This is one of my favorite song nowadays! It is sung by Jari Kobe. And the lyrics goes like this:
So faithful, so constant and so true
So powerful in all You do
You fill me, You see me
You know my every move
You love for me to sing to You
I know that You are for me, I know that You are for me
I know that You will never forsake me in my weakness
And I know that You have come now even if to write upon my heart
To remind me who You are
So patient, so gracious, so merciful and true
So wonderful in all You do
You fill me, You see me
You know my every move
You love for me to sing to You
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/k/kari_jobe/you_are_for_me.html ]
Lord, I know that You are for me, I know that You are for me
I know that You will never forsake me in my weakness
And I know that You have come now even if to write upon my heart
To remind me of who You are
Come and remind me x3
of who You are
This song just reminded me of all the promises God gave to me since the beginning of my walk with God. And throughout all these years, many things happened but His love and promises for us didn't change. And if God is for us, who can be against us indeed? Come and show Yourself strong to those who know You personally! :)
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
SOT Experiences in the 1st 2 months
6 months didn't blog! I guess i can take some time out to share a little regarding my SOT experiences. :)
This is my second month in SOT! It has been life-changing since I entered SOT. Situations somehow didn't really change but i feel that my attitude toward challenges in life and also my obedience toward God changed. Things hasn't been as smooth at work for the 1st one and the half month. To make things worse, many of my colleagues couldn't understand why i would want to sacrifice so much of my time, making myself so tired physically, to go for a course that doesn't seem to be of help toward my sales. Seriously, for the 1st one and half month, i really dreaded to go to office because of the pressure i faced, colleagues' comments and somehow i felt that i was not really shining for God. My manager even had a talk with me and asked me to reconsider the decision i made regarding going to SOT and asked me if i could handle, if not, why not let go of this year's course and go for the next batch. But somehow in my heart, i really trusted in God and did my best daily regardless of the tiring schedule. Many times, i even had the thought of giving up and went into pity-party mode of whatever was happening. To make things worse, physical sicknesses came. I was quite sick at that period of time. But thank God for His strength to allow me to go to work daily till late night. In my heart, i really don't wish to give my colleagues any chance to think badly about christians. Just nice at that period, i heard a few complaints from my non-believer colleagues regarding some christians in their work environment. When i heard that, all the more it got me spurred up to want to do my best in my job. Almost every morning i served SOT choir as well. I thank God for giving me the privilege to serve on stage because while serving on stage, i could really concentrate on praising and worshiping God. I was smiling as wide as i could but many times i really just felt like crying out to God with all of my heart. My colleague from another organization also asked me if i wanna join their team because their whole team consists of all christians and she told me if i join them, my life would be so much easier as they can understand that i am in SOT. I appreciate her thoughts but i thought to myself that it would defeat the purpose because what would my own organization think likewise? Their impression toward christians would have become worse. And i know that at least for this season, it is not something that God would want me to do as well.
Actually before all these things happened, God already gave me a verse and that was the second time He asked me that question. He asked me the same question that He asked of Job in the bible. 'Will you still worship me if everything is taken away from you?' The first time He asked me was 2-3 years ago and soon after that almost everything was taken away from me. This time, He asked me again and of course my answer to Him was yes. So i was kind of prepared of all these things to happen again as a testing. When all these things really happened, God gave me some verses through the bible and one of them that kept me going was when God asked Abraham and Sarah the question 'Is there anything too hard for the Lord?' That was when God told them about the miracle son Issac.
Few weeks ago, Pst Aries preached a word that really got me thinking and changed my mindset. He made a statement 'Endurance is different from tolerance.' Maybe it is an easy statement to many. But to me, it was a revelation because i always thought it was about the same. So i meditated on it and somehow i realized that i was tolerating the situation around me instead of enduring. What is the difference? The difference is the attitude. Tolerating will make you frustrated and blow up anytime when you cannot contain it anymore but enduring is hoping for God to work things out and to trust in Him. Even if things don't go well, you will still worship Him. From then on, i really do my best to just give God my best regardless of whether situation becomes better or not. Kept giving to Him, kept going to office with a smile on my face and assuring my colleagues and manager that things will turn out good. Indeed God is really good, His favor was upon me. Things became better and it will be even better! I see my faith toward God begin to increase. I really pray that the favor of God and man will be upon me always. Wisdom of God is something i really need and depend on. So ultimately, i really wanna thank God for His grace. Because without Him, i am nothing. But with Him, even the greatest obstacle can be made easy. :)
This is my second month in SOT! It has been life-changing since I entered SOT. Situations somehow didn't really change but i feel that my attitude toward challenges in life and also my obedience toward God changed. Things hasn't been as smooth at work for the 1st one and the half month. To make things worse, many of my colleagues couldn't understand why i would want to sacrifice so much of my time, making myself so tired physically, to go for a course that doesn't seem to be of help toward my sales. Seriously, for the 1st one and half month, i really dreaded to go to office because of the pressure i faced, colleagues' comments and somehow i felt that i was not really shining for God. My manager even had a talk with me and asked me to reconsider the decision i made regarding going to SOT and asked me if i could handle, if not, why not let go of this year's course and go for the next batch. But somehow in my heart, i really trusted in God and did my best daily regardless of the tiring schedule. Many times, i even had the thought of giving up and went into pity-party mode of whatever was happening. To make things worse, physical sicknesses came. I was quite sick at that period of time. But thank God for His strength to allow me to go to work daily till late night. In my heart, i really don't wish to give my colleagues any chance to think badly about christians. Just nice at that period, i heard a few complaints from my non-believer colleagues regarding some christians in their work environment. When i heard that, all the more it got me spurred up to want to do my best in my job. Almost every morning i served SOT choir as well. I thank God for giving me the privilege to serve on stage because while serving on stage, i could really concentrate on praising and worshiping God. I was smiling as wide as i could but many times i really just felt like crying out to God with all of my heart. My colleague from another organization also asked me if i wanna join their team because their whole team consists of all christians and she told me if i join them, my life would be so much easier as they can understand that i am in SOT. I appreciate her thoughts but i thought to myself that it would defeat the purpose because what would my own organization think likewise? Their impression toward christians would have become worse. And i know that at least for this season, it is not something that God would want me to do as well.
Actually before all these things happened, God already gave me a verse and that was the second time He asked me that question. He asked me the same question that He asked of Job in the bible. 'Will you still worship me if everything is taken away from you?' The first time He asked me was 2-3 years ago and soon after that almost everything was taken away from me. This time, He asked me again and of course my answer to Him was yes. So i was kind of prepared of all these things to happen again as a testing. When all these things really happened, God gave me some verses through the bible and one of them that kept me going was when God asked Abraham and Sarah the question 'Is there anything too hard for the Lord?' That was when God told them about the miracle son Issac.
Few weeks ago, Pst Aries preached a word that really got me thinking and changed my mindset. He made a statement 'Endurance is different from tolerance.' Maybe it is an easy statement to many. But to me, it was a revelation because i always thought it was about the same. So i meditated on it and somehow i realized that i was tolerating the situation around me instead of enduring. What is the difference? The difference is the attitude. Tolerating will make you frustrated and blow up anytime when you cannot contain it anymore but enduring is hoping for God to work things out and to trust in Him. Even if things don't go well, you will still worship Him. From then on, i really do my best to just give God my best regardless of whether situation becomes better or not. Kept giving to Him, kept going to office with a smile on my face and assuring my colleagues and manager that things will turn out good. Indeed God is really good, His favor was upon me. Things became better and it will be even better! I see my faith toward God begin to increase. I really pray that the favor of God and man will be upon me always. Wisdom of God is something i really need and depend on. So ultimately, i really wanna thank God for His grace. Because without Him, i am nothing. But with Him, even the greatest obstacle can be made easy. :)
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