Praise with thanksgiving

Last week was just pure agony and constant pleading for God to lead the way. Today I am just filled with praise. I do not what to listen to songs or read about repentance or listen to songs about brokenness, but songs of praise, worship and adoration to God for all things and for every circumstances. Like the changing of seasons, it feels that my life is like that, except that the seasons in my life is not regulated by the orbit around the sun, but by my life's orbit around my faith. The further I am away, the colder I feel and the spirit of God compels me to get back in to orbit so that I feel the sunshine of His grace. I want to stay in the sunshine forever, neither too hot nor too cold.

I am reading Bro Patrick Liew's daily inspirational sharing and I am reminded what I want to do with my life: to inspire others to greatness. Just a few weeks ago, I was filled with so much bitterness and jealousy wondering why I am wasn't working on a bigger production with better pay and higher profile. Those negativity was eating me up inside like in Aliens. I was so nauseated by my own shortcoming and dissatisfaction! I am reminded by what the Lord had done in my life and how I have come to where I am today and I have the nerve to challenge God, "why not more?" Greed and the love for money really take the joy out of everything we do. When I have an eternal perspective and set my gaze towards what is eternal and what is infinitely more precious, money and fame do not come even close! Now with all the opportunity I am given, I will make much of it to glorify God and make Him known through my thought, word and action. The Lord have taken care of everything and there is nothing to be worried about. All we need to do is to do our duty as disciples of Jesus.

Before I go off to another glorious day of The Pupil 2, a verse springs to my mind and that is my prayer this morning: Dear God, make SW and I be gentle as dove and be shrewd as serpents. Thriving on the meat of Your word and not be content with mediocrity. Help us and give us wisdom and patience to teach our little boys to be God glorifying tiny mutant Christian warriors! ;)X Amen!