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Thursday, June 21, 2012
Someday... The Wedding Prayer
Someday... The Wedding Prayer
Sunday, April 29, 2012
I want to go HOME to the place where the LORD is
Five more days and I am going back to my home at Rizal. The excitement is relived every time that I was here in laguna and the boredom already attacked me. “I want to go home already”, it’s the same statement that is in my head after some days of stay here in laguna. I feel like I missed a lot of things, people, events and opportunities every time that I was here in laguna to render my services and act on my responsibility as an employee of the company. Although the advantage of being here is I have a lot of time to have a rest since I don’t have to travel a far and for an hour just to go home since my “hotel” where I stay is just around the corner of the resort but the thing is, “I am alone” (physically) and I have to fight the boredom. There’s a lot of things to be thankful, actually I was thankful that the LORD had given me this opportunity to have a rest whenever I was assigned here in laguna but when Saturday and Sunday comes, i felt sad every time I realized that it supposedly the time that I must spent in serving HIM and just because of my work I had missed a lot of time and privileges. It sounds like I was complaining but definitely not, I know the reality and truth that if ever I was here in laguna, it was never been meant to make me “alone” and to feel “lonely” but there is a purpose that the LORD had for me. One thing that I always pray is that The LORD always reveal to me the purpose of my stay here in laguna. Yes, it might be because of my duty as an employee that I was here but looking unto it in a deeper perspective only shows that HE has a purpose. So what is that purpose? After four days of thinking, late night sleep (actually very late that I was sleeping in about 3am up to 4am in the morning) and hours of staring at the ceiling of my room, the LORD make me realized one truth, “Whenever, Wherever and Whatever I am doing, It is an opportunity for me to serve HIM”. It’s all depend of what is inside my heart and who is inside in it?
The reality, the privilege to serve the LORD had never been lost, its only us who thinks we lost it. We lost the so-called “privilege to serve the LORD” whenever we think that what we are doing whether it is a work or study is a not a way of serving HIM. We only lost the opportunity to serve the LORD whenever our work takes out our desire, passion and love for the LORD. The only thing that we lost as much as I experience together with other working Christian Professionals whenever we work is the fellowship with the brethren. That fellowship that we missed is something that might be good specially when it bring us to have a heart who is longing to have a fellowship and a deep understanding that we need the presence of our brethren to keep the burning desire of continuing in walking on God’s path (Holiness and Righteousness). But, most important thing is our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, If we have a good, better and continuously growing relationship with our LORD and SAVIOR, we will never feel that we our alone. We might be alone “physically” as per humans perspective but in reality, as “Christian” and “servant of Christ”, He will always be with us and never leave us so that we will never be alone.
This is some of the things that the LORD had taught me as I spent time in meditating HIS Word and evaluating things. I was excited to go home, excited to be in the place where the LORD is, excited to experience the fellowship with the brethren and together we will be serving HIM. To YAHWEH be all the glory, honor, praise and worship.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
When God Writes Your Love Story
Do you ever watch a love story and at the end you are not satisfy with how two protagonist ended with each other? Many people would say, “ang pangit ng ending” ( the ending is not good) and would probably say that “sana ganito ang naging ending..” (I wish it’ll be ended like this). Well, its a common response everytime we watch films and it end up beyond or different from what we expect or the way the ending would be. I always told my friends when they are telling those words that, “wala tayong magagawa, hindi naman tayo ang director” (we can’t do anything about it since we are not the director). In our lives or in our own love story, sometimes we are also commanding and dictating the way our story should become inspite of the fact that like just the movie, there is a director that must be followed. Because of we are the one who choose to be the director of our life instead of God, we ended up being discouraged and being hurt because we didn’t want to follow the director of the movie entitled “our life”. Just like a movie, sometimes we want to fast forward things and get to the highlights or the climax without seeing the events that must happen before it and at the end, all that we have is regrets because we had made a wrong decisions and judgements.
Who is the author of your love story? Is it you? The reality is this, we may have the right to choose the thing that we wanted for our life specially in our lovelife but we cannot choose the consequence of every decisions that we make in our lives. Just like a movie, we are just a mere actor and actress and the director is the one who create the directions of the story.
Who is the director of our love story? Is it your family, friends or environment by where you belong? Your family might be a good choice to consider in making decisions about your lovelife but still, the reality is that they are still human and could also make ideas that is wrong. Our friends could also be a good choice but sometimes they can only make you do things to tolerate you from doing what you want just to make you happy and even the environment or the culture where you belong doesn’t make sense specially these days that it was corrupted and distorted.
Who is the director of your love story? Whether it is a director or an author, the best person that you could ever rely on is none other than HIM, The LORD. From the very start, HE has a good plan for our lives including our lovelife. HE also created the biggest greatest love story on earth, and it is not just a story but a reality that God had become flesh, a human just like us to take all the punishment, climb up the hill with a cross in HIS back and carry all the sin and died for us so that the Beautiful plan that the LORD had for us may happen. Would you like GOD to be the author or director of your love story? God is love and if there is someone who can direct your life particularly your lovelife, is it none other the the LORD who is the the author and beginning of LOVE. The LOVE that leads us to heaven and eternal life is the LOVE of the LORD. If HE is the author of your love story, everything will be ok knowing that HE has set a happy, good and beautiful ending to your love story. A love story who had been founded and rooted in HIS love will end with a “beautiful ending”, you and your partner being in the presence of GOD in heaven forever.
Would you want HIM to be the author of your love story? Well I do want, how about you?
Friday, March 9, 2012
Inside The White Room
I open my eyes and had been shock to see that I was in a white room. There is no window and door on this room. Everywhere I turn my eyes, all I can see is white walls, white ceiling and white floors. I am on a panic that all that is in my mind is that I am stock in this place and there’s no way for me to get out. When I started screaming, suddenly my eyes had been opened as my “nanay” try to wake me up because I was having a nightmare. As i seen my nanay, I was so thankful that it is only a dream and wishing that I will not be in that place again. It happens when I was still 7 years old.
10 years after that freaky and weird nightmare had happened, one night when I come from my school tired and exhausted I get early to my bed and fall asleep. Suddenly, a sound of something like someone is knocking at the door just ruin my sleep so I forcefully try to push myself up and wake up from sleeping, and as I open my eyes, I was shock to see that I was in the white room again.
After ten years, I was in the same room again, nothing had change aside from a door is already existing compare to the last time that I had been there. As i rush near to the door intending to open it, I found out that it is lock and whatever I do it can’t be open. I try to shout for help hoping that someone’s gonna hear and help me but it seems that no one is there aside from me. I was teary and praying to God, pleading for His help that I might get out of the weird white room or to wake me up from this nightmare if this is only a bad dream. I felt the feeling of loneliness knowing that I am alone and already spending a lot of my time in this white room. I want to get out from it from I don't know how until a sound coming from the door had got my attention, someone had opening the door from the outside. I stand up and run rushing to the door and as I am going to open it, my eyes had been opened again and I realize that it’s another nightmare as my nanay and kuya almost slapping my face for me to wake up. Again, for the second time I was very thankful that it is only a dream and I had able to get out of it.
I don’t want to get back on that place, never again. Four years had past and I am already in my last year in college. That day is the busiest day ever in my life, our qualifying exams, which took place on Saturday and Sunday as we spent eight hours of non-stop draining exams. As expected, I got home very tired and prefer to go to my bed and sleep early rather than to go at the kitchen and eat something to filled my empty stomach. I fell asleep, and then i felt that someone is trying to wake me up from sleeping so I opened my eyes thinking that my brother might making some fun with me while I was sleeping. I open my eyes and what I see makes me terrified that I was in the same white room again but this time aside from a door, there is already a window. In my desperation to get out of that room, thinking that it is only a mere nightmare, I try to slap my face to make myself be awaken. I did my best to slap my face but nothing’s happening and I still at the white room and it seems that I am not dreaming or either it is a nightmare. Slowly, I stand up and walk close to the door and tried to open it and i found out that it is locked from the outside. Since the door is lack, I’ve try to see if the windows is also locked and it is indeed locked. I don’t want to panic so I try to think of what I can do in those times and without any means of getting out from the white room, I started to pray and ask the LORD of what HE want to tell me with the instances that I was in the white room for the third time.
While I am praying, the window had been opened and it stop me. I get up and stand, slowly walking near the window and try to see what’s in the outside. As i get my face near to the window, I was surprised to see that it looks like a television screen with a movie being played. As i watch closely, what I see is my church mates who keeps on waking up a person. As i look closely, I see that it was me, unconscious and had fall down after leaning on the door of the comfort room. I was in a panic that I already thinking that I might be dead already until the door of the white room had opened by itself. I run as fast as I can to get out of that room by passing by the open door and then a strange light blinded me and as I open my eyes, four people is already lifting me. It took me a couple of minute before I regain my strength and be able to get up by myself. My best friend just told me that I had collapse while waiting outside the comfort room to take my turn to get inside. From that day, as mommy who is a nurse try to treat me and get my blood pressure find out that I am already high blood. That is the day that I had know that something’s wrong with my body.
Until now, i was thinking of why I was in that white room repeatedly. I don’t know why, but what i know is, “God want me take care of HIS temple”. I don’t want to be in that white room again.
10 years after that freaky and weird nightmare had happened, one night when I come from my school tired and exhausted I get early to my bed and fall asleep. Suddenly, a sound of something like someone is knocking at the door just ruin my sleep so I forcefully try to push myself up and wake up from sleeping, and as I open my eyes, I was shock to see that I was in the white room again.
After ten years, I was in the same room again, nothing had change aside from a door is already existing compare to the last time that I had been there. As i rush near to the door intending to open it, I found out that it is lock and whatever I do it can’t be open. I try to shout for help hoping that someone’s gonna hear and help me but it seems that no one is there aside from me. I was teary and praying to God, pleading for His help that I might get out of the weird white room or to wake me up from this nightmare if this is only a bad dream. I felt the feeling of loneliness knowing that I am alone and already spending a lot of my time in this white room. I want to get out from it from I don't know how until a sound coming from the door had got my attention, someone had opening the door from the outside. I stand up and run rushing to the door and as I am going to open it, my eyes had been opened again and I realize that it’s another nightmare as my nanay and kuya almost slapping my face for me to wake up. Again, for the second time I was very thankful that it is only a dream and I had able to get out of it.
I don’t want to get back on that place, never again. Four years had past and I am already in my last year in college. That day is the busiest day ever in my life, our qualifying exams, which took place on Saturday and Sunday as we spent eight hours of non-stop draining exams. As expected, I got home very tired and prefer to go to my bed and sleep early rather than to go at the kitchen and eat something to filled my empty stomach. I fell asleep, and then i felt that someone is trying to wake me up from sleeping so I opened my eyes thinking that my brother might making some fun with me while I was sleeping. I open my eyes and what I see makes me terrified that I was in the same white room again but this time aside from a door, there is already a window. In my desperation to get out of that room, thinking that it is only a mere nightmare, I try to slap my face to make myself be awaken. I did my best to slap my face but nothing’s happening and I still at the white room and it seems that I am not dreaming or either it is a nightmare. Slowly, I stand up and walk close to the door and tried to open it and i found out that it is locked from the outside. Since the door is lack, I’ve try to see if the windows is also locked and it is indeed locked. I don’t want to panic so I try to think of what I can do in those times and without any means of getting out from the white room, I started to pray and ask the LORD of what HE want to tell me with the instances that I was in the white room for the third time.
While I am praying, the window had been opened and it stop me. I get up and stand, slowly walking near the window and try to see what’s in the outside. As i get my face near to the window, I was surprised to see that it looks like a television screen with a movie being played. As i watch closely, what I see is my church mates who keeps on waking up a person. As i look closely, I see that it was me, unconscious and had fall down after leaning on the door of the comfort room. I was in a panic that I already thinking that I might be dead already until the door of the white room had opened by itself. I run as fast as I can to get out of that room by passing by the open door and then a strange light blinded me and as I open my eyes, four people is already lifting me. It took me a couple of minute before I regain my strength and be able to get up by myself. My best friend just told me that I had collapse while waiting outside the comfort room to take my turn to get inside. From that day, as mommy who is a nurse try to treat me and get my blood pressure find out that I am already high blood. That is the day that I had know that something’s wrong with my body.
Until now, i was thinking of why I was in that white room repeatedly. I don’t know why, but what i know is, “God want me take care of HIS temple”. I don’t want to be in that white room again.
Friday, February 17, 2012
CHRIST COMPASSION
Jesus is compassionate to all people. This is the truth that the LORD had taught as i read, meditate amd study HIS word specifically in John chapter 4. This chapter speaks about the samaritan woman by whom had the greatest time of her life when he got face to face with the Lord Jesus Christ. With the story of the encounter of the samaritan woman, there are 5 things by which the LORD shows compassion to us.
1. "your life matters to HIM (The Lord Jesus)"
what ever is your darkest past, what ever is your failures in life, whatever bad things you had done in your past, this is not what the Lord is looking or trying to find to us. Want matters to HIM is your life, HE cares for us that give everything even HIS life on the cross that we might see that there is a way for us to be frred from all the sin that is slaving us, that makes us worthless and without a good future. Your life matters to HIM, thats the very reason why HE died at the Cross that you might find the life with purpose and worth of living with the assurance of salvation through HIM.
2. "HIS priority is a ministry for a person"
The LORD want us to experince HIS marvelous and wondrous work in our lives. His priority is to work in our lives that HE might changes us and transform us into HIS image.
3. "HIS priority is to proclaim the Truth"
the truth is this, we are all sinner just like the samaritan woman. Because of our sin, what we deserve is eternal punishment at hell. But because the LORD has compassion for us, HE came from heaven unto the earth to show us that there is a way for us to be saved and to experience God's presence in our life. The LORD had to deal with our sins and HE chose the path going to the cross that all that will truly belive (faith) in HIM might find freedom from sin unto God's righteousness.
4. "The LORD has the Power to give contentment in our lives"
we are all longing for something that makes our life uncomfortable and not good at all. Just like the samaritan, The LORD has it all to satisfy our thirst. Not like an ordinary water, the living water of that comes from the LORD gives a lot of contentment in our life. Contentment because what the LORD had given to us is a total package of Love, Mercy, Grace, Joy, Eternal Life and Forgiveness. What more can we ask more? And lastly,
5. "The LORD has the Power to change our Lives"
whatever things that you might done in the past, it is not a prerequisite to God's grace to us. But one thing is certain, the LORD wants to change us and be transform and become HIS soul winners. Working with a renewed and a heart that is always after to HIS will.
Thank you LORD for you are always there. My life matters to the LORD. To God be the glory.
1. "your life matters to HIM (The Lord Jesus)"
what ever is your darkest past, what ever is your failures in life, whatever bad things you had done in your past, this is not what the Lord is looking or trying to find to us. Want matters to HIM is your life, HE cares for us that give everything even HIS life on the cross that we might see that there is a way for us to be frred from all the sin that is slaving us, that makes us worthless and without a good future. Your life matters to HIM, thats the very reason why HE died at the Cross that you might find the life with purpose and worth of living with the assurance of salvation through HIM.
2. "HIS priority is a ministry for a person"
The LORD want us to experince HIS marvelous and wondrous work in our lives. His priority is to work in our lives that HE might changes us and transform us into HIS image.
3. "HIS priority is to proclaim the Truth"
the truth is this, we are all sinner just like the samaritan woman. Because of our sin, what we deserve is eternal punishment at hell. But because the LORD has compassion for us, HE came from heaven unto the earth to show us that there is a way for us to be saved and to experience God's presence in our life. The LORD had to deal with our sins and HE chose the path going to the cross that all that will truly belive (faith) in HIM might find freedom from sin unto God's righteousness.
4. "The LORD has the Power to give contentment in our lives"
we are all longing for something that makes our life uncomfortable and not good at all. Just like the samaritan, The LORD has it all to satisfy our thirst. Not like an ordinary water, the living water of that comes from the LORD gives a lot of contentment in our life. Contentment because what the LORD had given to us is a total package of Love, Mercy, Grace, Joy, Eternal Life and Forgiveness. What more can we ask more? And lastly,
5. "The LORD has the Power to change our Lives"
whatever things that you might done in the past, it is not a prerequisite to God's grace to us. But one thing is certain, the LORD wants to change us and be transform and become HIS soul winners. Working with a renewed and a heart that is always after to HIS will.
Thank you LORD for you are always there. My life matters to the LORD. To God be the glory.
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