Too Long... Too Long...

Oh God, has love for Thee waxed cold?
Has troubles cause my being to wane and turn from Thee?
Why Lord, why?
How long wilt I remain in this state without realising the importance of Thee in my life?
Oh turn me from my ways,
Give me love, to You and all around.

Been really confused lately. No idea why, but maybe this period is for me to reflect. Ever since I've stepped into JC, it's been a whole new kinda thing for me. Less play, more work, new friends. Well, some of you may know that I don't really like change, but as the Lord wills, so will I follow.

It's been tough and all lately, and I admit sometimes I get caught up so much in work that I find myself having studies as my god, and always thinking that "Oh, I shouldn't trouble God with that. I can do it myself". I believe God is teaching me a lesson:

"Without Him, Ye can do nothing"

Sigh, it's just too much for me to bear, and I think I'm about to reach my limit of confusion, anger and weariness. But when I think of these, I think of Psalm 34: 6, "This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles."

Read through Isiah 26 yesterday out of the blue, and verse 3 and 4 spoke to me in a special but meaningful way. "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:"

Brethren, be thou encouraged. Our Father is always there to help lead and guide us, and nothing happens to us without His prior knowledge and consentment. Trust that He will keep thee in perfect peace! But be warned, this will only occur when thou trusteth in Him.

May our hope always be in Him, the eternal Potentate of time.

In the love of Christ,
Timo

2009's 1st Post

It's been so long since I've last blogged, and I don't know what compels me to now, but whatever it is, I shall do a short one.

Brethren, recently I've been confronted with many problems, some of my own, some of friends, and some of just needless worries. But one thing have I gleaned from all these, that the Lord is in control of all.

"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." Romans 8:28

That is one comforting verse that I hold dear to my heart as well. Although simple, it shows how the Lord uses circumstances in our lives to shape and mould us, and that ultimately everything will be for our benefit. How oft we have blamed the Lord and murmured against Him because we feel dissatisfied with some situation! Repent, and realise that our God chooses these trials for our edification, and sometimes even to make us realise our helplessness without Him.

O for a closer walk with Thee.
That I may know Jesus, that's my plea.

May our prayer for this new year be that we will learn to accept trials and problems as one of God's methods of teaching us, and that being tried by this fire, we shall "come forth as gold". (Job 23:10)

In Christ,
Timo