So, I am in a blogging mood. I am not sure how this is going to all work out, but you are going to get an entry. I am also in a very vague mood, so it will probably be a vague entry.
I had a girl ask me today what I have been learning lately in my walk with the Lord and the overarching theme of what I have been learning is to seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness and everything else will be taken care of. This applies in so many arenas: future, dating, school, girls I am meeting with, etc.
Life is overwhelming for me right now. There are so so so so so so so so so so so so so SO many unknowns floating around in this cloud of fog we like to call the future. I am thankful I serve a God that is trustworthy with my life. A God who withholds nothing good from those whom He loves. A God who goes before all things and holds all things together.
Lord, may You help me to have a vision of You that will be the death of me. To count ALL things as rubbish in comparison to knowing You, precious King. Jesus, as all these unknowns are scary, please help me to fear and love and know you more. You are trustworthy and though I may have to give up my life and my fears hundreds of times each day, You are worth it.
14.9.08
Contentment in Jesus
*Is really hard sometimes
*Is worth fighting for and sacrificing for because it's so beautiful.
That's all I got.
*Is worth fighting for and sacrificing for because it's so beautiful.
That's all I got.
12.9.08
Silly songs with Larry: And all because I can't sleep.
These are all songs written while overseas. I don't know what it is about being overseas that makes you crazy and write crazy songs, but hope you enjoy:
Jioazi (a delicious Asian food) song (Creative title, eh?)
Jioazi, jioazi, jioazi
Hao hun chi food (Very delicious food)
I eat you when I'm hun e (very hungry)
And my stomach says you're good.
Jioazi, jioazi, jioazi
Wo ai ni til I die (I love you til' I die)
And when I leave Asia
Without you I will cry.
(And the last verse dedicated to the other KT on my team)
Jioazi, jioazi, jioazi
Filled with cabbage and with beans
Delicious out of my mind, just don't stand behind my behind.
Jioazi.
Chenglish Song.
Talk, very beautiful people tree.
Chenglish, you are the language for me.
Don't mention it, we sing Chenglish song for you
No problem, no extra cost, no thing, no thing but sing.
Chinese and English what a beautiful mix
You bring me joy my Chenglish fix
Better than coffee you fix me, no bandaid sticks on me like you
My chenglish fix.
Boys song
Boys are gross and weird
They smell and they have beards
They aren't very smart and they like to fart (or break your heart, depending on the mood you are in)
Boys are gross and weird
This next verse was written by guys, so don't blame me for it.
Boys are slow and dumb
They like to suck their thumb
They are low on grace and they punch you in the face
Boys are slow and dumb
And this verse, I wrote today
Men are spiritually strong
Boys they lead you along
Men protect your heart their own comfort they impart
So don't date boys, date only men
And remember Jesus is your perfect ten!
Um, yeah. Sillyness I know, but I love it. LOVE IT.
Jioazi (a delicious Asian food) song (Creative title, eh?)
Jioazi, jioazi, jioazi
Hao hun chi food (Very delicious food)
I eat you when I'm hun e (very hungry)
And my stomach says you're good.
Jioazi, jioazi, jioazi
Wo ai ni til I die (I love you til' I die)
And when I leave Asia
Without you I will cry.
(And the last verse dedicated to the other KT on my team)
Jioazi, jioazi, jioazi
Filled with cabbage and with beans
Delicious out of my mind, just don't stand behind my behind.
Jioazi.
Chenglish Song.
Talk, very beautiful people tree.
Chenglish, you are the language for me.
Don't mention it, we sing Chenglish song for you
No problem, no extra cost, no thing, no thing but sing.
Chinese and English what a beautiful mix
You bring me joy my Chenglish fix
Better than coffee you fix me, no bandaid sticks on me like you
My chenglish fix.
Boys song
Boys are gross and weird
They smell and they have beards
They aren't very smart and they like to fart (or break your heart, depending on the mood you are in)
Boys are gross and weird
This next verse was written by guys, so don't blame me for it.
Boys are slow and dumb
They like to suck their thumb
They are low on grace and they punch you in the face
Boys are slow and dumb
And this verse, I wrote today
Men are spiritually strong
Boys they lead you along
Men protect your heart their own comfort they impart
So don't date boys, date only men
And remember Jesus is your perfect ten!
Um, yeah. Sillyness I know, but I love it. LOVE IT.
11.9.08
Giving up...
In the Christian life we are called to give up so many things, yet never give up. Oh, semantics. How ridiculous you are sometimes.
Lately, my walk with God has just been growing and thriving in ways that I haven't seen in so long. It is very exciting....very, very exciting.... but I have been called to give up so many things in my life that have become such a part of me.
Oh Jesus, please give me a vision of You that will be the death of me. Please give me the heart portrayed in the following Words.
Phil 3: 1, 7-19
1Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.
7But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
15All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. 16Only let us live up to what we have already attained.
17Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you. 18For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things. 20But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
Jesus, I don't want my mind to be set on earthly things. Please be my sustainment, my fulfillment in this time of need. Please help me press on and count ALL things as loss in order to know you more.
Lately, my walk with God has just been growing and thriving in ways that I haven't seen in so long. It is very exciting....very, very exciting.... but I have been called to give up so many things in my life that have become such a part of me.
Oh Jesus, please give me a vision of You that will be the death of me. Please give me the heart portrayed in the following Words.
Phil 3: 1, 7-19
1Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.
7But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
15All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. 16Only let us live up to what we have already attained.
17Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you. 18For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things. 20But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
Jesus, I don't want my mind to be set on earthly things. Please be my sustainment, my fulfillment in this time of need. Please help me press on and count ALL things as loss in order to know you more.
10.9.08
Good words....
I have been really anxious lately for a number of reasons, but these Words were brought to my attention. Oh how good they are.
Psalm 124: 1-6
1 If the LORD had not been on our side—
let Israel say-
2 if the LORD had not been on our side
when men attacked us,
3 when their anger flared against us,
they would have swallowed us alive;
4 the flood would have engulfed us,
the torrent would have swept over us,
5 the raging waters
would have swept us away.
6 Praise be to the LORD,
who has not let us be torn by their teeth.
Psalm 125: 1-2
1 Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion,
which cannot be shaken but endures forever.
2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
so the LORD surrounds his people
both now and forevermore.
Psalm 124: 1-6
1 If the LORD had not been on our side—
let Israel say-
2 if the LORD had not been on our side
when men attacked us,
3 when their anger flared against us,
they would have swallowed us alive;
4 the flood would have engulfed us,
the torrent would have swept over us,
5 the raging waters
would have swept us away.
6 Praise be to the LORD,
who has not let us be torn by their teeth.
Psalm 125: 1-2
1 Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion,
which cannot be shaken but endures forever.
2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
so the LORD surrounds his people
both now and forevermore.
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