At The Cross - "It is finished."

VERSE I
Oh Lord You've searched me,
You know my way;
Even when I fail You,
I know You love me.
Your holy presence
Surrounding me
In every season,
I know You love me;
I know You love me.

CHORUS:
At the cross I bow my knee,
Where Your blood was shed for me,
There's no greater love than this.
You have overcome the grave,
Your glory fills the highest place,
What can separate me now?

VERSE 2:
You go before me,
You shield my way,
Your hand upholds me;
I know You love me.

BRIDGE:
You tore the veil, You made a way
When You said that it is done.

And when the earth fades,
Falls from my eyes,
And You stand before me,
I know You love me;
I know You love me.

This period has indeed been very challenging. The Lord is bringing me face to face with what I am feeling about many things. Taking deliberate efforts not to deny but to acknowledge. One thing I always remind myself to live by is that I must not over complicated my faith and my relationship with God. It's really down to all about coming to the Cross and seeing what Jesus has done for you and me. And whatever that flows out of my heart is an outpour of my response to what Jesus has done. It's all about Jesus.

I am reminded about what Pastor Eugene shared during leaders' meeting. Sometimes, we search high and low on who God is and how He is like. And we must be reminded that Jesus is the exact representation of who God is. And when we look at who Jesus is, that is who God is.

"The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful word..." (Hebrews 1:3)

Dear Jesus, I know You are always with me. You know far above and beyond what I do. Dear Jesus, help me to feel what You want me to feel and continue to fill and saturate me with all that You have for me. Lord, lift my spirit up to where You want it to be. I love You and I ask that I will always know Your love deeper so that my worship of You flows purely out from my heart and my spirit. Thank You Lord.
I love You.

"When He has received the drink, Jesus said, "IT IS FINISHED." with that, He bowed His head and gave up His spirit." (John 19:30 NIV, emphasis mine)

Jesus has finished what He was called to give His life for. Are we living in the finished work of the Cross?

As long as God's with me

Last night, after a long while of bottling up, I finally allowed myself to feel. I realised that I will miss my old place of work very very very much. The kids, the staff, the building, the times where I went to secret places for those much needed prayer breaks etc. I finally allowed myself to shed tears of not bearing to leave a place that held many important memories to me and a place where I forged precious and meaningful friendships. A place where I first stepped into to truly call it God's first place of work He specially prepared for me. It was a good time of release. I suspect that was not the full scale of it, but I will slowly go through it with God. Got to humble myself to let God take me through it so that I can see with clarity what He has in store for me in the new land He is bringing me into.
In this season of change, I realised that I am but hanging on to one thing. That God's Presence be with me. Yes, as long as He is with me, I know I have nothing to fear. Not just about facing the new land, but also trusting that in His time, He will reveal to me in full His purposes for me in the old land. I trust He never lets any experiences go to waste.
Lord, I ask for Your wisdom and a deeper infilling of Your Spirit, that I may see with my spiritual eyes the purposes You have for me, understand them and live in them as how You want me to. In Jesus's beautiful name, amen.
"We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us." (1 Corinthians 2:12, emphasis mine)

Cheers Beer

To every little good thing in our lives, CHEERS!

Recently I have been so reminded to have a thankful spirit. And how even in the smallest thing to give thanks and cheers! Lord I thank You for every of Your fingerprint in my days.

Lesson from a bland soybean drink

I was drinking this particular type of soybean drink this afternoon when something struck me. You see, recently for health reasons, I invested in these 2 cartons of bland soybean drink (absolutely no sugar added). The first few times I drank it, it tasted totally digusting and bland. You know, something like plain water, except that it's milky white. You get the drift. I totally did not enjoy it at all.

Today is my second week into drinking this thing and peculiarly I realised that I do not detest it as much as when I first drank it and in fact, it did not taste very bland after all. I wondered, "acquired taste?" The Lord spoke to me at this point. Very interestingly, He reminded me of backsliding from Him.

No one loves backsliding (at least that's what I strongly believe in.) The beginning of a backsliding process is not pleasant because we are created to be in fellowship with Him and that's where we find true enjoyment and fulfillment for our souls. It's like when you first drink super bland soybean drink. Totally not in sync with the tastebuds. Now, things get a little different when one continue to let himself/ herself backslide. The unplesant-ness of the whole thing gets diluted. The spiritual tastebuds get "acquired" with the blandness of the spiritual connection with God. Soon, one begins to even enjoy the blandness and that becomes a self-defined richness of being.

This is a somber reminder to myself to always guard my heart and spirit jealously for God. The Lord has been reminding me that in the process of having a pure heart and mind for Him, it's not just about praying to Him for help. It also means action and effort on our part.

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with peseverance the race marked out for us."
Hebrews 12:1 (NIV, emphasis mine)

"Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us..." Hebrews 12: 1 (NASB, emphasis mine)

Indeed, sin can so easily seep into our lives to entangle. Lord, guard my heart and mind ever so jealously for you. Brothers and sisters, let us spur each other to run the race well for Jesus. We can run well because God has positioned us to run it well for Him!