A year gone by

11 “Who is like You, O LORD, among the gods?
Who is like You, glorious in holiness,
Fearful in praises, doing wonders?

12 You stretched out Your right hand;
The earth swallowed them.

13 You in Your mercy have led forth
The people whom You have redeemed;
You have guided them in Your strength
To Your holy habitation.

Exodus 15:11-13

Thank God for the year that has gone by. Countless blessing and this mere human just can't remember everything.

It has been a blessed year. God has taught me countless valuable lessons. I believe He has given me much grace, much wisdom in dealing with many issues.

Thank God for campus. Truly towards the end of the year, there has been glimpses of God's hand. And as such I look with anticipation of the new year ahead.

Thank God for the outreach 2 weeks ago. I do pray there are more. I pray that God will in His providence and sovereignity draw unbelievers into campus and bring them into His marvelous light.

Exodus 15 is the song of Moses, sang after the great conquest of the Eygptian army after the parting of the Red Sea and drowning them in one greatest act of nature's greatest miracle to date. The people of God greatly drew encouragement for this evident hand of God. On top of that no nation in recorded history have a mass migration of 2 million people. And God leads.

The mighty hand of God is the greatest encouragement to the greatest number of people. I pray in the new year ahead, may this be true of God in my life and in the lives of the people I know.

I look with great anticipation of what God can do and will do.

May His hand be greatly evident as we march in faith, trusting in God's inherent goodness.

Life is fragile

U walked in a dense forest and you stepped upon layers of leaves that are piled. Layers of decaying leaves.

These are lifeless leaves. Trampled on.
Life like the leaves are fragile.

I just read a blog, a christian girl, just 21...dignosed with cancer just this year in Apr and this morning, she passed away. She chose her orbituary photo just a few days before.

You read posts of hope of recovery to finally the despairing finale that death becomes imminent and a better end when the pain and suffering grew to its height.

The agony and hope, the despair and pain, the longing for healing and recovery, the road cannnot be described, only endured. The look that was once healthy to a sudden quicken degenerating to a sunken hollow due due to the ravages of chemotherapy.

I wonder why, does one have to suffer such intense pain and see the ultimate end as death.

Life is fragile. Suffering if I describe as transient seems to trivalise the pain this girl went through.

Sigh.

The pain and hurts she has endured is never something I can experience.

God as our end. That is what I feel gave her hope.

If it is not God as the end of her destination in this difficult journey, I cannot envision a hope that keeps her.

Life is fragile. Remember your Maker. There is no mistake.

Lord, prepare me to be a sanctuary

An incredibly reflective song..incredibly...

Weakness for strength

We often doesn't recognise the sinfulness of sin. The flesh has an allurement that sits itself to overwhelm the whole faculties of human existance with its dominion and its subtle assaults are often steath and silent.

Paul says in him dwell no good thing, meaning he is filled everwhere within himself, the vast influence of sin.

Yet Paul had an evidence of life that is consistently Christ.
Obedience is his life and trust in His life.

This worship is essential for overcoming the flesh. A thirst for His righteousness and a call to holiness of life.

It is a call to mourning and battle. A battle to abandon this no good thing with the Christ's victory with the presence and power of God with you. What better motivation do you need? An exaltation of Christ above all is that key that you must consistently open by the grace of His spirit to allow that wrestling with sin to be conquered by His calvery work of mortifying sin.

Would you, would you allow that?

Reflections - Tim Janis

I think this music piece is absolutely brilliant...there is grandeur, serenity and yes reflective...so aptly named as "Reflections"!



Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.