youth meeting (farewell cum housewarming)

hi all, even before i proceed on towards relating and "analysing" my day today at daniel's house for youth meeting, i think i have to clearly state that the purpose to have a blog is to edify. hmm, i also should be careful in what i post and remember that everything i post should be edification to others reading. for the glory of God ! yah so do point out any mistakes or errors i make that prove to be uncomfortable. its time i should review my blog too. the purpose of it all has to be on God. yupp. ok, so to begin:

well it is really hard to post all my feelings and every thought that goes thru my mind throughout the whole day because i have to be discerning not to "expose" too much of my personal stuff, not hidden secrets or wad, duh. but just things that are not known to many ppl. so its quite hard for me to tell everything in detail and perhaphs it would be a very general description of wadeva happened.

really thank God for helping me to resist the tempation to lie since that incident. there has been ppl out there reading my blog constantly reminding me not to lie thank God for them. some even all not christians ! hmm really grateful for them. well firstly i didnt lie about why i didnt go for training today. secondly i didnt lie about going for tonight's youth meeting. thirdly i didnt lie about skipping training to my parents. and i believe the Lord rewards for honoring Him in my decision. i was like leaving everything to God. whether i should go or i was to stay at home was up to God to decided and i boldly went into my dad's room and told the truth. thank God for the answer. it was a yes. =) i was delighted man. see how the Lord works !

i was just about to add on to my last entry. about lying. i notice also youths lying to come for church activity. well, personally i strongly discouraged that because i have experienced before it. dun follow in my footsteps. dun compromise on this situation. take God's heed in honoring your parent's decision and know that God has planned the way for you to take, dont go against Him by lying(sin), dun do it on your own. let God decided for you k? really i hope you will take heed. ps 120:1-2 In my distress I cried to the LORD, And He heard me. Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue. a verse which clearly show why lying is not pleasing to the Lord. Proverbs 12:1 Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid. i do not stand high and way above anyone, but my pure intention is to edify and hopefully to correct anyone who has been lying. because the Lord has put me into that place and taught me these things in order that i may be able to pass in on to any other person who needs this knowledge. anw some other verses abt "lying": Psalm 31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence, Which speak insolent things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.Psalm 59:12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for the cursing and lying which they speak. Psalm 119:29Remove from me the way of lying, And grant me Your law graciously. Proverbs 6:16 These six things the LORD hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: 17A proud look, A lying tongue, .... Proverbs 12:22 Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, But those who deal truthfully are His delight.


anw to get back to where i was ok i was telling about how the Lord works when you honor Him. that is how He will honor you back ! and so today i went to visit my grandad before meeting darrell darren brandon for basketball. the basketball was normal la. except that there were some "ugly scene" because they opponenets, some other ppl there we played with, were getting irritated with us i dun really noe what happen because i was already out. but i believe weee beng who joined us later marked a guy too tightly and he was so agitated that he threw a punch at beng. that was wad darrell told me la. hai~ it was not very nice actually. but thank fully we didnt get into that fight, or rather a fight. we just left feeling rather disgusted. eunice, elaine and sandra were there btw. den it took sometime before we were able to go to daniel and sis joann's house. lq joined in after we managed to get some otah and stuff.

well the youth meeting was good. i missed it lo. hai~ as in xiang nian after quite some time. haha. the singing was beautiful, of course la got my voice inside, erm *cough cough* joking la. haha with all my brothers and sisters -inChrist's voices inside of course nice right? duh. well me and darren recorded the singing. well mine is mainly because i can rememeber the beautiful singing we had if i am bored den can listen wahh so shiok ! then lena and jon came out to say a "few" words. then there was this word they said that struck me, competancy in our work for the Lord. am i? do i show competancy in my school work, what God wants me to concentrate now? NO! duh. why not? shouldnt i be doing my best in everything i do unto the Lord? of course ! den why am i not showing competancy in my school work? hai~ i have to work on that together with my God. =) brother josh's sharing was short and sweet. i like 1 Corinthians 15:58 alot man. nice verse. =) ok den we had dinner pot luck and den lotsa fellowship. wahh i really neeed christian fellowship lo. i am going to be stuck in arabia for 3months now that got chance to fly back to see my christian bro and sis i must make good time out of it. but unfortunately, i dunno what happen. i just went into my sian mood that time. and i felt so, ignored. well, i have to confess i am sorta a attention seeker so i was quite upset when i was just there stoning and all alone. sigh, no la its just my old self coming back to haunt me. i asked for God's help to go in back there and just take everything positively and enjoy myself with christian peepz however i failed again and again. hai~ there were pple toking at the top of their voices, laughing loudly, getting all the attention they need while there are ppl not me la, =p i notice la, pple walking around aimlessly, sitting at a corner and stoning, upset quiet depressed. hai~ i dunno what to feel. i knew i had to be in that situation to understand what those ppl really felt. not that i am trying to justify my actions but i believe as a christian ppl we should learn to reach out to ppl more instead of sticking to the same ppl everyday and laughing and playing leaving others out. i am more or an observer and felt a little of it myself. so i could really understand what those "loner"s felt. yah we definitely should learn to be more open and looking out for ppl even those we dun noe, those we dont like or wadeva. but we need to make everyone feel welcome u noe. i see many youth comm ppl like daniel and joshua sitting beside these ppl and engaging a conversation with them and i really am glad to see this ppl have ppl to talk to. instead of hanging around with the same ppl everytime, can we not look out for others more? help ppl feel more welcomed? i dunno this is just what i feel. i thank God for letting me understand wad it felt like to be left alone. of couse i was sian and depressed because of other things la. personal stuff but this i observe and i believe we as christians ought to take this into consideration. because i notice some ppl who are quite new just sitting there alone and there is no one to talk to. it makes them feel so out of place and uncomforable. instead of cracking jokes, small talk, doing weird stuff why not spend our time and effort on these ppl? talk to them about Christ? take the opportunity to spread the gospel? chances are wasted, opportunity to save are thrown away just because we are too selfish to dismiss ourselves from our "group of friends" and talk to ppl. hai~ i dunno i really dunno. its time i start looking out for ppl. i did before but not enough really, not enough. Eph 5:18-20 but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, let our word and whatever we say seek to be pleasing to God. be filled witht the spirit and speak to one another in psalms, hymns and spiritualy songs... Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. i'm not being idealistic here. i'm merely stating the Lord's standards about things like lying, our words, etc. though it may be difficult we should always try to do our best in these areas.. work on them..

well enough of that, leave u guys with this song "turn your eyes upon Jesus" thats what i neeed now. i am too distracted with alot of stuff and my focus cant be on the Lord. sorry but its too personal to be blogged. haha oops.

turn your eyes upon Jesus
look full in His wonderful face
and the things of earth will grow stangely dim
in the light of His glory and grace

amen !