Wisdom has been given. Its yours! - James 1:5-8

A good heart is not enough ….

…. we produce a crop by retaining God’s word and by persevering with it

People has been asking why I do it? Why do I journal, blog, tweet, facebook and do stuff online. I do it because I want to be authentic to myself. That’s first & foremost and the reason why I starting blogging back in Ragsjournal days in 2004. Today I know I have to do it to be authentic to others as well. I do it also because I want to be known by how I keep abreast and not what I resist in life. These stuff also help me find clarity in what I really belief and am thinking about. I notice the times I’ve been silent online are times I have something to hide. It’s okay if I still write offline but really these stuff assists me to navigate my inner life so that I can be responsible and open at the same time.

These are personal reasons and maybe its not for everyone. But if I have a chance to offer some tips in these area, here’s 4 for you today…

1. Write stuff down. What’s not on paper (or maybe today twitter) has no clarity and hence lesser shot to be stored.
2. Rewrite and established those things down in your own parable or words (you can use a blog).
3. Perservere by believing in it unwaveringly.
4. Always exercise faith and look forward to positive fruits.

“And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.”

Our eye is the lamp of our body.
When our eyes is good, our whole body will be good.
When our eyes are bad, our whole body will be bad.

So get beautiful eyes, don’t just watch what you see, watch how you see as well.

“Brothers and sisters, I don’t consider that I have taken hold of it yet. But here is the one thing I do. I forget what is behind me. I push hard toward what is ahead of me. 14 I move on toward the goal to win the prize. God has appointed me to win it. The heavenly prize is Christ Jesus himself” - Philippians 3:13-14 NIrV

1. Work’s not done yet
(and it’ll never be done as long as there’s people without hope. So we have work carved out for us for a lifetime. Now isn’t that interesting for our life purpose)

2. Forget what’s behind
(yeap, never look behind, deal with your emotions and problems by confessing them and forgetting them. the new year doesn’t need you to keep looking at your rear view)

3. Push hard ahead
(nothing replaces hardwork, and I mean nothing.. so that means if you are not prepared for hardwork, you can forget doing anything significant)

4. Move to win
(positivity and attitude to win.. ahhh… many people don’t believe in engaging in positivity… I do it because wisdom and experience tells me positive thinking helps us do things better than negative thinking…that’s all to it.. so why not engage in the right mindset?)

5. Aim for heavenly prize of Christ Himself
(why? because everything else will not satisfy…. our hole in the soul is for Christ alone, so get this right, everything will be right)

Dear friends,

If your heart do not condemn you, you have confidence before God and receive from him anything you ask, because you obey his commands and do what pleases him.

Holy Spirit,
(1 John 3:21-22)

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Secret of Success:
Keep in obedience doing what is right and make sure the guilt of your heart don’t do subtle work of condemnation.

My appreciation of water comes in 3 phases

1. Thankful for abundance of water
2. Thankful for quality of water
3. Thankful for a cup of water

Today I’m so thankful for my thankfulness of a cup of water. I believe I’ve reach water appreciation nirvana.

⁶He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”
⁷Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” 
⁸“No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.”
Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”

Allow Jesus to wash our feet. He’s humble enough to do it because our right living before God is more important than certain pride we see as important. To be part of Jesus and his work, cleansing is important. Yet not cleansing of the whole body in the form of a whole bath. Only parts will be needed at certain time.

So work our life diligently but do it one thing at a time.

Parts of me that Jesus has washed through the years….

1) Courage that was clouded by the spirit of timidity
2) Fearing God that was overcomed by fearing or pleasing people
3) Coaching others over doing it myself
4) Partnership as oppose to lorship
5) Exercising Wisdom
6) Big picture thinking in the Great Commission that was blurred by a small tunnel vision in one ministry
7) Using Mac (rather than PC)

The part of me that Jesus is washing

Loving people (especially those terrific ones) unconditionally

I had a spiritual encounter with a 3 year old who’s staying with us for a few days. She keep asking me to read the bible and I did. The fresh Word of the Lord hit me like a 10 ton truck….

Isaiah 58….

9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer;
you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.
“If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious talk,

12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins
and will raise up the age-old foundations;
you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,
Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.

I’ve got to do these things…
1) Do away with finger pointing and malicious talk
2) Let light shine over darkness by giving attention to the oppressed and serve them
3) Let the Lord strengthen my ‘frame’ and be “Repairer of Broken Walls” and “Restorers of Streets with Dwellings”.
Sounds like U2 songs.

Doing visitation with Wan Yueh tomorrow night, weeeeee yeahhhhhh.

Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings. - 1 Peter 5:8-9

Be an example to those who needs you to be an example. Have a great Sunday today!