My Dusty Bunk Talk

I had a talk with my bunk mates in camp a few days ago. We shared about our lives, from the fun moments in secondary school to the serious moments of studying as we approached O Levels. The same thing was true for our JC lives, fun during normal school days and the exam stress during the A Level period.

And then we came to army... and our faces changed. Amusing.

To be honest, I thought I couldn't make it past O levels. I thought i was going to die when A Levels approached. i thought it was the end of the world when it was time to enlist for national service. But in one way or another, I survived.

A popular world saying goes like this, "Time waits for no one". Did I get that right? Time somehow always brings us into and through things. No matter how tough a situation will be, it would still pass.

Many a time, I have the get through it mentality. Just make it pass this term and it'll be holidays. Just make it pass this giant exam and I'll be free for at least 6 months. Just make it pass this week, and I'll book out. The fact is that God calls for his children to do more then just all of this. Time perhaps an enemy in this area; that we can get through things simply because time will bring us through it.

Have I at times left God out of things, that God called his children to do the best they can and not just simply to get through it.

Genesis25:19-34
19 This is the account of Abraham's son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac, 20 and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
21 Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. 22 The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the LORD.
23 The LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger."
24 When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. 25 The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau. 26 After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.
27 The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was a quiet man, staying among the tents. 28 Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
29 Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. 30 He said to Jacob, "Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I'm famished!" (That is why he was also called Edom.)
31 Jacob replied, "First sell me your birthright."
32 "Look, I am about to die," Esau said. "What good is the birthright to me?"
33 But Jacob said, "Swear to me first." So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.

I am a child of God; that is my birthright. Before anything, I am a child of God. Above all else, God created me to be his child.

The Alarm Goes Off

"Our job is not to castigate unbelievers but rather to humbly look within our own ranks to see if we church people area ctually living out the Christian life as God intended."
Jim Cymbala

I'm the same as everyone else. At times, I'm selfish, I'm self-centred and I'm worldly. I'm not superior, I'm just privileged to be given a second chance.

Here I am, send me.

For all honor and blessing and power, belongs to God solely and only.