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Kent Ridge People
Chairwoman: Mrs Faith Seah
NUH HR executive
Financial Analyst: tan rou'en
NUS 3rd year EL major
Operations Specialist: ivan koh
NSF
Professional Birthday Planners: ben por
econs graduate
& christy!!
2nd year Archi undergrad
web specialists: sharon lim
4th year Theatre Studies major
& eunice tan
St Luke's Hospital HR executive & uniSIM student
Welfare Specialists: dawn neo shihui
3rd year psych major
lee mei zhen
3rd year social work major
& patrick lin han sheng
3rd year econs major
Image Consultant: hong enlin
3rd year political science major
Resident Worship Director: derrick zhuang
HY graduate
Resident Artists: carrick ang
3rd year Soci major
IT Specialist: Sindu
the fabulous chef Phebe
life science graduate
our yummy queen/ food hunter Kimberly
4th year soci major on exchange from Canada!
our dear KR idol Carynl!
3rd year psych major
& our big friendly giant Chong Ken!!!
NUS History Graduand
& our freshie Kai Xin!
NUS Arts year 1
& Jasmine~!
NUS Real Estate
& our spikey haired Wei Jin!!
NUS computational finance 4th yr student
our Masters scholar Joshua~!
All under the guidance & care of our Resident Advisors Wei Guang & Rui Lin (plus little Ashlyn...)
official ice-cream being Ben & Jerry's
and our zone pastor- Pastor Edwin!
anddddd our cell pet Eli~!
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Hello cellites! =)
Last night's sermon at YAS really spoke to me, right to the core of the issues that i'm facing in my walk with Him. I realised that quite a few of us weren't able to attend YAS last night, (and P Bryan mentioned that last night's sermon was different from the 5pm and sunday morning services) so i thought it'd be good to share here:
"turn with me to your bible, first Samuel" =)
Samuel was given to the Lord when he was born, after God answered Hannah's prayer for a baby of her own (1 Sam chpt 1). As a child who ministered before the Lord with ELi the Priest, one would've assumed that Samuel had a very close relationship with God (1 Sam 2:11).
[This speaks to me about myself--how i may have been serving Him without having a revelation of Him. serving in itself isn't a bad thing... but we should seek to know Him better and more in-depth as a person. Otherwise, Christianity becomes mere church-going and serving-serving-serving... i'm very tired of such skin-deep relationship with Him, such shallow knowledge of Him. knowing The Word and all only contributes to head knowledge, which i personally feel is making me very legalistic... Like what P Bryan said, i believe God wants too reveal Himself to us, and to connect to us in every way, for us to be able to dare to reveal ourselves to Him. Our fears, desires, hopes, pains, hurts, needs...everything.]
However, Samuel couldn't even recognise God's voice(1 Sam 3: 2-14). The Lord called Samuel 3 times, and each time Samuel thought it was Eli's voice. It was only the fourth time that Samuel answered the Lord, after ELi finally realised it was God's voice that Samuel was hearing.
I don't know about you guys, but i have feel like Samuel. blur and ...sotong. i wondered how many times i've had mistaken God's voice for someone else's, or for my own (ir?)rational thinking. In Dec 2005, i had great difficulty discerning between God's voice and that of my own. There were many times when i was bombarded with many condemning thoughts (which i'm pretty sure weren't from God) but also with a lot of uncertainty and questions. I felt like i was being torn apart mentally, and it was tough to focus on Him when there's like a million weird thoughts and accusations in one's mind.
Remember our first cell meeting on the rainy public holiday at the Engine Bridge? One of the verses that Yen Shan printed out for us was:
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world (not atomic bombs, not chemical warfare, no AK-47s, not violence). On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:4-4
When she shared this verse (and i remember rou'en was told to read it for us),i was going "amen amen amen amen" in my head... the key is, we've got a choice.
i can choose to not buy into those accusatory thoughts, i can choose not to believe those condemning lies.
we can choose to draw near to God (and for each of our baby steps, He takes 5 giant leaps towards us=),
we can choose to make time for God.
we can choose not to give Him our leftover-time,
we can choose to share what happened today in school or at work with Him.
If only we're willing to do all these and more... He's more than willing to listen. and He'd never turn a deaf ear to our complaints (there's a whole book of lamentations in the bible). When He made us He must've figured that we were born to complain. grumble. wail. whine. So why not share these with Him too? i'm pretty sure as much as God wants to see us smiley and grinning and all, He's willing to hold us when we stumble and trip.
and sometimes, we trip over ourselves.
i keep tripping myself. all sorts of things happen and i allow them to stumble me. i allow myself to be bothered, to lose guard, to lose hope even.
but i pray that it'd be different from now on.
and i pray the same for you too.
Lord i want to know You
in my heart there is a fire
each morning when i wake up
it's You that i desire
just to feel Your heartbeat
is what i long for
Oh Lord
i want to know You more.
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