How great is our God, sing with me how great is our God, & all will see how great, how great, is our God.
That's the song that's currently playing in the background as I'm typing this post. Indeed, how great is my God. I've lived 19 years on planet earth. Congratulations Sarah for surviving 12 years of Singapore's education system and everything the Singaporean (or world) culture has wham-bammed into your face. And that's not to my credit alone; God is the one who has always been bigger than everything else, who has always been so great, so great, that words alone are insufficient to express.
19 years old is such a neither here no there age. But I suppose it's the best age to be in? The final year of being a 'teen', literally. haha. It's the age where I just finished the stressful A'levels, have an 8 month break, (never in my life will i have such a long break again unless I idle 8months away before starting work next time? haha!), transit into a new phase of life - uni. And of course, it's the age in between the that of being a teen and adult. Well, this just brings to thought of how new things would be coming along the way. I'd meet new people in uni, meet friends from the past whom i've not contacted in a long while, encounter more different experiences both academically and also perhaps in my life generally. Fear would definitely be tagging along in these new experiences I would have for how may I know what to expect?
Romans 12:1-2
"Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will."
In this coming of age, I stand by this commitment to be a living sacrifice to God. How so? Not conform to what the world says, in the sense that I must continuously learn not to let the world define me or to become any counterfeit God in my life, in ALL areas of my life. Renewing my mind, to enrich myself with the Word of God, keeping up with devotion as an act of worship instead of as a dead routine. I may not know what to expect of the greater things that has yet to come, or the worse things that has yet to come, but through standing by this commitment & believing firmly that I AM ALIVE IN CHRIST, I will see God's will being played out.
I may not have many(or any) dramatic, drastic experiences that were part of God's way to teach me lessons but I believe that in this journey I have with Him, all the little experiences are what He wants me to take notice of that would ultimately lead to His big picture. This means, I ought to open my eyes and ears and heart to constantly reflect in order to not miss out any single teaching point He has for me!
Thank you to all who celebrated this special day with me & for me, whether by being there presently, or just even that simple text message or facebook message of your birthday wish. God bless you, sweet friends of mine. :D
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Anw, just to add on to this post, may be a lil irrelevant to the title but whatever. haha
I am done with mid terms! & hence I can post this up finally...
It was such a tight schedule last week despite being recess week. I know procastination did play a wee lil part & im guilty of that. I had to study 15 chapters of chem, consisting of entire JC1 content plus extra stuff, a film analysis for my GEK mod, and my chem lab report by yesterday, 27th Sept. As much as I tried to do them in the week (rightfully only began on wed since I went for Acts Camp on mon & tues), all those writing were really tedious & time-consuming. Hence, i only properly studied for my CA on Friday onwards? Sat was then taken up by combined worship training + worship prac + no-other-date-&-therefore-we-have-to-have-it birthday meetup with my pri sch buddies. Half of Sunday gone from church + RAYs Leaders' Meeting. & I still had half of CHEM to study for!
However, I guess all that just kinda built up that greater dependence on God. Surely I can't expect to do well based on myself but if I can get a satisfying grade, then it'll have to be God. I didnt even practice much, just look through tutorials & even so, the qns that came out in the paper yest weren't too similar except for a few. However, thank God that the MCQ was relatively easier compared to A'level chem mcq! haha.. & well, at least I more or less attempted everything except for 1 part of the structured & 1 mcq qn. And thank God for the extra 5 mins from the prof! :D And well, I came out of the exam hall, just relieved & not worried. People were complaining but I'll continue to give thanks to the Lord. Whatever the outcome, God is good.
In this new age, I seek to be NEW, not just BETTER.
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