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(Proverbs 31:25-26)
"She is clothed with strength and dignity; She can laugh at the days to come.
She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue." |
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| Sunday, July 30, 2006 |
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Be forewarned that the following clips is rather... er.... CUTESY!
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| Monday, July 24, 2006 |
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something i drew after my quiet time... we are to be the salt and the light of the world... and God is light... do we turn our faces to the light... sorry for the poor standard of drawing... seemed to lost my touch. :P
Labels: in creative mode |
| ranted by Jerraine @ 11:26 PM |
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| Saturday, July 08, 2006 |
| A meeting between a queen and God |
Below is a short exercept of a conversation between a queen and God. Be forewarned that you might find some parts discomforting.
Q stands for queen. G stands for (duh!) God.
Q: Hi dearest Heavenly Father who creates a new sunrise and sunset everyday just for me! How's Heaven today? I have been feeling rather tired lately... Think it's the MS kicking in... How ah? Is it possible to take this fatigue away from me? Yeah yeah... I know that in Psalms 55 that I am supposed to cast all my burdens and cares onto you... how should I unload?
G: (silence)
Q: *inspirations stikes* Okies! Thanks for giving me that inspirations! (Proceeds to
find a big plastic bag.) okay I have paper and pen. (starts scribbling down all the worries in the Queen's mind)
- some time passes -
Q: okay... I have finished writing liao... (packs all the worries into the plastic bag) (takes bag and tied it up and proceeds to the common rubbish chute) Nah! Byebye! Bye Emotional Baggage a)! Bye Emotional Baggage b)! (of course, these are said NOT aloud...)
G: Well, my child, throwing all these away are but a step. You have to regularly learn how to pack these emotional/mental baggage. If you don't, all these clutter in your brain will soon creep out and disturb your daily thinking. Do not underestimate the negativity of these baggage. Do remember that Jesus has provided the best 'rubbish chute' for you. A rubbish chute where all these rubbish will no longer take up any space anywhere. Will leave no pollution behind. Will leave no traces. But you just have to unload it to me...
Q: okay... will try to remember to do this more often!!!!
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| Thursday, July 06, 2006 |
| Happy Life or Holy Life? |
About Rick Warren
You will enjoy the new insights that Rick Warren has, with his wife now having cancer and him having "wealth" from the book sales.
This is an absolutely incredible short interview with Rick Warren, "Purpose Driven Life" author and pastor of Saddleback Church in California.
In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said:
People ask me, what is the purpose of life? And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven.
One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body-- but not the end of me.
I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal.
God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity. We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense.
Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one.
The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort.
God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.
We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness.
This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer.
I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore.
Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life.
No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on.
And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.
You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems.
If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, "which is my problem, my issues, my pain."
But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.
We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her.
It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people.
You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life. Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy.
It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease.
So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72.
First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases.
Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church.
Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation.
Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.
We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity?
Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)?
When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD. Difficult moments, SEEK GOD. Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD. Painful moments, TRUST GOD. Every moment, THANK GOD.
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Mine thoughts:
Though this article is short but it really reminded me about how much God don't wish me to do things just for doing's sake especially since I'm a person inclined to be self-reliant (in other words, unwilling to surrender to God's will heh). And the analogy of the railroad tracks was very close to my heart as I am facing something bad and good in my life presently as well. :) And what was hard for me to digest initially is how much more God wants my life to be holy than be happy.
So how are we living our lives? Are we making an effort to live a Jesus-centered life and derive happiness from doing that? Or an effort to lead a happy life with Jesus on the periphery? |
| ranted by Jerraine @ 2:01 PM |
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