Sunday, January 21, 2007

Trials & Temptations

What a rainy day it has been today. Rained the whole evening. Stupid rain spoilt our plans for soccer today. Cant wear the new shoe that I have bought.. Spent 60 bucks on it today. Looks and feels quite good, hope to be able to score more goals with it.


Since we can't play soccer, as it is raining, so we decide to go for some indoor games. Haha, in the end its bowling again. We have been bowling for the 4th time this time. Expensive game, so got to control a bit. After the upcoming FOM Bowling Tournament on 3rd Feb, we guys got to really cut down on bowling and play more soccer or any free games. Played quite well today, have not scored so high for a long time, so took a photo of it and not to offend the other bowlers, the
names are not shown.

Noticed something very funny about the socks they provide at the bowling alley. The brand of the sock is called "Darkie" and it has the logo of the old Darlie toothpaste, the black man with white teeth.


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Learnt many things at today's Bible Studies. Learnt that we should not just be hearers, but that we must also be doers of God's word. We should not just hear His words and do nothing about it, we must practise what we preach. But the main and new thing I have learnt, is the difference between Trials and Tempations.

Trials are from God, they are there to test our faith and we should find true joy from trials. Cos when we undergo different trials, it will test our faith and produces steadfastness. In time, we will be perfect and complete, not lacking of anything. We do not find true joy by winning a lucky draw, or scoring all A's in the exam, as all these are temporal. Its when we are perfect and brought back to heaven, that's where true joy is. Its not easy to understand and agree with it, may we continue to encourage one another and be steadfast under trials.

And what about temptations? They do not comes from God, as tempatations are there to pull us away from God. But temptations are not totally bad if we do overcome and become victorious over them. Therefore we should never give up when we face trials or temptations. We should persevere and always go back to the Bible and pray to God for guidance.



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