In His grace we stand

hello guys! You wouldn't believe how big my eyes opened when I saw the number of posts I missed reading. But yay! Red blood cell is alive!

Amanda: BRAVE *clapclapclap* takes a lot of strength to do what you did! It doesn't mean that things will be rosy posey from now on though, but when it gets rough, you know I'm here for you!

Van: Wah, your post really touched me. Especially since Mothers' day is just round the corner. It really reminded me too of my grandma, who was a non-believer when she passed away, and her life wasn't really good you know. We know all these, yet we still take our parents and grandparents for granted so often. And it's true too, if these people who are so human and therefore imperfect, can love us sooo much, what about our perfect and holy God, who saw us even before the Earth was born, and who created us simply because He loved us?

Sam Low, Cheryl, Tim: Haha, God works in really cute ways eh? =) He's there in the trivialest of things,and thank Him for that! But a point to ponder for ALL of us is that, will/can we still praise Him, when things don't go the way we want them to? How do we give thanks,when all we feel is hurt and disappointment inside?

Dino: I am very AMAZED by your 7-step human-airplane analogy of love. Seriously, I was so amazed I had to make sure that it wasn't kopped from somewhere else. Haha. Did you really come up with this yourself?? If you did it's really good la!

My exams have finally been over, and I've been preparing for my trip next Sunday. So this coming Sunday would be my last week at cell before I disappear for 3 weeks! That aside, I can't begin to express how good God has been to my team. He's taken away all the fear and intimidation we initially felt about the trip, and replaced it with excitement! It's no easy matter for 5 pampered Singaporean kids to be thrown into a land and be made to reach out to people of a virtually different dimension, people from prison, people who don't speak English, people who are born into a culture of broken families, atheism, and gambling. But God has shown us that it is not about us, but about Him, for Him. And when we realize that, and choose to place the burden upon Christ and take upon ourselves His yoke that is easy to bear, we see that wow, God has chosen us lowly, talentless people to tell the Macau people of His glory.

Quoting this book I'm reading, The Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges, "faith is merely the hand that receives the gift of God, and God through His Spirit even opens our hand to receive the gift."

It's all about You, Jesus
And all this is for You
For Your glory and Your grace
It's not about me,
As if You should do things my way
You alone are God
And I surrender
To Your Name.