I gain NOTHING!!

The wise man has eyes in his head,
while the fool walks in the darkness;
but I came to realize
that the same fate overtakes them both.


Then I thought in my heart,
“The fate of the fool will overtake me also.
What then do I gain by being wise?”
I said in my heart, “This too is meaningless.” 

For the wise man, like the fool, will not be long remembered;
in days to come both will be forgotten.
Like the fool, the wise man too must die!

Ecclesiastes  2:14-16 (NIV 84)

Neither rich nor poor
Neither ugly nor pretty

Neither lonely nor surrounded by lots of friends

Neither smart nor dumb

Neither single nor in a relationship/married

Everything will come to an end and one day perish and become MEANINGLESS!!

Why find meaning in the meaningless things that we know are temporary and oneday will perish?? Ironic that i still find myself doing so knowing that it is useless!! Finding meaning in career and status are so much more attractive than in Jesus who already sacrificed so much for me!!

BUT knowing that Jesus wont perish and fail me when career and status will, do I keep walking towards career and status, or do i stop and change direction towards Jesus?? I am stopping and changing my direction,

how about you??

Community

A community of people in the church together encouraging and helping one another. Holding each others' hands and shoulders that noone can fall down. If one do fall, the rest are there to help him/her to get up again. A community that is not self centered but one that is doing all things for the benefit of the whole church.


What is then the point of doing all these if they are not marked by love?? No point rite?? I dont even think that we would do all those things if we dont have love. No love means no point. So brothers and sisters, let us build a community that is marked by LOVE in all things that we do :D:D


" A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another:  just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."   (John 13:34-35, ESV)

In the Valley

And the deeper that I go into darkness
The more I see their radiant light
So let me learn that my losses are my gain
To be broken is to heal
That the valley's where Your power is revealed

In the Valley by Sovereign Grace Ministries

The more i think that i can stand on my own and rely on my own ability to finish and do things, the more i will think that i dont need God.

The more i try to stand on my own, the more i find myself fall and fail to stand up properly..

The more i try to be good and do good things to find favour in God's eyes, the more i find myself not being able to meet His standard..

The MORE i look for my greatness, the LESS i will find and get disappointed instead!!

Thankfully, i dont have to try to stand up on my own because i have a God who will help me to stand up properly. A God who is ready to pick me up when i fall and fail. A God who gives me strength to go on even when i fail again and again. In fact i find His love and greatness through my failure.

We're All in This Together

Let us TOGETHER

Share the Gospel of Jesus Christ

No matter at what cost

Because we have HOPE

-quoted from one of my uni staffworker-

Those simple sentences were just spot on!! It was what i needed to hear esp during this mission month to get me up from my comfortable seat and get going to invite my friends to come and hear the gospel. Not only to not be embarrassed and self conscious when im wearing my mission jumper but to also live out a life as one of God's children.

Not mine but Yours

Something that I was encouraged by a few days ago as I was listening to a song. A song that ive been listening to for quite some time but still strike me again and again as I ponder about it more. I was encouraged and challenged at the same time to give up my own desire as my life is no longer belong to me but my heavenly father who set me free through Jesus' blood on the cross. My priority has now changed from self centered to Jesus centered because of what he had done on the cross for me.


Choosing to submit my whole life to someone that saved me who was his enemy even to the point of death is the best decision I made.


Take my silver and my gold
Not a mite would I withhold
Take my intellect and use
Every power as you will choose


*Take myself and I will be
ever only all for thee

Take my Life- Garage Hymnal