Thursday, July 29, 2010
been a long time since i really blogged? haha.
last 5 months had been an exciting journey, especially since SOT started? as usual there are the ups and downs, roller coaster rides which many people will go through at different degrees of it.
in whatever circumstance there is, God teaches us to rejoice and praise Him no matter what happens. I was just reading the book "how to become a Contagious Christian" and read this section where some flaky Christians would throw away their emotions and will continue to "Praise the Lord" etc.
I'm not trying to condemn such actions as being inhumane or being illogical as each have their own perspective to go with. One thing I like about God is that He gives us emotions to freely express ourselves, be it happiness, sadness, excitement, melancholic or even anxiety. It makes us really 'human' don't you think?
It is because we have emotions that we can express how we actually feel towards God or others in the various circumstances. :)
Try saying "Praise The Lord!" in excitement and compare that with saying the same line without emotions. How much difference it will make, seriously!!
just today in school, suddenly got reminded of how vulnerable one is, to slide back from being enthusiastic to being laid back. And to think of it, I went through that as well, during the last 5 months of school seriously. thoughts of wanting to do this and that, to being care-less of every other thing that's not new to me or to do it coz' of others commitment to the particular subject. I'm not easily affected by others' passion now...
At just about the same time it occured to me as well how true it is, that your character supports the level of your success. You can be brought to a level where you are successful because of the situation you are in but if your character cannot sustain that, you will fall to the level which your character can sustain you best at, from your last level of success.
That of course, by no means an accident to remind others how much you need to work on so that you can be ready when the next leap of success comes in, that is a constant work of maintainence and building strength into your character.
Of course do be mindful of what can cause you to degrade in your character, like viruses causing damage to the body for as long as it stays active in the body.
Okay, just a brief summary of what I'm watching out or going through myself in this season. :)
more updates coming up! hopefully. :P
last 5 months had been an exciting journey, especially since SOT started? as usual there are the ups and downs, roller coaster rides which many people will go through at different degrees of it.
in whatever circumstance there is, God teaches us to rejoice and praise Him no matter what happens. I was just reading the book "how to become a Contagious Christian" and read this section where some flaky Christians would throw away their emotions and will continue to "Praise the Lord" etc.
I'm not trying to condemn such actions as being inhumane or being illogical as each have their own perspective to go with. One thing I like about God is that He gives us emotions to freely express ourselves, be it happiness, sadness, excitement, melancholic or even anxiety. It makes us really 'human' don't you think?
It is because we have emotions that we can express how we actually feel towards God or others in the various circumstances. :)
Try saying "Praise The Lord!" in excitement and compare that with saying the same line without emotions. How much difference it will make, seriously!!
just today in school, suddenly got reminded of how vulnerable one is, to slide back from being enthusiastic to being laid back. And to think of it, I went through that as well, during the last 5 months of school seriously. thoughts of wanting to do this and that, to being care-less of every other thing that's not new to me or to do it coz' of others commitment to the particular subject. I'm not easily affected by others' passion now...
At just about the same time it occured to me as well how true it is, that your character supports the level of your success. You can be brought to a level where you are successful because of the situation you are in but if your character cannot sustain that, you will fall to the level which your character can sustain you best at, from your last level of success.
That of course, by no means an accident to remind others how much you need to work on so that you can be ready when the next leap of success comes in, that is a constant work of maintainence and building strength into your character.
Of course do be mindful of what can cause you to degrade in your character, like viruses causing damage to the body for as long as it stays active in the body.
Okay, just a brief summary of what I'm watching out or going through myself in this season. :)
more updates coming up! hopefully. :P
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