A busy trip back home...

I came back to n.p on 15th Sept. Sometimes its so scary to know how time flies off so quickly....

Loong n i 1st went back to C.M n stayed at gateway for 6days.... it was a good relaxing time for me as i go shopping... help the girls at gateway to dress up to go to an international church. This church started not too long back... started by a couple who graduated from Rhema. Good to be hearing those rhema words again... kind of miss my good old study years in Rhema...

Met up with joy joy there too and had a long long talk... went to my favorite Rib rest. - Dutch.

Took a bus to go down to Sukothai.... wasn't a good trip for me.... car-sick.... each time i return.. i will get motion sickness..... was't a long trip unlike n.p but i get mild car-sick...

Spent about 4 days there... big bro was sick and had to go for operation and didnt get to see mom on the day we left... during my stay there.... i was helping aunty to look after her provision shop... really a big shop.... and of course never fail... mosquito bites....

Then we took bus to Bkk to meet 2nd bro. He took us out to an island.... very very nice and beautiful.... (shall post the photos another time... )

Then back to the lion city - Singapore...

Had a really good time together with the team to meet up with Danny & Julie to trash matters out.... all of us didn't want to head back to np due to work.. but we all were refreshed by the retreat... really good to take small breaks with Jesus and then write on the journal.... Thk God for Rev Norman for making this possible....

During my last wk was just busy shopping for Jars of Clay.... kind of stress out with the thought of opening shop by this Thur (24th Sept) & 25th is a holiday till 29th... wonder how it will turn out... many things not completed but i know we can still serve the food on the tables of our customers... still disappointed with how work is progressing.. but just have to trust the Lord...

On the other hand... i'm really excited.... the very 1st cafe is going to birth from the vision i had when i was 17... been a gd 8years.... God this is your ministry... u have to help us...

Commit Jars of Clay unto ur Hands

Remembering my favorite verse in Sunsch

As I was reading my devotional book, i came across my favorite verse during my sunsch times...

"There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man..." 1 Cor 10:13

Why is this my favorite verse???

I can't actually remember why.... but i know it was a period of time where i faces lots of trials and temptations in my life... its all about the choice i have to make if i say i'm following Christ.

What I learnt from this recent devotion...?

Oswald chambers " temptation is not sin" quoted by his book, "My Utmost for His Highest"

He continues saying that Temptation is very much and puzzle of our life as long as we are men. Temptation is common to man, the bible clearly wrote. But not all temptations are faced by every men. Rather the nature of one's man attracts to the very nature of that temptation.

For e.g David loves to eat ice-cream. One day, mom told David not to have ice-cream because David's throat is not well. Knowing that ice-cream does not do anything good to his throat yet seeing the ice-cream tub in the freezer, David is tempted to disobey his mom and tempted to eat the ice-cream.

Lucy, is not a ice-cream lover. So even when she is not having any sore throat, opening the freezer door and there sits a huge ice-cream tub, Lucy does not feel any excitement at all.

David loves ice-cream while Lucy does not. Who will be 1st to be drooling over ice-cream?

Everyone knows the answer.

The same to the nature of man. Temptation fits the nature of the one tempted and reveals the possibilities of the nature. Every man has the setting of his own temptation.

I like to look at temptation at a different angle. Temptation is a step before sin. If i chose to be tempted, I have sinned. If I chose to not to be tempted with Christ help, I not only repelled away from sin, I taken a step to be closer with Christ.

"Temptation is not something we may escape, it is essential to the full orbed life of a man. Beware lest you think you are tempted as no one else is tempted; what you go through is the common inheritance of the race, not something no one eer went through before. God does not save us from temptations; He succors us in the mist of them." - Oswald Chambers (My Utmost for His Highest)