Escaping this semester

I thought not having a proper mid semester break due to mid semester exam is annoying/ the worst i'll get at uni this semester. But unfortunately not!! I was just looking at my course outline and found out that there wont be a study break period too before exams (normally called STUVAC). I used to always have a proper 1 week STUVAC at least but this time around, not at all!! There will still be a few lectures happening and even tutorials on the week of the exam period. The exam period starts on a saturday and I would still have classes that weekdays!!


Last time no mid semester break, this time around no STUVAC!! What a great way to start my first semester at a new uni.


Too many things that I feel like i need to do and too little time given. I would normally be sleepy by now but im not because my brain is still up working, thinking and worrying about exams and assignment due this friday and monday!!


Oh well, complaining about it wont change the fact that i wont have STUVAC. I guess the best option now is to use my time wisely and productively.


Dearest my brothers and sisters in Christ who are in their busy period and are having a more hectic schedule than me, lets be reminded to not look for our identity on our busyness because it doesnt last forever. When our identity depend on how busy we are, we'll lose it as soon as we are not busy anymore. Lets look for our identity in something that is bigger, better and eternal that is Jesus.

Desert Song- Hillsong

"All of my life
In every season, You are still God
I have a reason to sing
I have a reason to worship."


Those lines come from the bridge of the song. As I ponder more about the words, I was encouraged from being reminded that regardless of what happen to me and what happen in my life, it doesn't change the fact that God is still my God. I change but God doesn't. It is comforting to know that God doesn't change even when I often change. 


I used to be excluded from God's family but now I am one of God's children. Even at times when I disappoint God again and again, my status as his children doesn't change!! Because of that, I have a reason to sing, I have a reason to worship. God's decision to adopt me wasn't because of I do good things and it doesn't change when I do bad things. It was pure out of God's grace :D:D
I am so thankful that I am adopted through God's grace and NOT through anything that I do because knowing how sucks i am, there is no way I can be adopted if everything is on me.


"Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved."
Ephesians 3b-5.

Psalm 25

4-5. Show me your ways O Lord, teach me your paths
Guide me in your truth and teach me for you are God my saviour,
and my hope is in you all day long.


16-18. Turn to me and be gracious to me,
For I am lonely and afflicted.
The troubles of my heart have multiplied, free me from my anguish.
Look upon my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins.

Representative (reps)

I had a quite interesting today. Maybe not as interesting as you might think it is but a few verses from Exodus 19 was discussed twice, one briefly and one quite intensely at both uni christian group meeting and church bible study group. I went to uni public meeting today and the talk was taken from Exodus 19:1-6 and Exodus 20:1-21. At church bible study tonight, we touched on same verses taken from Exodus 19: 4-6. That coincidence is what i found interesting :D:D Let me highlight the point that I found most encouraging.

‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”

Exodus 19: 4-6

The fact that God chooses to use us (who used to not care about him and rejected him) to be his reps in this world that he created is a big and amazing fact. That same fact was what encouraged me today and reminded me that I am God's reps and therefore I need to act like one not out of obligation but out of love. I need to act like God's reps out of love because I have been loved in the first place and that is shown by his willingness in bringing me to himself (v4).