OH MY MY!!! Mid-year examinations are coming! I mean common test 2 haha because sec 4s do not have mid-year other than for English and Chinese. Hmmm I think certain subjects like Additonal and Elementary Mathematics have 2 common test which means common test 2 and then 3. Haha. Cool har? Very complicated, geee, I myself also confused. Don't know la, don't care haha, as long as I got sit for the exams then ok. Well A-maths common test 2 is over already, it was last Wednesday. How was it? Hmmm... ...don't tell you!!! BLECK!!! When get back my papers, then I shall reconsider telling you, bleh!! AHHHHH!!! April already!!!! NOOOOO!!! 31 May is O'level Chinese paper, OHHHH NOOOOO!!! SO FAST!!! 1 more month plus then BOOM!!!
... ...Anyway apart from that, I got nothing more to say for today!! LOL!! :D Well I like to share something with all of you so sit back and relax as you read and reflex on your own life as you read what I am about to tell you. Get a cup of coffee if you want to, haha. (I'm being lame once again!! Tom Tom for you!!)
3 full months have already passed in the year 2010. Or rather, more than 10 years have already passed in your life but have you ever wondered about the things in life? Have you ever stopped to pause, to think about the beauty that this world has? Have you ever done something meaningful in life? The past few years have been hard, isn't it? You may have quarrelled with your parents, you may have fought with your siblings over the silliest, you may have times when you despair and didn't feel like living anymore. Everyone definitly have faced hardships and in the past few years. Even the world has them. Many lost their jobs and hard times were upon even those who managed to stay employed. Prices in supermarkets rose and the quality of living went down.
Currently if you think that life is meaningless and nothing you do seem to be going right, do not break down and crash. Romans 12:2 in the Bible says, "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God". You need to break free from the negatives of the world and look forward to the hope that there is through the love that Jesus has for you.
Awful memories, forget them! Move on in your life with a bright future, move on and make new wonderful memories. Life can have its beauty blossomed upon you if you want it to. Do not look back but keep your eyes firmly before you. Whenever you are looking back at the past, you miss what is lying ahead in the future. For just 2 minutes, try walking backwards. When you are walking backwards, you can not see where you are going and you walk into obstacle after obstacle. You trip and you fall. So is our life. When we try to get through life constantly looking at the past, we fail to see what is ahead of us and trip and fall at every obstacle. We start repeating the mistakes that we once did before, the same mistakes that we hate, the same mistakes that caused us to drop to the floor, giving up all the hope in life, giving up everything. 2009 has gone and every other year before that. Whatever happened to you in 2009 or 2008 or even yesterday has absolutely no right to interfere with what is happening to you today. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, and what Jesus has planned for you is far greater than anything that you have ever encountered before. Keep your eyes on Jesus and concentrate and feed on the love of Jesus.
The following is a story of another person:
As I went outside for a few minutes this morning, I was met with an amazing sight that it seems as if the Lord had prepared just for me. It was early and was just starting to get light. The sky was clouded over. There were flying ants flying around and a whole host of birds were swooping down and feeding on them. The odd thing about this is that looking up and down the street in front of my house, the flying ants and birds were only in front of my house and nowhere else down or up the street. As I said, it was as if God had created the show just for me. As I was watching the show it dawned on me that what I was seeing before me was life. God created the flying ants for the birds to feast on. The birds from the whole neighbourhood came to feast on the flying ants.
Some points to take note from this short story of that person:
1) The flying ants were in abundance. God gives us plenty of food in the form of opportunities.
2) The birds had to come to where the flying ants were. God did not send the ants to the birds, but rather the birds had to see that the flying ants were there and had to come to where the feast is. Sometimes we wait around hoping that God will bring the food to us instead of going out to where God has placed the food for us. We wait for opportunities to come to us when they are actually just in front of us, given to us by God. We sometimes are not like the birds, even though we can see it and can catch it with a hand, we just let it go, slipped away.
3) The show lasted about half an hour. Feed time was over. The birds had eaten their fill and the fresh rains chased the flying ants away. God created the food for the birds and fed them. Tomorrow He will feed them again, possibly in a different way, but they will never go without food. If you trust and abide in God, you may need to change and adjust constantly, but you will never hunger or thirst. Always remember that you are far more important to God than the birds. God created us in His very own image, He loves us just like how your father and mother loves you. God is like our Heavenly Father, He cares for each and everyone of us. He wants the best for us just like a father.
Right at the beginning, I quoted Romans 12:2. ” Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed through the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God". Do not allow the ways of the world to shape and form you, but rather take on a new shape and form and be totally transfigured when you start to believe in the words of God. This is the most important scripture for you through the entire 2010. Memorise it. Do not allow the world to determine your future for 2010, but rather place your future in the hands of God and allow Him to guide and lead you so that you will never hunger or thirst again. Not only is it for 2010, for the years that are about to come.
Never allow the devil in life to eat you away. Watch what you click on the internet, watch the words that come out of your mouth, watch what you watch on television, watch what you hear, because they may look like entertainment and pleasure on the outside, but actually they are substances that will eat you slowly, eating away your peaceful life, and before you even realise it yourself, your life has already changed for the worse. Be careful of the things on this Earth because this Earth is filled with lots of sin. Every now and then, you read about people getting murdered, people getting raped, people stealing things, people committing adultery on the newspapers or in the news. Even a small lie is a step of obedience to the devil. A lie may seem nothing to you but in God's eyes, a lie is equivalent to killing someone because a sin is still a sin, be it small or big ones. Pray to God when you are having difficulties, ask God to strengthen you, ask God to comfort your soul when you are troubled. God is always with you, in fact He has never left you, He is always walking with you every moment of your life, He is by your side right now, waiting for you to put your life and to entrust your life to Him.
God is knocking on the door of your heart, asking if you will let Him in, to protect you from the sorrow and worries of this world, to protect you from the clutches of sin. God is like your father, He wants the best for you, He wants you to lead your life with nothing but happiness. However there are times when you felt angry, you felt sad over some matters, and then you start to blame God for it. Have you ever stopped to ponder over why are you sad or angry? Is not because God is not there for you, is not because He has left you, is not because He does not care about you but because you did not seek the advice that God has given you and did not follow His way. You have given in to temptation, given in to the devil, committing sins over and over again without the slightest guilt of upsetting your Heavenly Father. Listening to the devil and committing sins like the devil wants you to is a sign of you wanting the devil to be the controller of your life, wanting the devil to be your father instead of God. God creates you, like a father, if you acknolewdge someone else as your father instead of your very own biological father, wouldn't your biological father be sad? Is the same thing as with God.
God prepares everything in place for you to be happy, for you to live a life with no bitterness, but are you willingly to give up everything and let God lead your life, let God guide you along in your life? Sure there are times when still you are tempted to sin, maybe tempted to watch pornography on the internet, maybe tempted to take things from your friends which do not belong to you, because we are still born of the flesh, we are still sinners, but always remember God is with you always. Pray to Him, talk to Him, tell Him of your worries and ask for His help and He will help you through the tough times, giving you comfort. Matthew 8:7 in the Bible says, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you". God is always there, waiting for you to talk to Him, waiting for you to confine in Him, waiting to help you in your life, but you need to ask Him.
There will always be temptations in life for you to disobey God because the devil is at war with God. The devil is known as Satan but his real name is Lucifer. Lucifer disliked God, he wanted to have the same power with God, he wanted to overthrow God, therefore waging war against God. We are all born sinners due to the first generation of mankind- Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve have everything they can ever want in the garden of Eden but there was a rule, the only rule that God said to them, that they cannot eat an apple from a particular tree but they can eat all the other fruits they want from other trees. Satan, disguising himself as a form of a snake, deceived Eve and she listened to him, eating the apple and passing it to Adam. Both of them had committed sin by disobeying God and were thrown out of Eden into the world. That was how sin came into this world. Why did I say we are born sinners? This is one of the reasons. Another thing is, do our parents teach us to lie? Did our parents teach us to steal? Did our parents teach us to be rude? NO! All these are natural and we learn them by ourselves, that is why we are born sinners.
That is why even though we have accepted Christ as our Saviour who died on the cross to save us from our sins, we still will have the tendency to sin against Him. Therefore, we must always trust Him and know that He is always there for us, ask Him to take whatever temptations away and I guarantee that your life will change completely. Once you have accepted Christ as your Saviour, you are no longer in the bondage of sin, sin no longer has a control over you but instead you have a control over sin with the grace and power of God, your Father. With your own strength and power, there is absolutely no way to overpower sin, Satan will always have a power over you and you are bondaged to him. But with God, anything that is impossible will now be possible because God can do anything, with just a word from His mouth, the world can come to an end.
To be strong in our walk of faith with God, it is very important for us to have a quiet time with God alone everyday. Luke 6:12 in the Bible states, "And it came to pass in those days, that He went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God". A quick look through the Gospels tells us that Jesus spent a lot of time alone with God in prayer and meditation. Is there any space or time for that in your life? Our quiet time with God is important, because it is when you pray when you hear him saying that he loves you, sustains you and calls you to work for his Kingdom. There are many other voices speaking too – loud voices. They say: “Prove that God loves you. Prove you’re worth something. Prove you have a contribution to make. Make a name for yourself, then people will love you; then people will say you’re wonderful, you’re great.” The loud voices represent evil temptation. Those loud voices are lies that are spoken through the mouth of Satan, are the words to confuse you, are the words to bring you away from God and are words to break your relationship with God so that when you die, you will join him(Satan) in Hell.
As with Jesus, we have to pray and listen to the voice of God. When we do we can deal with evil, and we will understand God’s purpose for our lives. Jesus spent the night in prayer. We too need to pray. We too need to spend time alone with God. Take a passage, or even a verse of Scripture(Bible). Think about it for a while. Let it fill your being, your thoughts, your heart, until the words are written on all your inner places. Then listen prayerfully what God wants you to do for him. Time alone with God is where serving God’s Kingdom practically begins. It is where it began for Jesus and where it begins for us. Reading God's words is like as if God is speaking to you, giving you comfort in your soul and peace as you read on.
May you be blessed when your quiet time with God enables and empowers you for your challenges and confirms your calling to work for Him. May God show you your gifts and your assignments in his Kingdom.
But before I end, you may be saying right now that you do not believe in God, can I ask you a simple question? Everyone comes from our parents right? I mean, our parents gave birth to us, that is how we come into this world, right? Ok, but then how do Adam and Eve, the first man and woman come about? They do not have earthly parents. Is obviously someone who creates them and that would be God. Science has said that it is evolution that we comes from monkeys, but scientists till this very day still are not 100% sure of that statement even though they said it because they are unable to prove it. We got a tail from fish when we were in our mother's womb? We got features from animals? That is nothing but utter rubbish. I mean, think about it for a moment, evolution??? How can that be possible? If it is, then why no future evolution takes place? The sky around you, so blue and so beautiful, just exist just like that? The cool breeze that you enjoy at the beach, the birds singing early in the morning, the beauty of this world... ...they come by chance? Take some time to pause and think. How can they just pop out of nowhere? God is the one who creates them, God creates us, God loves us.
Therefore, I end by saying this, God is waiting for you! If there are times when you proclaimed that no one cares for you and no one ever loves you, let me tell you the good news that God is always there for you, giving you all the care and love you need, but He can only extend it out to you, not forcing them unto you, you have to stretch out your hands to grab them and receive them for yourself! Make the right decision, friends! I have accepted Christ as my Saviour when I was in primary 3 and have been baptised that year. My life has changed ever since that day when I made that decision. Is like I have a new life and that I know that God is in me, guiding me along and I, from that day on, have nothing to fear in life.
Well, make your choice today if you haven't! Come to God in prayer! Love you guys! Have a blessed year ahead!!
