The longer I stay in Japan, the more I could understand more about life, about myself and about relationships.
God is a GREAT. HE put me here for reasons. Eventhough I do not know what, but I started to realized who I really are, and what I am being called to Japan for.
These days, I realized the importance of being patience. Being patience to wait upon God's gift for me. God had put something that being keep stirring up in my heart since I came here last October. HE put marriage in my mind. To tell the truth, that is the last thing I would want to do in my life, BUT HE put marriage in my heart and give me the urge to search for my soul mate, which HE already decided for me.
So, what I should do? Pray to God? You bet, but that doesn't stop there. I have done my own searching and have my own preference of girls, and thought God could bless those relationship. But in the end, all end up in dissapointment. Not even one could fit the image of what God is going to give to me.
Just a coincidence ( Maybe ), my church friend gave me a book called Dating Delilah. It is a very powerful book by Pastor Judah Smith. It gives me all I should know about purity and about how to find the girl that God arrange for you.
One part I am very fascinated about is the eight boundaries that we should follow in order to find the right girl to walk with us in our journey for God.
First is No sex before marriage. As it is written, we should not have sex with anyone before marriage, means before we find the right one. The reason is that sex is about both person would have spiritual connection when having sex. If it is not the right person, wouldn't that be a waste? We should give our whole to the one and only person who are destined for our life.
Second is No dating unbelievers. This may sound very cruel. All it is saying is that we as christian that following God, should find another person who could walk the same path to focus on God rather than someone who is not compatible and only focus on worldly things.
Third is Homesexual is a sin. This is funny. But it is true. We should not compromise with the fact that homosexual IS a sin. How can man love a man and vice versa. God created us male and female, so that we could enjoy each other's company.
Fourth is No sexual touching. This is an interesting fact. Before marriage, we shouldn't have touching of anywhere near body parts that could arouse sexual feeling or so. It is just the same as we commit adultery because we are thinking of it as well.
Fifth is Treat one another as Brother and Sister. I love this boundary. It started to gets me back in track in my life to search for my soul mate. Incredible isn't it. When we start to look for soul mate, we would start to look around to find the right person in our life. And every girl become our target, and then we begin to eliminate each one of them as time goes. Well, this is not the way. God tells us that we should treat one another as brother and sister in christ. Because marriage starts with friendships and communication. So start being friends with people. Start talking to people. STOP treating everyone as potential soul mate and try to chase to see whether could success or not.
Six is interesting. It wrote as wear appropriate clothes. Hmm, it is an interesting fact that these days fashion is important in our life. But what this boundary meant is that, where do you want people to look at you when they first see you. For guys maybe not that important but it is important for girls to becareful of their clothing and their intention of their clothing.
Seven is No lustful looks. Our eyes are full of light and pure. So why use it to watch pornography or see pornography magazines? Another thing is that we should not look at girls with lustful eyes. It is also one way to commit adultery. So becareful what you do with the eyes. Thinking lust also a way to sin.
Last but not least Avoid immoral friends. At first, I thought this is abit radical. But as I read it, I realized the meaning of this boundary. As christian, it is all right for us to be friends with non-christian because they do not know what is right or wrong. We could help them and teach them. But immoral friends are refer to those christians, that still compromise with sexual things and those sin issues.
Therefore, as long as we live according to these 8 boundaries, we could find the right person that belong to us. God always create a pair when HE created us. See the birds in the skies. God always give them a pair so why couldn't HE provide us with soul mate if we are MORE PRECIOUS than those animals.
So, Do it the right way and we would find the person that truly belong to us.
God bless everyone. Have a great week ahead.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
God Loves YOU
How many of you knows that Jesus loves you? That God loves you for who you are? No matter what you done? Just as long as you open up your heart to believe in this God. You could have great future, great life and of course gained eternal life.
Has anyone being wondering why love is so important? Why people so need love? Has anyone felt so deep in their heart that they long for something which money can't buy? Something to fill the emptiness in their heart? Well, that emptiness feel is which God created in our heart and could only fill by our Lord Jesus Christ.
All of us needs love no matter you agree with me or not. In our everyday life, we need love to continue our long and hard journey, we need love to care for other people and receive the same treatment that we want people to treat us.
Just two days ago, one of my friend talked to me about his life in Japan. About how hard it is to live in Japan without money. Abou how hard it is to survive to in Japan with working so much until you do not know whether "We live to work?" or "We work to live?"
Well, someone might ask, what is the difference between two? I can say there is a HUGE difference between both. "We live to work." means that work is everything. Everyday we have to work to earn money and money would never be enough for these grouusp of people. These group of people would never be happy in their life because all their life is to chase after money. They are being controlled by money.
While, "We work to live." is just mean that we just need to earn money to survive in this world. Which means we are not control by money. These group of people could be satisfied with whenever they earned and would be happy in their life.
Well, which group are you? Most people would not admit that they are the first group. Because it is true that we live in a world where money is important. But should we choose to be control by money or we should be living in content?
Just on last week our church anniversary, I heard about God is a relationship God. HE wants to have relationship with us and it is up to us whether to accept or not.
Everytime I see my non-christian friends, I always have the urge to help them. To help them out of their suffering and to live a better life. Well, not that after becoming christian, we would have comfortable life and money would fall down from the sky. But it is just means that if these people would become christian, they would have LORD JESUS CHRIST walk with them. This would assist them in seeing a brighter future, and having not to rely on themselves in their life. Like us christian, I felt that we have Jesus in our life and that makes us more bold to believe that Lord Jesus can help us change our life and could lead us to a brighter and better future.
To tell the truth, now I could only understand that the only way to save my friends is to show God through me and also to tell them about christ as much as I can. All I could do now to help them is to pray for these people and hope God can change their life.
You know? Maybe you are one of the person that I am praying for now, who knows right? All it takes for you to have a brighter and better future is to have faith in this God of ours, that mean the God of you and me. I really have the confidence to say that as long as you believe that Jesus can help you in accomplish your dream, and you open up your heart to let God into your life, you would definetly see difference in your life and would have a great future ahead.
These days, I am so glad to be in Japan. Eventhough I am going through hard times, but when I see my friends around me, I felt I am so blessed by God. For no need to work so hard and still could survive here. For being able to eat well and go to church every Sunday. Simply, for being able to breath and speak to my friends. It is all I need now. There is nothing much more important to me than to be alive and well.
All right, it is time for sleeping. Take care friends. God bless. Have a great week ahead. (^_^)
Has anyone being wondering why love is so important? Why people so need love? Has anyone felt so deep in their heart that they long for something which money can't buy? Something to fill the emptiness in their heart? Well, that emptiness feel is which God created in our heart and could only fill by our Lord Jesus Christ.
All of us needs love no matter you agree with me or not. In our everyday life, we need love to continue our long and hard journey, we need love to care for other people and receive the same treatment that we want people to treat us.
Just two days ago, one of my friend talked to me about his life in Japan. About how hard it is to live in Japan without money. Abou how hard it is to survive to in Japan with working so much until you do not know whether "We live to work?" or "We work to live?"
Well, someone might ask, what is the difference between two? I can say there is a HUGE difference between both. "We live to work." means that work is everything. Everyday we have to work to earn money and money would never be enough for these grouusp of people. These group of people would never be happy in their life because all their life is to chase after money. They are being controlled by money.
While, "We work to live." is just mean that we just need to earn money to survive in this world. Which means we are not control by money. These group of people could be satisfied with whenever they earned and would be happy in their life.
Well, which group are you? Most people would not admit that they are the first group. Because it is true that we live in a world where money is important. But should we choose to be control by money or we should be living in content?
Just on last week our church anniversary, I heard about God is a relationship God. HE wants to have relationship with us and it is up to us whether to accept or not.
Everytime I see my non-christian friends, I always have the urge to help them. To help them out of their suffering and to live a better life. Well, not that after becoming christian, we would have comfortable life and money would fall down from the sky. But it is just means that if these people would become christian, they would have LORD JESUS CHRIST walk with them. This would assist them in seeing a brighter future, and having not to rely on themselves in their life. Like us christian, I felt that we have Jesus in our life and that makes us more bold to believe that Lord Jesus can help us change our life and could lead us to a brighter and better future.
To tell the truth, now I could only understand that the only way to save my friends is to show God through me and also to tell them about christ as much as I can. All I could do now to help them is to pray for these people and hope God can change their life.
You know? Maybe you are one of the person that I am praying for now, who knows right? All it takes for you to have a brighter and better future is to have faith in this God of ours, that mean the God of you and me. I really have the confidence to say that as long as you believe that Jesus can help you in accomplish your dream, and you open up your heart to let God into your life, you would definetly see difference in your life and would have a great future ahead.
These days, I am so glad to be in Japan. Eventhough I am going through hard times, but when I see my friends around me, I felt I am so blessed by God. For no need to work so hard and still could survive here. For being able to eat well and go to church every Sunday. Simply, for being able to breath and speak to my friends. It is all I need now. There is nothing much more important to me than to be alive and well.
All right, it is time for sleeping. Take care friends. God bless. Have a great week ahead. (^_^)
Friday, August 1, 2008
Birthday
If you ask me, what is my birthday wish? Last year, I would tell you that to travel to Europe and have the best trip is my best wish. Now, I would tell you that my life is to live for God, so I wish for my friends to be save.
This year's birthday, makes me realized alot about my own weaknesses. Especially in terms of my relationship with people. Actually, I never felt so helpless before. To tell the truth, these days I only realized that God could only use those who are helpless to the things in this world. The more we felt confident that we can live this life ourselves, the less we can depend on God and ask HIM to help us grow.
Today is my birthday. What a great day. I felt so excited because it is the day that I was born and put on this EARTH for a reason. Since yesterday night, I felt the warmth of my friends, who sends me wishes and wish me happy birthday. Finally I could see and sense the importance of friends in my life. But I wonder if it is too late. At all these times, I neglected my friends and only care for myself.
In this birthday, I have a two wishes that I prayed to God. One is to help me to bring more unsaved friends into knowing God. I would not want my friends to miss this awesome opportunity to find eternal life. Second is to help me to improve my communication skill and help me to know more people. Now, I wanted friends, and more importantly, wanted someone special that God appointed to me to help me accomplish tasks that given by God.
Let me tell you all something. Yesterday night, is my first time to feel birthday being brought to me. 5 of my friends, bought some cakes and brought to my room at 12.15am and sing HAPPY BIRTHDAY song to me. I suddenly felt so happy, because first time celebrate at exactly August 1st. This would be a very memorable day for me.
Thank you those people for brightens up my days. And I wanted to thank you my mother, Janice, and friends that send me birthday wishes. Really appreciate it.
But to tell the truth, it is also my first time to felt loneliness during my birthday. It felt so empty when no one is giving me wishes during my birthday period and felt so weird. But at the end, I felt worth it. Because, at the end I finally know that no one deserts me, I still have friends around me.
In addition for my first celebration on August 1st, I also had another celebration on August 2nd, it is better than the first celebration I think. Because this time I celebrate with my brother and sister in Christ. It felt better, and more happy. Wait till I have the time to load the pics, I received a gift that is a shape of FISH. And also got SUNFLOWER as my birthday gift. Weird isn't it. Get sunflower for birthday but it was great. Until the dinner time..
This is the story.
Me and my friend (Ms Sarah) decided to have meal at Shinjuku. Where there would be alot of people waiting. And I stand at a place holding my withering flower and had to wait for TWO AND HALF HOURS before I can get my meal. It was the longest meal I ever had. Being waited for so long and nearly fainted. Not to mentioned my WITHERING FLOWER. And can you guys ever imagined people besides you are leaving and only left you there? I had that feeling that day. Everyone met their friends and left. Only me standing there and wait and wait. And finally, see her and got my meal. And also I managed to survive and reach home safely.. :P
Great dinner anyway. Love the food at the restaurant. Not because I am hungry but it is really delicious food. And also not paid by myself. So everythings GOOD.. haha.. Ya, did I mentioned that we came back home in a CONGESTED TRAIN as well? It is so crowded that I had to hold my WITHERING FLOWER up on high to prevent being squashed.
Haha. But Great experience. Never forget my second time of birthday celebration. First one is normal and good. But second one is unforgettable. I am amazed by how much patience I have as well.. haha..
Anyway, thats it from me. This is my birthday report and hope everything fine with everyone that reading this blog. God bless. (^_^)
This year's birthday, makes me realized alot about my own weaknesses. Especially in terms of my relationship with people. Actually, I never felt so helpless before. To tell the truth, these days I only realized that God could only use those who are helpless to the things in this world. The more we felt confident that we can live this life ourselves, the less we can depend on God and ask HIM to help us grow.
Today is my birthday. What a great day. I felt so excited because it is the day that I was born and put on this EARTH for a reason. Since yesterday night, I felt the warmth of my friends, who sends me wishes and wish me happy birthday. Finally I could see and sense the importance of friends in my life. But I wonder if it is too late. At all these times, I neglected my friends and only care for myself.
In this birthday, I have a two wishes that I prayed to God. One is to help me to bring more unsaved friends into knowing God. I would not want my friends to miss this awesome opportunity to find eternal life. Second is to help me to improve my communication skill and help me to know more people. Now, I wanted friends, and more importantly, wanted someone special that God appointed to me to help me accomplish tasks that given by God.
Let me tell you all something. Yesterday night, is my first time to feel birthday being brought to me. 5 of my friends, bought some cakes and brought to my room at 12.15am and sing HAPPY BIRTHDAY song to me. I suddenly felt so happy, because first time celebrate at exactly August 1st. This would be a very memorable day for me.
Thank you those people for brightens up my days. And I wanted to thank you my mother, Janice, and friends that send me birthday wishes. Really appreciate it.
But to tell the truth, it is also my first time to felt loneliness during my birthday. It felt so empty when no one is giving me wishes during my birthday period and felt so weird. But at the end, I felt worth it. Because, at the end I finally know that no one deserts me, I still have friends around me.
In addition for my first celebration on August 1st, I also had another celebration on August 2nd, it is better than the first celebration I think. Because this time I celebrate with my brother and sister in Christ. It felt better, and more happy. Wait till I have the time to load the pics, I received a gift that is a shape of FISH. And also got SUNFLOWER as my birthday gift. Weird isn't it. Get sunflower for birthday but it was great. Until the dinner time..
This is the story.
Me and my friend (Ms Sarah) decided to have meal at Shinjuku. Where there would be alot of people waiting. And I stand at a place holding my withering flower and had to wait for TWO AND HALF HOURS before I can get my meal. It was the longest meal I ever had. Being waited for so long and nearly fainted. Not to mentioned my WITHERING FLOWER. And can you guys ever imagined people besides you are leaving and only left you there? I had that feeling that day. Everyone met their friends and left. Only me standing there and wait and wait. And finally, see her and got my meal. And also I managed to survive and reach home safely.. :P
Great dinner anyway. Love the food at the restaurant. Not because I am hungry but it is really delicious food. And also not paid by myself. So everythings GOOD.. haha.. Ya, did I mentioned that we came back home in a CONGESTED TRAIN as well? It is so crowded that I had to hold my WITHERING FLOWER up on high to prevent being squashed.
Haha. But Great experience. Never forget my second time of birthday celebration. First one is normal and good. But second one is unforgettable. I am amazed by how much patience I have as well.. haha..
Anyway, thats it from me. This is my birthday report and hope everything fine with everyone that reading this blog. God bless. (^_^)
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