Tuesday, June 20, 2006 || \\/\//()rRy-|\\//|(-'-(/)oT
- The 1st wk of the term break has passed by so swiftly, and by the grace of God, he has brought me through w/ some of my homework done. Authoring assignment still bugs me though.
Haf been listening to many sermons which really encouraged me to push forward in the course I'm in. I've learnt one thing through all of this: God doesn't need us to excel in everything we do, but merely juz to do our best, and he will take care of the rest. The scriptures brought me some form of edification when I read this portion:
25 'Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 28 'So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 'Therefore do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "What shall we wear?" 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.' - Matt 6:35-34
The words of Jesus never fail, and I found such peace after heeding the above. A sermon led me to reading yet another portion of the scripture about Abraham's faith in the Lord:
'5Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?— 6 just as Abraham "believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." 7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.' - Galatians 6:5-7
I think wat God has been trying to drill into me this entire week was the need to juz simply trust Him. Wat I'm convicted of is this; that God's children should not be as stressed out as the ungodly, for it wouldn't be a testimony. I'm not saying that you should put aside all diligence and wait for results. I'm saying dat we should not be overwhelmed by circumstances until we start worrying about our future, and whether or not we can ultimately pull through or not. All God wants us to do is to surrender it all to Him in faith.
Like Abraham, sometimes God tells us to come out of the comfort zone [rmb dat Abram, then, had a call from God to juz come out from the country he lived in for many years and go to a land which he knew not of], or He tells us to do something ridiculous. We hesitate and start questioning God. It' human to do dat. We get over that conflict soon enough, but then some time later the enemy comes w/ a lingering qn, 'wat if...' S.A. Tan juz needs these 2 words to stir up unbelief in us and cause us to shake in our faith.
'Wat if... wat if... wat if...'
Unlike Abraham, we live in post-pentacostal times and posses the Holy Spirit, who's there whenever we need Him. Which is why Paul mentioned: 'Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead'(Philippians 3:13). Wat Paul is trying to say is dat, 'I may not be able to see wat I'm heading for, but I noe where I'm heading for!' Bros' and sis' in Christ, we all may be heading to another tomorrow in this sin-cursed Earth, where juz about everything is unpredicatable. Should these bother us, knowing dat, if we're genuinely saved, we're all going to finish in eternity w/ our Heavenly Father, whr he will reveal to us, in all his glory, all the help and grace dat was available to us through His angels and The Holy Spirit, and dat every worry we had on our minds were unnecessary?
God wants us give Him all our burdens 2day b4 He can cause us to haf peace. We dun haf to remove the worry in our own flesh [which is not possible], or by turning to any other source [which will ultimately fill us]. Juz cry out to God 2day and believe.
My parents finally returned from their China vacation 2day, and Thank God for bringing them home safely. My grandma's not feelin' too well, so it was timely for their return 2day. If my grandma were to suddenly get some sorta heart-attack or smth like dat, I'd probably be so unprepared.
Hahaz.
God is good.
Hopefully, I'll be able to fins my assignments ASAP so dat I can cut myself some slack for the rest of this wk, as well as freeing up some time for MTV filming this wk. Juz too bad when the sun-set came so quickly while we filmed the outdoor scene on Sun.
Peace out & GB.
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