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Saturday, June 21, 2008, Saturday, June 21, 2008
I am ALIVE!
Hi friends!
After my last post on Feb 8, which is a good 4 months ago! I never felt the desire to write anymore because so many things happened in my life and my only focus back then was to get back in my walk with God; fellowship with Him and tarrying in His presence! Now, the old has passed away and the new has come!
Revived Walk with God; feeling His refreshing presence daily!
New Career with additional pay increment and a more relaxed working env!
Meaningful and Fruitful relationships with my dear dear and my family!
Finding back my purpose in life!
God is so real in my life; and the lesson that I've learnt is: our walk with God is paramount in a Christian's life; just like how you need to drink water and breathe every single moment. Without God, the simplest of task becomes burdensome, dry, hard-going and unfulfilling. However, with God, the hardest of projects becomes manageable, do-able, makes the person more focused on pleasing God with his spirit of excellence in doing the project; rather than pleasing man with his silly antics.
What is my REAL Value in life? Is it determined by my salary package, my material possessions, my career path, my Return on Investments? Though these are important, my real value in life is determined by my attitude towards Jesus and doing my best to live a Christ-filled life! To love people who hate you; to bless those who curse you; to be the best Christian I can be; in terms of my attitude in my giving, serving others towards my loved ones, at home and at work!
Yes it can be quite difficult to do that; but at least we can try to do that every single day right? I realised this because back then when I was working in a corporate banking environment, I was so caught up with status, titles, pay packages, people's impressions of me and the worst of all, office politics. Having thought that I am seasoned in all the above mentioned, I then naively moved into my next job in the banking world; "elevated" myself and found myself crashing down after 20 weeks!
The following 2 months after that; was a simply humbling experience as I was brought back to my starting line, to get right my relationship with God back on the right track, to do my daily routine of peering through "Recruit" sections of the newspapers and sending out job applications. The process indeed seemed endless at that point of time. Layer by layer, God peeled away the exterior pride and interior rebellion spirit I had towards Him; as I prayed and lingered in His presence, I cried and wept; confessing all of my wrong decisions and acknowledging how wrong I had been in sorting out my life's priorities.
GOD is indeed awesome and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts! Always. For Eternal. Soon after days of job applications online, I went for many interviews and I made it a point to pray before each interview; for His peace, wisdom, favour of man, presence and for the Holy Spirit to guide me to discern whether was that job suitable for me. GOD is really AWESOME! He closed a couple of doors on jobs that He knew it wasn't suitable for me and ultimately blessed me with my present job; with an additional increment on top of what I was drawing in my previous job! Praise the Lord! :)
After 2 weeks of being on the job, I am still praying daily and taking one day at a time; to do my best not just to impress my boss, but to do it as though I am doing it unto God; who is my ultimate CEO, my best friend, my lord and king!
I want to enjoy every single day of walking right with God, to love the people who are dearest to me like how God loves me and to be able to a blessing to my dear dear, my family, my friends!. God had never given up on me throughout this period of time; since day01 when I gave my heart to Him and because of His faithfulness, my life is changing for the better!
Throughout this period of time, I would also want to thank GOD, my lovely darling, my parents, my siblings and my friends like Hee Guan, Ryan, Elisha, Max, Zief, Ian and many others for your constant encouragement, prayers, care and concern rendered towards me!
God, thank you for giving me Your Son, Jesus who died for my sins 2000 years ago so that I can have eternal life. Thank you for always blessing me, loving me, interceding for me, lending Your ears to hear, protecting me and my loved ones AND thank you for being my best friend, my King and my Lord!. You are simple awesome and I want to walk closer with you every single day; to love You more and to walk in Your will for my life!
After my last post on Feb 8, which is a good 4 months ago! I never felt the desire to write anymore because so many things happened in my life and my only focus back then was to get back in my walk with God; fellowship with Him and tarrying in His presence! Now, the old has passed away and the new has come!
Revived Walk with God; feeling His refreshing presence daily!
New Career with additional pay increment and a more relaxed working env!
Meaningful and Fruitful relationships with my dear dear and my family!
Finding back my purpose in life!
God is so real in my life; and the lesson that I've learnt is: our walk with God is paramount in a Christian's life; just like how you need to drink water and breathe every single moment. Without God, the simplest of task becomes burdensome, dry, hard-going and unfulfilling. However, with God, the hardest of projects becomes manageable, do-able, makes the person more focused on pleasing God with his spirit of excellence in doing the project; rather than pleasing man with his silly antics.
What is my REAL Value in life? Is it determined by my salary package, my material possessions, my career path, my Return on Investments? Though these are important, my real value in life is determined by my attitude towards Jesus and doing my best to live a Christ-filled life! To love people who hate you; to bless those who curse you; to be the best Christian I can be; in terms of my attitude in my giving, serving others towards my loved ones, at home and at work!
Yes it can be quite difficult to do that; but at least we can try to do that every single day right? I realised this because back then when I was working in a corporate banking environment, I was so caught up with status, titles, pay packages, people's impressions of me and the worst of all, office politics. Having thought that I am seasoned in all the above mentioned, I then naively moved into my next job in the banking world; "elevated" myself and found myself crashing down after 20 weeks!
The following 2 months after that; was a simply humbling experience as I was brought back to my starting line, to get right my relationship with God back on the right track, to do my daily routine of peering through "Recruit" sections of the newspapers and sending out job applications. The process indeed seemed endless at that point of time. Layer by layer, God peeled away the exterior pride and interior rebellion spirit I had towards Him; as I prayed and lingered in His presence, I cried and wept; confessing all of my wrong decisions and acknowledging how wrong I had been in sorting out my life's priorities.
GOD is indeed awesome and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts! Always. For Eternal. Soon after days of job applications online, I went for many interviews and I made it a point to pray before each interview; for His peace, wisdom, favour of man, presence and for the Holy Spirit to guide me to discern whether was that job suitable for me. GOD is really AWESOME! He closed a couple of doors on jobs that He knew it wasn't suitable for me and ultimately blessed me with my present job; with an additional increment on top of what I was drawing in my previous job! Praise the Lord! :)
After 2 weeks of being on the job, I am still praying daily and taking one day at a time; to do my best not just to impress my boss, but to do it as though I am doing it unto God; who is my ultimate CEO, my best friend, my lord and king!
I want to enjoy every single day of walking right with God, to love the people who are dearest to me like how God loves me and to be able to a blessing to my dear dear, my family, my friends!. God had never given up on me throughout this period of time; since day01 when I gave my heart to Him and because of His faithfulness, my life is changing for the better!
Throughout this period of time, I would also want to thank GOD, my lovely darling, my parents, my siblings and my friends like Hee Guan, Ryan, Elisha, Max, Zief, Ian and many others for your constant encouragement, prayers, care and concern rendered towards me!
God, thank you for giving me Your Son, Jesus who died for my sins 2000 years ago so that I can have eternal life. Thank you for always blessing me, loving me, interceding for me, lending Your ears to hear, protecting me and my loved ones AND thank you for being my best friend, my King and my Lord!. You are simple awesome and I want to walk closer with you every single day; to love You more and to walk in Your will for my life!
Dear dear, thank you very much for always standing by me; through thick and think literally throughout the past 2 months. Thank you for being so understanding towards me and always blessing me with words of encouragement, gifts such as the Mizuno running shoes, your quality time spent together and your LOVE and PRAYERS to me. I have seen a new dimension of "LOVE" and it is not the love that I've seen ever before. But one that is self sacrificing, constant giving and eternal blessing! I thank God for sending you into my life and as we continue to grow and mature in Christ and in this relationship, lets continue to draw close to God and because of His love for us, lets love each other and our loved ones more hao ma dearie baby?
Dad and Mum, thank you for constantly believing in me; encouraging me and blessing me financially throughout the past 2 months! No one is perfect; and I've never set out to find a pair of perfect parents; but I've found you guys and you have been simple A-W-E-S-O-M-E!. Thank you for raising me up; providing for me despite the difficulties that you faced in your business but yet; you all never failed to continue supporting and loving this family!
I hope that I can be able to bless you more in the years to come; to be a fillal son and one that you can be proud of!
Bro and Sister(s), thank you very much for always encouraging me in different ways and being sucha awesome sibling through my entire life! Actually, we are very close because we have not experienced sibling rivarly before and I would NOT want to experience that either! Haha..I want to continue to learn on how to be a better brother; to pray for your needs; and to continue to bless in all that I can; from buying ham and cheese bread to maybe being able to bless you with more in the future!
Ah ma, I know you might never get to read this post, but YOU ARE SIMPLY THE BEST AH MA to me!... :)
As I stand on the threshold of the next 6 months of 2008, many thoughts of future plans linger in my mind and while planning for the future is important, how can tommorow be better if your today isn't impacted and changed by God's refreshing peace and presence!. I want to take 1 day at a time, to continually do my best to rely on God's strength, to pray, to be led by the Holy Spirit, to love, to give cheerfully and ultimately to be a blessing to all! I am not there yet and I am still learning; day to day.
Let's continue to be ALIVE in His presence and not lie dead in sins.
God bless you! Take care!
me
