Life's like a rollercoaster

Life is never straight and smooth, its never easy. In fact, life is like a rollercoaster, there will be ups and downs. People tend to misunderstand Christianity, they think that when you've accepted Christ as Lord and Savior, life will be smooth and easy going. Everything will be perfect, just as you've always want. But the truth is that God has never promise us that. In 1Peter verses 6 to 9, Jesus said that we will face trials in our lifes.

6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

1Peter 1:6-9

The bottomline of all this trials and downs is faith, the faith we have in Jesus. It is to test our faith in Jesus, since we have not seen him, we love him. And even though we can't see him now, we still believe in Him. Thats the kind of faith that me and you should have. No matter what situation you are in, you can always reach out to God, as he had reached out to us first. God will never leave us alone and don't care about us. If He puts you into a trial, He will always be with you through the whole process. Though sometimes we just can't see what he had planned for us, we just can't feel his presence, we feel that God has ignore us and left us all alone to handle the problem alone. You are wrong! ABSOLUTELY WRONG! God love us so much that while we were still his enemies, he send his only Son down to die for us. This is one thing we can always give thanks for, no matter our life is up or down. We should be thankful that Jesus had rescued us from God's wrath and judgement.

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.

Psalm 150:6

Busy busy week

Been quite busy this week. Busy resting, busy contacting the drum teacher to arrange the drum lessons, busy creating the publicity card and have neglected God. Haiz. How many of us really spend time daily doing quiet time. How many of us really talk to God everyday? Or do we just cry out to Him when we need Him. Thats definitely not the right way we should respond to God's agape love for us. I admit that I am one of those who fall into the above category of not doing QT time consistently. Like to urge every believers to start slowly. Spend some time with God everyday, slowly making it a habit to read God's word. Only then, can we know more about Christ and behave more like Him.

Was quite sad this week, busy designing the publicity card, created a map and tried to make everything nicer and finalizing everything. Finally completed it, exported the file into an image and sent to all the youths in my church. After sending, I happily closed my editing program, without saving the working file!! Now I have to redo everything if there are any changes and there are changes to be made. Haiz..

Went for the light treatment today, for my rash. Everything is seems so scary. Went into a small chamber full of long light bulbs. Got to strip till almost naked and stand inside. It's so small that I'm afraid that the bulbs will just explode and I will die inside, or that the bulb will produce heat so hot that I can't take it. Who knows everything is just so fast and simple. Theres even a voice to quite me through it. :) Thank God that everything went well for the first treatment.

Another thing to haiz about is that tmr is going back to faraway land day. I got to go back to that far far far camp of mine. Its so far away LOR!! takes me about 2 hours to reach there. Worst still if I'm late, late means can't go in by side gate, but main gate, which I have to walk about 20 mins reach my squadron.

Talked to Andrew the other night. Was pretty glad to know that the youths and the guys are getting much closer now. Justin even came on saturday!! Was motivated to hear that. Being one of the older guy, I really want to bring the guys and the whole youth group closer. Will try to arrange more outings to interact and encourage each other more.

Like to thank God for the whole church, for the care and concern and also their prayers for me. Everyone has been very caring, and I'm greatly touched by their love. May all of us continue to grow in love for one another, continue to spur each other and also to grow in christ. Amen!

Praise to God for a Living Hope

Attended this workshop organised by Project Timothy on Monday evening. Was greatly encouraged by it. We touched on the first book of Peter. In verse 3 - 4, we can see Paul praising God. God had given us new birth, new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. God has also given us an inheritance. One that can never perish, spoil or fade. One that is indestructible, kept in heaven for us. We can rejoice in all these, though we have to face grief in all kinds of trials. All these trials are here to test us, to test our faith in Jesus. For by having faith in Him, we are recieving salvation of our souls.

Glory is ours..

Today is the 12th consecuetive day I have not gone back to report for ns. Have been on mc. Guess I'll go see a doctor tmr, as I am still feeling sick. Skin condition is getting a bit better, but the itch at night is still there. Thanks for all those who cared and prayed for me! Think that I'll be going over for bible studies tonight. Have been missing out quite alot due to my problems.

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To all initial d anime fans out there, if you still do not know, Initial D stage 4 eps 23 & 24 are out!! Was quite sad on how Takumi won the "God of hand", even though he still won. The saddest thing is that eps 24 is the last eps for stage 4!! So got to wait for a long long time before stage 5 comes out. Not even sure if there will be a stage 5.

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Thanks sis for the encouraging verses from Romans 8, am greatly encouraged after reading it. Indeed at verse 18 to 27; talking about our future glory. That our present sufferings are not wortk comparing with the glory that will be revealed to us. Thanks you Lord, for the Spirit that you had sealed in us. That always helps us in our weakness. God had predestined those He had called, those he called, he also justified, those he justified he also glorified. Our God is a loving, graceful and merciful God. He himself is love. He loves us so much that when we were still His enemies, He sent his only Son down to die for us. This is how God had shown His love to us.

From verse 38 to 39; "I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, neither anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. " It really encourages me to know that nothing in this world can separate us from the love of God. THANK YOU GOD! Fellow christians out there, hope that when you face trials and tough times, when your future is not clear, when you doubt God, Romans 8 can really encourage you. Amen.