Who Other than Jesus Christ?

I promised a lot of you that I will have this post up in the last couple weeks, but since I have been having a crazy journey, I hope you can all understand. 

About a month ago, I was struggling with many things in my life.
The situation is still haunting my sleep away to this day but I have learned to deal with this; to remind myself what the most important thing in my life is.

I have struggled with the sin that is within me just wanting to present itself to the world.
The work of God, rewired, and altered to constantly sin and basking in the attention of own own self not the creator. 
This is the struggle that I faced. 

Hurting others, and hurting myself in the process is nor healthy nor glorifying.

With this constant guilt and pain that I was facing from years of struggling with this sin, I had hit rock bottom. 

God had broken me down.

I no longer felt the need to cover up, and hide in the mask of this self-created image.

It made me feel desperate need for something more. 
Something more powerful than all the judging eyes among the world, something more merciful that all the burdens in the world can be healed.

Who other than Jesus Christ?

God planted this hymn "I Surrender All" in my desperate need.

1. All to Jesus I surrender;
   All to Him I freely give;
   I will ever love and trust Him,
   In His presence daily live.
   • Refrain:
     I surrender all,
     I surrender all;
     All to Thee, my blessed Savior,
     I surrender all.
2. All to Jesus I surrender;
   Humbly at His feet I bow,
   Worldly pleasures all forsaken;
   Take me, Jesus, take me now.
3. All to Jesus I surrender;
   Make me, Savior, wholly Thine;
   Let me feel the Holy Spirit,
   Truly know that Thou art mine.
4. All to Jesus I surrender;
   Lord, I give myself to Thee;
   Fill me with Thy love and power;
   Let Thy blessing fall on me.
5. All to Jesus I surrender;
   Now I feel the sacred flame.
   Oh, the joy of full salvation!
   Glory, glory, to His Name!
6. The amazing thing is that the Grace gives us this second chance. I need to know that my salvation has nothing to do with what deeds I do, or what I make out of my life. 
8. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me
   

   - Galatians 2:20 
9. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight
10. - Ephesians 1:7-8
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       Through Jesus Christ, my saviour, I am redeemed. I am just glad that this redemption is not out of my own good, but the good of Christ. 
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Overcoming Burdens

Struggles are the worst!

I am currently having the time of my life in terms of my struggles and drastic changes of my life.

Do these struggles guide me to be more desperate for God?
Maybe. 
Then should it be the highlight of my life?
.... NO.

My highlight of my life is and should always be my testimony of how He loves us.
Testimony is defined as the "proof or evidence that something exists or is true".

My personal definition is a bit different I think.

I would like to define it as "How God has revealed himself and His never-ending love to me"
David Crowder Band's How He Loves Us is an example of this.
Some may think of this as a very selfish way of thinking.

However, I believe that how His love is revealed is different for everyone.
As long as we see the Grace of God.

His grace in any shape or form, as everything comes from His love (i.e."Hurricane" of Love).

Recently, this song Healer by Hillsong United have come back to my attention.

As many of you may know, this song is wrapped in controversy.
This song is written by a pastor who lead the congregation in worship.
After going to the hospital from a minor car accident, he announced that he was terminally ill with cancer. He wrote the song Healer, which led many people in prayers and unison. This song became very popular as the pastor continually showed physical signs of deterioration from cancer (losing hair, oxygen tank, and etc.). However, all these signs were an act. In fact, the pastor was never diagnosed with anything, especially not cancer. 

Who knows what his intentions were, maybe it was for finacial support, maybe it was for compassion. Many years after his cancer announcement, he confessed in front of the world that all his relation to cancer was a lie. He confessed that his 16-year struggles of pornography addiction was what he really wanted to bury with the lies. 

Many people were against this news and felt betrayed. For a reason too. All the financial, emotional investment for years definitely leave a sense of betrayal. 

Although this may come to a shock , the important thing to note, I believe, is that we are no different. He doesn't become any more of a sinner than we are. We are all sinners and without Jesus Christ and the Grace that He sacrificed His kingdom and His life for our sins, we do not even hold a chance in ... anything.

Struggles may come and go, but Christ has given us a way out. 


No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
- 1 Corinthians 10:13


Overcoming burdens may be difficult and may seem impossible, but God always gives us a way out.
Christ Jesus, my Saviour.

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Blessings in Disguise

Long time no see, Internet.

It has been definitely way too long since I last wrote here.
I have missed you a lot.

Today, I wanted to write about this phrase, "Blessings in Disguise".
It was a topic that came up in my youth class today. During my class, the kids had a strange way of bringing out the topic of Blessings in Disguise.

It got my thinking gears moving.

How often is it that we just do not see any blessings in our lives?
Especially on things that we just endlessly complain about?

"Sun is shining too bright on me today, I couldn't sleep."
"It was too rainy to go out and enjoy the weather."
"I have too many things to do, all I want is rest."


Why can't we say "all I want is God"?

Nope, scratch that.

Why can't we just appreciate that God love us?
Why can't we just be thankful that Jesus Christ showed us the greatest compassion, the greatest sacrifice, and most importantly, the greatest love that no one can replicate?

Whether it is good or bad, it always is a blessing.
It is still within God's plan for us to be built up in our daily walks.





Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
- Proverbs 19:21


Yet I am always with you;
you hold me by my right hand.
You guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will take me into glory.
Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
- Psalm 73:23-26

His Glory is Beautiful and His promise is everlasting. It is so encouraging just knowinn that He is God and He is there to give us His plan according to His time.




Good or bad, it is all good in Him.

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Body of Church, Body of Christ - Part 3

It sure has been a long time since I wrote my last blog.

Love-packed month with GKYM, Mosaic Retreat, and all the other things that have been going on in my life. I guess I have not had a chance to sit in front of a computer and write what I feel about the body of the church.

This will my last series on Body of Church, Body of Christ.

To summarize the Body of the Church, it is necessary to remember that church is not a physical place. Church is spiritual, church is behavioural, church is sometimes abstract. The church in the bible can only be explained by the people, those who follow Christ and put Christ as the head.

With this in mind, Christians are given the opportunity to love, to be passionate, to have fellowship, and to train together. 

One member from Hillsong United said this at the concert I recently went to. He talked to the congregation about salvation.

He showed how the idea of Christian life is not as hard as people think. This convicted me deeply. 
So many people in the world are scared to devote their lives in God. But really is not something He needs from us. He does not need us to "support" Him or "Live for Him and Glorify His name". He is well-off without us, probably even more well-off. It's by His Grace that we have a chance, not the other way around. 

Firstly, Hillsong asked everyone for an altar call, THOUSANDS of people to alter call. Although only God knows who really received Jesus as their personal saviour and Lord, it still was a moment of surrounding love. 
The member said;
- First thing to do, is to talk to others about your salvation and greatness of God, how your life has changed. 
- Secondly, go find a church, and then be the church.
- and lastly, take your Bible and make it your own. Read it all the time and sincerely, think about the verse and pray about it. 

There really is no other thing in life. Life is just an opportunity that God gave us. Without this life, we would be just going straight to hell, the moment that we were born, or even, born in hell. 

Sometimes, that scares the crap out of me. The idea that we wouldn't be born into this life but we would be born into hell. This opportunity of 60~80 years of age is such a blessing from God. 

Psalm 28:7 says:

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.

The fact that he gave as a living chance, the fact that we are far from deserving any piece of it, but he still gave it to us, is amazing. 
We are saved from His strength, from His shield and we should be, if at least, thankful.

I hope you all see this biggest miracle of love. 

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