no greater love than this ((:

dear God,

 

i pray that let my words carry weight, Your presence, Your glory and Your anointing… anoint me from the crown of my head to the sole of my feet… thank You Jesus! (:

 

the question of love kept surfacing in my mind for the past few days. i kept questioning myself.. how much do i love God? how much do i love others? how much do i love myself? has my love for myself gone to the extent of self-centeredness? self-vainity? or has my love for others grown to the point that i’m willing to take that extra mile for every fren that i noe?

 

as i do a self-check, i really dunno where i stand. is it God, me, others? or is it me, God, others? or is it God, others, me? when i think of the sacrifices i make for others, i think it’s the 3rd choice. but yet, when i think of wat Jesus had done for me on the cross, i pale in comparison. then when i ponder over whether i love God more than myself… frankly, i really dunno. haha.

 

but i came to the realisation that…

 

LOVE = OBEDIENCE + SACRIFICE

 

becoz Jesus loves us, He OBEYed God’s word and SACRIFICED His life as a way to redeem and save our souls!

 

today, i had a revelation of the cross. no doubt, we all noe that the vertical beam means loving God wholeheartedly and the horizontal beam means loving pple fervently.

 

but now, if u realise, both the vertical and horizontal beams of the cross are NEVER of equal lengths. it’s always the vertical beam longer than the horizontal beam. so which means, my love for God should far surpass my love for pple. just like wat one verse says that when comparing my love for pple to my love for God, it would SEEM like as tho its hatred towards others simply becoz my love for Him is just so so so deep!

 

then where does the love for myself stand?

 

on the cross, it talks abt love for God and love for others.. wat abt love for myself?

 

if i can put it bluntly across, it can be found no where on the cross. why? becoz when Jesus died on the cross for u and me, His love for God and mankind far surpass His love for Himself.

 

Jesus loves you and me so so so much that He was willing to give His life up as a way of redemption for u and me. but does that mean that Jesus didnt love Himself? no, He loved Himself. but yet, His love for others is far greater and immeasurable when compared to His love for Himself.

 

a cross is never a cross when the vertical beam or the horizontal beam is missing. so wat does this mean? we cant love others without loving God and we cant love God without loving others! the former means that by our own strength, we cant love others much becoz humans are selfish and self-centered by nature. but yet, when we love God, we find it easy to love pple because with God, He feels our hearts with love that fills to the brim and to the overflowing. and the latter means that when we love God, we cannot help but to love His creation..

 

so it is, that even tho we all noe that we shld love… that we shld love God, others then myself, but we need to all come to the revelation of noeing wat love and loving God, others then myself really means. (:

perfectly equipped

“Though he was God’s Son, he learned trusting-obedience by what he suffered, just as we do.” Heb 5:8

i was reading hebrews in the message bible translation and read the above verse. it really struck me. i went on to search Heb 5 in other translation… and this was wat i found!

Heb 5:9 (AMP) “And, [His completed experience] making Him perfectly [equipped], He became the Author and Source of eternal salvation to all those who give heed and obey Him”

i was like WOW!!!

even Jesus, the Son of God, had to go thru sufferings before He learnt how to completely trust and obey God. and i really like the continuation in verse 9 in the amplified version which said that it was because of the sufferings that He went thru, His completed experience that made Him PERFECTLY equipped and ready for the destiny that God has upon His life!

the word “perfect” means complete and without flaw!! wow!!

i also want to be perfectly equipped!!! :DD

my beautiful Saviour

i just came back from japan at around 445pm!!! :DDDD

too much to update abt my short trip to osaka! many many photos too! i shall leave the updating of japan to another time.. either on friday or over the weekends as i have much to complete.

all in all, japan was a good trip for me! a short but very timely break!! i feel refreshed! recharged! and renewed!!! ((((:

anyway, ever wondered where the phrase “there’s a rainbow at the end of every storm” came from?

i was just thinking abt it… and it struck me that the rainbow is the promise of God and no doubt, the storms refer to the storms of life.

we all face storms of life. life was NEVER meant to be smooth sailing. why? simply becoz God said that in life, we’ll all go thru trials and tribulations. but then again, we do not need to fear, because God’s promise is waiting for us at the end of every storm. as long as we mediate upon His word, His promises, wateva God has said, it WILL be done. (:

there’s a rainbow at the end of every storm could well be put across as “there’s a promise of God that would come to pass at the end of every life storm that u go thru”.

His promises are wat keeps us going on in life… (:

He has at least one promise for every storm that u go thru… (:

You are my beautiful Saviour.. (:

revelations

i was yearning for a revelation today and God gave me 2!! haha. He’s indeed a God of abundance!! 😀

today, i realised that i am the plug and God is the socket. wat a weird way to say it. but it’s true!! hee. a plug is useless when it is used alone. but when the plug is plugged into the socket and the switch is turned on, there is an abundance of electricity flowing thru it becoz the socket is connected to the main power supply.

likewise, i can be rendered useless without God by my side. but just like the plug, if i slowly find my way and plug myself into God (the socket) and switch on my spiritual senses, there will be this indescribable sense of connection between God and i. out of which, thru this connection an abundance of life, strength, health, finances, revelations etc etc will flow thru God to me when i’m plugged in to Him. in fact, i just realised that i can be plugged in to God but yet if my spiritual senses are not switched on, i wont be able to see or hear the things that God wants to let me noe.

i cant really aptly put across how fascinated i am by this revelation but yea, i hope u get it! haha. (:

and secondly, God told me this…

GROWTH means…

Great Revival Occurs With True Hunger

when we wanna see growth in our own walk with God, we need hunger. only when we are truly hungry for the things of God will there be a revival in our spiritual lives. and when there is a revival in our spiritual lives, great revival will spark off!! (: one of the keys to revival is indeed HUNGER. (: