Want

So many times in life, we live and move by our “Wants”…
I want to be happy, and so i do this…
I want to have fun, so this is the way to do it…
I want to eat so i eat, I want chocolates, so i find them…
I WANT WANT WANT…

And after awhile…we find out something weird…
Have you ever noticed that…you can WANT, but WANT’s somehow fail to satisfy?

Like…somehow, even after we get all we WANT, something is still missing?

I think the WANT way of life is way too…natural to our senses
And i’m finding that…sometimes, what i want, is possibly the worst and most harmful thing actually…

I want to only relax & play, have no responsibilities, eat what i want, drink what i want, do only what i fancy, say whatever i want to (no matter if it hurts someone), take what i want to, refuse to do whatever i don’t want to, exercise my mouth, never my brain or my body…and hmmmm…so…if i REALLY did all i wanted, would i like the person i become?

I think not…

And that’s all the motivation i need to find another, better way to live.

I’ve found that living life according to the Jesus way is hard…
the kind of Love that He exhibits is really…out of this world…
He sat with all, but had this special affection for the poor, lost, and infirm…
He walked with many, yet chose 12 ordinary men to spend most time with,
He sat in the house of sinners, and He never scoffed at them, but showed them Love

I heard Michael Ramsden say this…
Why is a gold wedding band expensive? or even Why is gold expensive?

It is ONLY because people are willing to pay a certain price to it,
people are the ones who assign value to gold or to any other thing we deem as precious.
That’s why we call gold a ‘precious metal’ otherwise it would just be a lump of metal!

Well…if that is the case…then…what do you make of this? God sent His ONLY son for us…
Look around you…look at yourself…
God has assigned a price to each & everyone of us…a PRICELESS tag…
His ONLY SON, Jesus Christ, died for us…
He has assigned us with a value beyond measure…
Was i worth it? I WANT to say NO, but God said otherwise…
And He proved it on by that sacrifice on the Cross
And how can I fight that?

So now, i have no greater WANT than this…
I WANT to be like Christ, to Love like Him & to Live like Him,
Following that example well will kill or redeem all other lesser wants…
And yes, that is something i would really WANT

Thirsty?

This 1st post of 2010 is gonna be…weird…

reason being…things have been thrown off for me since Christmas’09, i think that i’ve been off-kilter since that time…and little bits and pieces of me have been strewn everywhere since then.

It was a really mixed 30Dec, it was META Project X day, so we went out and came back celebrating! Because almost 40 ppl PRC’d! yet…in the joyousness of it all, we received solemn news of Rajan’s going home to be with the Lord…that was a total shock, and though i was able to hold it together so that we could run Finale nite, still…i have to say, it DID hit me too, since we were in rather close proximity for our GCTC days. And oh yes, the intangible was…because the news came on my birthday, it just made me think and reflect on life, and how i’ve lived it.

I think that Divine Appointments happen all the time if we open our eyes to see it, and i think that i’ve been looking out for God more these days! And yes, even such solemn news can be a divine appointment if we see it as such…and yes, i’m looking for more of God, i think i need a deeper sense of Personal Revival, and i want to walk in Active Obedience, even when it is hard. Right now, i feel like i’m in the crucible…and it is hard, yet it is also making me thirsty for more of God! and yes, that is good!! =)

Something funny hit me…i don’t think it’s very biblical, but i’d just indulge in this for abit! =P

If we are called to be Salt and Light, Salt is pretty salty and dries the mouth right? and Light, well…standing in the Light makes us sweat doesn’t it?…then doesn’t it make perfect sense that if we are SALT & LIGHT, then we’re also pretty thirsty people? People who THIRST for the living God, for the streams of Living water provided only by Him! =D Haha!

I wanna be a thirsty man, one who hungers and thirsts for Righteousness! =)