Moving over

Someone tried to convince me that wordpress is better since I dunno when. Well, after having witnessed and tried wordpress for myself for my CG's blog, I guess it is time to move. Hahaha. Amazingly not a lot of effort to move. Just that it will take some time to get used to wordpress' interface and many other functions. Below is the new link:

http://sengkim.wordpress.com/

Major on the Major

I have to admit that there are many areas in my life that surely I have lived it with compromise (be it big or small compromises) and there is a tint of truth to it if you say that I haven't been giving my fullest to meeting the needs of the people around me. Thinking back, somehow I really do not understand why I allow myself to get into such a rut.

Feeling and anticipating an emotional turmoil coming. I have to be prepared.

It's time to let go and let God. It's high time I left the garment behind.

P.S. Shepherd, continue to keep me in your prayers.

2 Timothy 2:22
Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Thank You God ^^

Had a good chat with Eng How. Think there are truly a lot of things in my life and in my heart that certainly I may not be so ready to let go and though some of them are not excuses but reasons, the truth is this: I may not be ready to let them go for the Lord.

The road is long, so what? (Just felt like saying this. Hahaha.)
Had a long travel back home and no I didn't ponder about anything. Couldn't. I just slept and woke up once a while to check and reply my messages. Lesson learnt after that! Be very wary of yourself when you're tired. Went home today and unexpectedly cooked up a really bad temper where I was really angry when I saw my brother playing the computer AGAIN. Context of situation is he withdrew out of poly and is not doing anything productive AT ALL. My failure to control my emotions resulted in a once in a very long while shouting by myself at my brother after a series of events.

What happened in the end? Peace and reasoning understood. Amazing? YES! I was amazed and how God saved the situation (intriguingly) through me! Gosh! I couldn't believe that words that came out from my mouth after all that unhappy exchange of looks and even "verbal assaults" could be listened still. Indeed, it is by the grace of God.

Of course I mustn't take things for granted. That I may grow myself even more and master over my emotions, even at my weakest moments.

Really great song that I came across today. :)


People Get Ready (song)
People Get Ready (lyrics)

Time to get ready. Time to leave things behind. Time to give thanks.

Dating Delilah: Purity From A New Perspective

Recently just took time out to read and listen to this electronic and audio book titled: Dating Delilah. Talks about living a life of purity. A really fruitful 2 hours 15mins listening and reading the book and indeed a new perspective which quite intriguingly is summarised within a verse.

Psalm 119:9
"How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your Word."

How important, indeed, is Thy Word in my life.

Do Not Worry

Was talking to someone the other day and sharing about the challenges that we seem to perpetually face and how sometimes in the midst of the storm we begin to compromise on what God would rather have us do. And as I was reflecting and pondering over such, I came across this verse in a new light:

Matthew 6:30-34 (Message version)
^30-33"If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers—most of which are never even seen—don't you think he'll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? What I'm trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God's giving. People who don't know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.

³⁴"Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.

I really love this verse a lot. When I first came across it. Sometimes we really get very PREOCCUPIED with GETTING that we miss out on the main point of our RESPONSE towards God's giving.

Steeping my life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions.

I Love My CG! ^^

I must admit that when Saturday came, there were quite a lot of things that overwhelmed me that I couldn't really think straight. The thought of how few people there would be before service started to spend time together did dampen my heart. But I think it was really more than how I should be feeling. Thankful that after service we stayed most of the time together and shared lives with one another and we had a really fun and enjoyable time together. :)

See link below to find out more. :)

http://nyca1disciples.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/reminiscing-our-past-together/

Really pray that God will grow all of us in this CG together to learn to love at a deeper level and care at a wider degree. :)

Me and my Dumb and Dumberer

Woke up this morning trying to cook porridge for myself using stove fire and pot coz I saw salted eggs on the table.

Lesson learnt:

Cooking porridge needs lots of attention!!! You can't just leave it there to boil by itself!!!

Ok. Don't laugh. I know it's stupid. I ended up with a put that has a black bottom... Had to clean up the stove and later wash the pot... I'm determined to eat this anyway so I just put it in my rice cooker and pressed "Congee". It's an hour away...

Thankful to God for yesterday. Somehow He managed to help me pull through my longest day with lesser dread than usual despite the backlog that we had to rush for our project which is due very soon and we HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED ON ANYTHING CONCRETE! Yup. I guess God really knocked some emotional senses into me (when I just didn't want to feel much) by allowing my sheep to fall terribly ill and it made me drop what I'm doing to just go down to the medical centre to see how he is doing. God, hope that you've already taken away his migraine!!!

Simply thankful for God's guidance such that the project group could finally move forward too. It felt like no one was taking the reins and I couldn't either. But it did move forward eventually, somehow.

Grateful for the time spent in fellowship talking to Qianru's friend/ Jingting's ex-room mate (forgot what's her name! Oh no! Need to ask Jingting/Qianru). It reminded me of what we should be doing most of the time at HQ, which shouldn't be simply studying and our own work though we may need at times. The chat with Yanyu home was pretty much enjoyable too and it wasn't filled with loads of crap. Mind you, I don't only talk lame.

Asking God for new strength within me. Rushed to have my part done till 3a.m. and I'm up already. Living my days with God taking the reins of my life. Woohoo! Do with me as you please!