Bible.
POSTED ON: 29 June 2013 @ 11:41 PM | 0 comments
Came across this video on persecution. This man was persecuted because the military government in Laos thought that this man was a American spy . But he was spreading the Word of God which often confused for spreading Westernism or Americanism (still very much relevant today).
This is based on the the real story and this man will take any minutes he can to read the Bible in the prison. He was beaten, was pointed gun on his head for 10 over years. He stated this, ' I can stand being beaten, starved but I cannot live without the Word of God.'. He went on saying that he was afraid of forgetting the verses as years flies because of not reading the Bible.
And I was thinking to myself, ' How many times did I read my Bible today?' . This man that I mentioned LOVE the Word of God so much that he was beaten because he wanted to read the Bible. And I am ashamed to say that I put the Word of God aside because of what? Facebook? Breakfast? Sleep?
I think it is kind of true that we will never really learn to appreciate until it is taken away. But now I know that Bible is there and is free and I am not persecuted for reading it..I think I really need to learn to equip myself. To read BIBLE and LOVE the Word of God.
For someone like me who is soooo soooo lack of discipline, it's advisable to set time apart to truly understand the truth in Bible. It's not about you know, rules and laws ..but you know commitment sometimes needs effort too. And if I truly understand the love of God, I would be empowered to do the things He wants...to read the Word of God for my best interest. :)
I love the ending statement too, ' What would you do for a Bible?'...Come to think of it, many times we take things for granted. But it is never to late to realise this , aren't we? Let's start today. Let's be a Word-based Christian that applies the Word in our lives too! :)
'Take the Word of God with you as you go. Take the seeds of God's word and make them grow. '
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Thank you. :)
POSTED ON: 27 June 2013 @ 11:06 PM | 0 comments
''Packing is a little bit different this time; I am packing memories as well.''
I know this day will arrive. This day where this university life will come to an end. I still remember my mother sent me to this island and I cried when she went back alone and was grateful she made a trip here. I cried to her telling her that I have no friend. I cried because I was alone. How time flies.
Today, I know if I cry...I cry of joy because my God supplies all the needs that He knows I need in this university---- He gave me everything that made this university chapter such a worthwhile chapter. How I have grown towards Him, how I have grown to love people around me...this things I will never never never see myself as, three years ago. Marvellous things He did and transformed in me.
I know the road ahead could be a little bit stormy and windy. I know with all the doubts and uncertainties I may fall but I choose to live with Him and for Him. I believe that everything that I've learnt here , it will be enough for me to move forward for the next chapter. A friend of mine wrote this to me, 'I will let you go because I know God has in-stored so much more for you, for your journey ahead.'
There you go, I am leaving this place with the heart of gratefulness and joy because of my God who is ever faithful and my friends that never stop encouraging and draw me close to our God each day. :) I know that even in times of trouble in the future, I will look back, looking at this chapter and reminisce the works and love my Father had done and shown through the people around me and will preserve and finish strong with my eyes set upon Him and continue establishing His kingdom with actions of love.
With this, see you again people! It's never goodbye! Thank you so much for even in every little things you have done.
Your love, LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.
(Psalm 36:5)
Labels: adventure, beautiful, blessed. graduation, friendship, God, kawan sejati, university
Leaving.
POSTED ON: 21 June 2013 @ 12:20 AM | 0 comments
Leaving everything behind is never easy. Separation from the ones you love is not easy. Life will be different indeed. But here is to everything we ever did and done. *lift up my cup of plain water*...For all the craziness, laughter , jokes , lameness...all the memories we created. Just want to tell you , that you are loved even after this. Life in university would never be the same without you. Thank you for always always always always... loving me for who I am! :')
''Leaving everything behind is never easy, but leaving knowing you are loved and valued by the people who went through everything with you, is indeed something you take with and KEEP in your whole life. :')''
Labels: birthday, blessed. graduation, friendship, God, kawan sejati, random, university
A reason.
POSTED ON: 16 June 2013 @ 5:53 PM | 1 comments
I think in life, when we cannot stand someone or we were irritated by someone...naturally our human mind will lashes out all the negative thoughts about the person. For example, 'Why couldn't he/she be more mature? Things are simple isn't it? ; 'Why does he/she has to be so mean to me?' ; 'What makes he/her hates me or treat me like this?' ; ' Why did I do to deserve such a treatment?'; 'Why he/she has to act out like that?' ...and the list goes on and on.
It is true that it is harder to be a bigger person in this situation and it is easier to respond and lashes out anger to these people who really needs a spank on their face. But for there are so many reasons to not love/dislike/hate them, can we find at least a reason to LOVE them unconditionally? Just a reason will do...
'Just find a reason to love despite many reasons to not.'
I know it is really really really difficult to choose to see things from the other side but just because someone do not deserve to be loved but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be loved. Come to think of it, all of us do not deserve His Love. But that doesn't mean God don't want to love us.
In this world of chaos, in the world of cold-hearted people, in this world where true love seem impossible to exist ; Hold on to the reason why you love which is because..... God loves everyone. Shift your perspective to another side where understanding and actions are needed to melt the heart of the people and point them to who and where True Love is . Might be hard along the way, but as long as God is smiling and delighted because you are loving His people..it is worth it. Well, at least you are sowing to please the Spirit and from the Spirit will reap eternal life. (in ref Gal 6:8)
God is love. Therefore love. Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love. (Henry Drummond)
Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret--it leads only to evil. For evil men will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land. (Psalm 37:8-9)
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. (1 John 4:9-11)
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Labels: friendship, God, journey, life, love, thought, Word of God
WIll you?
POSTED ON: 14 June 2013 @ 12:39 AM | 1 comments
My sister ranted at me and said that I have too much of high standards for the man that I am gonna be married and said to me that ' You are not gonna be married if you keep your standard that high!'. I am like, ' I dont think my standards are high,you see.'I just want a man who loves me as much as God loves me and spiritually higher so that he can lead me and to be mold. I don't mind what his look or what he wears, neither where he came from { although I go ga-ga over Ang Mo (Whites) } because what I really want is a man who loves God , who sees God in me, want the best for me and also would willing to die for me just like how Christ died for me.
At the end of the day, beauty fades, health deteriorates, illness might strikes us..but would the man that marries you hold your old ageing hands ,be there for you and comfort you till the day you die or he dies?
W.R.I.T.E
POSTED ON: 12 June 2013 @ 3:56 PM | 0 comments
The weather was too good. So I wanted to write in my journal. I was writing and writing and I realised how beautiful is writing especially to your love ones. For me, I write to God in my journal with black ink pen ( because I like cursive handwritings) and I read it again when I am bored or discouraged by circumstances around me. And because it was written to God, it was real and nothing was hideous.
So I was thinking about the whole concept of writing to God. Then I remembered the Bible, the only existing evidence of written Word from God. Then, I remembered watching ' The Day after Tomorrow', where this man tried to save Bible because he said 'This is the oldest book in the world and I want to save it.' I am not sure if he died at the end of the movie or what was his intention of saving the Bible but imagine when the whole world collapses, would you rather risk your life to save the Word of God or you would just save your life so that you can live?
It amazes me how the Word of God still real and relevant to these days. It is God-breathed and it speaks to us. I mean it was written thousand of years before and it is still relevant till today. WOW! Marvellous isn't it? I guess sins never change (Maybe the form of sin changes due to the access of technology and materials we have now). But what happened in the past is still pretty much relevant today. God knows and that is why He provides us Bible to speak to us and guide us .And for those unsung heroes and the authors of the Books that write, copy and preserve the Bible ,I am just amazed by their dedication to serve and write.
It amazes me how the Word of God still real and relevant to these days. It is God-breathed and it speaks to us. I mean it was written thousand of years before and it is still relevant till today. WOW! Marvellous isn't it? I guess sins never change (Maybe the form of sin changes due to the access of technology and materials we have now). But what happened in the past is still pretty much relevant today. God knows and that is why He provides us Bible to speak to us and guide us .And for those unsung heroes and the authors of the Books that write, copy and preserve the Bible ,I am just amazed by their dedication to serve and write.
Writing is a gift. And gifts are supposed to be used for God; for goodness and His glory. If you can write, write to God ; tell Him how is your days, praise Him..etc. If you can write, write to encourage one another. If you can write, write to influence people around you or people who read your writings. Who knows what they can take away from your writings?? Use your gift well. :)
“The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also. If the Holy Ghost guides us at all, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.” George Mueller
'You can make anything by writing.' CS Lewis
Labels: beautiful, God, hope, random, thought, Word of God, writing
Lappie is back!
POSTED ON: 07 June 2013 @ 5:19 PM | 0 comments
My personal all-for-good friend named Lappie crashed. And I was really sad. Because everything that I adore were in it; my thousand pictures, songs, videos, and software. I am like helpless when I know Lappie decided not to serve me anymore.
So, I sent it to Miss Woon and Mr Wong for a quick fix and it turned out that I would have to delete (YEAH DELETE) everything that was inside it. EVERYTHING. I was like 'NOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo!!'. And I had to erase everything that I used to own would be gone. So much of disappointments, I said to Mr Wong , 'You can just wipe out everything in order to resurrect Lappie.'
Just yesterday, Lappie was back. It is like a new computer, with latest 2010 Miscrosoft ( I have 2007, previously) and better antivirus, thanks to Mr Wong. I was rather sad that there were no old 'Lappie' to be found. And what saddens me the most was that all my pictures that I didn't upload on the Facebook were gone. Gone!!
But lesson learnt. I need to back up my data on my hard-disk. There is always lesson learnt in everything that happened in our life. It is just that sometimes we are too problem-oriented, and didn't see the bright side of things. I learn that even though my photos are gone, but there were some in Facebook and the most importantly, I can still create more memories with the people that I love. Pictures are memories, but living it would be more worthwhile, real and fun! People that I love are not going anywhere. Continuous shower of love and encouragements would be ongoing too. :)
Of course, I miss old Lappie too. But I choose to erase everything that was in it, so that it can be resurrected. I choose to remove all the 'viruses and worms' that couldn't make it alive. So now, it is new. But it have to be equipped again with all the software that I need. It will take time, of course to be the Lappie that is useful for me but I am glad it is alive. And it is cleaned from all the things that make it polluted.
Sounds familiar? Yeah, it is similar to human. Choosing to do what is right is always hard. Not easy. But you choose to do it because deep inside you, you know it is right and pleasing to God. Once you decided to do the right thing, you might face some hurtful refining process that God gonna put in your life in order to make you so much stronger. But because you are renewed, it might also take time for you to be equipped with all that God wants you too. But at least, you are not who you thought you were. You are made anew in Christ.
So welcome back, Lappie. I miss the old you but thank you for being alive again. Thank you for not letting me down and decided to stay alive. I will be patient and take care of you more. HAHAHA! Muah!
Screenshot of my New LAPPIE! :)
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Hands.
POSTED ON: 02 June 2013 @ 10:10 PM | 0 comments
I went to Prayer at P.E.N.H.O.P (Penang House of Prayer) last Friday. It had been one year since I went there. The last time I went was during my first year? Haha. I couldn't really remember.We were worshiping God and was singing . Then I was looking at the palm of my hands. And maybe because of the light, my hands were clear and smooth. I am not saying that my hands are beautiful. It just that, that very pair hands are not that beautiful. It was dirty. It stole, touched, slapped , punch and it sinned. It went on to do the things I hated most about myself.
But at the same time, I was just amazed that the very same hands, God wants to hold it. He wants to hold it and bring the person with that hands to greater height. At that time, I was thinking, 'God must have loved so much that He wants to hold these dirty hands. And perhaps when He was looking at it , He saw how dirty were those hands but willing to wipe the dirt away. He didn't cut the hands away but He wanted to clean it.' I am still imperfect to this days and I will continue to do things that maybe unpleasant to Him but I know my Father will not stop loving me because of these imperfections. And because of this Love, I will choose to do what is pleasing to Him, to do what is right for Him, to love who He loves and to forgive because He forgives.
God cares about you and choose not to care how dirty your hands are because He loves you instead. His love and grace is so perfect that it overcome your imperfections.The question is, 'Are you willing to let the dirt on your palm of your hands to be cleaned by Him?'
Titus 3:3-7: For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Labels: beautiful, faithfulness, God, hope, life, love, prayer
University.
POSTED ON: @ 9:31 PM | 0 comments
One more month left before the closing for this very chapter that I would remembered for the rest of my life. In this chapter, I realised and know God more personal than ever and being equipped so many lessons and values that I couldn't even expressed. For His unfailing love, that enabled me to be changed and transformed. Looking back, I was this girl who need to be taken out from her broken place, to be healed and to be drawn closer to Him. Looking at it now, I am really delighted that I decided to follow Him. I am on the way to be the person He wants to be. To be mold and shaped. :)In this chapter itself, I met beautiful people who loves me despite anything , who wants to carry me forward in their life. So much for this three years. I could't even imagine my life without this people that coloured my life. I am really thankful for you, yes you ( I know who reads my blog) who are reading this for you have been in my life, to even show me loves and advice through your actions and words.
Brothers and sisters, though our path crossed may stopped here but I will earnestly look forward for the day we will be celebrating in heaven. But at the mean time, live your life for Him. :)
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