as i go back to sch on a monday morning, i really realise how powerful God is when i return to a normal, quiet person who gets tired after a long day of school.
facing the same challenges before the sermon, still going through the same school days. on the average day, i'm just an average person. but when i asked God to help me in my sermon so that it would be for His glory only, he 'showed me great and mighty things that i knowest not'.
for those who missed my sermon, the outline is on my new blog,
http://somelittlethoughts.blogspot.comGod Bless and have a good week!!
praise God.
i really wouldn't have been able to bring the sermon across without God's help. and, prayer REALLY works. i was praying a lot leading up to the sermon and God really answered my prayer.
i still feel that i was definitely inadequate to preach a sermon on Passion for Christ, but it is God's words that are the most important, not the deliverer.
for those who missed my sermon, you missed quite a something!! haha.
once again, praise God.
where is your treasure?
a really really really belated pic from the youth camp in june haha.. cos i cudnt find the cable for my phone until recently.
its a pic of my youth camp group, Keepers Of The Light, the first CHAMPION group i've been in since i can remember yout camps. haha. if you count there are 15 of us squeezed at a table, cos we wanted to sit as a group but cudnt take 2 tables. haha amazing.
ahh its been some time.
been really busy this wk, but glad all the work's over, and i have the weekend to rest and do my sermon.
yesterday marked the end of my IB English A1 15% oral presentation exam, so glad its done over with. and also there was a concert put up by us class of year 5s yesterday, so i was a bit late for careteam haha. overall i think it was really great, i hope people have been inspired by it.
when i grow up and finally learn to drive, i wanna drive a hot hatch!! hahaha. today in Life! Motoring reported that theres a new contender in the market, the ford focus ST, for slightly under $100k its quite a powerful car. not bad looking too.
but of course, this is really IT, the volkswagen golf gti.
but with that kind of money with a bit more u prob can buy a merc already. haha.
and you've gotta think i'm crazy to start imagining what car i want to drive next time when im still 17 and clueless about driving. haha.
ok then thats all, cya!!
well since i'm not sleeping yet, i have time for one more post!! haha. like make-up post for all the days that i dint post lol.
yuck theres like a curry stain on the '9' on my keyboard.. eww. who was eating in front of the com -.- anyways, just came back from a fantastic concert thingy at geylang coc by four missionaries. their singing was really powerful and impactful. makes me want to attend the 'singing clinic' they're conducting tml haha.
well heres some stuff that i've been thinking about bgr and conclusions i've reached.
1) in my jc life, i WILL NOT get attached, because, a) i'm too young and immature and not up to handle a relationship and b) cos it will affect my studies.
2) attraction and infatuation is a big bundle of problems, and yes sometimes i guess its inevitable in the process of growing up, but i really do not want it to stain a good, pure friendship. i trust in God to help me in this, as in Phillipians 4:6- 7 the bible says that if we pray and petition to God, He will guard our hearts and minds.
3) i don't want to flirt in sch, or anywhere else, cos, well, its kinda pointless, and Proverbs 31:30 says 'Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.' in this verse its referring to women, but dont men try to exercise charm as well? haha.
and 4) but not really related, i refuse to talk about people behind their backs unless i can say what i tell others about them right in their face, in front of them.
all this said, sometimes it looks like i have nothing to talk about, but i realised with a bit of courage one can still be an interesting person without having to talk too much about worldly things.
Ecclesiastes 2:22 - 25:
What does a man get for all the toil and anxious striving with which he labors under the sun? All his days his work is pain and grief; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is meaningless. A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and
find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?
u noe sometime back i was reading ecclesiastes and this verse really struck me, but i never really did understand it. its ok to be on about sch work and stuff, but to find satisfaction is another thing. but well i guess its true, after working on my maths portfolio for some time today.. it does bring satisfaction when i see i've actually done something.
work is also good, cos it takes the mind off wandering and aimless thinking, which, i think i do a lot haha. but of cos not forgetting time to rest and reflect.
too bad a lot of people attending sch dun find having satisfaction in work a cool thing.
recently i've been doing some searches on the net on the churches of Christ.. found quite a bit of stuff.. including some pretty scary stuff too.
wikipedia has an article, and a veri long one at that too haha.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Christwell i dint have a chance to read thru everything.. and i doubt i will have a chance to until im like really free, but i wudnt trust everything on it, as its wikipedia after all man, and i guess pointing out that Pat Sajak (wheel of fortune tv host) is a member (which we also dunno how true, and we dun need to care right) is really a bit out of point.
http://www.churches-of-christ.net/this one has listings of churches in each part of the world, altho rather unupdated i guess haha. and if u check out their 'tract rack' its got a lot a lot of stuff.. on some veri interesting topics too.
well the net is pretty remarkable.. but lets not trust everything that it says, the Bible is our sole authority concerning matters of the church.
ya noe.
sometimes ur life is just so crowded with activities and things to do that u just want to do nothing.
so u sit down and do nothing.
then at the end of doing nothing u feel bad that u've accomplished nothing.
its a vicious cycle.
so what should i do now.. something or nothing?
lol.
yesterday was basically just slacking at home and, doing nothing. lol. i COULD HAVE GONE TO NEHE'S HOUSE.. i told him no in the morning cos i thot my family was gonna have dinner together to celebrate my mum's bday, which is today. turns out my sister wanted to watch the NDP (which i'm not too enthusiastic on catching) SO my father bought dinner back for me and my sis. -.-^6.0 x 10^23. ahh well.
life hasnt always been smooth sailing for me this term.. i've been sliding down the spiritual coaster after life returned to normal after my shingles episode. its when i start to blend back into the world, and fail to be an exceptional person is when i start to lose focus.. so i'm just glad for this hol where i can refocus myself. for me sometimes is what takes up the most of my thoughts that determines my 'spiritual level'.. and when i've got school and guitar only floating around in my head.. its difficult to maintain focus. and theres a long way to go b4 the next hol.. so i'll be thinking of other solutions to get myself to stay focused on God from now till then.
yeap. its been long since i updated, haha. cya.
Eccl 3
A Time for Everything
1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:
2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
you know, sometimes its just nice to be alone.
22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will happen after him?
rawr the whole com screen is a blur cos i cant focus my vision. haha.
had a 3h-long eye check-up at singapore eye centre.. was really tiring.. and i found out that i have poor accomodation (in other words cant focus well). looks like the spectacle hut people's equipment is slighly faulty.. they actually showed that my right eye degree dropped like 100 degrees when it didnt really. haha dun trust spectacle hut.
well just now at the eye centre i got my eye dilated.. thats why i cant focus for near vision.. its amazing i still can make a blog entry lol. at least i can still see far.. managed to make it to cheryl's house just now lol. so take care of ur eyes!! one of my greatest fears is to lose my sense of sight (besides losing sense of hearing haha).
well now that the week is once again over and i survived it, its time to sit back and think about other things.. like where my guitar practice is headed again. i seem to have lost my drive to play guitar after the competition held recently. then my drive to practice was that i have passion for the guitar.. but i need to renew my drive. i realised that i have not really committed my guitar playing to God, so i intend to do so.. and now i feel that i have let guitar take up so much of not onli my time, but also my thoughts, my worries... i need a new reason to practice guitar.
here's a quote from a friend from today.. it went something like 'pursuing excellence but being content when you dont achieve it'..
some truth in it huh?
yeeeeee.
i just came back from spectacle hut.. cos i found out my specs were kinda damaged, the left lens came off in school.
then checked my eyes. and some phenomenal thing happened.. the astigmatism (how to spell?) in both of my eyes increased, but the degree in my right eye went down from 675 to like 525 or smth. like whoa. so i have to go and see a professional eye doctor on friday afternoon. ho hum. u noe i have this vague feeling that their machinery is slightly off. but yeah my vision feels weird.
like lol.
