Friday, October 27, 2006
To Know Christ and To Make Him Known.
Was going thru the organisation where i first met Christ... Tot of going for their annual sales but forgotten when is the date... Oops so forgetful of me... it's next mth and not Dec as i tot to be.
Actually, was quite reminded of our Hope Congragation Meeting last Sunday. Personally was very inspired and encouraged by Pastor Ed.Chn's video from this year CCC... Of being a PDA christian... P=Personal Revival, D=Divine Appointment and lastly A=Active Obedience... Though we may have different views and perspective over our outreach to our Oikos and even strangers on the streets... Oh ya, was quite encouraged by his sharing of loving people with Christ Love instead of our usual stuff of outreach... I was quite perplex in our outreach efforts, perhaps we are sort of the laid-back person... I have to come out of my comfort zone and be intentionally on reaching out to my friends and coleks... Cannot afford to laid back forever like that... if i'm not willing, then dun expect God to use me effectively as His instruments lor.
Another which has awaken my senses was the question from my BSF... ARe you prepared to die ?? something like that... not exactly the same but sama sama lah... I shared with my group that i still not prepared to leave for heaven now as i still have not live up to the life that God calls me to... fufilling my life's mission on earth. Actually, death is not uncertain, but the uncertainities when i leave.... I heard of story of pp had visions of heaven before they passed on sounds beautiful... esp of my DL's v close fren passed on... Death certainly will bring emotional emptiness esp to those closest... Oh, finally BSF finally finished for the year... and some of the lessons that i have learnt and encouraged by the lives of the different individuals like Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Joseph and his brothers and seeing how God turned from bad to good.... Esp was very encouraged by the life of Joseph... beginning from how he got sold to an Egyptian merchant and how he got blamed for doing nothin and got jailed and finally prime minister of Egypt... i cannot imagine the emotional, physical and all the sufferings that Joseph have to suffer for obeying God's plan for his life and how much God blessed him and provided for him all these while.... and Joseph did not uttered a single complain about his predicament all these while... all he knew and hold on to what God had show him a dream many many years ago... even til his last breathe he even hold on to his faith and passed down the vision and his body was kept in a cave, for the day when the I will returned to the promised land... and God rewarded his faith where many hundred years later, his body was being carried back to the promised land.
Ya, i was truly encouraged by the pp in this book... Y??? because they believed in and trusted God for something which they will never got to see in their lifetime... but yet they by their big faith did something beyond our human understanding... esp the blessings of Jacob to his 12 sons... even the endings of times, forming of the 12 tribes etc... Indeed God's sight is much far than mine, His ways much higher than mine, so does His Thoughts... My understanding and knowledge are simply too limited... to grasp that... hmmm, one of God's way simply awed me... in the beginning when man sinned against God by taking in the fruit of the good n the evil... but see how God sep and forbid man from eating the fruit of the living so that they wont get eternally separated by God and God's redemptive plan for man when He knew that man had sinned by their disobedience. Oh, when we shared with one of my BSF mates, my unerstanding of God just changed and i cannot helped but say that God indeed loved us even though we may sinned against Him and broke His Heart many many times, yet He chose to love us even though we rightly do not deserved.... See How God took so much affort to bring us back and the pain when He knew that His Son will have to come and died and suffered for our sins even though He's holy and without any sin.
Okay, looking foward to next year studying on the book of Romans... =) Am too touched and encouraged by the book of Genesis... One application that i strived to keep is to complain less... hehe...
Actually, was quite reminded of our Hope Congragation Meeting last Sunday. Personally was very inspired and encouraged by Pastor Ed.Chn's video from this year CCC... Of being a PDA christian... P=Personal Revival, D=Divine Appointment and lastly A=Active Obedience... Though we may have different views and perspective over our outreach to our Oikos and even strangers on the streets... Oh ya, was quite encouraged by his sharing of loving people with Christ Love instead of our usual stuff of outreach... I was quite perplex in our outreach efforts, perhaps we are sort of the laid-back person... I have to come out of my comfort zone and be intentionally on reaching out to my friends and coleks... Cannot afford to laid back forever like that... if i'm not willing, then dun expect God to use me effectively as His instruments lor.
Another which has awaken my senses was the question from my BSF... ARe you prepared to die ?? something like that... not exactly the same but sama sama lah... I shared with my group that i still not prepared to leave for heaven now as i still have not live up to the life that God calls me to... fufilling my life's mission on earth. Actually, death is not uncertain, but the uncertainities when i leave.... I heard of story of pp had visions of heaven before they passed on sounds beautiful... esp of my DL's v close fren passed on... Death certainly will bring emotional emptiness esp to those closest... Oh, finally BSF finally finished for the year... and some of the lessons that i have learnt and encouraged by the lives of the different individuals like Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Joseph and his brothers and seeing how God turned from bad to good.... Esp was very encouraged by the life of Joseph... beginning from how he got sold to an Egyptian merchant and how he got blamed for doing nothin and got jailed and finally prime minister of Egypt... i cannot imagine the emotional, physical and all the sufferings that Joseph have to suffer for obeying God's plan for his life and how much God blessed him and provided for him all these while.... and Joseph did not uttered a single complain about his predicament all these while... all he knew and hold on to what God had show him a dream many many years ago... even til his last breathe he even hold on to his faith and passed down the vision and his body was kept in a cave, for the day when the I will returned to the promised land... and God rewarded his faith where many hundred years later, his body was being carried back to the promised land.
Ya, i was truly encouraged by the pp in this book... Y??? because they believed in and trusted God for something which they will never got to see in their lifetime... but yet they by their big faith did something beyond our human understanding... esp the blessings of Jacob to his 12 sons... even the endings of times, forming of the 12 tribes etc... Indeed God's sight is much far than mine, His ways much higher than mine, so does His Thoughts... My understanding and knowledge are simply too limited... to grasp that... hmmm, one of God's way simply awed me... in the beginning when man sinned against God by taking in the fruit of the good n the evil... but see how God sep and forbid man from eating the fruit of the living so that they wont get eternally separated by God and God's redemptive plan for man when He knew that man had sinned by their disobedience. Oh, when we shared with one of my BSF mates, my unerstanding of God just changed and i cannot helped but say that God indeed loved us even though we may sinned against Him and broke His Heart many many times, yet He chose to love us even though we rightly do not deserved.... See How God took so much affort to bring us back and the pain when He knew that His Son will have to come and died and suffered for our sins even though He's holy and without any sin.
Okay, looking foward to next year studying on the book of Romans... =) Am too touched and encouraged by the book of Genesis... One application that i strived to keep is to complain less... hehe...
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