Nehemiah 8:10
I'm sneezing so much more often than usual, I'm coughing my lungs out and my body feels weak - even right now. Schoolwork is piling, PW is haunting us JC1s now, tutorials are looming quickly over me. Despite all the burden, I'm still joyful for everything that's going on my life :) I know I really shouldn't be here in the first place, but I want to record this down for me to remember.
I sense that God has great plans for me in SAJC, that He's not done with me (in fact He's hardly started) in respect to my life in this blessing-filled college. It's really this excitement and this joy that's keeping me going each and every day. The joy of the Lord is my strength! I will serve Him with what I have to please Him - that joy of His seeing me do as according to what He wishes, that will give me strength to press on, to persevere.
No longer will I need to have that little pang of sadness when I come across Student Council anymore. I know my purpose here in SAJC. In my council interview, I once said this, "I don't need to sing and worship Him to be serving God". It still holds true even as I serve in Saints For Christ (SFC). SFC isn't all about singing worship songs to Him all day long - being a leadership CCA, we will show what servant leadership is all about, and this displaying what Jesus did that 2000 years back. Jesus, our greatest role model :)
I was doing my quiet time yesterday and came across this verse - Ezekiel 36:28. The thought of revival in SAJC was in my mind, so this passage caught my eye. Usually, we focus on Ezekiel 36:26 "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh." However, I read on and this simply struck me so hard. "You will live in the land I gave your forefathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God."
How wonderful, don't you think, for God to acknowledge us as His people? Somehow, the idea that God is really my God hit so close to home, and left me speechless. It's simply amazing. This God that people speak of, whom we Christians always call Abba Father, Redeemer, First Love, Majesty - this God is MINE. Oh, the sheer joy when I know He's mine.
Ephesians 4:31-32
"Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you."
Maybe this hits home to you.
I sense that God has great plans for me in SAJC, that He's not done with me (in fact He's hardly started) in respect to my life in this blessing-filled college. It's really this excitement and this joy that's keeping me going each and every day. The joy of the Lord is my strength! I will serve Him with what I have to please Him - that joy of His seeing me do as according to what He wishes, that will give me strength to press on, to persevere.
No longer will I need to have that little pang of sadness when I come across Student Council anymore. I know my purpose here in SAJC. In my council interview, I once said this, "I don't need to sing and worship Him to be serving God". It still holds true even as I serve in Saints For Christ (SFC). SFC isn't all about singing worship songs to Him all day long - being a leadership CCA, we will show what servant leadership is all about, and this displaying what Jesus did that 2000 years back. Jesus, our greatest role model :)
I was doing my quiet time yesterday and came across this verse - Ezekiel 36:28. The thought of revival in SAJC was in my mind, so this passage caught my eye. Usually, we focus on Ezekiel 36:26 "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh." However, I read on and this simply struck me so hard. "You will live in the land I gave your forefathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God."
How wonderful, don't you think, for God to acknowledge us as His people? Somehow, the idea that God is really my God hit so close to home, and left me speechless. It's simply amazing. This God that people speak of, whom we Christians always call Abba Father, Redeemer, First Love, Majesty - this God is MINE. Oh, the sheer joy when I know He's mine.
Ephesians 4:31-32
"Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you."
Maybe this hits home to you.