11 August 2010

at times like these

i really try my best to appreciate the finer things in life

those that give you the most purest form of happiness and has a certain kind of serenity to it.

humans often contradict themselves, but then once they give it a thought, they fall back on the words they say wishing they could take it back.

make sure to think before you speak or you will regret what you said.

the same things i have heard, repeated over and over.

it's a wonder how i can never get tired of it.

the lessons you learn in life will stay with you throughout, you can't say the same with the lessons inside the room. it may be able to grant you higher income and prosperity in the future...

but i ask myself: what is it that i really want for myself in the future?
peace or prosperity
love or kindness

to be able to give away all your belongings and run after the cross when everyone else will stand back and laugh at you, it is that courage and that strength that i wish to have.

in every trial and temptation, do you struggle and give up hope letting yourself be defeated by that unknown darkness? or do you pick yourself up everytime you fall and carry on fighting with the hope that He will see you through your days even in the darkest and bleakest moments?

not everyone is able to build their house on the rock, that way is seemiingly to difficult and painful. we let ourselves take the easy way, building our house on the sand. but when the waves come crashing down on us, our house will crumble to the ground like a pack of cards. however, the one who builds his house on the rock will remain firm even when the waves come.

Daily Bread
1 Corinthians 11:1

2 Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things and keep the traditions just as I delivered them to you. 3 But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head. 5 But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for that is one and the same as if her head were shaved. 6 For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered. 7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man. 8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man. 9 Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man. 10 For this reason the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. 11 Nevertheless, neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord. 12 For as woman came from man, even so man also comes through woman; but all things are from God.
13 Judge among yourselves. Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? 14 Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him? 15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering. 16 But if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.


Show me the way, Lord, let my light shine
As an example of good to mankind.
Help them to see the patterns of Thee,
Shining in beauty, lived out in me. —Neuer