I'm so excited!! In exactly a week's time i'm going to Zhuhai Macau & HK with Tina, Ben, Jia Ann, Darice & Ailin. Super looking forward to it, not just the shopping but also the bonding & food and walking around & experiencing. It's simply goona be awesome! Will post some photos when i get back.
But on the other hand. Really gonna miss Baobei when he go for his reservist trip to Aust :( 2 LOOOOONNNNGGGG weeks.. I DON'T WANT! But what to do.. Plus he's duper excited about it. So i guess it's both of us going to enjoy vacations. haha..
It's gonna be an exciting yearend with birthdays n events lining up! It's gonna be great!
"Don't need to be wiser than wise. Just be wise. It's not a competition."
Heb 12:26-27
whose voice then shook the earth: but now He has promised, saying, "Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven." Now this, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Despite the many opinions and diversions, I still have to say, I am truly blessed by the Word preached by Pst Tan last week. I went into the service without much expectation as disputes set forth before my service time. But what was preached truly encourages me and empowered me. Personally, I am very impacted by the part Pst Tan preach about the focus of what the woman was listening to. Supporting the woman is not a Royal background but an insignificant identity. Just a woman, desperate for help, desperate for a miracle. And she went, focusing on the master's table, on the blessings, the provision, the healing, the "heavenly storehouse". She was very persistent and unmovable in her faith in the blessings and mercies of God. It speaks of so many things! She was so focused. She trusted in the character of this God. And she got her miracle. Without being offended. Without retreating.
Many times people get real naive thinking that God's blessing is never coated with trials and even insults. But the focus is not on the insult or the trials. Set our eyes on the goal. When i was young, my dad will bring the whole family for swimming. And we love that. But he will always disturb us saying, "it's going to rain and we're not going". The first few times he did that, our reaction was all sorts of things. Trying to get him to bring us. But after that, whenever he say that we know, we're going. Our focus is no longer on what he say. But what his heart decided. He decided to bring us there. In life disturbance just come here and there. Focus seem so hard. Especially when things are good, focus is extra hard. Because we are not so desperate, it's just a want. But when we are desperate, when we are at our lowliest, most helpless moment, used to lies, insults, judgements and comments. We tend to get used to it, tend to focus just on the prize, on the Master's table. Because that is the REAL thing. It's worth more than the rest of the stuff that is happening. They will just go strangely dim.
Of coz the msg sent by the sender can be received in ways more than we imagine. But if i receive something that i can build on, i count myself blessed. It is like another layer added to guard my heart. There's just so maybe thoughts flooding my mind and many yet totally figured out. Hopefully I can share more next time :) So meanwhile, FOCUS on the prize, because God is good! Trust His heart :)
