It's the 4th day of starting a blog. I questioned myself why I should blog. There are so many things in my mind that my mind does not have enough space to store them. Writing a blog may help me remember what I've gone through and helping me to analyse what's next for my life.
There's always an intention to tell people what I do, what I think, how I feel. I hope that I may not change the purpose of me blogging. I pray that I may not blog to please people, to make known to people who I am because this may destroy the content of my blog as I will start being careful in what I say, in what I type so that it may look 'clean', nice and readable.
However, a blog should be something that may help me to grow in person and in my spiritual walk. It may be a tool for God to touch other people's life. I should not control the content, edit it just to make others happy.
May it be something that comes from my heart, may it be a blog that speaks what God intends it to be.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
星光灿烂
谁扶起你当你跌倒
谁为你擦去眼泪
谁是你脚前的灯光
谁照亮你的生命
是你主耶稣 代替我的软弱
是你主耶稣 叫我卸下重担
将我拥抱
我的生命充满了光
我的灵魂为你歌唱
就算黑夜依然星光灿烂
你的爱将我照亮
by 叶晨星
谁为你擦去眼泪
谁是你脚前的灯光
谁照亮你的生命
是你主耶稣 代替我的软弱
是你主耶稣 叫我卸下重担
将我拥抱
我的生命充满了光
我的灵魂为你歌唱
就算黑夜依然星光灿烂
你的爱将我照亮
by 叶晨星
Morning
As I was walking back from my class just now, a call from within my heart to check whether I feel better today. Indeed , I am compare to yesterday. I know that God's peace is with me despite of the busyness I'm currently facing. I remember the downcast moment I was in, pitying myself that I have so many things yet to complete and the uncertainties I face currently. Surely, the problems are still there, they do not vanished from my life, I still have to go through it but the situation is different. I'm not using my strength to overcome the troubles but God is with me.
I read Lamentation 3:19-32 today. God gives me the assurance that troubles may come, disappointments are along the way of my life, my soul may feel downcast and despair but God's love and compassion do not stop. They are new every morning, He is faithful forever.
Verse 32 said : Though he brings grief, he will show compassion. Yup, grief comes from God but it does not stop there, God's compassion continues from there to let us see how weak we are that we can only depend on Him to gain strength and courage to move on. He is there to help us.
I must learn to be thankful for all the circumstances that come my way. They may make my life hard and bumpy but it is through all these that I experience God's love to me. I will give thanks to God for everything that comes my way as all things happen with a purpose of changing me to be more like Him.
I read Lamentation 3:19-32 today. God gives me the assurance that troubles may come, disappointments are along the way of my life, my soul may feel downcast and despair but God's love and compassion do not stop. They are new every morning, He is faithful forever.
Verse 32 said : Though he brings grief, he will show compassion. Yup, grief comes from God but it does not stop there, God's compassion continues from there to let us see how weak we are that we can only depend on Him to gain strength and courage to move on. He is there to help us.
I must learn to be thankful for all the circumstances that come my way. They may make my life hard and bumpy but it is through all these that I experience God's love to me. I will give thanks to God for everything that comes my way as all things happen with a purpose of changing me to be more like Him.
Lamentation 3:19-32
I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness and the gall.
the bitterness and the gall.
I well remember them,
and my soul is downcast within me.
Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope;
Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
I say to myself," The Lord is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him."
The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks him;
it is good to wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
It is good for a man to bear the yoke
while he is young.
Let him sit alone in silence,
for the Lord has laid it on him.
Let him bury his face in the dust-
there may yet be hope.
Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him,
and let him be filled with disgrace.
For men are not cast off
by the Lord forever.
Though he brings grief, he will show compassion,
so great is his unfailing love.
Climbing higher
Revelation 4:1
"Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this."
God shows me how He works in each and every life in a different way including mine. I still remember I prayed to Him to show me where He wants me to go after stepping down as PKV committee last year. I thought that my next place would be more in serving in church. Instead, He gave me a chance to continue to involve in PKV activity that is the recent Easter celebration that was held last 2 weeks.
Indeed, His ways are higher and only He will know what is best to us. I thought that He will use me to help others to plan this event as I'm a senior among them. Things turn up different from what I thought. I thank God for His ways of letting me grow in Him and humbling myself as what he wants me to learn.
I thought that I'm a patient girl while he proves me wrong. I thought that I have great faith in Him but He shows me how little faith I have in His eyes. He shows me how weak I am, far from His standard. How unprayerful I am, how tiny I am that I cannot stand in His presence but to hide in a corner far from him and humble myself, to submit and forget myself.
Despite the revealing of my weaknesses, God does not leave me alone. The purpose of revealing does not stop at the point of me discovering all these and feel humiliated but the purpose is to bring me back to Him and ask me to rely on Him, his strength rather than to depend on myself.
Words cannot express what I've really gone through, how i feel and how God is working in me now. Only God knows, only I can feel it personally. I thank God for his love that he shows to me despite of my imperfect being. I thank God that he does not abandon me but let me see how weak I am and how impossible for me to do all things using my own understanding and strength.
I may not fully understand His way, the depth of His love, surely I won't be able to understand all. Yet, I have to trust Him that He know the best because my life comes from Him and I belong to him. Though hard times may continue to come my way, the joy that he gives me will help me to go through it and make me more like Him day by day.
"Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this."
God shows me how He works in each and every life in a different way including mine. I still remember I prayed to Him to show me where He wants me to go after stepping down as PKV committee last year. I thought that my next place would be more in serving in church. Instead, He gave me a chance to continue to involve in PKV activity that is the recent Easter celebration that was held last 2 weeks.
Indeed, His ways are higher and only He will know what is best to us. I thought that He will use me to help others to plan this event as I'm a senior among them. Things turn up different from what I thought. I thank God for His ways of letting me grow in Him and humbling myself as what he wants me to learn.
I thought that I'm a patient girl while he proves me wrong. I thought that I have great faith in Him but He shows me how little faith I have in His eyes. He shows me how weak I am, far from His standard. How unprayerful I am, how tiny I am that I cannot stand in His presence but to hide in a corner far from him and humble myself, to submit and forget myself.
Despite the revealing of my weaknesses, God does not leave me alone. The purpose of revealing does not stop at the point of me discovering all these and feel humiliated but the purpose is to bring me back to Him and ask me to rely on Him, his strength rather than to depend on myself.
Words cannot express what I've really gone through, how i feel and how God is working in me now. Only God knows, only I can feel it personally. I thank God for his love that he shows to me despite of my imperfect being. I thank God that he does not abandon me but let me see how weak I am and how impossible for me to do all things using my own understanding and strength.
I may not fully understand His way, the depth of His love, surely I won't be able to understand all. Yet, I have to trust Him that He know the best because my life comes from Him and I belong to him. Though hard times may continue to come my way, the joy that he gives me will help me to go through it and make me more like Him day by day.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Without Thee
John 15:5
"Without Thee"-Lord, Thy promise stands,
That all my work leaves empty hands.
It is Thyself, Thy life in me
That brings true blessings all can see.
My struggles,tears an wretched strife
Are part and parcel of my life
There is a peace, a power, a joy,
All waiting now me to employ.
How strange it is, in days gone by,
My Christian life was try and try.
Now, Lord, I've found the secret true,
Thy life in me lived through and through.
'Twas easy then to say the phrase
"God works in many wondrous ways."
But now, 'tis marvelous to see
God works His wonders out through me.
"Greater is He that in you lives"-
How great the promise that He gives.
His risen life, dynamic power,
Are mine to use through every hour.
I simply bring myself and stand
Safe in the hollow of His hand.
Untold delights and joys exist
In having all I so long missed.
He clothes Himself with such as me,
Puts on my frail humanity;
Then using me to do His will,
He can, in me, His work fulfill.
'Tis His responsibility,
His plan, His peace, His power-not me,
I rest in His abounding grace
And gaze with rapture on His face.
"Without Me-ye can nothing do"
Nothing-not one-Thy word is true.
How terribly we fail to see
Thy word which tells us- "Without Me."
I thought it meant-without Thy Will,
Without Thy help and yet, Lord,still
Thy word stands simple, clear and true-
Not without these-but without You.
Thou art the Truth, the Life, the Way.
"All power belongs to Thee," we say;
How simple, Lord, could we but see
It is not help we need- but Thee.
Then grant me, Lord, the grace to rest,
Quiet, confident,obedient, blest,
Believing all Thy promise true-
I can do all things, Lord-through You.
"Without Thee"-Lord, Thy promise stands,
That all my work leaves empty hands.
It is Thyself, Thy life in me
That brings true blessings all can see.
My struggles,tears an wretched strife
Are part and parcel of my life
There is a peace, a power, a joy,
All waiting now me to employ.
How strange it is, in days gone by,
My Christian life was try and try.
Now, Lord, I've found the secret true,
Thy life in me lived through and through.
'Twas easy then to say the phrase
"God works in many wondrous ways."
But now, 'tis marvelous to see
God works His wonders out through me.
"Greater is He that in you lives"-
How great the promise that He gives.
His risen life, dynamic power,
Are mine to use through every hour.
I simply bring myself and stand
Safe in the hollow of His hand.
Untold delights and joys exist
In having all I so long missed.
He clothes Himself with such as me,
Puts on my frail humanity;
Then using me to do His will,
He can, in me, His work fulfill.
'Tis His responsibility,
His plan, His peace, His power-not me,
I rest in His abounding grace
And gaze with rapture on His face.
"Without Me-ye can nothing do"
Nothing-not one-Thy word is true.
How terribly we fail to see
Thy word which tells us- "Without Me."
I thought it meant-without Thy Will,
Without Thy help and yet, Lord,still
Thy word stands simple, clear and true-
Not without these-but without You.
Thou art the Truth, the Life, the Way.
"All power belongs to Thee," we say;
How simple, Lord, could we but see
It is not help we need- but Thee.
Then grant me, Lord, the grace to rest,
Quiet, confident,obedient, blest,
Believing all Thy promise true-
I can do all things, Lord-through You.
Monday, March 26, 2007
A new task in my life
It's my turn to try up new things. It's not intended to let people know what's happening in my life, rather, it's a way of letting myself to think while throwing out what's in my mind.
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