Pre-exam week

It isnt exactly the idea time to be blogging I must confess. With a 2-week long, exam packed week coming up and having merely scratching the surface of the basics for each subject, I must say I have to study harder. But I thank the Lord I havent been slacking, but at least whenever I am conscious, I do my best in any way I can. 1 more week of studying left. Past two weeks of tests and assignment really prepared me for the midnight studying I have to learn to endure, I guess. As I have shared before, presumely because my class is ranked best in the level, the number of people getting exemption from exams around me are..., or should I say there are a few of us who have to take all the exams. The rest either have one or two, or have none to study! Yet, they appear to be working harder than I am. You can imagine how stressful it makes me feel. I dare not consider or envy others, and think myself to be exempted from so many exams too, but I rather be contented that God wants me to take the examination, for His good cause!

God IS good. He has been faithful I believe in everyone's life. All can testify of His presence, goodness, mercy and faithfulness. Yet I pray we may not take His goodness for granted. If only we may learn to fear God, and keep His commandments, and to love Him with all our hearts. There is a song which goes, "God has been faithful, will we be faithful men?" Let us not take the grace of God in vain, let us put them to use by guarding ourselves from the evil way, by abiding in His will, by abounding in good works and in His work. There are ups and downs, coldness yet tenderness of heart, seeking yet fleeing in His presence. But its great to know, the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholdeth him with His hands. I believe confessing and repenting sincerly before the Lord can not only draw us back to Him, but even closer. Tasting each time of his mercy, love and faithfulness, and understanding our sinfulness, wickedness and dependance on Him.

Take home lesson from church today was that God desires to be with us, and make us prosper, in His way. I thank God for Immanuel, God with us. I thank Him He is with me day by day, through the end. I thank Him He will be with us, whether we are at the heights of heavens or the depths of the sea. I thank Him He is with me when I study, when I work, when I eat or when I sleep. I thank Him He is with me, even when I fall and desires to restore me unto the joy of His salvation, and to revive me in His ways.

Exams on the way, stressful. Please pray. Not forgetting the major exam people and those taking promos, everyone I guess.

Its time to wonder what the recent influx of natural disasters, hurricans, earthquakes, tsunamis, bali bombings, even the very close to our hearts- dengue virus is trying to convey to us. What do all these things mean to you. I dare not conclude. But I believe they point us to God's warnings of the last days. Its time, I myself and even you take a stand back, breathe a little, and consider our own ways whether if Christ were to come now, would we be ashamed? Something I always think, and it really encourages me. If it all ends here, at this very moment, what would it be like? As in would we have lived to the fullest in God, or shame in ourselves. I can't wait for the Lord to come! Yet I fear for the salvation of my loved ones. May God have mercy on those who He chooses to have mercy on, and I pray they will be our loved ones whom we intercede before the Lord.