Feel the heat/ Thursday, July 27, 2006
this week have been pretty fine. minus all the tiredness&piles of school work. man, felt like such an influence. anyways, school work have really been catching up with me and im kinda breathless. endurance is the word. having mock exam again tmr, social studies.
oh guess what i miss. i miss meeting up with all of you. again i say, its such irony. how i feel tt we are suddenly so close & perhaps even the sense of belonging is there, we arent tt close actually. somehow i felt tt we cant really communicate properly. hahaa, when it comes to languages, the problems lies with me lah. hahaa, but i guess things are getting better now. =) and to say, i miss studying in church too. hahaa, but i want to be home, good girl eh.=)
and yes joanne, perfection in God's eyes.
something to share: the cave named failure.The hardest thing about being in the cave is that you begin to wonder whether God has lost track of you. Did He forget His promises? Does He remember where i am? Will i ever be anywhere nit in the cave? Will i die in here? There is one thing you need to know. the cave is where God does some of His best work in moulding and shaping human lives.Sometimes, when all the props and crutches in your life get stripped away and you find you have only God, you discover that God is enough. sometimes, when your worse fear of inadequacy are confirmed and you discover that you really are out of your league, you experience the liberation of realising that it is okay to be inadequate and that God wants His power to flow through your weakness.sometimes the cave is where you meet God, for God does some of His best work in caves. David knew about failure. He spent about ten years of his life in the wilderness on the run. From a human perspective it looked as if God's promises to him never come true. ..something else to share: soar, run and walk.
i think that sometimes in Jesus's life-as when He was on the Mount of Transfiguration or when he called his friend lazarus out of the tomb- Jesus soared. he rose so high in spirit that no one could keep up with him. He was in the jet stream.at other times- as when he wept over the defiance of Jesusalem, when he was frustrated with the slowness of his disciples, when he faced opposition of religious leaders- life was tougher. Yet he kept running. he did not turn aside from the course even when it ran uphill. he could run a long way.but when it came time to take the road to calvary, he wasnt soaring. when the cross was placed on his brusied and bleeding back, he wasnt running. He walked. he was a young man, but he stumbled and fell that day.all he could do was get back up and walk some more.sometimes, walking is all we could do.but in those times. walking is enough. maybe it is when life is the hardest, when we want so badly to quit, but say to God, " i wont quit, i'll keep putting one foot in front of the other. i'll take up my cross. i'll follow Jesus even on this road." maybe God prizes our walking even more than our soaring adnour running. in any case, at a cost that none of us will ever fully understand, Jesus walked up to calvary. He took upon Himself, on the cross, all the brokenness of the human race.this two short passages adapted from "if you want to walk on water, you've got to get out of the boat." encourages me much. i read them before and today when i suddenly took it out again,i flip and saw these. you know, God is always so faithful. He reminds of us of everything.
like what i shared with some of you before, i cant soar high now, cant even run with all my might, but im still walking. this phrase of mine comes from after reading the book. its really encouraging. and to assure, im still walking. and i know you will hold me accountable=)
in Christ the Lord, i placed my trust. and i found the glory in the power of the cross.
my souce of strength, source of hope.
yongling-g-putting one foot after the other in front.
you completed my life..
3:18 AM <3
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