TRANSFORMERS

Have you watched transformers 2, the movie?
I thought that it was not a bad show and i asked like quite a few ppl!
some said it was worth watching, some said it was boring, some said it was too long...etc..
But there was something that the male lead said and i got really inspired^^

You know the ending part whereby the guy went to the location of his brain signals at the pyramid there...
Then rite, he saw the key amongst all the robots?
The key to save optimus prime?
He found hope and when he took it, it turned into dust because it had been there for such a long long time..
The people who followed him there, they all said it was over and gave up..
But he collected the dust in his socks.
The rest asked him what he was doing and why he had to do collect these dust cause it is like of no use anymore..
He said, "because i believe." "there must be a reason for us coming here, there must be a reason for everything that had happened!"

After he said that, i was reminded of one particular friend..
She said that she do not believe in prayers because i tried to pray for her in her times of despair and she told me it doesn't work at all..
i was kinda shocked..because i thought like in times of helplessness and despair, these are times whereby ppl turn towards God.
She is like those ppl that followed the guy in transformers to the place..they lost hope.

But i believe that everything begins with one word. "BELIEVE"
just like the transformer guy.
It is because he first believed that he saved the entire world from the bad robots..

I believe it is the same regarding our faith in God..
It really all begins with a believe that brings us closer..
it all begins with a believe that miracles can actually occur..
it all begins with a believe that prayer works thats why we pray..
it all begins with a believe that God exist in the first place^^
And i am sure the ending for us will be much better than the transformer's ending.

So think about what you really believe in today!
And hold strong to this believe.
Because only when you believe, the unbelievable can happen.

God loves you

God loves FOREVER!

Hey ppl!! yesterday and today i went for church and i sang the song, "Forever"
I didn't really like the song..dunno why..and ths caused me to focus on it even more today..
the song has a line that is repeated over and over again..."His love endures forever.."
Today, i wanna focus on the word "forever"

How many of you have experienced and know that people around you who loves you are willing to die for you?
And i mean really die for you?
Or, are you willing to die for someone?
I think for me personally, it is a very tough and difficult decision to make..and one must really really LOVE that person before he/she can die for him/her.
And this LOVE have to exceed and go beyond the LOVE for oneself..which goes against the selfish human nature.

Things change, people change, scenery change, your environment change...etc.
They grow and die as the day passes..
Nothing is everlasting, don't you think?
There is nothing on this earth that lasts forever and is stagnant.

As i was singing that song, i really appreciated God alot...
Like, He is the only one who doesn't change, who is everlasting, who provides promises and never fails.
Don't you think it is amazing cause He can go against all the nature of change?

I was reminded of economics..and there was one chapter about exchange rate..
If one country's currency keep fluctuating throughout the year, up and down, it will create the problem of uncertainty and it inturn affects the amount of investments that are going to come in..be it long term or short term.
This is because the investors will be very scared and cannot trust that the country can make funds because of its instability..

Same for relationships..
If your friend keep on changing in character like throughout the year or in a few years, do you think your friendship can still withstand and be maintained?

Thats why i hold trust and faith in something that is never changing and can last forever, because it is firm and stable..
And that is Jesus Christ.
Besides, He loves us so so much, more than Himself as a God that He is willing to suffer and die just for you and I. Because God thinks that we deserve it.
Bet you all heard this like many many thousand times already..But i still wanna emphasize on the fact that He died for you, shouldn't you love Him back the same way?

I mean, if someone, anyone, is willing to die just for you, won't you get touched?
This is sacrificial love.
And what i found out was, Jesus is the only God that is willing to do so just to save us..

There was another thought that i had while i was listening to the sermon for the second time..
Joel was preaching and he talked about facebook...he said something like "if you are transformed from the inside, it will show it on the outside..", "out of the outflow of your heart, your mouth speaks." and "when is the last time you ever talked about God or even mentioned his name? what was your last update on facebook?"

I was reminded of something and i really want to ask you all this..
Do you pass by something, anything whether it is a shop, an item..etc, with the word "Jesus christ / God" on it and not feel anything?
Do you feel anything at all?
What i mean is, do you feel a sense of excitment and it really attracts you to go and look at it closer, even more..
Or will you just not feel anything but just walk past without bothering to look at it...

This shows how much you really love God and how much He really means to you and where you placed Him in your life..
Are you taking God for granted...thinking that He is just there for me to call when i need help and He will help..
Reflect upon this.

It is never too late to pray for a transformation to happen in your life today!
God will be more than happy to change you from the inside out.
Just remember two simple things you must do..
START PRAYING + BELIEVE..
If you don't start you never will..
If you don't believe then there is no point of praying.

GOD LOVES YOU ESPECIALLY!!

For who He is!

Here is the retreat theme song=) "for who you are"
Standing here in Your presence
Thinking of the good things You have done
Waiting here patiently
Just to hear Your still small voice again

Holy
righteous
faithful to the end
Saviour
healer
redeemer and friend

CHORUS I will worship You for who You are
I will worship You for who You are
I will worship You for who You are Jesus

BRIDGE My soul secure,
Your promise sure
Your love endures
always

My soul secure,
Your promise sure
Your love endures
always

Before retreat and during retreat my church sang this song many many times during worship..
I have been thinking about what it really means to say that "i will worship You for who you are."
whenever i sing the song..

In my point of view, i feel that to worship God for who He is is not easy...
Why?
Cause usually i will fall into the trap of worshipping God for what He can do, or what He does and not who He is.
Like many times, we only praise God and like rejoice in His name whenever we encounter something amazing that happens...or when God touches our lives, or when we pray for something and it came true!
When something just don't go the way we want them to and think it is right, we may blame God or just stop worshipping and claiming victory in His name...
i realised all these through several experiences that i have with God..
I don't blame Him, but i also don't thank Him..

Worhipping God for who He is means to put aside everything that He can do, the blessings that He can give to us..
It means to just rejoice in every situation we are in because our God is in control and He is so much bigger and more powerful..
It means to know Him better through the Bible so that we know exactly who He is..

Have you ever get treasured for who you are and not what you can do?
everyone can admire someone who is all talented in every area, the most popular, the cleverest..etc. (all these 'love' can be easily seen from the world) -everyone try to prove one another as to who is better and stuff..
However, would you rather someone loving you for who you are on the inside and not what you can do?
The measurement here is on the inside of ppl not on the outside.
And God is looking for that kind of love from us..
And this differentiates us from the other people of another religions (they worship their gods to ask for the things they want and need)

We must recognise that God deserves this kind of true love from us.
Because He is God.

Are you willing to worship Him for who He is today?

God loves you for who you are

Servant? God? huh? no link.

I wanna blog something first before i go for church retret next week!! yay!!
Yupps=)
You know i went for judo camp for 1 day today (supposed to be 3 days but i got things on)..but today was the most intensive...i came for training from 9am to 8.30 pm...
during the training camp i really felt like i was going to die anytime..i was like gasping for air and screaming to God for help..
This is the first judo prac that i cried so so much..over and over again..(not that i want to) but i shan't go into the details..
What i wanna talk about today is the lessons and things that i learnt from this whole day as the Holy spirit speaks to me..

Because we were having lunch at the canteen and i was like sitting with the other seniors (all guys) and the girl coach (who takes care of this whole camp) and after lunch, we stayed at the table just to talk to the seniors and stuff...
Therefore, there were only me and my partner (xing yun) who were the only j2s left there because the rest went up to the classroom to rest..
And the other male coach told me and xy to clear all the rubbish because we were the only ones left..i was like huh?
the male coach said "unless you wanna ask the seniors and the female coach along to clear the rubbish also."
The seniors's reply was, "no no you all should go and clear."
I said," but we clear together issn't it better cause then we will have unity!"
they didn't want and the male coach added on saying, "but there is only 1 big trash bag for you to clear only"
so, at the end, my and xy had to clear it..

I understand that they may want us to toughen up and be responsible and stuff...
But i was really reminded of Jesus Christ..
Ask you, who in the right mind will be willing to step down to a position so much lower than the position that you are presently in?
Lets say for example...would a director of a company or a ceo be willing to suffer a lack of money and become a begger on the streets?
No one in the right mind will do that right?
It is just like a seniors..they are also unwilling to step down from their senior status to help us..

However, there is one person that loves us so so much that he would even do such a foolish act of just stepping down..
And it is not just stepping down to a lower position, but to a lower of the lowest position..
Jesus christ who is the king in heaven, so big and majestic, so boundless, so amazing and had so many angels serving Him and stuff, why would He want to come down to this earth and to limit Himself as a small, fragile human being (somemore, human beings are part of His creation)...
I mean like, if it was me, i would want to reign over everything what..

And Jesus didn't just come down as a human being on earth to enjoy His life and stuff, He came down to endure all the sufferings of mankind. He came to get humiliated by His own creation, laughed at, hit, tortured physically like real badly just for us!
Shouldn't we repay back the amount of love He has for us?

There was once during cell, someone commented, "But Jesus is God and He knows that He will rise from the dead like after 3 days, so it is kinda unfair don't you think?"
Su hui jie (one of the leaders) told us, "it wasn't even fair for Him to come down to suffer even for 1 day and get tortured by us. was it even fair?"

When i was studying for GP midyears and i read about death penalty and stuff...there was one article that says, "it is not morally right for anyone to stand in for a guilty person even though she/he is willing to do it."
Jesus christ is willing to do it, He carried the sins of all of the world just to provide a way of salvation for us!" Isn't it amazing?

There was another thing that i thought about during the training..
because during the training, i saw the seniors and stuff just sitting around...and what some of them did was that they just tell us.."eh! hurry up leh!, do faster, turn in more!, do properly leh!"
These are some of the comments that they made..and we were all super duper shag like really going to die and in pain kind of feeling..
people started telling me about how one of the seniors think it was so easy to do the pt in the morn because they didn't do what my other cca members did early in the morn ( i wasn't there)

This brought me to think about things like....if they have never been through it, how would they know?
They think it is so easy but it is actually so tiring and difficult, not that we didn't put in effort and stuff in doing it..
it is so easy for them to make all the comments when they ain't the ones suffering and training..
If those who train with us and give the comments then i have got nothing to say la..but..
I started to think about God..
think about how God knows how we are feeling exactly, and the several sufferings we face in life because He has been through it?
Because He has came down to earth to suffer in a more extreme manner gives Him the right to tell us what to do and not to do..
He also has the authority to do so because He created us!

But, he didn't exert His authority over us.
He treated us with love that no other human beings could have..
Just like how many other seniors and the guy coach cared for our welfare (which is really very touching especially in the times of need), God cared for us much much more^^

We only have to respond to this love that is free and available...(it really takes 2 hands to clap)
Are you willing to accept this love that He has for you?
Are you willing to run back to the cross?

GOd loves you!