I stopped pursuing psychology and counseling as career options when I realized I had my theology all wrong.

If we want to effectively change lives permanently, we need to know theology. If our theology is all wrong and we are applying human wisdom to try to fix lives, there will be no worthwhile change. We need God. We need to know Him. What He thinks about Man. His solution to Man's problem.

This world is just too complex to figure on your own. You need to know the One who knows it all and seek Him always, again and again. Never in our lifetime will come a moment that we can cope on our own. The beauty of our faith is that we need Him every moment. He so desires that fellowship and time of separation with us.

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As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go." Jesus replied, "Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." He said to another man, "Follow me."
But he replied, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father." Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God." Still another said, "I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say goodbye to my family." Jesus replied, "No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God." (Luke 9:57-62 NIV)

How should our service to God be?

It knows no limits. Nowhere you wouldn't go for him. Nothing you wouldn't do for Him. Even if it means not having things citizens of this world have, things like security of a home, wealth and material possessions. (is this why Jesus said it's hard for the rich to enter His kingdom? They stand to lose much in sight of world) Even if it means doing things like forgiving your enemies and loving those who naturally repel you with supernatural love.

No delays. Time is now. No waiting till you are ready, till you fulfill your requirements as a citizen of this world first. Now is the time to give your heart fully to the kingdom of God.

No regrets. No turning back. No quitting when the going gets tough, when you realise so few are on your side. Persevere until the very end. No Luke

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The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,' says the Lord Almighty. 'And in this place I will grant peace,' declares the Lord Almighty." (Haggai 2:9 NIV)

When the Israelite looked at the pitiful figure of the temple they had rebuilt after the fall, they couldn't helped but to compare it to its former glory and feelings of regret filled their hearts.

If only we didn't rebel against God. Imagine we didn't fall, how grand the temple would be now!

But God told them, it's not about you, it's about Me. This present house will be more glorious than the former temple, because I choose to inhabit it. Do not fear Israel, I am the covenant-keeping God.

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Denise prayed prophetically over me last Friday during the prayer meeting. :)

She said God knows my heart for Him, He hears the prayers I pray in the dark of night.

It's very comforting. Thanks God for letting me know. :)

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God reminded me of a promise I made to him during youth days.

I'm no saint. I complain when things are difficult and inconvenient. And I struggled within to help my friend move house today.

When I was driving, suddenly I was reminded. "Shuyi, you remember why you learnt how to drive? You said it was to serve in matters like this, to be a blessing to the church. You remember?"

That was 7 years ago.

I totally threw that thought away when I realized how unintuitive driving was to me. But God helped me in recent times regain faith in myself.

It is a breakthrough that I can now drive to unfamiliar places on my own, a breakthrough that I can park.

I'm no good driver but I know where I came from, my extremely humble beginnings. And for this all glory goes to God who helped me face one fear after another until I made progress!

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If you could only comprehend His great love for the least significant of men.

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"I pray You'll bring to completion what you started in me that day."

Lord, help me not despise my talents. Help me stop comparing. Help me stop thinking like the world. Help me stop being dissatisfied.

Because You loved the man with 1 talent as much as the man with 3 talents and the man with 5.

Lord, You have been good and kind to me. Ring the sound of Your gospel and great Love loud in my heart. You gave me Jesus. You gave me unbroken fellowship with You.

What more can I ask for to satisfy the restlessness I feel deep within?

Help me die to myself and die to this world but be alive in every sense in You.

Lord, help me die to my desires to be significant, to be noticed, to be admired, to be chosen and useful, loved and well-liked. To be merely faultless before eyes of men. To be worried about loss and gain. To be calculative with God and men.

Lord, help me die to myself. Help me say NO to all these but yes to God. Help me let go. Drop the burden. Stop carrying it.

Submit and obey.

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Who removed my travel lust?

I find within me no longer such a desire to roam the earth.

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