.Wednesday, October 04, 2006 ; 1:47 AM -
.His Mercy is New everY mornInG.
Finally I'm done preparing for tomorrow's tutorial. Somehow when I feel that I don't have enough time for this thing and that thing, I tend to fret about it, whine about it and worry about how am I going to finish my work. Well, I learned to give all the things I need to do up to Daddy in heaven. For example, my schedule for today is school until 230pm, 6pm prayer meeting, 830 bible study at RH, 10pm photocomm meeting. Besides meetings, I need to do revision for Jap vocab test and complete the homeworks given. Well, I was slacking throughout the whole afternoon and only started doing my work at 530pm. I skipped the prayer meeting and did my work till 8pm. To cut the long story short, I managed to complete everything by 130am. In between doing my work and attending meetings, I stopped to talk to friends online, typed the previous entry, went to bathe, cleaned my utensils, refill my water bottle, well basically lots of side tracking. The point is Daddy accelerate my progress. In the past, I think I'm still whining and fretting over the lack of time and condemning myself for slacking so much. Praise God for He is worthy of all praises and glory!
As I am reading the daily devotional at NCC page, I came across this verse,
Romans 8:26 26Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Many times in prayer, I will encounter this sense of lost of words. There's so many things to say, so many things to ask, yet there seems to be no starting point. My prayer life was not good at all. That was the time when I still don't know how to pray in tongues. Praise God that He saw my need and that I'm ready to receive baptism in Spirit. Yin led me in the baptism of Holy Spirit and that was the first time I'm able to pray in tongues. Something overwhelming enveloped my whole being and I cried. I knew that was the Holy Spirit. An encounter with Him was so precious, I would want to have it again and again.
God give man freedom of choice and He respect it, that is why He didn't "make" everyone to love Him and accept Christ as Saviour. It is a choice that will alter one's life course forever. Yes, there are mountains and mountains of benefit in store for us once we accept Jesus Christ as Lord. But most importantly the deliverance and redemption from sin in which He has paid a dear price, tortured and crucified on the cross. In that time, crucifixion was the most humiliating way of dying and was only reserved for the lowest of the lowest criminals in the Kingdom of Rome. Jesus resurrection confirmed His victory over Death. Wages of sin is death. All men has sin tendency because Adam sinned therefore all men will and must die. Unfair right?But, isn't it more unfair to God that He must come in the likeness of human, die to redeem us, to take the world's sin upon Himself so that we will have His righteousness and we will have salvation?This is grace, the undeserved favor from God. Amazing grace. In return to what Jesus has done for us, He only ask us to believe in Jesus Christ that indeed He is God and our Saviour. That's all. Why?He loves us as simple as that. Daddy in heaven loves us (john 3:16). Every soul that is saved cause great rejoice in heaven. Daddy welcome the sons and daughters that were lost.
Daddy found me when I was lost and confused. I took the step of accepting His invitation to be His daughter in Christ Jesus and I never regretted that day.
Answer the door when He knocks. You will never regret it for the time is running out.
