Don't drop on the second step!!

Today the youths had their 2nd YF, gosh i sound like i'm writing a report! Weng Ern took over because uncle Kai Yew had a wedding to attend.

Weng Ern shared about how Jesus sending away his disciples to spend time with GOD. Then the disciples got caught in a storm while Jesus was on shore. Then Jesus walked on water to them, but the disciples thought it was a ghost. After spending 24/7 with Him and they still didn't recognized Jesus (background effect: they got short-sightedness! seriously Jerry that wasn't funny)

Then, Peter took the first step of faith after Jesus gave him the green light. He stepped on water, first step, second step, blop!! an~d he lost it! Why? He stop focusing on Jesus but instead he looked at the obstacles around him. (Background effect: i thought Jesus hit Peter's blind spot! LOL! very funny Jeremy) Then Peter started sinking, and he cried out to Jesus to save him.

ok, enough cold jokes, the main point is that when we are facing obstacles, we need to ask GOD for help and also we must focus on him not the scary things in front of us, and the focus must stay. If not, first step, second step, blop!!

Life? A Bed of Roses? Yes!! Definitely!!

Who says life's not a bed of roses?A bed of roses is full of thorns, and life's full of challenges and heartbreaks.

The thorns pierce through your skin and it stays there until you pull them out. Some thorns pierce through so deeply you can never get it out unless you use a needle to pick it out. 

To me, that needle is a metaphor for JESUS. When I sin or do something wrong and the consequences looks like there's no hope or when i feel guilty or sad or painful, i pray to Him. Whenever i pray, thorns are removed, i feel peace in my heart. It's like nothing matters anymore, cause I'm set free and the thorns are gone. 

Although i have to go through "the bed of roses"(life), i always know that He'll protect me from thorns. Sometimes, when i think that i can go through "the bed of roses" myself, i'll get hurt, but as long as i go back to the Healer and Protector, I'll be fine in the end.

So, the next time someone ask me: "You think life's a bed of roses ah!?"("ah" is Asian accent) I'll answer them: "Yes, of course!"

A family is bonded together by LOVE, not BLOOD.

Let me give you an example.

A rich family, father is a business man, mother is the head of some organisation, child who barely sees the parents, was taught by and grew up with a nanny.

If the child needs anything, she has to tell the nanny, and the nanny will tell the parents' secretaries, and then only the secretaries will tell the parents.

What kind of family is this? A family of only titles, father, mother are titles the child say to strangers. Son, daughter, are titles the parents says to a teenage they totally do not understand.

From what i see, i think the nanny and the child are more of a family then the parents and the child. Why? Cause the nanny loves the child and knows the child while child also loves and knows the nanny as well. (For those who love literature, this part is similar with Romeo an Juliet)

Let me give you another example.

A father who created the universe, and if earth was a golf ball, (Louie Giglio) we'll be even smaller than the tiny dust on it and the universe would be huge. I think you could go to Mon't Everest, put your golf ball there and loooook up and maybe imagine another 1 on top, thats the universe, or maybe only a small part of it.

But because of us, the not-even-bigger-than-dust-people-if-earth-was-a-golf-ball, he gave his only son, to die on the cross, to save us, the sinners so tiny yet so precious in his eyes.

He love us so much, he tied a string on each of us, when we go in too deep, he puts us out, as long as we ask him to. So why are we so stubborn? Thinking we can do things ourself without GOD?(ahem, going a little off track, going back to explaining FAMILY) This is definitely a family, with love bonding it together.

Do you want only pain killers? or do you want to be healed?

People always think that i'm super happy-go-lucky, i have 2 ways to make me like that. 1, I mastered the art of distracting myself. Once someone or something makes me unhappy or painful or even the slightest bit of uncomforted, i think of something else and it's gone, distracted, all pain, unhappiness, stress, GONE. (The Pain Killer)

But when it comes to bedtime, thats, another story, i think of what hurt me today, of how it felt to hurt so badly my heart turns sore of pain. Here's where 2 comes in, before midnight it goes away, (it's got to go somewhere, it can't just disappear, that will be what you might ask) i goes to the Jesus, my LORD and saviour. (The Healer)