What Are Your Values Based On?

It's 630am in the morning and I'm wide awake. Normally I wake up at 5am -.- Ironically, even while one is in the army, you seem to have a lot of free time in between trainings/lectures etc. For me, more free time means more time to think and ponder over things.

What are your values based on? Every organization, group or even a person has his or her own set of values or some would render it, morals. I've come to experience this to a greater extent that every set of values/morals has it's own good points and bad points. However, the standards do differ significantly from time to time. Don't get me wrong, I think that having your own personal set of values is really great, but if one is unable to maintain the standard of your own values as circumstances vary, then perhaps we should be looking to another source to serve as a guideline on how one's values and morals should be like.

In my opinion, the source or answer is God through and through. After going through a certain transition period of my life, I've even more convicted that yes, the answer is still God. God is the only thing, if you want to classify it as an object, that does not change over time or with circumstances. Looking for something to base your values and morals on? I sincerely recommend the Bible.

Similarly in one's Christian walk, from day one, we have been taught/encouraged/nagged at to live by the Word of God which is essentially the Bible in itself. Definitely there are times when we choose not to obey or live by the Word and live our own life perhaps based on our own standards or on the world's standards. All this, isn't bad. It's perhaps enjoyable at times but I really believe that if one does not base his or her standards on something that is unchanging and lives his or her life, then we are really missing out on what life is really about. Try it out and see the results! (i sound like an advertisment lol)

Let the Word Of God take root in my heart. Struggles are part of a daily life routine, but the Word Of God enables me to struggle powerfully.

Hocus Pocus Focus

After a quick get away in kukup, I'm back and I'm contemplating my last few days before i enter army. I'm allowed to rant, cause i haven't been into army before and I particularly hate camps during my uniform group days. On the last count, it's about 3 days left with slightly less than 72 hours...

On a side note, it's so hot and the undeniable fact is that my hair is long (okay depends on your perspective) I just realised I'm going to lose all my hair. Such a shame, I really like my hair now and I'm going to lose it. As I'm blogging this, somebody seems to be telling me, "OF SO MANY THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT, YOU'RE WORRYING ABOUT YOUR HAIR?!"

How true. The focus clearly isn't right and this means imminent danger. Well, I have 3 days left to do something about it, to ensure that my eyes are fixed and focused upon you. If I want to be a child of God that has a growing relationship with you, I want to give you my all. I want to surrender on to you everything.

Half hearted people achieve nothing.

Sink In

Fruits that are bear to last. Fruits that are borne, so that they can reproduce themselves. As I shared about God's love and the ever present availabliity of God's presence to my friend, I was reminded about how much it means to really enter God's presence each and every single day and how much it really means to comprehend and live it out in my own personal life the phrase "God's love triumphs over my unworthiness".

I don't enter into God's presence only during my daily devotional time with God or only during my weekly caregroup or only during the weekly service. I remain in God's presence all the time. In fact, i feel that the term of entering and exiting God's presence is weird and perhaps illogical. Each and every day, God, take me deeper into your presence. I want to remain in you, for apart from you, I have no good thing.

Let your love triumph over everything single thing in my life, good or bad.


John15:5
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.