edges.
You are forever in my life
You see me through the season
Cover me with Your hands
And Lead me in Your righteousness
And I look to You
And I wait on You
I'll sing to You, Lord a hymn of love
For Your faithfulness to me
I'm carried in everlasting arms
You'll never let me go
Through It all
it's been a nasty week of ups and downs. im thankful that i've been spared from a worse outcome...and perhaps, i've learnt how to restrain myself...not to take matters into my own hands. And like my dad was sharing with me about common experiences in banking, this has been a learning experience. A last week. Of all the moments during this placement, I really hate and love this TERRIBLE episode. Now to work on what's left. Well.
Ephesians 1:1-14
QT today was about God's will in people's lives and how we/i view it.
So what are our reactions to the will of One who is in control of all? i think it's nothing short of amazing to be within the plans of God, which, in my opinion, adds a certain security to life. I guess it's how people view it? hm. humanity in general wants a certain amount of control in their lives (having a will) to do what they want, go where they please, whenever they want, and i think a celestial entity who has His own plans is kind of like adding an element of the uncertainty? i think that it should be otherwise. i think that God is in fact an element of certainty in a very uncertain picture of life. why? well:
1. He is a loving God
2. He has our best interests at heart (something we may not fathom at times due to being IN the situation)
3. we were chosen by Him (ponder on what that means?)
The idea of free will is an interesting topic that ties in with predestination ie. how does it fit together? ponder that for another time.
I guess the question to ask is wether one feels that God's will is constraining or freeing? and if it is the former, then why? If God's will is just, unshakeable and certain, then regardless of how OUR plans turn out, perhaps it's time to remember that us, being such shortsighted beings and in fact, not really in control of most aspects in our life, find relief and rest that we are chosen by someone who is in control ALL things, especially someone who has "blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, and even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him." and whom "we have obtained an inheritance" in.
Thanksgiving first!
...That the second hand book i bought in singapore turns out to be one of the essential readings for one of my modules this sem(:
