I am humbled by Your grace.

5:48 PM Posted by meeera

It has been a year since God has came into my life and turned my life the right way up. :)


It is by his grace, that in my stubborness, I came to understand the greatness of the gospel.

It is by his grace, that in my brokeness, he has been transforming me into a person more like Christ.

It is by his grace, that in my insufficiencies, he has appointed me as an ambassador of his kingdom.

It is by his grace, that in my weaknesses, he made me complete.

It is by his grace, that I am made anew.

It is by his grace, that I am forgiven.

It is by his grace, that I am loved.

It is by his grace, that I am saved.

January 24, 2011

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the good samaritan?

4:48 PM Posted by meeera

So this past Sunday our sermon was about the Parable of the Good Samaritan and though I've heard this story many times I found myself revisiting this quite a few times these few days.


For those who haven't heard of it its is about a Jewish man who was beaten up and left on the streets half dead along the roads. When he was laying there, a priest and then a levite happened to walk past but they both pretended that they did not see anything and so they kept on going. However, later a samaritan who was greatly despised by the Jews in the society back then, stopped and noticed the Jew and took him in to cared for him.


This parable was said by Jesus so that he could illustrate the idea of loving our neighbors. And this really made me reflect on who my neighbors are. The question that really captivated me was when the speaker asked us:


Who are you? Are you the levite or the priest? Or are you the samaritan?


It was this question that the speaker asked that really sparked my thoughts. Really, without thinking I would say that I am the samaritan because generally i would think or like to think that I help people and be kind to others and hence I am the good samaritan. But then when I thought of it further, I found that this question is rather unsettling because the more i thought of it, the more I feel that I am really not the samaritan that I think I am but perhaps the levite who passes a blind eye to certain things... and then speaking of which the dreams (which i wont go into tons of detail) that i had for the two nights before this sermon seem to make sense because they were about this friend I used to be close with but have been disconnected for so long and with time it had faded and so I have put it behind me... so I went and saw him and we started talking again but he has changed in a way that he has lost his direction and his relationship with God has drifted so far apart... its sad to see this happening to a friend that i used to care about so much but I believe that God in his very way and precise timing is reminding me to care for him just as if hes my neighbor in the parable.



"Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves do not merely look out for your own personal interests but also for the interests of others." Phillipians 2:3-4


Jan 13, 2010

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from 2009 to 2010!

5:22 AM Posted by meeera



Well... before its too late, Happy 2010!


it's 4.30 am in the morning and its still dark out... but i guess its the jetlag that woke me up so instead of trying very hard to fall asleep again i felt like writing in my newly acquired blog which im still trying to fix up=)



So 2009 huh... its been one of my most eventful years - one that was filled with many surprises!

Looking back at the past term, I feel so blessed because God has turned so many things around for me. He has transformed me in so many ways in the very short period of lets say three months? The change may be big but sometimes when I stopped and thought about it, it is quite hard to recognize myself. For one, im going to Church. I went to a Christian conference. I read the bible. And for the first time, I joined a bible study and a fellowship. He has revealed to me so much that I could no longer deny his existence. And what’s different from before is that I’m doing this all for myself – not for my family, not for my friends but because now I know that God is real. He is living. And most of all He cares. I must say that this has got to be the BEST feeling in the world knowing that there is One above you that controls everything and is always there. And the funniest thing is that it is only six months ago that I was still hiding from my Christian friend at lunch every Thursday because I did not want to go to Awaken, a fellowship she started at school! Hah.

God pursues. He really does.

And realizing this fact has moved me so much.

God does work in miraculous ways and in his timing and in his ways, he pulls you back towards him no matter how far you drift. And thinking back for me, though both my sister and my mom was Christian, I had so many doubts and eventually I stopped everything that was Christian related starting from the beginning of my highschool years. Even my mom stopped talking to me about the bible or anything that was God related - was I stubborn.

But when I look back, some “coincidences” might well be too coincidental to be true. Well for a fact that when my whole group of close friends changed, my new group of friends were ALL Christians. All. Which is quite hard to believe especially when my school is not religious. Of course at the time that didn’t really matter to me. I even went to a Matt Redman concert thinking that my friend got it for free some where… which really wasn’t the case when I found out earlier last school term while skyping with her. I can go on and on… but point is in the very timing even the hardest of hearts would be softened. It does sound cliché doesn’t it? But it is true. Who knew that all of a sudden in a few months I would go from a stubborn skeptic to a believer? Even when I finally stopped and thought about it for a moment, I thought it was a bit strange in a sense and inexplicable because it was going wayyyy too fast but it felt right because I felt that God was guiding me.


I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone (you know who you are) who have been praying for me all along. And for those who are praying for others, don’t stop praying for them! God works in many ways!


Amen!

Well besides me believing in God again, it has been a superb year!

Let’s see… surviving the last round of essays IB mocks orals…then ffor a change of taste…graduating highschool, prom, GRAD TRIP, crazy outward-bound that I managed to get into in the carribeans and university.

Quite a handful isn’t it…



promm

verr! my best friend!


sarah... i know better now :) thanks for that matt redman tickets! heh.

my family that I love
gradtrip! WOOT


my boat family from the carribeans outward bound :)



and some things i am looking forward to do in the next term or in the coming year...
  • learn how to dive with a drysuit - hopefully soon because its so cold here and will def be fun!
  • pick up some guitar and hopefully can learn some chords so i can play some songs =) - thanks jon for giving me one of your guitars to bring over!
  • go to the vancouver aquarium!
  • then try to find a job/ summer job at the aquarium :)
  • finish up another oil painting for my children collection

and thanks for bearing with me! i know its a long post heh

happy new year!

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