Help me always claim Your promises.
Not just talk about my problems to You, but tell my problems that my God is much bigger than you!!
Lord, thank you for giving me the opportunity to learn how to help people. I believe in You and Your grace.
Let the weak say I am strong. Let the poor say I am rich. Your grace is more than sufficient for me.
:)
星期日, 4月 26, 2009
星期一, 4月 20, 2009
Purify my heart
Lord, purify my heart please.
Lord, please give me Your eyes, Your heart and Your compassion.
The more I complain, criticize them, the more I become like them.
I'm sorry Lord....they are also Your children, like me, sinners.
Help me truly live out Your life, as a true followers, with all my mind, all my heart, all my strength.
Lord, please give me Your eyes, Your heart and Your compassion.
The more I complain, criticize them, the more I become like them.
I'm sorry Lord....they are also Your children, like me, sinners.
Help me truly live out Your life, as a true followers, with all my mind, all my heart, all my strength.
星期日, 4月 19, 2009
self-righteousness
Self-righteousness is a very dangerous thing.
As in the previous blog where I need to keep reminding myself about the differences between right/wrong, beliefs, opinions, thoughts, values, traditions, etc. Somehow it is EXTREMELY easy for us to point a finger on someone and said what you do is wrong, forgetting the fact that what they are wrong may be just "wrong according to my values/opionions/thoughts/or actually......wrong". Before you jump to the conclusion and said, "wait! you can't simply say right/wrong is a relative thing", I want to clarify here that what I'm talking about is not the "obvious wrong things against the principles of God, ie love God, love your neighbors". For example, is abortion wrong? or let me ask you again, is abortion wrong when the girl is raped? or is abortion wrong when the girl who was raped is 10 years old?
or another example:before getting married, is holding hands wrong? is kissing wrong? is hugging wrong? is having sex wrong? is living together wrong? is staying in the same room with or without other people wrong?
How about this one: is judging people wrong? gossipping wrong? spreading gossip wrong? listening to gossip wrong?
And ultimately, when we are pointing finger at someone, or criticizing with other people, we have a tendency to forget about how imperfect we actually are! forget about if not were God's grace, we cannot come close to Him at all! If not were God's grace that provide us resources, family, friends, understanding, how can we possible stand here at the position we are right now?
We can do all the right things, all the "righteous" things but having the sense of self-righteousness is a sin in God's standard! Think about in the Bible, who did Jesus despise? Pharisee! Those who don't even know how much pride and self-righteousness in their minds but busy "doing the right thing"!
Why am I seeing pharisees in our church rather than Christ-followers? Why do they easily take someone out and pin them on the cross? Why do they always pick on someone and keep stoning them?
And the most scary thing is may be sometimes I'm one of them!
What is the point of doing 1 month to live, what's the point of going to easter camp, what's the point of going to cell group? when what they do is the contrary to what they believe?
講台上講的大都是對的 做的卻是錯的
上行下效 how can we grow? how can we even proudly say we are God's people?
Lord....have mercy on us.
I am imperfect. I am little, I am hyptocrites sometimes. Sometimes I don't even realise I've gone against You.
Lord help me become more and more like You. Help me see things in Your eyes, not in my sinful eyes, biased by my own flesh.
As in the previous blog where I need to keep reminding myself about the differences between right/wrong, beliefs, opinions, thoughts, values, traditions, etc. Somehow it is EXTREMELY easy for us to point a finger on someone and said what you do is wrong, forgetting the fact that what they are wrong may be just "wrong according to my values/opionions/thoughts/or actually......wrong". Before you jump to the conclusion and said, "wait! you can't simply say right/wrong is a relative thing", I want to clarify here that what I'm talking about is not the "obvious wrong things against the principles of God, ie love God, love your neighbors". For example, is abortion wrong? or let me ask you again, is abortion wrong when the girl is raped? or is abortion wrong when the girl who was raped is 10 years old?
or another example:before getting married, is holding hands wrong? is kissing wrong? is hugging wrong? is having sex wrong? is living together wrong? is staying in the same room with or without other people wrong?
How about this one: is judging people wrong? gossipping wrong? spreading gossip wrong? listening to gossip wrong?
And ultimately, when we are pointing finger at someone, or criticizing with other people, we have a tendency to forget about how imperfect we actually are! forget about if not were God's grace, we cannot come close to Him at all! If not were God's grace that provide us resources, family, friends, understanding, how can we possible stand here at the position we are right now?
We can do all the right things, all the "righteous" things but having the sense of self-righteousness is a sin in God's standard! Think about in the Bible, who did Jesus despise? Pharisee! Those who don't even know how much pride and self-righteousness in their minds but busy "doing the right thing"!
Why am I seeing pharisees in our church rather than Christ-followers? Why do they easily take someone out and pin them on the cross? Why do they always pick on someone and keep stoning them?
And the most scary thing is may be sometimes I'm one of them!
What is the point of doing 1 month to live, what's the point of going to easter camp, what's the point of going to cell group? when what they do is the contrary to what they believe?
講台上講的大都是對的 做的卻是錯的
上行下效 how can we grow? how can we even proudly say we are God's people?
Lord....have mercy on us.
I am imperfect. I am little, I am hyptocrites sometimes. Sometimes I don't even realise I've gone against You.
Lord help me become more and more like You. Help me see things in Your eyes, not in my sinful eyes, biased by my own flesh.
星期三, 4月 08, 2009
wish list
-get high marks in sem9 exam: 1 OSCE practice/wk, 1 long case/wk, 1 short case/day with someone that can encourage when feeling slacking off or tired. we can practice together and share cases and push each other in learning.
-someone can understand my feelings and need, with me saying AND without me saying. Recently I can really identify what a Broca dysphasia patients feel like----no one under what I'm trying to get. and it's highly likely that it is me that having the problems of expressing ideas.
-someone that can inspire and encorage in terms of the walk with God. From the light from the verse in the Bible, from counting blessings around, from willing to share and listen.
-someone to share and pray with. someone to encourage the pursuits of our dreams.
-someone that can respect me, including opinions, thoughts, beliefs, etc...respect me as a person.
May be....at the end, there's only God and me and my life/dream
-someone can understand my feelings and need, with me saying AND without me saying. Recently I can really identify what a Broca dysphasia patients feel like----no one under what I'm trying to get. and it's highly likely that it is me that having the problems of expressing ideas.
-someone that can inspire and encorage in terms of the walk with God. From the light from the verse in the Bible, from counting blessings around, from willing to share and listen.
-someone to share and pray with. someone to encourage the pursuits of our dreams.
-someone that can respect me, including opinions, thoughts, beliefs, etc...respect me as a person.
May be....at the end, there's only God and me and my life/dream
星期二, 4月 07, 2009
所以我們不可再彼此論斷，寧可定意，誰也不給弟兄放下絆腳跌人之物
主意
想法
意見
偏好
信念
信仰
這些都是不同的東西
但是有時候我們很不小心就把意見提升到信仰 which is wrong...
聖經上說 我們需要將我們的信念和信仰建立在愛的律法上，因為愛就完全的律法Romans 13:8-10, Gal 5:14; James 2:8
求神幫主我不要把意見強加於人 唯有你能叫人心知罪
願他人能從我神上學到你的愛 而不是我的軟弱
求主幫助
想法
意見
偏好
信念
信仰
這些都是不同的東西
但是有時候我們很不小心就把意見提升到信仰 which is wrong...
聖經上說 我們需要將我們的信念和信仰建立在愛的律法上，因為愛就完全的律法Romans 13:8-10, Gal 5:14; James 2:8
求神幫主我不要把意見強加於人 唯有你能叫人心知罪
願他人能從我神上學到你的愛 而不是我的軟弱
求主幫助
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