful are the hands which have worked for the works of Christ, the feet which are treading in His footsteps have gone about doing good, the lips which have spread abroad His name, the lives which have been counted loss for Him.
- Christina Rosetti, 1880
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