what's going on?

hmmm....

what's going on?

will it be status quo?
much as i hope things stay status quo...
but i also want change...
weird me....

someone asked, "what will we be like in 5 yrs time?"

i replied," .... i don't know about tomorrow."


in 5 years time...
hmmm... no one knows...
(except God lah...)

will things be dramatically changed?
will people still be the same?
will personalities change?
what will happen?


i'm asking the obvious...

say already...

I don't know about tomorrow....






i have no idea what i'm blogging about...
is it a deep thought? or am i just letting my fingers do the typing, as if they have a mind of their own...

honestly... it's more of the latter...

weird me....

family....

when we have our family conflicts or when there is someone in our family whom we feel very irritated by, or just someone in the family that we just dislike.

in this situations.... can we deny the fact that we are family?

well... yes.. if u choose to be in self denial or go to court and get a certificate that says we are no longer family...
but i'm sure u get what i mean.... the fact is that the other party is, and will still be your biological family.

but what about our spiritual family???

when we're Christians, like it or not, we're all being born into a big spiritual family, with our Heavenly Father.

there WILL be people, fellow brothers and/or sisters in Christ, whom we're irritated by.. or just dont like that fella...

so how???

some ppl change their (home) church... and go somewhere else...
because they buay tahan some ppl in their church

but can we leave the Church? as in Church with a capital "C"?

i suppose we're told to love one another.
love, as in brotherly sisterly agape love...

i feel that "love", contrary to popular belief, does not equal "like".





u can love someone though u find hard to accept that person or 'like' that person....

think abt it...

be guarded! be anchored!

Jon blog about the article in ST, 16/7/2005, about this man who was Taoist then converted to Christianity, but now he's a Buddhist.

in the article, he said he was very passionate in his youth, but he couldnt get an answer why would a good God allow suffering in this world.
he even preached about Christ in his teens....

this is not an unusual story...

why do i say that???

cos i know of many stories and even ppl who were once so "on fire" in their teens, but their faith was not anchored and they were swept away by the different waves of their lives...

but.. there'll also be those you've never have thought would be Christian, became transformed...

pray for those you know have backslidden, or even thos who've renounced God

for this man.. pray for him too...

and i'm sure some of us now as teens who are very much on fire, very passionate about Christ, there will be a VERY HUGE possibility that some of us WILL fall away in years to come.... in the years where different transistions of our lives will make us check our faith...

and do not be surprised if those that you see now are very much teens of Christ... what may seem as very inspiring, that fellow teens are so in Christ, that in years to come, they are the very ones who fall away and renounce this faith...
it might be you, it might even be me...

" don't know about tomorrow.....
.
.
.
But i know Who holdsmy hand..."


so... be anchored in the Word right now in your youth...
start a right relationship with Him...
before the storms of life sweep YOU away...

1 Timothy 4:1-5(NIV)
1The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith
and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2Such teachings come
through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot
iron. 3They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods,
which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who
know the truth. 4For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be
rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5because it is consecrated by the
word of God and prayer.

be guarded!
be anchored!

aren't there times when we teens juz so desperately want to have an identity??
so how?

we desperately need to have a sense of belonging...
so how?

we find the most popular trends or group or whatever is
"JUST SO COOL!!!!"

and usually we subscribe to a certain way we talk and dress the way those celebs do, and we hang out with the popular ppl... or at least desire to...
cuz it feeeeeeeeeellllllsss soooooo gooooooooood to be popular..

but...

the irony is that in searching for an unique identity thru conforming, and being cool...
we lose our own individual identity...

i can understand it's juz so difficult for ppl our age (teenagers.. and now tweenagers) to not conform...
it's a phase we must go thru....

in the secular environment, our lives are so different from our church life, and even our family life.
like i said previously, it's the "change profile" way of life...

maybe even in the secular, sometimes we are so caught up in being so "kool",
(or creating the facade or projection that we are),
that we go into deep immorality, and some even renounce their faith,
coz saying you're a Christian is "like... duh.. so un-cool!"...

or maybe you face the struggle of being inconsistent.
that in the secular environment, you tend to show a different facade from your church life..
and you might be struggling...



hmm... i was thinking, maybe we should try to get fellow brothers and/or sisters in Christ in your class/workplace/cca/ or anywhere you are in an secular environment, to keep each other accountable or even keep our behaviour in check.

i know this is kind of difficult especially when most of the time we are the only ones who are Christian in our class/workplace (or rather, the only one you know...).



[shall continue some other time..tired minds cant think and type....]

be thankful!

found this somewhere in my home....
enjoy...

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE OF EARTHEN POT
-Kindly be careful when move the pot as it is fragile.
-Don`t use the pot for oil-fry cooking.
-Heating the pot without water or soup inside is prohibited.
-Don`t put the pot into bake-oven.
-Child using the pot without adult together is prohibited.
-Transfer the water after rinsing the rice into the pot then
boil it on slow fire or cook porridge or rice when using the pot for the first time.
-Always use small and slow fire when heating the pot.
-The pot designed only for family, used by restaurant on big stove is prohibited.
-Wear the thick gloves on hand when move the heated pot in case of scald.
-Put the mat between the bottom of heated pot and table on case of butn the suface of table,but the wet mat is prohibited.
-Wash and clean up the pot after use.
-Wipe the bottom of the pot with dried cloth when the pot getting
wet,then heating it by slow fire in case of break.

everything here is exactly as it is....

Thank God, (ya..i mean, right now) for blessing us with a relatively better education system, and a combination of factors that enabled most of us, Singaporeans, to be proficient in the english language..
Thank Him also, that you... yes you!... have an education.
We are blessed and fortunate that we live in relatively much more stable environments.

We are BLESSED to be a BLESSING!
remember that!
Be Thankful.
ALWAYS....

from an answered prayer...

God answers prayers...
a good friend of mine was the answered prayer...
or rather, i prayed about him, and God answered...
during Gen Con II, he came..
and i believe God spoke to him...

he wrote me this email...

Isn’t it strange……

Isn't it strange how a 20 dollar bill seems like such a large
amount when you donate it to church, but such a small amount when you go shopping?

Isn't it strange how 2 hours seem so long when you're at
church, and how short they seem when you're watching a good movie?

Isn't it strange that you can't find a word to say when you're
praying, but you have no trouble thinking what to talk about with a friend?

Isn't it strange how difficult and boring it is to read one
chapter of the Bible, but how easy it is to read 100 pages of a popular novel?

Isn't it strange how everyone wants front-row-tickets to
concerts or games, but they do whatever is possible to sit at the last row in Church?

Isn't it strange how we need to know about an event for Church
2-3 weeks before the day so we can include it in our agenda, but we can adjust
it for other events in the last minute?

Isn't it strange how difficult it is to learn a fact about God
to share it with others, but how easy it is to learn, understand, extend and
repeat gossip?

Isn't it strange how we believe everything that magazines and
newspapers say, but we question the words in the Bible?

Isn't it strange how everyone wants a place in heaven, but
they don't want to believe, do, or say anything to get there?

Isn't it strange how we send jokes in e-mails and they are
forwarded right away, but when we are going to send messages about God, we think
about it twice before we share it with others?

IT'S STRANGE ISN'T IT?

from someone who is still searching his faith...
he can even see that our attitudes toward God is... well... strange.

Don't want to put on masks...

masks of?

i dunno also...

{some random thoughts... so read this post only if you have the patience and time. juz close this window if not... bye bye.. have a nice day...}

not again...
why am i so stupid to have done the right thing at the wrong time?
or maybe it is the wrong thing at the wrong time....

or maybe it's just plain stupidity...

self-righteous i need none. i don't want. i don't want to be.

or maybe it's just the sinful, evil nature in me.

that prevents me from NOT glorifying my God.

reminds me of a passage in Romans... where Paul also states that he himself.. also struggles with his sinful nature.

ahh.. here it is...

Romans 7:14-20(NIV)
14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave
to sin. 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but
what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law
is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in
me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I
have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do
is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on
doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but
it is sin living in me that does it.

i can relate with this... i mean c'mon.. who doesnt...

sigh... seems like a lot of blog posts this few days are far from optimistic... a whining atmosphere... me included... as if some how en masse, many ppl are feeling low... how come?

sigh.. don't know if it's the fatigue that never goes away, or wadeva.. i cant think much... "think" meaning.. reflection...
and it's taking it toll.

Yet again, this author would like to apologise
to any reader
for the pessimistic ambience radiated through
this post.
Any inconvenience is deeply
regretted.
<{Apology each sold seperately, batteries not included} >

Thank YOU!

Thank You, dear Lord.

Thank You for the past few days, esp
fri-sun.

Thank You that You've answered my
prayers... and more...

Thank You.

a prayer...

Thank You, Lord.
For ministering to me through last night's Prayer & Praise meeting.
For ministering to me in a way i never thought...
For ministering to me through the prayers of my brothers, Kelvin and Mark, and even Ps Kay Kiong.

Thank You, Lord.

Humble me, that You will always be the Lord of my life.

In every aspect. School. Home. Church. Private life.

Thank You, Lord.
For convicting me.

Lord, tomorrow's Gen Con 2/ Youth Sunday 2005,
will be in Your control.
Help us, Lord.
That we will NOT lose our first Love.
That we will not do so much of these things, until we get so activity-driven that we forget Who and why we do it for.
Convict us individually, that we'll come back to You, Your Truth, with clean hands, and pure hearts.
That our lives will be transformed inside out, in all aspects of our lives. That we'll rid ourselves of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind (1 Peter 2:1).

Lord, humble us.
Show us that it's not about us.
Show us how much more supreme You are.
Help us see, how unworthy we are in your Presence.
But... You sent Your Son, Jesus Christ to die, in place of ours.
That now we are justified, if only we believe.

Thank You, Lord.

In Jesus' Name,
Amen...

inconsistently consistent, consistently inconsistent

whatever does the title mean???
it's consistently inconsistently consistently inconsistent....
so inconsistently consistent right? but consistent inconsistent.
erm...
erm...
erm...

is it reflective of our lives???
sometimes, is our life (or lives....??? ;P ) inconsistently consistent, but yet at the same time consistently inconsistent?


[erm, nic.... don't they mean the same thing?? like... duh! like DUH!]


you get the point, don't you?
our lives can be in constant (or rather, consistent) inconsistency,
yet at the same time...
we feel very consistent, being inconsistent...

Galvs said in his recent post....

It's really simple to put up a facade (false front) in church and be a
totally different person out of it, as if God's presence's limited to the
four walls of the church building ("church" has always been defined as the
body of Christ, not the building).

really the topic i'm blogging about...

maybe our lives is like our handphone(s)....
the profile feature....

go to one place, change profile...
go to church, activate {holy, christian} profile.
go to school, activate {cool, whassssuup, @!#$%^&;~****^&* } profile.
go home, activate {victim} profile.
go to library, activate {silent} profile. [......erm....oops... :D ]

1 Peter 2:1 (New International Version)
1Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy,
and slander of every kind.

man... i'm guilty of all these....



struggling....
to be consistently consistent...