monday come quickly! but not too quickly cos i've got this blood assesment thing which is counted and i'm totally unprepared for it :/ i feel quite out of touch with my work!
anyhow, stayover at church was fun and meaningful and i really learnt a lot from what rev ong shared abt 'how to not commit idolatory in giving thanks'. we cant thank God if we have no deep and spontaneous regard for Him as a person. like what jonathan edwards wrote in the excerpt that rev ong printed for us- it is like how we will not be honoured if somebody thanked us often for our gifts but had no real regard for us as a person. and to bring the analogy to a different level, all our declarations of thanksgiving are like the gratitute of a wife to a husband for the money she gets from him to use in her affair with another man if we are not captured by God's personality and character. http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Articles/ByDate/1995/1550_How_Not_to_Commit_Idolatry_in_Giving_Thanks/ above is the link for the article and i highly encourage all to read it.
i have to admit that i am guilty of not truly thanking God for who He is sometimes. it's kinda hard to explain but you know i think we're all pretty guilty of it cos we do tend to rattle on "thank God for giving ME this..blah blah, thank God for that..blah blah", with emphasis on the gifts and not God, if u get my drift. anyhow, i feel that as long as we are aware of this human tendency, we can now avoid this and truly thank God for his mercies upon us!
had combined yf games today as well. was not bad. :) and i thank God truly for the fellowship and getting to know out fellow 'spiritual cousins' from the other bp churches as pastor heng put it. i really enjoyed pastor's sermon and now i know the origins of our bp church much better. :) i must admit that i USED TO think galilee's service was a little offbeat and boring cos we dont have drums and all that but you know tt's really something untrue. on the contrary, i'm so thankful that God has allowed me to grow up in a church that appreciates hymns. and now as i grow older, i'm beginning to understand the beauty of the hymns we sing and how much theological meaning there is in all the hymns. they're just so meaningful and God- centred!
i love my church! but most of all i love you GOD!
webo @ 12:39 AM