Hello friends,

A free saturday finally! And by that, i mean an entire day free without any plans except to stay at home and do random stuff plus study. Yes study. Especially my organic chem (i'm sorry Prof Lu, I don't get you!)

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?

I haven't been blogging for the whole past 2 months or so I think. There doesn't seem to be very much a drive to blog mainly because I'm lazy to log out of my gmail and change to the other account for this blog. HAHA. okay, apart from that, I've got just too many things to say and as they accumulate, I have no idea where to start.

I've decided. NUS Faculy of Science is what I've chosen, after much deliberation.

It was really an act of obedience to stop being so double-minded and make my choice. I thank God for using my mum to convince me to pick NUS. Of course, He later used sunday's sermon on Obedience to urge me that whatever other hesitations that I still have got to be surrendered. Then during closed cell (we finished RUTH finally btw!), the whole essence of the story of Ruth was also about obedience and submission. There and then, I thought I really have to stop hesitating about anything, stop even waiting for USP. There're so much more to uni than USP right??

However, even as I've accepted the offer from NUS on Monday, I wasn't too excited and I got worried. Is it the tension? Did I make a wrong decision? Did I hear wrongly from God? Just today, as I was doing the worship team's church camp prep devotional, it just spoke to me about following the ways of God, His statutes, longing for His precepts and choosing to live a life 'thirsty for His righteousness', which was what we went through in cell on Friday night. Just another thing before I go on is that on Friday I got a reply from the USP ppl to say my application was not successful.

Well okay anyway, I was just thinking of how my thoughts were not righteous, not Christ-like. I had thirst for the recognition of being under the USP. I had hungered basically for something of the world; it was all merely to fulfil my pride, make me stand tall in the fact that I've successfully got into USP. As if to make up for not getting straight A's or something. Previously, I was basing my decision to choose NUS with the pre-requisite that I get into USP. Even though I say I'm willing to let God determine my path, it's like I was still secretly trying to box Him unknowingly.

However, hearing the news on friday that I didn't get in wasn't so bad because I know I've triumphed over this and went ahead to accept NUS way before I knew my results of USP. If I had chosen NTU, I probably wouldn't have realised the un-righteous, un-Christlike thoughts I had. I probably would have just thought it was a good decision since anyway, I didnt get into USP wad. And I had other noble reasons (excuses!) to go NTU. You get what I mean?? But having chosen NUS despite of this turnout, I've gained more and seen more of how prideful I can get, how eager to show off and please Man.

So now, I'm glad and at peace to know that NUS is a right decision made. I know I've honoured God in this sense. So heh heh yep. YAY!
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What am I feeling? But then again, feelings are deceptive. I need more clarity.

Received an email that jeanette forwarded to some of us about this interview with Rick Warren.
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You will enjoy the new insights that Rick Warren has, with his wife now having cancer and him having 'wealth' from the book sales. This is an absolutely incredible short interview with Rick Warren, 'Purpose Driven Life ' author and pastor of Saddleback Church in California .

In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said: People ask me, What is the purpose of life?

And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven.

One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body-- but not the end of me.

I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity..

We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense.

Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one.

The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort; God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness.

This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer.

I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore.

Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life..

No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on.

And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.

You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems:
If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, which is my problem, my issues, my pain.' But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.

We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her- It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people.

You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life.

Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy.

It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease. So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72.

First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit.. We made no major purchases.

Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church.

Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation.

Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.

We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity? Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)?

When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do.

That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD..
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Amen to all that he mentioned. Indeed, are we choosing to honour God with this life that He's given us to have or are we gonna honour the ideas that the world is infiltrating into our systems?

As I was in Ps Thom's car with Jessica and T Franks, on the ride back from JB to Singapore, Jessica posed a question I thought it was worth pondering about. Do we believe in the act of 'making mistakes' or are those 'mistakes' simply a result of a wrong choice that we make? So, is life simply about choices?

Yes and no, i guess. It is a known fact that we are faced with choices and decisions to make everyday, big or small. Thus, on one hand, you can say life is about choices. On the other hand, as a Christian, we know that life is not just about choices. It's more than that. The focus is not on the choices but, whether ultimately, the choice we make causes us to honour God, or to sin and make a mistake. That's the more important issue we need to look at.

Our lives should be about God; we are called to shout about God and what He's done for us on the cross. We are created after all, to give Him all glory in all that we do, in all the crossroads that we're in. Just as Rick Warren says, we got to put the focus off ourselves and onto God. Simple because He deserves it all.

sarahluikitleng`
nineteen
19091991
child of God, my provider

things that cheer me up;
i love to sing, and im still into butterflies, strawberries, purple and lime green. i love my beloved eeyore too! =)

hates&dislikes;
but i simply cant stand coffee, celery and creepy crawlies!!

dreams of having;
braces;
small&handy bible;
brown leather backpack/any nice bags!;
black, cream leggings(ankle)!;
a cardigan/blazer;
32GB ipod touch!;
macbook :D
do well satisfactory for As;
tour`europe;free&easykoreatour?;japan!





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