hey girls! well in a way lots happened since I left and in a way as well lots didn't. Got to spend time with family and this time really realised more about living in a family is quite difficult. Well clearly, I suppose with 3 generations under one roof haha, life is pretty different from just looking after oneself and hanging out with friends when we are overseas. But I thank God for the moments where there was peace and joy, like the successful Christmas Eve dinner cooked at home (hehe...making a trifle wasn't actually that hard) where everyone was just enjoying themselves.
Share something I adapted from a book I have been reading by Philip Yancey "Disappointment with God" :-
There are times when we are disappointed in God, in Hebrews 2:6-8, bits from the Psalms was quoted- proclaiming that everything was under His (Jesus') feet, and that in putting everything under him, God left nothing that is not subject to Him. However, we still do not see everything subject to Him at present (v8). This does show the truth of the matter in the world, that though Jesus is in control and Lord over all, yet we still see war and violence, illness and death. (Something that I suppose did hit me, especially recently). However the paragraph in Hebrews continues with v9, "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned wth glory and honour because he suffered death, so that by the grace of death, He might taste death for everyone”. I was deeply encouraged further by v 17 and 18,- where the author of Hebrews showed that Christ was made perfect through His suffering, going through the entire human experience, our feelings, thoughts, temptations, grief. Through Jesus' suffering at
Jesus himself learnt obedience through His suffering, Jesus who was son of God could have chose to end his suffering differently, (maybe in a much more action-packed dramatic escape way?) , yet he chose to live as one of us, to die like one of us. In Heb 4:15, again we are assured that our High Priest, Jesus who is able to symphatise with our weaknesses.
Ok, looks like I am picking bits frm places aha but to me I was encouraged that Jesus' understands our feelings, emotions, limitations. Thus, though sometimes I feel helpless, questioning myself about God's plans, maybe even being a stubborn child and just grumbling in a corner, yet I am grateful that God has come to our level, He sees and experienced pain and understands, and that helps me to go on trusting the invisible God, to believe in His visible power that is able to lift all burdens and heal all wounds.
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