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Hi there! Xiuying here. Otherwise known as Karen!
Karen by the way means pure and honest. confirmed on 16th April 2006. Now walking in newness of life in Christ
loves choc, running, reading
It's now end of year 4. Graduation. Growth. Go.
quote of the now
Live to the hilt in every situation you believe to be the will of God - Jim Elliot
song of the now
Come thou fount of every blessing
tune my heart to sing thy praise
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Saturday, January 24, 2004
What a day of adventure and fun...... A typical day actually but thank God for the rest before hitting the books next week onwards.
Impressed at the way the older sisters-in-Christ handle a situation that doesn't even seem to bother me at all if they hadn't asked. It was scary.... a car skidded and crashed in the kerb post right in the middle. The whole black-white post was dislodged after the car went a few metres with the wheels in between the kerb. An older sis drove past and asked if we should turn back to help.... not concerned initially about it... but oh well since the driver turned back there was nothing i could do about it actually so bo pian.. must follow....
It was nice to see another driver also stopping by and helping out. Thank God he had a jack with him to hoist up the car..... and together with our few puny muscles we managed to lift one side of the car onto the kerb, enough to drive it down onto the road. Yippeee... so exciting.. on a rainy day some more. Glad that we could help.... Learnt what it means to go an extra mile, seeing the way the older sisters reacted. in this case a few more metres actually. hee
Impressed at the way the older sisters-in-Christ handle a situation that doesn't even seem to bother me at all if they hadn't asked. It was scary.... a car skidded and crashed in the kerb post right in the middle. The whole black-white post was dislodged after the car went a few metres with the wheels in between the kerb. An older sis drove past and asked if we should turn back to help.... not concerned initially about it... but oh well since the driver turned back there was nothing i could do about it actually so bo pian.. must follow....
It was nice to see another driver also stopping by and helping out. Thank God he had a jack with him to hoist up the car..... and together with our few puny muscles we managed to lift one side of the car onto the kerb, enough to drive it down onto the road. Yippeee... so exciting.. on a rainy day some more. Glad that we could help.... Learnt what it means to go an extra mile, seeing the way the older sisters reacted. in this case a few more metres actually. hee
Leng Xiuying Karen at 1/24/2004 10:18:00 PM
Sunday, January 04, 2004
Times of refreshing
Here in your prescence
No greater blessing
than being with you
My soul is restored
My mind is renewed
There's no greater joy Lord
than being with you
Here in your prescence
No greater blessing
than being with you
My soul is restored
My mind is renewed
There's no greater joy Lord
than being with you
Leng Xiuying Karen at 1/04/2004 12:08:00 AM
Saturday, January 03, 2004
This post is for the benefit of those who were not present at youth fellowship today... i felt what was said is so precious.... but for some reason you weren't there to hear it for yourself. i do hope i've not watered down the essence of what was said today so that you might also come alongside with me to experience this adventure that God would want us to have in this new year 2004...
One question was posed to us as to whether we had ever experienced an event in our lives when we felt it's THE event of a lifetime - one in which we feel proud and honoured that we had been part of. For eg... seeing the launch of a space craft in Singapore etc... i guess it is different for many people. But in this passage which we were brought to see, God allows us (those who believe in Him) to be part of this fellowship of ETERNITY together with Him.
6And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:6-7
It says here "incomparable riches of his grace", which is something that will be captivating, boundless, beyond measure...... and we are experiencing this grace now. God gives us the privilege to be in thisfellowship for eternity. Thus, we SHOULD desire after this life that we know will matter.
By right this fellowship for eternity is one that is of pure pleasure and joy, one that satisfy all our desires. But right now in the life that we live, we find that it's not true. As least for myself as i was thinking: hmmm.. yes i know that by right, i should be enjoying the things of God, but sometimes there is just no desire. At other times i still feel that the temporal things of this earth has a bind on me. I still enjoy much of what this glitzy world has to offer... sometimes it seems even laborious to come for foundation, youth fellowship etc.
i can't quite remember but a C.S. Lewis quote was shared to us, somewhere along these lines: that our desire for happiness is so weak we are satisfied with the temporal mud-pie pleasures that this earth has to offer. So because of these little little pleasures, it dulled our desires and appetites for what is really true satisfaction: a life lived for eternity.
Just some thoughts of my own: i found this to be so true! Why do i allow myself to live a pathetic life of endless chasing after the wind and fulfilling myself with these "mud-pie pleasures"? God says that that at His right hand are pleasures evermore.... Thus he is where i find my satisfaction and happiness.
So even when i do things that seem laborious, these are things that matter for eternity- going outreach, going for youth fellowship, having my quiet time, prayer etc. It seems a laborious life, but because i have been dulled by the things of this world to settle for something much less, that is why i found all these things a chore! But if these things really matter for eternity, then i will obey God. In this continuing obedience, as the speaker encourages us, what we can do is really to pray and ask God for the desire. Thus out of this continued obedience, we WILL reap the fruits of the longing, desire and joy for doing these things that matter for eternity, sooner or later as we obey God.
So the theme for this new year in youth fellowship is " LIVING FOR ETERNITY", as we discover what this really means throughout the whole year. To BE in the fellowship of eternity and be involved in things that matter for eternity as what is said here:
10For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:10
Dear sister, we are already in this fellowship. Do the things that matter for eternity!
Let not this year be once again another year of constant struggling. Isn't it tiring to be stuck in the middle? Make a choice to come and listen and KNOW FOR SURE what this eternity means
One question was posed to us as to whether we had ever experienced an event in our lives when we felt it's THE event of a lifetime - one in which we feel proud and honoured that we had been part of. For eg... seeing the launch of a space craft in Singapore etc... i guess it is different for many people. But in this passage which we were brought to see, God allows us (those who believe in Him) to be part of this fellowship of ETERNITY together with Him.
6And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:6-7
It says here "incomparable riches of his grace", which is something that will be captivating, boundless, beyond measure...... and we are experiencing this grace now. God gives us the privilege to be in thisfellowship for eternity. Thus, we SHOULD desire after this life that we know will matter.
By right this fellowship for eternity is one that is of pure pleasure and joy, one that satisfy all our desires. But right now in the life that we live, we find that it's not true. As least for myself as i was thinking: hmmm.. yes i know that by right, i should be enjoying the things of God, but sometimes there is just no desire. At other times i still feel that the temporal things of this earth has a bind on me. I still enjoy much of what this glitzy world has to offer... sometimes it seems even laborious to come for foundation, youth fellowship etc.
i can't quite remember but a C.S. Lewis quote was shared to us, somewhere along these lines: that our desire for happiness is so weak we are satisfied with the temporal mud-pie pleasures that this earth has to offer. So because of these little little pleasures, it dulled our desires and appetites for what is really true satisfaction: a life lived for eternity.
Just some thoughts of my own: i found this to be so true! Why do i allow myself to live a pathetic life of endless chasing after the wind and fulfilling myself with these "mud-pie pleasures"? God says that that at His right hand are pleasures evermore.... Thus he is where i find my satisfaction and happiness.
So even when i do things that seem laborious, these are things that matter for eternity- going outreach, going for youth fellowship, having my quiet time, prayer etc. It seems a laborious life, but because i have been dulled by the things of this world to settle for something much less, that is why i found all these things a chore! But if these things really matter for eternity, then i will obey God. In this continuing obedience, as the speaker encourages us, what we can do is really to pray and ask God for the desire. Thus out of this continued obedience, we WILL reap the fruits of the longing, desire and joy for doing these things that matter for eternity, sooner or later as we obey God.
So the theme for this new year in youth fellowship is " LIVING FOR ETERNITY", as we discover what this really means throughout the whole year. To BE in the fellowship of eternity and be involved in things that matter for eternity as what is said here:
10For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:10
Dear sister, we are already in this fellowship. Do the things that matter for eternity!
Let not this year be once again another year of constant struggling. Isn't it tiring to be stuck in the middle? Make a choice to come and listen and KNOW FOR SURE what this eternity means
Leng Xiuying Karen at 1/03/2004 11:14:00 PM