It's the last day and Sunday of this very special month of the year 2010, 10-31-10. Special in many sense. First, the numeric date is nice - this happens once in a lifetime right? It was also a great month for my husband and I because of the many blessings that we have received.
Trust.
We have been married for 1.9 years but technically, we've been together for about 10 months in total. It was challenging to be separated by distance for a long time but it taught me a lot of things, mainly to trust and wait in God. Now that we are physically together, there is more waiting to be done.
Patience.
I remember an anecdote of a man praying to God, asking for patience: "God, please give me patience. And I want it now." Isn't that funny? Funny but very true. It's never easy to wait - whether its waiting in line for our turn at the grocery counter or at a doctors office, it's never easy. Oftentimes, it is easy for us to get down on our knees and pray but we get impatient as we wait for the answers to our prayers. I have proven that God knows His perfect timing... I have proven that time and time again.
Love.
Love makes the world go round and round. There is so much love to give... to family, to a friend, to children, even to those who are difficult to reach out to. I had been praying for God's grace to help me reach out to the people whom I have hurt before and He answered this month. It feels good to be released from the burden that I've been carrying.
Hope.
As we approach the month of November and the final 2 months of the year 2010, we can only hope for what is best. There is so much in store for all of us... Our hope is in God. Apart from Him, we are nothing.
May you have a blessed month ahead, my friend.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Insights on Psalm 139
Oh my... it's been almost a year since i posted in this blog. I guess I better start writing again.
How are you, my friend? Have you ever felt that the world is crashing down on you? ... That no matter what you do, things never go YOUR way? I've been there a couple of times before and still experience such every now and then. Let me share with you what gets me through it...
My devotion today was on Psalm 139. Again, i am reminded of how awesome God is! He knows us, our "inmost being" which is "literally our kidneys, as the center of a person's emotions and conscience" (quoted from Quest Study Bible). It is amazing that no matter how much we run and rule our life, we will never have a perfect one unless we allow HIM to steer us. It is only by God's grace that we can maneuver through life's difficult course.
Blessings to you, my friend! Cheers!
PSALM 139
1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways
4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
5 You hem me in - behind and before; you have laid your hand before me.
6 Such is a knowledge too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can i go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If i go up to the heavens you are there; if i make my bed in the depths you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me'"
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they will outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.
19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, your blood thirsty men!
20 They speak of you with evil intent, your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts,
24 See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.
How are you, my friend? Have you ever felt that the world is crashing down on you? ... That no matter what you do, things never go YOUR way? I've been there a couple of times before and still experience such every now and then. Let me share with you what gets me through it...
My devotion today was on Psalm 139. Again, i am reminded of how awesome God is! He knows us, our "inmost being" which is "literally our kidneys, as the center of a person's emotions and conscience" (quoted from Quest Study Bible). It is amazing that no matter how much we run and rule our life, we will never have a perfect one unless we allow HIM to steer us. It is only by God's grace that we can maneuver through life's difficult course.
Blessings to you, my friend! Cheers!
PSALM 139
1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways
4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
5 You hem me in - behind and before; you have laid your hand before me.
6 Such is a knowledge too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can i go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If i go up to the heavens you are there; if i make my bed in the depths you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me'"
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they will outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.
19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, your blood thirsty men!
20 They speak of you with evil intent, your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts,
24 See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.
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