Finally said certain today in the office to which I would otherwise not have said.
At least it is a load off my mind.
Can at least said I am happier.
I began to be more clear on my future directions already. For that I must Thank God tremendousbly. It is taking shape more.
Took out my guitar again and strum...got a short tune this time round. Guess it reflect how I am thinking right now..got it recorded down again as another snippet tune, perhaps to be used again next time.
It is 12:43am. Time to sleep..and I am feeling very sleepy. This has indeed been a long day. I dunno whether when I read this post again, I will remember the things that happened today. It has been eventful. I spoke to a friend today online and said that today felt like there was a ton of brick that fell.
Ya...Perhaps I have over weigh the magnitude of the problem but it was indeed how I felt at that moment. I think I am speaking in parables.
I realise I am more melanchonic as I age. The things I wrote when I am in my teenage years, my young adults are drastically different. So different.
When I am young, I write things more imaginative and more chirpy. When I was a young adult, I begin to write things that reflective on incidences. Now I have entered the 3rd decade of my life, well, I am more mellowed. I think there is a sense of both reflective and pragmatism in the way I think and write.
Well, time to sleep. Great is Thy faithfulness, morning by morning new mercies I see, all I have needed, Thou has provided, Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me. These was said by Jerimiah 3000 years ago. I hope I say that in the morning and praise my God.
Goodnight.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Ponder
There are times when you begin to really think hard about life final destiny.
At work, there are some things I am pondering about. Some form of enticement are coming. But it is not these I find my heart having any affinity towards.
In a way, there is a tug to seems to wean me away from all these. I really hope to put down my work and then starts life afresh with a new endeavour.
I am doing well at my work but why such restlessness, I ask?
This week has been quite a week, given the turmoil with some unfavourable news that came through. Yet the amazing thing is, God gave the grace for me to find peace and settlement in Him, even though I had initially difficulty but I believe because of how God has led in time past, there is a quiet confidence.
Much has happened and more will come. Perhaps the greatest hunger anyone is to strive to accompllish in life, is to find joy in satisfaction with one's life. No man gets comforted by things at his bedside at his time of death. Ultimately, it is his eternal destiny that he must come to grip. I realise that the one thing that really comforts is a God that loves ...and that forgiveness in His mercy, puts divine lifting of sin weight down to weightlessness would perhaps be the most realest comfort when I lie in my deathbed and realising the desinty of my soul is to return to the God that made me yet will recieve me into His everlasting abode because of Him who slayed His son. I cannot imagine. I cannot exalt anything else any higher except God. Christ in all in all. What love is that? Divine.
The one thing, the one act that affirms this would be my life must be lived in such a way that it would truly glorify God.
I need His grace to fulfil that.
Give me the highest humility that I might fulfil that. God this is what I ask. You.
At work, there are some things I am pondering about. Some form of enticement are coming. But it is not these I find my heart having any affinity towards.
In a way, there is a tug to seems to wean me away from all these. I really hope to put down my work and then starts life afresh with a new endeavour.
I am doing well at my work but why such restlessness, I ask?
This week has been quite a week, given the turmoil with some unfavourable news that came through. Yet the amazing thing is, God gave the grace for me to find peace and settlement in Him, even though I had initially difficulty but I believe because of how God has led in time past, there is a quiet confidence.
Much has happened and more will come. Perhaps the greatest hunger anyone is to strive to accompllish in life, is to find joy in satisfaction with one's life. No man gets comforted by things at his bedside at his time of death. Ultimately, it is his eternal destiny that he must come to grip. I realise that the one thing that really comforts is a God that loves ...and that forgiveness in His mercy, puts divine lifting of sin weight down to weightlessness would perhaps be the most realest comfort when I lie in my deathbed and realising the desinty of my soul is to return to the God that made me yet will recieve me into His everlasting abode because of Him who slayed His son. I cannot imagine. I cannot exalt anything else any higher except God. Christ in all in all. What love is that? Divine.
The one thing, the one act that affirms this would be my life must be lived in such a way that it would truly glorify God.
I need His grace to fulfil that.
Give me the highest humility that I might fulfil that. God this is what I ask. You.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The way of the world
Luke 16:1-13
The Parable of the Unjust Steward
1 He also said to His disciples: “There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and an accusation was brought to him that this man was wasting his goods. 2 So he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.’
3 “Then the steward said within himself, ‘What shall I do? For my master is taking the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg. 4 I have resolved what to do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.’
5 “So he called every one of his master’s debtors to him, and said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 6 And he said, ‘A hundred measures[a] of oil.’ So he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ 7 Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ So he said, ‘A hundred measures[b] of wheat.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ 8 So the master commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light.
9 “And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail,[c] they may receive you into an everlasting home. 10 He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much. 11 Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who will give you what is your own?
13 “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
I am surprised after reading this for my quiet time on Mon that I would have an encounter that enforces this. A day after reading.
I am not recollecting here what happened just that it peeves my heart to see people stooping so low to con money from people. I didn't take the offer simply because I don't see the thing as a need. I guess I have always remind myself not to commit to things easily without careful deliberation. I discover about this scam only later through checking on the internet.The scam is a very smart scam coz I spoke to my friend at CAD about the whole thing and he said the way the company do it, they seems to have cover the legal loopholes not to get caught.
Well, Luke 16 is a interesting passage. It speaks of an unjust steward who uses his wisdom, and his wisdom is a scheme to gain his own advantange that he would still find favour among other even when he get the sack. v8a tells us the master is like the steward as he approves his doing. And Christ made a comment that "For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light." He contrasts an evil master and his steward using the lure of money to do things that are not ethical and in this case use money to buy their own favour. But Christ exalts believer to be different in that we will use our wealth for a good reason and even be wise about it, that is that our stewardship of our wealth should be for righteous purposes, and that the eventuality is to bring people to Christ. v10-13 encourage that we must be faithful and faith is to be singular. Man are so prone to temptation that he is toss through and fro by temptation and especially our heart is easily divided. And Christ directed our heart to this deceit. Abide in the temporal will see the death of self. So it must as Christian, as Christ calls out to everyone who believe in Him to follow Him, we must work our heart towards that singular pursuit.
In the book of James says in James 4:4, "You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God." The lesson that I encounter peeves my heart to realise how man when left to their own viles can stoop to such deceit and allow their greed of money to be their means to their ends. They follow their heart, their flesh, their desires, the ways of the world and be rule under the dominion of the evil one. Sad. O Christ, if not for thy grace will I see thy light and to know thy mercy.
What a grief to realise what people do. Sad.
The Parable of the Unjust Steward
1 He also said to His disciples: “There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and an accusation was brought to him that this man was wasting his goods. 2 So he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.’
3 “Then the steward said within himself, ‘What shall I do? For my master is taking the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg. 4 I have resolved what to do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.’
5 “So he called every one of his master’s debtors to him, and said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 6 And he said, ‘A hundred measures[a] of oil.’ So he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ 7 Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ So he said, ‘A hundred measures[b] of wheat.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ 8 So the master commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light.
9 “And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail,[c] they may receive you into an everlasting home. 10 He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much. 11 Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who will give you what is your own?
13 “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
I am surprised after reading this for my quiet time on Mon that I would have an encounter that enforces this. A day after reading.
I am not recollecting here what happened just that it peeves my heart to see people stooping so low to con money from people. I didn't take the offer simply because I don't see the thing as a need. I guess I have always remind myself not to commit to things easily without careful deliberation. I discover about this scam only later through checking on the internet.The scam is a very smart scam coz I spoke to my friend at CAD about the whole thing and he said the way the company do it, they seems to have cover the legal loopholes not to get caught.
Well, Luke 16 is a interesting passage. It speaks of an unjust steward who uses his wisdom, and his wisdom is a scheme to gain his own advantange that he would still find favour among other even when he get the sack. v8a tells us the master is like the steward as he approves his doing. And Christ made a comment that "For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light." He contrasts an evil master and his steward using the lure of money to do things that are not ethical and in this case use money to buy their own favour. But Christ exalts believer to be different in that we will use our wealth for a good reason and even be wise about it, that is that our stewardship of our wealth should be for righteous purposes, and that the eventuality is to bring people to Christ. v10-13 encourage that we must be faithful and faith is to be singular. Man are so prone to temptation that he is toss through and fro by temptation and especially our heart is easily divided. And Christ directed our heart to this deceit. Abide in the temporal will see the death of self. So it must as Christian, as Christ calls out to everyone who believe in Him to follow Him, we must work our heart towards that singular pursuit.
In the book of James says in James 4:4, "You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God." The lesson that I encounter peeves my heart to realise how man when left to their own viles can stoop to such deceit and allow their greed of money to be their means to their ends. They follow their heart, their flesh, their desires, the ways of the world and be rule under the dominion of the evil one. Sad. O Christ, if not for thy grace will I see thy light and to know thy mercy.
What a grief to realise what people do. Sad.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Spiritual Maturity
Prerequisite to spiritual growth is your view to Bible study and that is that you know what it says. You have to hold it high and learn what it says. There are no shortcuts. There are no shortcuts. Spiritual maturity is related to the application of truth, is it not? Spiritual blessing isn't something you get zapped with while you're just wandering through a revival tent. It doesn't happen that way. It's not something that's going to happen to you because a sermon was a real zinger and captivated you. You may have a momentary working of God in your heart, but spiritual
maturity and spiritual growth is the long-haul process of the application of divine truth in your life.
It calls for meditating on it day and night. It calls for observing to do everything that is in it. And then you begin to make your way prosperous and have good success. It doesn't happen in short spurts. It doesn't happen with ecstatic event. True spiritual development, true spiritual growth is just like human growth, it is a process fed by nourishment. And that nourishment is the Word of God. Jesus said, "Sanctify them by Thy truth, Thy Word is truth." Sanctification doesn't happen in a stadium, at a big rally. Sanctification doesn't happen at a camp somewhere where somebody gave a message that grabbed your heart.
Sanctification is a long-haul process by which someone is matured into Christ's likeness through the intake and the living out of the understanding of divine truth. So we must learn then what the Scripture says and then we can begin to make a deeper effort to understand what it means by what it says. And that puts it into the fabric of our life and allows us to begin to live it out.
(Adapted from John MacArthur - What it takes to study God's word)
How true...
maturity and spiritual growth is the long-haul process of the application of divine truth in your life.
It calls for meditating on it day and night. It calls for observing to do everything that is in it. And then you begin to make your way prosperous and have good success. It doesn't happen in short spurts. It doesn't happen with ecstatic event. True spiritual development, true spiritual growth is just like human growth, it is a process fed by nourishment. And that nourishment is the Word of God. Jesus said, "Sanctify them by Thy truth, Thy Word is truth." Sanctification doesn't happen in a stadium, at a big rally. Sanctification doesn't happen at a camp somewhere where somebody gave a message that grabbed your heart.
Sanctification is a long-haul process by which someone is matured into Christ's likeness through the intake and the living out of the understanding of divine truth. So we must learn then what the Scripture says and then we can begin to make a deeper effort to understand what it means by what it says. And that puts it into the fabric of our life and allows us to begin to live it out.
(Adapted from John MacArthur - What it takes to study God's word)
How true...
Thursday, September 18, 2008
My Life is in You Lord
A song I heard years back but heard it again on Youtube.
Nice tune :)
My Life is in You Lord
Written by: Daniel Gardner
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G
My life is in you, Lord
Em
My strength is in you, Lord
C G D
My hope is in you, Lord, in you, it's in you
(repeat)
C D G
I will praise you with all of my life
C D G
I will praise you with all of my strength
D G
With all of my life
E Am
With all of my strength
F Am7 D C G
All of my hope is in you!
Nice tune :)
My Life is in You Lord
Written by: Daniel Gardner
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G
My life is in you, Lord
Em
My strength is in you, Lord
C G D
My hope is in you, Lord, in you, it's in you
(repeat)
C D G
I will praise you with all of my life
C D G
I will praise you with all of my strength
D G
With all of my life
E Am
With all of my strength
F Am7 D C G
All of my hope is in you!
Monday, September 15, 2008
Brunei Darussalam - 14 and 15 Sep 08
A sleepy town, and a small one. Yet the pace of life tells you life can exist without hectic and hassle. Glad to meet up with Ronald and made friends with some Bruneian Counterparts at work also. Thank God for this short but restful trip.
Kampung Air...the kampung village by Brunei River.
Sultan Mosque. No building in Brunei can be taller than this building.
A park near the city. Comes with a waterfall that is running low on utilities.
Ronald and Me in CheezBox. He drank black pearl tea while I settled for mango tea. Met his wife and his very lovely and cute daughter in his house.
Hotel Empire. Built like a palace by the Royal Family. Overlook the Sea and surrounded by pearly white beach. Simply awesome. Simply enchanting. Have a very nicely landscaped swimming pool which u can swim up to the drink bar. Superbly amazing, the concept. A very potential holidaying destination one day. Except for the room rate...it will remain a distant memory...Took loads of pics there...here are some of the selected ones.
No pictures of food though Ronald brought me to a very nice Chinese Restaurant. Pork knuckles and Curry Fish Head were really nice. Just pictures of sceneries - at least for a change.
Kampung Air...the kampung village by Brunei River.
Sultan Mosque. No building in Brunei can be taller than this building.
A park near the city. Comes with a waterfall that is running low on utilities.
Ronald and Me in CheezBox. He drank black pearl tea while I settled for mango tea. Met his wife and his very lovely and cute daughter in his house.
Hotel Empire. Built like a palace by the Royal Family. Overlook the Sea and surrounded by pearly white beach. Simply awesome. Simply enchanting. Have a very nicely landscaped swimming pool which u can swim up to the drink bar. Superbly amazing, the concept. A very potential holidaying destination one day. Except for the room rate...it will remain a distant memory...Took loads of pics there...here are some of the selected ones.
No pictures of food though Ronald brought me to a very nice Chinese Restaurant. Pork knuckles and Curry Fish Head were really nice. Just pictures of sceneries - at least for a change.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Who is Jesus?
Tonight Rev Stephen Tong spoke on the morality of Christ.
Perhaps we have not understood what God meant when He said in Isaiah, the Holy one of God. Innocent, righteous He is. Only God can live a perfect life, yet as man, was with temptation but He has perfect morality. Even Judas who betrayed Christ would still give glory to God, saying He has killed an innocent.
Indeed. Tonight Rev Tong has again exalted Christ for who He is. Listen to God, Rev Tong said, we shouldn't be always talk to God. Choose to spend more time to listen. God has more to speak than we do. He is the way.
So refreshing to listen to a preacher who preached and exalt Christ. The truth.
Shouldn't miss an opportunity to see Christ lifted up.
Bring your unsaved friends. Christ, the Saviour of the World. Light of the World. The Word.
Visit the rally url at http://www.stemi.org.sg/whoisjesus/
There is a bus that shuttle from Kallang MRT to indoor stadium before the rally and after the rally.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Flying
Flying off in less than a week. Sad, that it is a mad rush and rush back. But at least will meet a long time friend :) Happy Mid Autumn Festival, everyone. I won't be in Singapore.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Yosemite
What a wish to be back there again.
Visited Yosemite 4 years ago. Next year, hope to stay at least 3 days there.
Visited Yosemite 4 years ago. Next year, hope to stay at least 3 days there.
7 years up
Hehe, seven years pass..woa...just how time flies.
7 years in my first job, that is just how quickly time swapped by. Zapped by. The ratrace of life. Fast and Furious.
John Piper relates this "You only have one life. You have only one crack at it" How real the stuff that we carry in life are so minnow in light of what we have in eternity. Recently heard a couple more cases of people with cancer. Wonder whether hearing this really hit me. Life I may say is transient. But have I internalise that reality.
I need to examine again.
Radical change I feel is needed. Be my own terrorist and lift up this comfort zone.
Only one life, better dun waste it.
7 years in my first job, that is just how quickly time swapped by. Zapped by. The ratrace of life. Fast and Furious.
John Piper relates this "You only have one life. You have only one crack at it" How real the stuff that we carry in life are so minnow in light of what we have in eternity. Recently heard a couple more cases of people with cancer. Wonder whether hearing this really hit me. Life I may say is transient. But have I internalise that reality.
I need to examine again.
Radical change I feel is needed. Be my own terrorist and lift up this comfort zone.
Only one life, better dun waste it.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Some things pondered
Failure is not falling down, but refusing to get up. Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to that error that counts.
Proverbs 24:16
For a righteous man may fall seven times And rise again, But the wicked shall fall by calamity.
Proverbs 24:16
For a righteous man may fall seven times And rise again, But the wicked shall fall by calamity.
Monday, September 1, 2008
当你孤单你会想起谁
你的心情总在飞
什么事都要去追
想抓住一点安慰
你总是喜欢在人群中徘徊
你最害怕孤单的滋味
你的心那么脆,一碰就会碎
经不起一点风吹
你的身边总是要许多人陪
你最害怕每天的天黑
但是天总会黑,人总要离别
谁也不能 永远陪谁
而孤单的滋味,谁都要面对
不只是你我会感觉到疲惫
Chorus
当你孤单你会想起谁
你想不想找个人来陪
你的快乐伤悲只有我能体会
让我再陪你走一回
什么事都要去追
想抓住一点安慰
你总是喜欢在人群中徘徊
你最害怕孤单的滋味
你的心那么脆,一碰就会碎
经不起一点风吹
你的身边总是要许多人陪
你最害怕每天的天黑
但是天总会黑,人总要离别
谁也不能 永远陪谁
而孤单的滋味,谁都要面对
不只是你我会感觉到疲惫
Chorus
当你孤单你会想起谁
你想不想找个人来陪
你的快乐伤悲只有我能体会
让我再陪你走一回
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