catching God's Spirit
woosh I just talked to someone really really seh. And honestly, after what she said, I just thought that WOW. That's what I really want to do right now!
Catching God's Spirit. Well there's a difference between doing something for God out of obligation, responsibility and doing something for God out of love for Him. Honestly, but a few months back, I've difficulty doing things because I love God. This really caused much problems with me, such as being unnatural, can't get motivated etc etc. Eventually, truth be told I can't do much for God. Though I've not really caught God's Spirit yet, I feel like I'm eventually starting to sniff it! xD
What she said was true la! Some people, me included, tend to read the bible with the focus of praying for a verse with themselves. And sometimes these people complain of not being able to hear God during QT, or getting verses that are totally irrelevant to their problems/day. But I think that the focus of this is wrong somewhat, because the Bible is God's Word. From it, much as we can find verses that apply to us on that particular day, the point of it is that from it we can learn of the God who loved us so. We can know so much more about Him, likes, dislikes, character, etc. And only when we know Him more, can we honestly love Him with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind and all our strength. And only then can we see the world through God's eyes and have our hearts broken by the things that break His.And only then can we catch His Spirit, can we honestly do things out of love for God, love for people.
I wanna be passionate for God, regardless of my situation. I wanna do His work enthusiastically anywhere, anywhen, anyone. I wanna catch Your Sipirit, Oh Lord. And I wanna thank You for blessing me in this, I shall use the word troublesome, times. I will definitely continue to trust and grow in You!
giving our best
Sean here! been sometime since I last posted. Well anyway, during yesterday's LG I very clearly rmb what tze said about Abel and Cain, whereby in Gen 3:3 - 5 it said that God looked upon Abel's offering with favour but not on Cain's, because Abel gave the best of his firstborn flock to God, whereas Cain didn't. Few days back I was just reading in Leveticus about how offerings of animals can't be with defect etc. That got me thinking why is it that God forbid defects to be sacrificed to Him as an offering, and after a little while the answer came to me.
Because if He allowed that, I think that a lot of people would just give all their defected flocks and animals to be sacrificed. In a way,God becomes like secondary, a convenient dumping ground for their defected flocks. THAT would then be sinning, not giving our bvest for God. So when God forbade defected flocks from being sacrificed, He's actually trying to stop us from sinning. I think that was so cool. Wow, He honestly really had our best interest in mind lah.
In the same way, I just thought that in my life, did I give God the most valuable stuffs I have? Did I give Him my 100% or even more, or was it just a half-hearted effort on my part? A lot of time, I realise that I'm not honestly giving Him my 100%, I'm not exactly giving Him my EVERYTHING. More often than not, I feel like I'm compromising a lot on serving God and etc. I think that's something we have to work on la, to always be conscious that we aren't YET giving our 100% for God, and always aim to put in more effort. I honestly honestly believe that there's no such thing as giving too much, or even giving enough to or for God. But I'm gonna work on it so that I can give as much as I can consciously give, and I hope that all of you are trying to too! Probably God is frowning at me cutting corners in doing His work and etc, but hey, at least maybe if I keep trying, He'll frown less! xD
