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“Blessed are the poor in spirit …” —Matthew 5:3

August 21, 2012

What I learned from this is that being a Christian, we should see that without God, we are nothing. The moment we acknowledge that we are poor is when we start to see that we need God. How can we get the idea that we need Him when our thoughts is clouded by our own pride? Out of that desperation is when we truly seek Him. How there is no other option left but to believe in Him. The moment we recognize this, that is when we can enter the kingdom of God.

Being poor in spirit if you think about it lets us completely direct our attention to God… acknowledging that “God I need you.” as in needing God for who He is but not what He will do or won’t do. Just like what it said in utmost.org, when living water flows out of us, we shouldn’t focus on the outflow but focus on it’s source instead. Focus on God and not His works just like our love to our friends and family… we love them for who they are and not what they do.

“He calls his own … by name …” —John 10:3

August 16, 2012

What I learned today is that just because we know the bible based on what it is written… doesn’t automatically mean we know Jesus.

It could be viewed like this: we can read about Justin Bieber and know everything about him but it doesn’t mean that we know him. Knowing everything about someone vs knowing someone. 

Reading the bible is very important don’t get me wrong but read it in a way where we’re getting to know Jesus and not just knowing about Him. Let not be our knowledge of Jesus surpass our personal relationship with Him.

You don’t want to end up just being a fan… I’m sure you would want to be a friend instead.

“You must be born again” —John 3:7

August 15, 2012

Receiving God really does have a different effect in my life. It changes how I think, talk, live, react to things. Being conscious of God’s existence and sovereignty, it gave me a new life. My perspective completely changed because I am now sensitive to my own sanctification and salvation - the things that are happening in my life is a chance to make me a better person and the person that God wants me to be and also if I am living a life that is pleasing to God.

The verse said “must be born again”  and that doesn’t mean we must go back inside our mother’s wombs and come out again (lol!) but what it means is that we must get rid of our old self, let go of the things that hinder us from getting closer to God.

“My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him” —Hebrews 12:5

August 14, 2012

It is definitely hard to not be discouraged when God disciplines me, when He rebukes me and takes away things that’s making me comfortable and lose sight on Him. But instead of it being seen as a punishment, I now know that I should see it as God working in my life. He rebukes me because I am currently not the person He wants me to be and in order to become that, I must go through the fire, to be cleansed and purified so I will be blameless.

One of the traps I used to fall for before was when God rebukes me, I rebel… I say things like “Oh well, I can’t help it. I prayed and things didn’t turn out right anyway. So I’m simply going to give up on everything.” but I realized that this thinking is wrong. Do I simply give up on the people I love because they didn’t support my wrong decisions? Just like gold that has to go through fire to be made pure, I shouldn’t give up on God when He’s in the process of sanctifying me. He has an amazing plan for my life and if I give on Him, then I might miss out on the chance of bringing glory to Him with my life.

“Let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good …” —1 Peter 4:19

August 10, 2012

I learned a few things today:

1. On the hard tasks, there are 2 ways of looking at it… one would be seen as choosing suffering and the other is choosing Jesus. Although it leads to the same action, the mindset is different. As Christians, we shouldn’t be seeing anything for God as suffering for Him but instead looking at it as doing these things for God for His glory or being used for His glory.
2. Looking for sympathy during times of hardships only weakens me. If a person sympathies with my low times and I accept it, I will begin to think that God is being harsh with me which then would result to self-pity.
3. God will be God and will do whatever He pleases. He always does things for our good so we just have to trust Him. We fully cannot judge why these things are happening or why we are where we are but just got to have faith that God is doing something in our lives for His glory.. and what more could a Christian want?