God is Love

Struggles

2011-04-05T21:31:00.000+08:00

It's been a year since the last post. I was doing fine in Architecture studies.... Well to be frank, not even close to what I'd expected. Studying has become a source of torture to me. I'm not being able to get the passion in studying anymore.

I'm not managing my time well. That's the real truth. I've been slacking behind, doing random thoughts, wasting the blessed time to do unblessed things, fortifying myself from the reality. Am I suppose to be in this state? Blaming towards my own incapabilities? I've faith on Jesus, but what I've been doing is pulling myself away from that. Since 2nd year started, I'm not being concentrated in my studies.

And now, 2nd year is going to end soon, with another week towards the end of the project, I believe I will be freed from intensive bombardment of projects. One thing I'm not quite sure is, am I good enough to be considered 'graduated' from 2nd year? If I'm going to use all the contains I have in me to continue 3rd year, will I be able to make it for it? How about the following year? I began to doubt myself. And this will leads to self-centrifugation and egos...

I need to talk to God about all this. Sure He will know the answers.

My Future Wife

2010-05-03T03:34:00.000+08:00

Pastor Hwang asked me about my future wife this evening during the meeting just after we ended service. (though the meeting is all about our P'n'W issues)
'Well, I'm most fascinated with the woman described in Proverbs 31.'

Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing,

But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.

Proverbs 31:30

Him & Her

2010-04-21T16:31:00.001+08:00

Him and Her... by Fabio Novembre... Kinda fun.

From the Book of Genesis: The Lord God crafted man from the earth and blew into him the breath of life and man was alive. And then the Lord God took a rib that he had taken from the man and from it crafted a woman and lead the woman unto the man. Now both the man and his wife were naked, and they felt no shame.

Poor Panton Chair evolution...

Hope

2010-03-06T01:35:00.000+08:00

You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God.

Has been ages...

Full of self-fear. I know I'm a sinner who sins well. Self-proclaiming, self-centered, proud, etc. Could anybody tell me when I'm not sinning? Dirty minded human being.

Have you ever thought of the world without hope? I should come out with something cheerful enough to precipitate myself.

God, Help me. I mean it.

"There's surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off." -Proverbs 23:18

Thank you, for proclaiming hopes for us.

2009-12-17T22:16:00.001+08:00

"You can dare to come near Him, because He has given you His timeless invitation" John Bevere in Drawing Near.

HE dare me to move

2009-12-02T21:29:00.007+08:00

Why God's angry?

2009-12-02T13:35:00.011+08:00

For the truth about God is known to us instinctively. God has put this knowledge in our hearts. From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and all that God made. We can clearly see his invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature. So we have no excuse whatsoever for not knowing God.

Yes, we knew God, but we wouldn't worship him as God or even give him thanks. And we began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. The result was that our minds became dark and confused. Claiming to be wish, we became utter fools instead. And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, we worshiped idols made to look like mere people, or simply human with mere talent that came from God. Some of us made even things that is worthless and pretend to be worship-able.

So God let us go ahead and do whatever shameful things our hearts desired. As a result, we did vile and degrading things with each other's bodies. Instead of believing what we knew was the truth about God, we deliberately chose to believe lies. So we worshiped the things God made but not the Creator himself, who is to be praised forever.

"We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves." - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French mathematician, physicist and religion philosopher)

That is why God abandoned us to our shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. And the men, instead of having normal sexual relationships with women, burned with lust for each other. Men and women did shameful things with each other men, as a result, suffered within themselves the penalty such as AIDS and any other diseases, is richly deserved to them.

When we refused to acknowledge God, he abandoned us to our evil minds and let us do things that should never be done. Our lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, fighting, deception, malicious behavior gossip, slanderers, backstabber, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful.We are forever inventing new ways of sinning and are disobedience to their parents. We refuse to understand, break our promises, and are heartless and unforgiving. We are fully aware of God's death penalty for those who do these things, yet we go right ahead and do them anyway. And, worse yet, we encourage others to do them, too.

God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful wicked people who push the truth away from themselves.

Source from Romans 1:18-32

Stubbornness

2009-11-29T00:59:00.001+08:00

Often we take for granted about the reason of universe.

Couldn't we notice behind-the-scene what's going on?

We are from above. Don't be ridiculed by the bads. Faith can help you a lot in seeking the Creator of life.

"Set your minds on the things above, not on earthly things." Colossians 3:2

Church is not for cultivation of relationships. And to those who think they are suffering in lack of love from God, relationship with human being won't help you at all.

Bad example, Christians.

Finite limitation

2009-11-28T03:26:00.002+08:00

I was once told by my cluster mates about the fact of Rhinoceros beetles. It is one of the strongest animals on the planet in relation to their own size as it can lift up to 850 times their own weight.

How about the human fact? Can we lift up to 850 times of our own weight? 100 times? 10 times? The finite limitation within us is a fact and couldn't be eliminated even you're well trained.

This leads me to the scene where God prompted Job about the limitations of human in chapter 38:

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?

Who determined its dimensions and stretched out the surveying line?

What supports its foundations, and who laid its cornerstone?

Who kept the sea inside its boundaries?

Who commanded the morning to appear and caused the dawn to rise in the east?

Who made daylight spread to the ends of the earth, and bring an end to the night's wickedness?

Have you explored the springs from which the seas come?

Have you explored their depths?

Do you know where the gates of death are located?

Do you realize the extent of the earth?

Where does light come from, and where does darkness go?

Have you visited the storehouses of the snow, or seen the storehouses of hail?

Where is the path to the source of light?

Where is the home of the east wind?

Who created a channel for the torrents of rain?

Who laid out the path for the lightning?

Who makes the rain fall on barren land, in a desert where no one lives?

Who sends rain to satisfy the parched ground and make the tender grass spring up?

Who gives birth to the dew?

Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?

Who make the water turns into ice as hard as rock, and the surface of the water freezes?

Can you direct the movement of the stars?

Can you direct the sequence of the seasons?

Do you know the laws of the universe?

Can you use them to regulate the earth?

Can you shout to the clouds and make it rain?

Can you make lightning appear and cause it to strike as you direct?

Who gives intuition to the heart and instinct to the mind?

Who provides food for the ravens when their young cry out to God and wander about in hunger?

How finite we are. How magnificent God is.

Don't you agree?

"God is the Great Architect of the Universe" - John Calvin in Institutes of the Christian Religion

Father's Love Letter

2009-11-25T02:31:00.000+08:00

My Child,

You may not know me,
but I know everything about you.
Psalm 139:1

I know when you sit down and when you rise up.
Psalm 139:2

I am familiar with all your ways.
Psalm 139:3

Even the very hairs on your head are numbered.
Matthew 10:29-31

For you were made in my image.
Genesis 1:27

In me you live and move and have your being.
Acts 17:28

For you are my offspring.
Acts 17:28

I knew you even before you were conceived.
Jeremiah 1:4-5

I chose you when I planned creation.
Ephesians 1:11-12

You were not a mistake,
for all your days are written in my book.
Psalm 139:15-16

I determined the exact time of your birth
and where you would live.
Acts 17:26

You are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Psalm 139:14

I knit you together in your mother's womb.
Psalm 139:13

And brought you forth on the day you were born.
Psalm 71:6

I have been misrepresented
by those who don't know me.
John 8:41-44

I am not distant and angry,
but am the complete expression of love.
1 John 4:16

And it is my desire to lavish my love on you.
1 John 3:1

Simply because you are my child
and I am your Father.
1 John 3:1

I offer you more than your earthly father ever could.
Matthew 7:11

For I am the perfect father.
Matthew 5:48

Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand.
James 1:17

For I am your provider and I meet all your needs.
Matthew 6:31-33

My plan for your future has always been filled with hope.
Jeremiah 29:11

Because I love you with an everlasting love.
Jeremiah 31:3

My thoughts toward you are countless
as the sand on the seashore.
Psalms 139:17-18

And I rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17

I will never stop doing good to you.
Jeremiah 32:40

For you are my treasured possession.
Exodus 19:5

I desire to establish you
with all my heart and all my soul.
Jeremiah 32:41

And I want to show you great and marvelous things.
Jeremiah 33:3

If you seek me with all your heart,
you will find me.
Deuteronomy 4:29

Delight in me and I will give you
the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:4

For it is I who gave you those desires.
Philippians 2:13

I am able to do more for you
than you could possibly imagine.
Ephesians 3:20

For I am your greatest encourager.
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

I am also the Father who comforts you
in all your troubles.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4

When you are brokenhearted,
I am close to you.
Psalm 34:18

As a shepherd carries a lamb,
I have carried you close to my heart.
Isaiah 40:11

One day I will wipe away
every tear from your eyes.
Revelation 21:3-4

And I'll take away all the pain
you have suffered on this earth.
Revelation 21:3-4

I am your Father, and I love you
even as I love my son, Jesus.
John 17:23

For in Jesus, my love for you is revealed.
John 17:26

He is the exact representation of my being.
Hebrews 1:3

He came to demonstrate that I am for you,
not against you.
Romans 8:31

And to tell you that I am not counting your sins.
2 Corinthians 5:18-19

Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled.
2 Corinthians 5:18-19

His death was the ultimate expression
of my love for you.
1 John 4:10

I gave up everything I loved
that I might gain your love.
Romans 8:31-32

If you receive the gift of my son Jesus,
you receive me.
1 John 2:23

And nothing will ever separate you
from my love again.
Romans 8:38-39

Come home and I'll throw the biggest party
heaven has ever seen.
Luke 15:7

I have always been Father,
and will always be Father.
Ephesians 3:14-15

My question is…
Will you be my child?
John 1:12-13

I am waiting for you.
Luke 15:11-32

Love, Your Dad
Almighty God

http://www.fathersloveletter.com/text.html

What is love

2009-11-25T01:56:00.000+08:00

"Whoever does not love does no know God, because God is love." - John, the apostle in 1 John 4:8

God is Love, and His love is very different from human love. God's love is unconditional, and it's not based on feelings or emotions. He doesn't love us because we're lovable or because we make Him feel good; He loves us because He is love. He created us to have a loving relationship with Him, and He sacrificed His own Son (who also willingly died for us) to restore that relationship.

God is the very definition of love itself.

http://www.allaboutgod.com/God-Is-Love.htm

Loneliness

2009-11-25T00:26:00.001+08:00

"Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good" - John Milton (English poet, Historian and Scholar. 1608-1674)

I won't simply use 'lonely' as a word to describe aloneness. The single physical existence in a quadrangle space wasn't appropriate to define loneliness.

Wikipedia defines loneliness as a feeling where people experience a powerful surge of emptiness and solitude. It's far more than a feeling of wanting company.

It's an experience to examine my existence value alone. God is omnipresence.

http://www.christinyou.net/pages/loneliness.html

Rejoice attitude

2009-11-25T00:07:00.001+08:00

I was astounded by the parables of the lost son, in Luke 15, when the generous Father which is an euphemism of God, rejoice with the return of his son who squandered his own requested inheritance from his father.

What to do about sinners who were already willing to return? - Rejoice