shooting star

I know I've posted this video like a million times on my blog, but yeah! I was listening to it today and this evening, I saw a shooting star! haha crazy!
Sometimes, I do wonder how my dream girl is doing! :P

Anyways, I'm hoping to start up a morning prayer thing weekly on Mondays! :) hopefully it goes well!!

and... i met this girl who always ends convos with God bless or something! and i realized that I feel uncomfortable doing that!! I need to work on it...

May you all have a blessed day :)

Jireh!

Temptation

"But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called 'today,' that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin."

- Hebrews 3:13 (ESV)

Some thoughts I had just now is that temptations in your life are really a result of doubting the goodness of God. We are called to consider all things rubbish in comparison to knowing Christ (Phil 3), but how often can we say that? Or even, how often can we say that we are even striving for that? We are called to strive and called to persevere in our faith no matter what, yet I would say temptations always come into play to try and wreck your faith.

There are 2 ways I see temptation:

1. Seeing the crap in your life and doubting God's goodness
2. Seeing the good/pleasures in the world and doubting the need of God's goodness

It's a nasty little thing! In Hebrews it talks about exhorting each other daily so that we won't be deceived by sin! It is a deceitful thing, and if left untouched, can bore deep holes into your heart that can shipwreck you! Therefore brothers/sisters, put on that armour of God! haha (eph 6)! It will help you fight! One thing I realized recently is that when you put on armour and go into battle, you don't just stand there hoping that the armour will protect you from everything/anything. You fight still! You defend yourself still! You could fight without armour, but you will also be easily slain too. So while we put on this armour to fight sin, remember that your role isn't one of complacency but one of diligence and vigilance!

May 4, 2016

So today was a nice day!
I'm just burning time before my small group starts but i'll just go through my day...
I woke up at 4:50am today to go to the gym with my housemate and it was her bday today! fun times!
LOL i did EMOM 15mins 3 reps BS...started at 140kg for the first 10 sets, next for i deloaded to 100, then back to 140 for my last set... it was intense! then i worked on my pulling strength and core after! that was fun

hmm school was good too! learned stuff! hopefully i become a better PT! no lies, some of the stuff I did today was so dull... like the research lecture.. and I caught up on a research lecture today too during my break! i almost killed myself! haha so bad :( but it's done! so i'm happy about that! :) i got a mark back for one of my courses too! did better than I expected so thank God for that :) really though! I don't think i was feeling as prepared as I wanted to be yet I got a very gracious mark! haha thankful!

anyways, thats about all the time I need to burn!

oh before that, i started watching symphonies on youtube! LOL i don't know why, but I kind of like it! It kind of reminds me of who I was and stuff that I used to enjoy a lot! And it's like nice background music/also fun to just watch it! I think ppl in the library today thought I was weird...just watching an orchestra in a Science library.. lOL oh well!

Anyways,
BYEE

small group time! :)
Big MACs down under!!

Colossians

So today, I decided to read through Colossians! It's a good letter haha! I realized I need to keep my blogposts short to make this a sustainable thing so I'm going to be...super brief on what I learned/stuck out to me today! haha

1. Perseverance in your faith - Colossians 1:23
2. We are to warn people! - Colossians 1:28
3. Do not be deceived/deluded by things of this world even if they are plausible arguments - Colossians 2:4, 8
• We have died to these elemental spirits so we should not submit to them! - Colossians 2:20-23
• note (elemental spirits = elemental principles)
4. Since we have been raised with Christ, we must seek things of Christ - Colossians 3:1-4
• What does this look like? Putting to death and putting away Col 3:5-10, and putting on Col 3:12-4:6
5. Walking in wisdom and grace - Colossians 4:5-6
6. I want to be like Epaphras!! Colossians 4:12-13

Okay cool!

Also, listened to a little seminar thing! And one thing I wanted to point out was that when making spiritual goals, it is important to always think about and specify the "How?" and "When?" and to have someone keep you accountable with these measures. And that it is always important to continue striving and there is a godly dissatisfaction with where you are spiritually...basically, knowing that you are not already perfect, and strive towards the goal God has placed for you (Phil 3)!
It's not about knowing more about God, but knowing who He is.