Just look up

Don't suffer in silence
Don't give up on yourself
Don't quit while you're still breathing
Don't look down on yourself

Give me a chance to talk to you
I just want to be your friend

What if all this is over
If you give up your life?
Before you jump think it over
Don't bring your life to the end

Give me a chance to talk to you
I just want to be your friend

Just look up
Tell me what do you see?
Is there an open sky for you and me?
Hiding behind the rain tree
Covering you like a sunscreen
He looked down and He knows who are His
You got to get your eyes all fixed on Him
Hanging from a tree
Just look up
At the foot of the cross

G2

I went for the 2nd service today because I had to work yesterday, so didn't follow the family to ARPC. The first person I wanted to hug at the door was Ps Calvin and Sis Charis. It was the first time I met them since they returned from Hong Kong. I sat alone during worship. Many more familiar faces were probably resting their wobbly legs after the morning Stand Chart run (but James still managed to come back for the service!). Ps Calvin preached about Fasting. It was good, I was nourished, blessed and reminded what fasting is about. It reminded me to go beyond worshipping thru music or reading, but to have an intimate time with God through prayer and fasting. Reminds me of Chrisitan George's definition on fasting,"returning to God the worship we give to food". After the sermon, Ps Calvin gave probably the most heartfelt closing prayer I heard in Grace. It was a prayer of revival through intimacy with Christ through prayer and fasting. Something he preached about "going back to basics".

"Oh comforter and friend
how I need your touch again"

Old Reminder

This was written in April 2006 in my TOSOG blog. What a timely reminder about the passion I used to have for R-age. I think that flame is still burning, though it's only flickering. :)X

I will persevere no matter what. I do not want others to see that I am compromising when I confessed about my spiritual condition. There is no compromising when it comes to the Word of God. The objective of my confession is to remember those I have been given charge of. Their growth in Christ must be my goal. To see Christ exemplified in their lives, I have to be an example myself. The Word revealed Jesus' compassion to the lost and he opposed the Pharisees and other religious hypocrites. I read that and saw myself as one of those people that Jesus opposed. I don't want to be in their shoes. I want to be a Peter, a John or a Paul.

Christ is the source of our strength. I don't worship a God that I made up in my head. However every basis of my living is from the Written Word. All I need to know about who I worship stems from the root of the Word. The Word filled me with knowledge of who I worship and the fullness of His character is shown only thru the Word by the enlightening of the Holy Spirit. Those who have the Word are without excuse for not knowing the Word. Those who doesn't have the Word have the Holy Spirit to guide them. But we're so blessed to have the greatest resource book in the world! If we love God, we will thirst and hunger for more of God because He means everything to our system. Loving God means loving the Word, but loving the Word doesn't mean we love God, unless Christ is the object of our passion and delight when Christ in highlighted in our reading, meditating and living.

There is a desire to do things right. Not men's way, but God's way. As a RL under the cover of my pastors, I shall respect that covering. I shall make every effort to build up the CMs under my care and for their spirtual growth I want to cultivate. I will practice self-control and continually renew my mind and be filled with the Holy Spirit so that everyday will be day where my life brings Glory to His name.

Oh God, I just want to be like You
I only really want to do the things You want me to
On this hill of the truth I gladly stand on
So I stood on this hill I chose to die on

I see You in tear and in tempest

I hear You in laughter and mirth

Your presence now surrounds me

In the mystery of death and birth

I bow before your majesty

Worship before Your throne

You speak in language eternal

There Your glory is shown

I feel You in field and woodland

Touch You in rain and in wind

I know You in morning and evening

Where the dawn and dusk begin

I bow before your majesty
Worship before Your throne
You speak in language eternal
There Your glory is shown

Oh Thou entroned in They splendor

Maker of all we survey

To Thee I pledge my truest love

For Thy appearing I wait

I bow before your majesty
Worship before Your throne
You speak in language eternal
There Your glory is shown

(Sam, this is for You, stay strong in the Lord)