Will you be found?

Psalm 100:5 For the LORD is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations.

Would like to share a song which I thought touches more to the inward man in us. A somewhat evangelistic number I will say.

He is seeking you- A Quiet Heart
By Soundforth

For the lovest, darkness lowly night,
To your empty heart there shines a light.
Glorious Light of Love, for all to see,
Jesus Son of God, in Truth must be.

He is seeking you, with a tender voice,
He is calling you to make a choice,
Turn your ear to Him, this Quiet Sound.
He is seeking you, will you be found?

God has send His Son, through His right Hand.
To all people who in darkness dwell,
Giver of the Light, to all He sees,
In the face of Christ, His Glory see.

He is seeking you with a tender voice,
He is calling you to make a choice,
Turn your ear to Him, this Quiet Sound.
He is seeking you, will you be found?

He is seeking you with a tender voice,
He is calling you to make a choice,
Turn your ear to Him, this Quiet Sound.
He is seeking you, will you be found?

Been reading through the GCSS book on "Praying effectively for the lost", many I would say definite words which the writer used, the use of somewhat weird arguments to bring about his points, all are still been contemplated through my mind.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 Test all things; hold fast what is good.

Anyway, on a sidenote, started driving this week and things are getting really 'stressful', 'unmotivated' for many of us there, mostly by all the intense scolding by the driver instructors and nervous trainees ourselves. I guess it is the fear of getting into an accident and doing things wrongly more easily that had fortify the anxiety and strain.

Besides having lesser "allocated" sleeping time, I guess I can be thankful for time to read up, go to the gym, eat almost at anything at the evening times in camp.

Press Towards the mark

Sort of getting busy in camp from now on learning driving.
On another note, have been quite a joy reading through the book of Philippians recently. Good to come back to familiar verses and mediating on them. Its always good to know God will reward us with that imperishable crown in the end if we are to focus on Him daily.

Philippians 3:7-16

But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. 16 Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.

Trusting Jesus all the way :)

Quotes

C.S Lewis:
We are members of one body, but differentiated members, each with his own vocation.

Our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner- no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as fippancy parodies merriment.

-A man's upbringing, his talents, his circumstances, are usually a tolerable index of his vocation


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In Christ Alone

The bible and love

"this book is like the bible, you ought to know it well, and then get it done as quickly as posisible"
Those were the words being told to me by one guy in the office as I struggled to fill up the book in/out book.
It may come as a casual remark, yet again this brings to me thoughts of how we know the bible (even verses in it) yet not let it become our authority.
This few days has me pondering on bible and it's authority. There are many verses in the bible that suggest it is God's word, being our final authority.
The final lesson my GCSS had on the book of colossians made me realize how Paul ended his letter, "The salutation by the hand of me Paul." Colossians 4:18
It's interesting to note that in fact Paul ended not only Colossians with this. He wrote it for some of his other letters also. I read that this was like a signature showing that it's Paul authentic letter, as a way of preventing false letters with false teachings to the believers then. That sort of provided the primary discernment the people needed then.
Similarily, applying it to us now, I believe God has left us with His complete Word- the bible. There may be many good books, better music and great preachers out there, yet the very minimum we can do is check it with God's word, exercising discernment.

Taking about such discernment may sometimes seems very diffcult and not easy especially when there is conflict in the interpretation and discernment level. This leads me on to love, which binds all to unity.
A comment I happen to see on Youtube on one of those Christian music videos somewhat reflects our adequacy.
"...... why do you Christians love some invisible God so much, yet have no love for one another?"
This comment was filled with quite indecent language which I had changed, not losing the essence of what this guy is trying to say. God has commanded us to show forth love, loving Him with everything, then loving each other.
Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
Perhaps one of the better example who how we ought to show forth this love is found in the restoration of Simon Peter, where Jesus asked him thrice if he love Him. (John 21)

Ending off, there has to be that consistency in the Christian walk, to be consistent in your prayer life, to be consistent in your testimony, to be consistent in your sharing and to be consistent in God's word. All this, only by His love, and walking in His path.

God is Good.
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On prayer and discernment

Thank God for being able to go for prayer meeting this week. I was really blessed to see all our church leaders come to church eariler in the middle of the week to pray for members in the church, just before the actual meeting. Similarily, thank God for folks that are so faithful in coming down for corporate prayers, hopefully on top of their personal prayers.

To discern and to discriminate the truth, I was just pondering as I read Macarthur's book- on how easily we have compromise the truth. One compromise leads to another. I guess I will blog more on this as God convicts me.

Ok, I believe prayer and physical support for our fellow brethren is of vital importance. Our missionary -The Lam family, came by yesterday for our prayer meeting as they prepare to set off for good to Iran jaya in Indonesia for good this saturday. My friend who had came along, together with me applaud at the family's willingness to serve God. Yet, I guess what they were looking for last night was a more strong support for their work in Iran jaya. By the relatively small number of people yesterday, and the somewhat unresponsive and uninterested people, of whom I am guilty, I think it's very easy for them to get discouraged. Besides keeping them in prayers, we also need to act out our faith by giving that extra 'pat on their shoulder'.
God has not provided us with a church so that we can heal our soul and get spiritual food, but I believe He has gather us together so that we can pray for each other.

Prayer has been said to move the hands of God, so let's be at the Lord's house at the hour of prayer.

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