Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Sowing and Reaping.
I thank God - That even as all else fails, His word always still remains. "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away." (Mt 24:35) This verse was so real to me this week. I experienced the blessing of God as I sowed half of my pay for an ad-hoc job I was offered on sunday. The sowing was hard, I felt a part of me left after realizing I sowed so much, but putting the pain aside, I chose to believe God for the blessings that will come.Truth enough, today as I met my officer for the 2nd time to discuss about a report I had to help him do, he blessed me with a $100 - this is just a material blessing, which of course I was happy about. But what really got me smiling from ear to ear is that my officer was very impressed with my willingness to help him, and with that alone, it brought the both of us closer. Thank You God! :]] I was reminded of this verse, "Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy." (Ps 126:5)
:]] Oh, how can I express my love for you God? - and He told me, "Give to my people". It came to me as I was listening to this song - "Give by Relient K" I'll post the lyrics here so you guys can listen to what they are singing about.
No one told me
The right way
The right way to go about this
So I'll figure it out for myself
Cuz how much
Is too much
To give you
Well I may never know
So I'll just give until there's nothing else
Yeah I'll give give give, until there's nothing else
Give my all, until it all runs out
Give give, and I'll have no regrets
I'll give until there's nothing left
I'll give
No one told me
How bad I need you
But I somehow arrived
To that conclusion all by myself
See, I want
All you have to offer
So I offer myself and I'll just give until there's nothing else
Yeah I'll give give give, until there's nothing else
Give my all, until it all runs out
Give give, and I'll have no regrets
I'll give until there's nothing left to
Give give give, until there's nothing else
Give my all, until it all runs out
Yea, I'll have no regrets
I'll give until there's nothing left
Sometimes it seems
Like all I ever do
Is ask for things
Until I ask too much of you
But that's not the way
I wanna live
I need to change
Yeah something's got to give
Yeah something's got to
Give give give, until there's nothing else
Give my all, until it all runs out
Give give, and I'll have no regrets
I'll give until there's nothing left to
Give give give, until there's nothing else
Give my all, until it all runs out
Give give, and I'll have no regrets
I'll give until there's nothing left
I'll give
Sometimes I come to God with a long prayer list, and ask of Him the whole entire world. Sure He'll be more than happy to give me when the season is right, afterall He's got the most giving heart in the whole entire universe. But, that's not how a disciple of Christ should be. Like how it would please my earthly father, it'll be pleasing to Him as well when I seek to fulfil what is in His heart - loving His people.
I want to be a Barnabas! - an encourager and a generous giver. (Acts 4:36-37)
On 9/19/2007 05:44:00 PM, Reid- let go.
