Pleasing God

Fear? Worry? Anxiety? Concerns?


They all distract you from God. They divide - Break down - your devotion to Him.

It's not very hard to comprehend, but particularly easy to miss.

1 Corinthians 7: 32-34

" I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's affairs - how he can please the Lord. But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world - how he can please his wife - and his interests are divided"

So Paul is talking about marriage, but I mean, why not apply that to LIFE?

Why should we be so consumed with worry? Why should we embrace fear? Why should we allow ourselves to be caught up in the things of the world?

I realised yesterday that no matter how smart you are, or you think you are, or others think you are - it's just smartness. It's a label the world gives. It's based on the standards of this world, this world that is passing away (1 Cor 7:31)
What truly matters is God's wisdom. And that can only come from God. Not by studying, nor books, nor from your tutors, parents, mentors, lecturers. It's supernatural.

1 Cor 1:25

"For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength"

And I know we're all stressed out about exams. We want to do well, we don't think we're ready.
But instead of worrying, why not focus ALL your attention on PLEASING GOD?

It doesn't mean we don't have to study and work hard, for we can definitely please God with our High distinctions. It's the heart and the attitude that we bring when we are studying. It's doing it for the right reason - for giving honour and praising God.

We need to give our undivided attention to Him. And when we are concerned about pleasing God, all else - the studying, the cramming, the all-nighters - they just fade into the background. They become bearable. They cease to matter, for we are praising, Pleasing God!


Don't look forward to your results, to the holidays, to the end of this torturous period. Look forward to God saying "well done, my child, well done".

It's denying yourselves, laying down your earthly crowns, and giving ALL to God. Your life, your work, your words, your actions, your thoughts - to glorify Him, the one whose wisdom far surpasses our understanding. The bearer of peace, and hope, that at the end we might collapse into His joy. He is the only one worth our undivided attention - indivisible, whole, complete.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that
God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

John Calvin

vernacularising

If I had Anything Remotely Interesting...

"I am not alone in this. I only let him do to me what men have
ever done to women: march off to empty glory and hollow acclaim and leave us
behind to pick up the pieces. The broken cities, the burned barns, the innocent
injured beasts, the ruined bodies of the boys we bore and the men we lay with.

The waste of it. I sit here, and I look at him, and it is as
if a hundred women sit beside me: the revolutionary farm wife, the English
peasant woman, the Spartan mother-'Come back with your shield or on it,' she
cried, because that was what she was expected to cry. And then she leaned across
the broken body of her son and the words turned to dust in her throat."

-Geraldine Brooks, March

NIDL

i am missing my bed with my favourite sheets and the smell of my room. And my ikea UFO/cheap-imitation-of-a-disco-ball lights. And my own wardrobe. And the aircon. And the balcony. And the fridge. And all the different ROOMS in my house without green carpets bleah





And strangely enough, my old pair of sneakers ??

gonna be

Being faithful and thinking.


French oral exam tomoz, self-declared day off on saturhday, and then i'm up for some serious study seshs the coming week. Hoping to see whip it and praying hard that my brain is able to retain french words in sequence. Oh what's that? Sun? Bah, who needs it.

The Great Escape...

...is something we all need


Life is all about stages. You were conceived in your mother's womb, you grew for the next nine months, you were squeezed out at the expense of your mother's pain/blood/tears/pespiration, you learnt to crawl, talk, write, read, throw tantrums. You entered primary school, then high school, then college, then university. And then after when you finally become an 'adult' they say "welcome to the real world" where responsibilities and hard work seems to be on the top of your list, and the only question you have is not 'when do i get married', or 'how do i pay the bills this month', but 'when did i grow old (and boring) this fast, and how do i make it stop??'


I'm not saying we should be bitter and dread about what's coming up in life. I'm not suggesting that we should hit up the bar and drown our sorrows and talk about our secret pain over cheap peanuts. I'm saying we need to bust out the great escape. We need to do the things we've done for the past (insert number) years for one last time and make it memorable. And then just dropping it all. Leave it all behind and move on.

Yes, move on already. The real world awaits.

Joy Division

how can the weather suddenly go all sahara desert on us!?



I need fresh music. ktestonfridaybye.