lifesong
Everyone needs compassion
And love that never fails
Let mercy fall on me
When everyone needs forgiveness
Kindness of the Saviour
The Hope of the nation
Saviour, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave
So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything that i believe in
Now i surrender
Shine a light in and
let the whole world see
Singing, for the glory of the risen king
Jesus, Shine a light and
let the whole world see
Singing for the glory of the risen king
Sunday, November 19, 2006
-12:03 AM
Choices... Choices... Choices... CHOICES
Wow finally the first week has past. Life is alright inside.. only need to adjust to the new lifestyle. Guess i'm really gonna learn alot more enjoyable stuff over there. Spend my first few weekends helping out abit in church, and hanging out with friends. Sat night talk with M, certainly did help me get some thoughts organised.
We make choices everyday. I realize there is however 2 most important decisions we make in our lives. The second being our life partner. The first being where we want to spend our lives in eternity. Someone once described eternity as:
A bird taking a grain of sand from a very long beach, fly to the moon and brings the grain of sand there. Flies back take another grain and back to the moon. On and on.. until one fine day the sand on the beach is completely up on the moon... Well eternity has just begun!
Its a question that one may choose to avoid, and rather not spend any time thinking about it. But the way we live our lives does revolve around this one question.
Do you believe in ETERNITY? In life after death?
This question alone determines how we would live our lives here. If one belives in eternity suddenly everything in this world becomes so dim, be it money or fame... suddenly everything would seem so small, even the problems, such as loneliness and pain suddenly becomes so little. The very thing that drives our lives would also change. Perhaps its a question we may really need to ask "What are we living for?"
I spend a fair bit of time in my life building an image for myself. Reputation and glory meant alot to me. Its interesting what someone can do just to build up and image, even foolish things. But what is our image in the light of eternity? When we finally come to senses of what eternity really means, suddenly the very thing that drives our lives change. Because this 80 years on earth... is such a tiny fraction of the eternal life we were meant for.
Suddenly i want my life to revolve around this 2 statements, that i want my God to tell me...
"Well done my good and faithful servant" and "My son i am proud of you" Everything i do must revolve around these 2 statements. i live for it!! In the light of eternity it is all that matters.
If the answer is no... eternity really does not exsist, than if it was me, i would do whatever i want... whenever i want.. whoever i want.. whichever i want. Why bother to live a right life? Why bother struggling to live a Godly life? Why bother about conscious? After all if this is the only life i have... i should let my flesh take control of everything i do, and make myself happy.
The problem with why many struggle today is because they choose to stay inbetween. Indeed the most miserable group of people living on this earth is not those who believe in God or don't believe in God.. it is those who believe in God and yet live their lives without him. Are you feeling miserable today? This could be it... Let's not say we believe in eternity and live as if eternity never exsisted...
Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Look full in his wonderful face
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of his glory and grace.
