when He speaks…

Okey, not sure if you guys read one of my (PRETTY) old posts.. entitled ‘Coincidence? I think not‘ but it was ’bout my Christian walk.. when it was pretty dry & well, God is a God of second chances and he got me all fired up again.

Well.. as some of you know, we had a conference about a week ago from the 16th to 19th December. We had to wake up really early and sleep pretty late since conference was from 8.30am till 10pm everyday(and it usually drags on a bit). So yeah, I was too tired to even look at my bible & do my devotions during that 4 days. But ok la, after conference was over, I began to get even MORE lazy as Christmas was coming and our practices & stuff got more intense. So I came up with more & more excuses to NOT read my bible & do my devotions.

So now, seeing as to how Christmas has passed.. something gave me that little push (again) to read my bible (yet AGAIN). So as I was looking at my devotion materials, there was this verse.. it was Colossians 1: 27 that says something about Him being in us and so I opened my bible to that verse la.. and as I was reading.. something prompted me to go a few versus earlier.
And when I did, what I read just made me go.. WOW. It gave me mixed feelings really. I was scared, yet happy at the same time. The verse goes like this;

Colossians 1:20-23

[20]And by him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven & on earth by means of his blood on the cross. [21]This includes you who were once so far away from God. You were his enemies separated from him by your evil thoughts & actions, [22]yet now he has brought you back as his friends. He has done this through his death on the cross in his own human body. As a result, he has brought you into the very presence of God, and you are holy & blameless as you stand before him without a single fault. [23] BUT you must continue to believe this truth & stand in it firmly. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News. The Good News has been preached all over the world, and I, Paul, have been appointed by God to proclaim it.

So yeah, that was what I read, and it was as if He was speaking to me.. lecturing me; warning me. It was pretty scary though. AND I DONT THINK IT WAS COINCIDENCE LA. I mean.. a WHOLE BIBLE, and I go to THAT VERY VERSE. He’s amazing.

I always wondered what it’d be like to have God speak to me, and now I know. It happened once before. And I got lectured during the first time too. So yeah. TwT But yeah, today was a crazy devotion time spent. But very glad a did it.

ALSO, before doing up this little post, I stumbled across this video entitled True Meaning of a Christian. Its really short, but really inspiring. Merry belated CHRISTMAS.

Its Almost Christmas

Was blog hopping awhile ago, and I stumbled across this blog, which belonged to this college girl and she was following this ’30 Day Letter Challenge’ which requires you to write a letter to someone or something (as stated) everyday. A different one each day. So she wrote it. And it was really nice what she wrote about her parents. Really makes you think. [the blog post]

“And of course, thank you for always being the ray of sunlight that breaks through the clouds surrounding the world. For being two seventeen-year-olds who fell in love and never looked back. For giving me the hope that divorce is not inevitable, that some things do last, that some stories do have happy endings. Thank you for not being another number.” -Rewriting Life

 

OKEEEEYYYY.. on a much more happier note.. CHRISTMAS IS ON ITS WAY! Its the HAPPIEST time of the year.. for me, at least. Who needs snow and santa? I have friends and family… and PRESEEEEENTS! Christmas for me, has always been the happiest time of the year. Its like being 7 all over again. Setting up the tree, filling underneath the tree with huge, nicely wrapped boxes (otherwise known as PRESENTS), writing, licking & sending christmas cards, going for christmas luncheons/dinners, booming christmas carols on your hi-fi, decorating everything with green and red ribons.. and the list goes oooon. Its all just so.. refreshing. Nothing could posibly go wrong during Christmas.

 

And so, as I said earlier in my post, I was blog hoppin’, no? So I happened to hop by JoFan’s blog & he’s currently sitting for his SPM. He’s a year older than me, attending YC, and one of the most fired up for God guys I’ve ever seen. His faith is amazing and he’s just.. so passionate. And so.. being an spm-er, you’d think he’d be stressing and everything. But he’s calmer than a sleeping baby. He tweets more than me each day, and he even blogs ONE day before SPM, and still is!

And so, I was just going through his blog really quickly, and I saw his post about SPM being on THE NEXT DAY and how everyone’s feeling partly stressed yet partly holiday-ish and bla. But most of all, he had so much hope.. it was almost as though he knew everything’s taken care of. But yeah, he posted a song by Relient K. called In Like a Lion(Always Winter) and I think its a pretty meaningful song.

Happy Early Christmas.

Koe