well i had hopekinders this morning
whoa i find it really amazing how God can touch my life. even though the teaching and everything was kid-orientated, i still gained so much from it!
what we learnt today
Matthew 7:7 (NIV)
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
hmm i was really pondering over this verse. "Ask and it will be given to you"
right now i'm really vexed over upcoming results release and all, and in relation to that, i was wondering if i asked for straight 'A's, would i get them?
alright so let's turn to other versions of the message to try to understand more. haha i really have no idea what i'm going to type next, cause i'm sincerely exploring right now at this moment.
Matthew 7:7 (The Message)
"Don't bargain with God. Be direct. Ask for what you need. This isn't a cat-and-mouse, hide-and-seek game we're in.
okay here it says ask for what we need. need... hmm do i need straight As?
well shall ponder over the two versions some more. during hopekids Isaiah knocked his head against mine rather painfully. kids have really hard heads. and i exclaimed "OW!" then he looked extremely anxious and worried (which was rather endearing cause he is 4 years old)
then he huffed his breath against the part of my head which he knocked, THEN HE SPAT SALIVA ON HIS PALM AND RUBBED IT AGAINST MY HEAD
gah, i recoiled on instinct, but i guess it's a rather sweet gesture on hindsight. must be how his family deals with injuries.
went for adult service after that. why? haha i guess i wanted to soak up more of God's presence and learn more stuff before i enlist in a short 2 weeks. stuff that will help me (i hope) in tough times ahead.
it's really cool what i learnt!
did anyone see a gigantic rainbow on wednesday???
i did! it was huge. and apparently the newspaper reported that it was so massive because there were actually TWO coinciding rainbows at that point of time. which is a rare occurrence that only happens when the light hits the rain at 50-53 degrees. it was really beautiful!
God put that rainbow there, and "it will be the sign of the covenant between [Him] and the earth."
things we know about rainbows
1) it can only happen after rain or a storm!
2) a rainbow is always in the making
it's only through tough times that things are made beautiful
oh! and during adult service i was struck by the fact that i needed to repent for being so grades-oriented. understood what fungmin meant by subtle sins being so much harder to detect and so much more dangerous.
i mean, it's not that i don't want to have good A lvl results. but if i want it to the extent that my walk with God is compromised, then there's something wrong with my heart!
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