Ok my blog has been quiet for a long time mainly cuz i hv been lazy to blog or tt i juz fall a slp b4 i get to blog well been kinda bz with stuff frm camp work and duties that has beena drag to the farewells, b’days and weddings to prepare some of these events have past some has yet to come and well I see the bonding between church members still going strong and i can see various groups of people forming although it sounds as if it is a divided crowd but we are one and united in mind we have a common goal and well besides that the different groups are there to meet the needs of their specific group and with the older ones to guide them. In camp been busy as usual and well good news I am a LCP come monday but well it does not mean much to me but well if my camp ppl want me to treat them sure but next month maybe this month i hv my outings planned frm this friday to the 28th with my drama peeps.
I dunno I have constantly been planning outings for various groups of ppl and if u ask me why I am doing this well 1 simple ans I want to keep the bonds of these various groups of ppl close although we are apart and this once a month meet up will give us a chance to catch up and to let loose and just be ourselves with no restrictions and limitations. Well I dunno if I m being too pushy for this but well no one has complained so far…
Hope I will continue to be diligent in bloggin I do want to do it but need to be more disciplined. Oh and on a side note bon voyage to Marcus Lim and will hope to hear from you soon.
Yo! Thanks for saving the last line for me hahaa. Life is slow and easy, but I’m still hoping that I’ll get back to Singapore soon. I miss the food and the people! Urgh. haha.
Take care dude! Stay well
“For in all things, God works for the good of those who love him, according to his will and purpose.” – Romans 8:28
Comment by 08marcus — August 25, 2010 @ 12:50 am |
I was doing a search for the song posted on your blog and found this and apparently another blog from ’09 by you. I am a preacher of the Gospel, and this is another Sunday PM, when the question of that song popped into my mind as it’s sentiments so often do after a couple of messages on Sunday, whether the lyrics do or not. My deceased pastor used to sing that song many years ago.
One thing I have learned from many experiences and strangely from an extensive study of the Psalms of David is that God is satisfied with His Son (Matthew 3:17). And He is pleased with those who place their trust in His Son.
It is good to hate sin, and hate it most in ourselves, and it is so very true that God hates sin. But if Paul would say to us in 1 Corinthians 13 that of all the spiritual gifts the greatest of these is love and describe to us and define for us that love, then of all the attributes of God, the underlying and greatest of them all is love. It may sound trite to others, but never to me to remember the golden text of the Bible John 3:16. I am well aware of the context, and thank God that He has placed in me a love for light, and a disdain for darkness, especially that darkness that seems from time to time to try to engulf me.
And these words of David, the man who had to pray “search me O God and know my thoughts”, the man who failed God so miserably, and yet the man who knew even in his sufferings for his own sins, a portion of the depths of God’s love… these words are inspiration to me in some of the darkest nights of the soul when the enemy of my soul tries to torment me with thoughts that I read in your blog: to Psalms 86: 5For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.
I have found it so, not only all through His precious Word, but in experience also. His wrath against sin fell upon Himself. He bore our sins on that tree. And He is far more willing to forgive than any of us are willing to repent. Not at all taking sin lightly, and not at all seeking to self-justify… but so very thankful for the fact that Romans 5:6-11 (NKJV)
6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
I am well aware that I do not know you and you do not know me, but I felt compelled to comment on your blog after reading some of your comments.
May God grant to you the peace that passes all understanding as you meditate upon the fact that God loved us while we were at our worst, and His love is steadfast.
It is not a matter of “our best”, it is all as filthy rags, but it is a matter of trusting in Him who loved us and gave Himself for us… the Father is abundantly satisfied with Him, and Colossians 2:8-23 (NKJV)
8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;
10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,
17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.
18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.
20 Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations–
21 “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,”
22 which all concern things which perish with the using–according to the commandments and doctrines of men?
23 These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
David grasped this truth even in the Old Testament. It is not our perfection but His… not grace as a license to sin, but grace and love that frees us from the fear of bondage to sin, by the liberating knowledge that Christ has paid it all.
God bless you… I hope I did not offend or take up too much space on your blog.
Comment by John — August 30, 2010 @ 5:03 pm |