The reason I live

And this day, I dedicate this post to You.

You who came to this world;

To take all my sin and shame;

To make a way for me;

Irregardless of who I am or what I had done;

You loved me and You still love me.

This is for You, Lord Jesus!

Fairness?

At a recent competition of the Nationals’ Inter-Schools Badminton round robin, I have very strong reasons to believe a questionable judgment was made. Anglican High and Maris Stella High were involved in this incident were playing against each other, deciding who will proceed to the next level of the Nationals which is held yearly.

The match was played over 5 games, namely 3 singles and 2 doubles games in the Lower Secondary Division, commonly known as the C’ Division in the school sporting scene. The event came down right to the very last moment as both sides had won 2 games each, the school that wins the final singles game will win the match and eventually proceed to the next round robin.

As it was held at Tampines Indoor Sports Hall and the match was the last game of the day that was ongoing, spectators from other participating schools and onlookers gathered around to watch the single deciding game that meant a lot to both schools involved.

The game went on to a 3^rd set that dragged on even to deuce at 20 plus points, which in the badminton scene is quite a rare occasion. Both sides were determined to enter the next round. I happened to be a graduate from Maris Stella High; I feel that Singaporeans need to know that the local schools sporting scene does not only promote excellence but should also enforce honesty and fairness in every sport.

Right down to the crucial moment, my school’s player dived to receive a smash from his opponent and managed to receive the shuttlecock over the net. He won the game point. The line-judge, who was from a third-party school, declared the shuttle in the court (which was very obviously within the court) to the umpire(also known as the referee). My school team jumped to their feet, rejoicing and cheering over the victory they would had gave away just moments ago.

At this point, the umpire did not announce the results and which school was the winner, which was questionable as the Rules state that the umpire must declare the winner immediately once the game point was won. The umpire was then seen by many speaking to the opposing team’s head coach, who is a well-known name in the local badminton scene, before declaring to my school’s team that they actually lost as he had judged the shuttlecock out of the court.

This was contrary to the line-judge’s decision and I believed many spectators at the game. My point here is why did the umpire not declared the winner immediately as the Rules stated?  And by having spoken to the opposing team’s coach in private, what happened to affect his final decision in declaring the winning team?

I am encouraged to hear that Singapore will be hosting the Youth Olympic Games, which would bring together the world’s finest youth athletes. Yet, such incidents that might be happening around in the local sporting scene has brought up doubts in my heart such as fairness in the sporting scene.

I am disappointed to know that my school’s team has lost their chance to proceed to the next level. Though having submitted their appeal to the Convener for the games, chances are slim that the judgment be overturned. But I am writing in belief that our sporting scene would become one that is world-class in terms of standards and free of questionable factors. 

I gotta live my life like this!

Lord if it is Your will, then let it be so =)

Let me be free to run, to praise You.

In every season, my God is great!

And God is good all the time,

all the time God is good!

The Song of Love

And Lord, I desire to sing the song of Love

All my life, I just want to sing that song

Jesus my Lover, my Savior

I will never know how much You love me

I'm glad I went for songwriting (Shhh).

Today marks the first step of the revolution in my life,

Jesus I will live for You!

To my beloved ones

Dear brothers and sisters,

I am thankful to God for blessing with you in my life.

Of late, I realized I need to start pursuing Him like never before.

I am "ok" and will seek the Lord to be my pillar of strength.

I know He will never leave nor forsake me.

I thank you for your love and concerns and assure you,

that whatever decisions I make or will make, shall be one that is of God's will.

Spiritual Orphan

John 14: 18 says:

I will not leave you as orphans; I willl come to you.

That was Jesus' promise to His disciples that they will never be alone.

I look at the lives of the disciples before Jesus' death.

They knew Jesus personally.

They touched Him.

They talked to Him.

They heard Him.

Yet some doubted Him; some denied Him; some betrayed Him.

Man, as hard as he could try, is as imperfect as ever.

O Lord, indeed only You are worthy, good and faithful.

I pray that in this season, You make Your presence so obvious to me.

Be my comforter and strength, when there is no one else to turn to.

Lord, I thank You for the few people who were here for me when I needed to talk.

But You are the One who has never left nor forsaken me.

As I seek You and run after You, I pray that You'll show me the way.

I will stick to my commitment and not my emotions.

It does not mean that I will be taken for granted.

The place You lead me to, I will go.

The time has come, I shall waste no more of it.

I will go where You send me.

The Radical

Luke 9:23-24 says:

Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it. But whoever loses his life for me will save it."

I've not been going after the things God has wanted me to.

Maybe I've not been going after these with the right heart.

Whatever it is, I want to do what the verse says, deny myself and take up my cross daily and follow Jesus.

Even if it means to make a decision that displeases everyone else.

Dear God, be my source of help.

Selah

Time of rest and stillness to come.

See you soon...

I Surrender All

Marcus will go all the way out for Him, with Him and to Him.

Psalm 23

Today was really physically exhaustive.

Maybe I should reduce it from twice to once?

Maybe I should stop teaching?

Maybe I should stop coming together?

Maybes here. Maybes there.

I choose not to do what I want but what He wants.

God, may I receive Your strengthening and restoration.

To be enabled to do Your will.

Amen.

Psalm 23 again

I believe it was totally God's working.

We had Psalm 23 for our meditation during last night's prayer meeting.

I had the inspiration from a song "The Lord's my Shepherd".

Lo and Behold, at Combined service today the speaker was touching on Psalm 23!!!

And I heard from Matthew that GNK was touching on Psalm 23 as well!!

You may think it's all planned out for,

but I choose to see that God has divinely revealed Himself.

Today's takeaway from service was perception of the World as Christians.

How are you affected by the world today? If you went bankrupt, would you still praise God?

I think I have not gotten over it. 

It seemed to have become worse.

I start to imagine things ahead in the future.

But I shall not, and trust God to make a way for me.

=) Have a blessed week in Christ Jesus!

Psalm 23

A beautiful passage.

God is my provider.

I will need not lack anything.

Because the shepherd feeds His sheep daily.

Amen

Blank...

She refuses to talk.

Simply refuses to.

Maybe I'm imagining things.

But this is what I'm getting.

The un-deserving grace of God

As of tonight,

I will be praying...

praying for people...

in my heart that I feel that something ain't right...

those who have/had issues against me;

those who have been hurt by me;

those who I have discriminated against;

and those who I may have hurt before.

Because Jesus You love me,

I will love the same.

I pray for the above,

that they will not stay the same.

I'll fall, fall into Your arms of love

Dear God,

I pray that I will never have enough of You in my life.

Please open my eyes to see the vastness of Your creation;

Open my ears to listen to the ongoing sounds and wonders of Your praises,

and soften my heart to feel the hearts of the people You put in this world.

I hope You change me to be like never before;

how I was ignorant of Your mercy and compassion towards me;

how You loved me again and again despite of my stubbornness,

and gave Your only Son for me.

I was once lost but now am found,

I am saved but I never deserve this.

I am renewed but I feel the same,

Why O God?Why?

In my life I only hope for one thing,

that Your will be done and accomplished.

Your name be high and lifted up,

Yet I know the journey will not be easy.

I look to my left and to my right,

Who can I turn to in times of trouble?

I see Your people turn and walk away,

at a time when You said You are coming back again.

You came and You called,

that those who believe in You will be saved.

Yet in the saving grace of Yours,

it was as if the price that was paid was cheap.

There is no one like You,

None who is worthy to save our souls.

The lamb that was slain,

it has got to be Jesus.

So now I live my life,

in times of joy and moments of pain.

I will lift my voice to call out loud,

to my God who is forever faithful.

Thank You God,

Love You because You first loved me.

I pray,

that You teach me to love those who do not love me the same.

It should not matter to me,

because it never mattered to You.

I ask You give me the perseverance and determination,

to hold fast to what You have taught me.

I was lost,

but now am found.

In no one but You,

JESUS.

A Simple Dinner

It was great to have dinner with you.

It was not easy but I'm glad we had.

Thanks for being a big-brother to me.

The road ahead is still long,

Still, I look forward to the journey.

May God Almighty keep you and bless you in all you do.

The Breathe of Life within me

As I read Gen. 1-3, I was amazed again by 1 fact.

God breathed you and me into life.

You may ask what is so special about that?

It is special because God spoke all other things into life and form,

but He made you and me out of the dust and Breathed life into us.

Maybe that explains the kind-hearted conscious in all of us because God is Good!

Are you aware today that you have the breathe of God in you?

Eph3:16-17

I pray that out of His glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts though faith...

This is dedicated to all my brothers and sisters in Christ out there

I hope all will turn out well tomorrow.

God bless.

What an amazing God

I'm back for a second post for a good reason.

I had just finished praying and picked up my long-forgotten prayer book and browsed through it and reminiscing the times I prayed much much more.

What happened to me!!!

Anyway, I smsed a brother to check on his prayer request and 

he replied me saying that he just did what I was about to ask him...

What an amazing God and perfect His timing can be =)

Arghh

My head is splitting up!

I've been having this bugging headache on the left of my head and it has not been better.

Please cover me in prayer.

Today I picked out Matthew 4 and read on Jesus' temptations in the desert.

1. Jesus knew His identity (do you know your identity in Christ?)

2. Jesus did not step over His Father's will (do you sometimes choose to do your own will?)

3. Jesus chose not to please himself (have you died to yourself so you live in Christ today?)

And I read Gen. about Adam and Eve as well:

How interesting the conversation between the serpent and Eve and how Eve became unsure of what God had said and commanded. 

The Devil doesn't present lies as they seem. He distorts the truth and at times, gives us the partial truth, causing us to fix our eyes away from God.

Man and Woman's creation: w-o-man...

I was giving that some thoughts and this was what I got interestingly,

Was Originally MAN...

As we all know Eve was created by God from Adam's rib.

Just a thought, no offence to the ladies out there =)

God bless all of you