February 2012
36 posts
What do you think?
Does God let bad things happen?
Or do bad things happen, because in the giant cosmos of cause-and-effect and the complexity of free will, we inadvertently start off a chain reaction of bad things?
Or because there is an enemy out to get us?
Not that any answer is mutually exclusive. I believe it’s a combination of the latter two, but I’d love your thoughts. It’s just a random...
Was telling N about how some “friends” only contact you when they have problems, and after agreeing… she said this: is that just like God?
I went silent for awhile, trying to deny that I don’t do that to God.
But I do.
Sorry, God.
Sorry, Daddy.
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Am glad to learn that even when I’ve given up, God doesn’t.
Yes, a testimony is in the works.
“The danger begins when you forget who you are and, more importantly, whose you...”
– my youth pastor (via thesparklynarwhal)
Truth
“Our Christian culture has bought into the lie that the only thing we need is God...”
– Made for Relationship | Boundless Line («read the whole article)
Food for thought
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It is not over until God says it is over
God can still work right up to the very last second
God’s ability to work in your life is greater that your ability to mess up your life
I know this may not be the right perspective, but at this point in my life when I don’t even know the stability of most relationships, I don’t really want to give a damn about the fickle ones. It is hard to leave two places you hold dearly in your heart. It is heartbreaking to find out how people have moved on and don’t care much about you anymore. You are just a face, a name...
Love like a tidal wave
Never shortchanged, that is a fact.
Papa Shepherd asked us to pray and ask God for a word in prophecy. Then moment he said that, I felt like a jolt through my outstretched right hand. I felt like a few phrases were going through my mind. Of course, being a “great woman of faith”, I second guessed God (and third and fourth guessed Him). Up till when Papa Shepherd called me out.
So I...
Lessons from Ruth
Remembering that favour leads to:
- The right boss and workplace (field of Boaz, her kinsman-redeemer, who is a gentleman)
- Favour with the right boss (tells her to stay in his field, his man will look after her)
- A good boss (his workers greet him with “the Lord blesses you”)
- Good staff benefits (an ephah of barley, roasted grain with vinegar, reapers drop stuff for her to...
“I don’t want you to quote your traditions and assumptions. I don’t want you to...”
– Pastor Mike Patz (via freedomreigns)
“I don’t deserve it, but grace is attached to my shadow. It follows me wherever...”
– Bryce Avery (The Rocket Summer)
January 2012
14 posts
“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.”
– C.S. Lewis
“Is it just me, or do you guys also get phantom notes?
My post say that I have...”
“For God to explain a trial, would be to destroy it’s purpose to call forth...”
– Alfred Edersheim
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Graduation
This is me graduating last year, celebrating God’s goodness and faithfulness in my life. This is my second graduation, but the first where I am immensely humbled.
My first graduation was a celebration of all that I have achieved, but also a mourning of what my achievements failed to achieve. I fought hard. I worked hard. I got my diploma with merit with God’s grace, yet the number of hours,...
Chapter 2
Maybe moving on and letting go isn’t about forgetting. The hardest part about change is coming to terms with how easy I let go off the past and embrace the new. That scares me. I see myself as loyal, and to just wholehearted move on seems like the ultimate betrayal.
Yet, moving on isn’t about that. It is knowing that my time in Brisbane will always have a special place in my heart,...
Blessed to be a blessing
Was sharing with L how God blessed me by sending some Brisbanites my way. What L replied struck me. She said that she was glad to hear that God used me as a blessing. I never saw it that way. All I saw was how God loved me and how He knew what was a balm for my homesick heart. But L pointed out how I was able to be a blessing to them as a familiar friend in a foreign land. It truly amazed me how...
Hebrews 4:15
I was watching a video on youtube about a two-year-old deaf girl communicating with her deaf mum. What touched me most was seeing how blessed these two are to have each other. The child has a mother who not just understands what she is going through, but is going through the same thing. Likewise for the mother to raise a child who understands her circumstances. A child who can hear would not be...
WatchDisclaimer: This video contains swearing and is not Biblically accurate. It contains the opinions and the work of Darkwing Dubs. I heard this slam poetry at TEDxYouth @ Brisbane last year. While I don’t agree that “If Jesus was born again, He would convert to Buddism”, but the poem did get me thinking. How do I perceive Jesus? Is my idea of Jesus tainted by media, culture and...
“The ultimate goal of theology isn’t knowledge, but worship. If our learning and...”
– Sam Storms (via derekthornton)
“I heard the dumbest testimony I’ve ever heard recently on the radio, and I’ve...”
– Mark Driscoll, The Cost of Discipleship - Luke’s Gospel: Investigating the Man Who Is God Pt. 63. (via kidwiththebulletsoul)
LOL. Sometimes we get so discouraged with all the bad stuff, because we think the Christian life is a magic spell where life becomes all rainbows and unicorns. There is no...