Passion

Passion.

Someone once said, at the end of the day, it’s passion that keeps you going. you got to love what you do.

The past few days, i have several recounts of what happened that cause this thought to float around my mind.

Saturday

Was at Food Republic @ Wisma having dinner with the cell group, i decided to go for my usual polo bao @ toast box.
i requested one of the personnel i wanted it to be made hotter so it’s actually nicer. so the person serving me started to say i know my stuff and he started to chat about his work. toasting bread for people. he did it with such passion that it totally won me over. he was really loving what he was doing.

Monday

Surfing the net for some blackberry stuff and i saw a blackberry app on time.com “Love what you do”
passion.

Tuesday.

Went for Dennis Balcombe meeting at JW. man, that guy had such passion for the chinese that he speaks fluently in canto and chinese and in my opinion, he speaks better chinese than most singaporeans!! He didn’t allow his family to speak english at all they can only speak chinese. what’s best of all, he’s an american. he stood through the cultural revolution to see china opening up to the world. 30 years of his life went to the chinese. passion. i totally saw that he loves what he’s doing.

came back home, played around with google wave again. it was there and then i realized, the guys at google have passion for the users. this is why google have been so revolutionary. Google Wave, Google Talk, Google Desktop, Google Voice, Google Calender, Google Mail, Google Docs. Google changed the way we do internet today. Gmail changed the way webmail is today. the reasonwhy google rocks its because the peeps at google love what they do. passion. (okay i’m a google fan)

and i remember for myself passion got me to a lot of places.
passion got me playing competitive basketball for a good 6 years.
till today, i miss the sound of the roaring audience in the stadium.
i miss the loud cheers of “圣中！ 圣中！” i miss the sounds of the shoes against the courts.
i miss the sounds of a perfect shot made. i miss the tough trainings (though i’ve had hell, but it sure got me trained up in my determination and perservance.)

till today, i’m still playing leisure basketball. passion.

passion got me studying God’s word and indulging myself in the word of God.
passion got me serving God and running to jurong to serve when i was younger.
passion. Passion grew my hunger for God. i just can’t get enough of God.
i still can’t get enough of God today.passion.

at the end of the day, when excitement is gone. when novelty is gone. what keeps you going is passion.

in the past when i was playing ball everyday, someone asked me how can you do that. i answered. passion. for the love of the game.

today, if anyone asked me how can you keep on going on in Christ. i know for sure my answer would be. passion. for the love of God.

and how do i love? 1 jn 4:19 we love because He first loved us

one of the definition of passion from dictionary.com

11. (often initial capital letter) Theology.

a. the sufferings of Christ on the cross or His sufferings subsequent to the Last Supper.

b. the narrative of Christ’s sufferings as recorded in the Gospels.

isn’t it interesting that Christ’s sufferings is known as passion too?

passion for who and what?

it’s passion for you and me that causes Him to go the Cross.

passion of the Christ. He’s simply saying “I LOVE YOU”

know what? God’s crazy about you. uh-uh, you didn’t read wrongly. He is crazy about you.
crazy enough to come to the world as a Man to die for you and me. what passion.

Psalms 30:5 MSG

He gets angry once in a while, but across a lifetime there is only love. The nights of crying your eyes out give way to days of laughter.

see it? Across a lifetime there is only love. Across a lifetime, no matter what God loves.

Passion.

Godliness With Contentment

1 Tim 6:6 Now godliness with contentment is great gain.

it was only on saturday, during service, as i was sitting there in the presence of God did i ever understand the true meaning of godliness with contentment is great gain. in the past week, a lot of things that has happened that caused me to think alot.

it’s true that in this walk of God, i’ve seen a lot and know a lot. i’ve seen many fall and many went on. i’ve seen many walked but gave their soul to the world. choosing friends, money and many other things over their walk where God is no longer a factor. they knew God as a Savior but never went beyond that revelation to know many other aspects of God. Hence, when they no longer need this Savior, they start to leave the walk. the sad thing is that, many never got to really know God the Father. the ultimate revelation of who God really is.

it was there and then as i think of all these people, have i known that if one being Godly and having GODLY contentment is great gain that you can be simple and just enjoy living and loving and serving God. if one being godly but being contented in the wrong way can get complacent. and if one being godly but being discontented in the wrong way can get extreme and greedy. therefore, one who is godly and having a godly contentment for the things of the world yet a holy dissatisfaction for the things of God is great gain. i pray ill be someone like that. =)

on a lighter note,Christmas is coming. i’m really excited to have a good christmas and thanksgiving because i feel that this year definitely deserves to end well.excited for christmas services and also the harvest. i’m so going to zoom in on that and visualize. i believe with the entire being of my heart, E405 will grow. We will reach one at a time!!!! and we will have a good thanksgiving together as a family, a cell group.

my heart is filled with expectancy and gladness. Can’t wait! =D

Living With Confidence In A Chaotic World By David Jeremiah

 

New York Times Bestseller, David Jeremiah is back with his sequel to his first book “What In The World Is Going on?”. In his first book, Dr Jeremiah idenitifed 10 prophetic clues that are coming true in our own generation. Knowing this, Dr Jeremiah now comes back with 10 habits or aspects to live confidently in this chaotic world of ours today. Habits that we must keep and establish that will form a pattern for living with certain hope in our uncertain times.

They include how to stay:

 

* Centered in Christ

* Committed to the Word

* Compassionate toward others

* Connected to the church

* Consistent in your walk

* Calm in your heart

* Certain of His coming

* Confident in your faith

Such are the basic truths that most of us forgo along our walk in this chaotic world and here Dr Jeremiah brings such truths back to light once again in a easy reading manner. Though a easy read but definitely thought provoking and essential for our walk. This book definitely pushed us to walk the narrow way of God and teaching us to stay firm in Christ with the chaos arising around us. It will worth the money to add on to your reads.

Greater things have yet to come.

i once blogged that in everything that we do, we must have the heart.
even more so today, this fact rings loud and clear within me.

this year has been a special year somewhat for me, and in all things i’ve learnt alot.
Learning to trust God again, learning to love again.
it has been a year full of ups and downs.

someone once said, friendship is found upon common mistakes. it’s when we shared a common experience that the friendship becomes valuable. this year, it’s been a year of new findings for me as well, i found some great people whom i dearly call them friends. i found some great co-workers that we ploughed and worked hard for together. As i was recapping the year just now with some friends, i can’t help but to thank God of the many victories and breakthroughs we’ve had this year. Now, i pray with all of my heart that those who have went through such experiences with us, to recall them and remember how we fought through everything as one. Truly, when we come together as one, it’s when things starts to happen. Therefore, let’s come as one together again this end of 2009. it’s the 13th of november today, there’s still a good 48 days to make things happen.

It might have been a rough edge this few months, but i ain’t quite ready to just let the year end like that. for the Lord promised, the latter shall be more glorious than the end and i believe with all my heart it is so.  i’m not going to go down without a fight =) 没看见那天高地厚不肯放手. and i won’t =) i’m believing for greater things to come this november and december.

AS ONE.

Disappointments

Disappointments, I guess has been part and parcel of life.

Disappointments comes from missed-appointments.

Today, I felt disappointed with a certain someone. But I guess its okay, I trust and believe God things will work out eventually and turn disappointments to new appointments.

It has always been a question of eventuality.
So though disappointed, life goes on, and eventually I believe the certain someone will come back.

You know, it has never been that the cell is this, the cell is that. I guess, at the end of the day no one is perfect. We are all trying our best to love, so am I. So while I’m not perfect in loving yet, please forgive me. I’ll strive to go on to perfection and I believe all of us is trying. Do know, we have not forgotten nor have we blamed. We have not forget anyone or intentionally left out anyone. We are just waiting with open arms for the return of some.God is love and still is. We love and we will continue to.

Come back. Back to your First Love.

Willingness

alright alright, it’s time to get off my lazy blogging bug and come back to blog.
i was looking through my past posts and trying to decide what to really update cause it’s been that long.

many things have happened during the past month. some good, some bad and some not so good.
some got me really emo but most got me thinking. but well i’m generally happy to announce that i’ve met up some friends which i’ve been wanting to. but of course, there’s a whole lot of friends i’ve been wanting to meet up too.
Been so busy this year that i have neglected a lot of my books. well here’s a shout out to my books, “my love, i’ll come back to you soon” corny i know, but i do love them. haha.

a recent event got me thinking bout the parable of the sower that Jesus mentioned bout how some grounds are good, some grounds aren’t. it was clearly shown to me these few days. felt a little discouraged and disheartened but all is good still i guess. i saw something on facebook that day it says “if all else fails, try loving” how true. It felt to me that, hey it’s time that my heart gets an enlargement to love more. Well, love isn’t complicated so let’s  try not to complicate things here. i just simply want to love God more and love people more.

was in the midst of thinking of bout some stuff, that it came to me that the willingness to withold nothing is so important. i shall try not to touch on this right now as it’s going to be part of something i’m sharing on friday. you know willingness in life is so important. It all takes a willing heart.

It takes willingness to serve.
It takes willingness to love.
It takes willingness to give.

so really, if we are not willing in loving, we are not loving. It takes willingness to love someone when its hard to love, and without love, we are nothing. Strangely, willingness also produces much strength and creativity. Coming to the end of 2009, i only ask the Lord of few things. One of which is that i may stay in His house forever and the next would be Lord, cause me to love willingly.

 

BB Rocks!

Okay I know I haven’t been blogging for awhile now. Which I know I should

But while waiting till I get the time for blogging.

Here’s a shoutout.
I love Blackberry!

P/s that’s right, this is posted on my bb bold
Jean and Lizhu, I know you’re jealous. That’s just too bad

Till then

The Act Of Waiting.

We live in a fast-paced society. A instant world. Instant noodles, Instant food. We want everything instant. We were trained and grew up in a environment that we don’t like waiting. who has the time to wait? we often groaned at such a thought. we groaned when we wait for a bus, we groaned when we have to wait to be served and we groaned when our food is served late. we hate to wait.

Sometimes, the act of waiting can be very daunting. Waiting for a letter in the letterbox can be daunting. Waiting for a call can be daunting. who likes to wait?

to make things worse, we are asked to “wait on God”

but waiting doesn’t mean inactivity. but rather inHIMactivity. But waiting means watching for Him. Waiting in a way means watching. when you wait for a bus, you are watching for a bus. if you are waiting on God, you are watching for Him, searching for Him and hoping in Him. Great promises comes to those who do. “But those who wait on the Lord will find new strength. They will fly high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.” (Isa 40:31)

waiting does not have to be daunting. the act of waiting can be something beautiful, if we learn to watch for God, search for God and hope in God.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil. Heb 6:19

One Thing I Ask.

God Will Never Give You A Future That Makes Him Unnecessary. – Robb Thompson.

how true.

i have just been reminded it’s a privilege to stay in the house of God. God will never give us a future that makes Him unnecessary. how true. i’m once again humbled and reminded that i need to be more God-focus.

Psalm 27

1 A Psalm of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked came against me To eat up my flesh, My enemies and foes, They stumbled and fell. 3 Though an army may encamp against me, My heart shall not fear; Though war should rise against me, In this I will be confident. 4 One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, And to inquire in His temple. 5 For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock. 6 And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me; Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.

7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice! Have mercy also upon me, and answer me. 8 When You said, “Seek My face,” My heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.” 9 Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have been my help; Do not leave me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation. 10 When my father and my mother forsake me, Then the Lord will take care of me. 11 Teach me Your way, O Lord, And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies. 12 Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries; For false witnesses have risen against me, And such as breathe out violence. 13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the Lord In the land of the living. 14 Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!

From Peanuts To Pressbox by Eli Gold

I picked this book up, not knowing what to expect. I played sports, but not much a of a big sporting events fans. Nethertheless, Eli Gold won me over by his larger than life story. From Peanuts To Pressbox, a third of it’s own by Eli Gold, talked about how young Eli worked hard to become where he is today. The voice of the Crimson Tide.  young Eli would sell peanuts and do almost anything to be where he always dreamed to be. Near the broadcast booth.

I’m truly inspired by Eli Gold, his passion that worked him to sell peanuts and to getting almost no pay for his dream is simply amazing! Not just that, Eli’s vast experiences in his on hand jobs have truly propel him to be one of the greatest stories teller of all time! i really love this book for it’s easy-reading and yet all time inspiring through a voice that many recognize but most importantly a voice that really could have said “been there, done that”. From starting out as a “broadcaster” where he would cough once if a team scored a run to his classmates to where he is. It’s been one great amazing journey that words will never truly capture the essence of his life story in a single book. well done Eli.