Last Engineering Exam

My last engineering exam is written. I wish that I could have gone out more with a bang, given that I actually like this subject. Alas, that is not to be, but it is in His hands. Never did I become demotivated; Instead, with the exceptions of a few distractions, I plowed ahead. May glory continue to be given to our Father for all things.

Ready

Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference. We have no choice in what we want to do, whatever God's programme may be we are there, ready. When any duty presents itself we hear God's voice as Our Lord heard His Father's voice, and we are ready for it with all the alertness of our love for Him. Jesus Christ expects to do with us as His Father did with Him. He can put us where He likes, in pleasant duties or in mean duties, because the union is that of the Father and Himself. "That they may be one, even as We are one."

Utmost

Gosh, I like utmost.

Purpose

Sometimes life seems like one big catch-22 ... but yet we find our purpose in God. Whew!

Faithful Father

This is my song of praise to You
For who You are and all that You do
From the moment my life began
You have been faithful

- Brian Doerksen

Wine instead of Whine

". . . the joy of the Lord is your strength" ( Nehemiah 8:10 ). Where do the saints get their joy? If we did not know some Christians well, we might think from just observing them that they have no burdens at all to bear. But we must lift the veil from our eyes. The fact that the peace, light, and joy of God is in them is proof that a burden is there as well. The burden that God places on us squeezes the grapes in our lives and produces the wine, but most of us see only the wine and not the burden. No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God living within the human spirit; it creates an inner invincibility.

If your life is producing only a whine, instead of the wine, then ruthlessly kick it out. It is definitely a crime for a Christian to be weak in God’s strength.

Utmost - 04.13.07

He that is in me is Greater

Co-Resurrection. The proof that I have experienced crucifixion with Jesus is that I have a definite likeness to Him. The Spirit of Jesus entering me rearranges my personal life before God. The resurrection of Jesus has given Him the authority to give the life of God to me, and the experiences of my life must now be built on the foundation of His life. I can have the resurrection life of Jesus here and now, and it will exhibit itself through holiness.

Utmost - 04.11.07

4You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.

1 John 4:4-5

Rejoice

It's been awhile since I've seen the morning, the sunshine, and the newness of everything. It's cliche and warm and fuzzy, maybe, but it still rings true: God's mercies are new every morning. It's a wonder why the Psalmist chose the morning instead of the afternoon or evening, or midnight. The dew of the morning, the firstfruits that are our labour; the beginning.

As students, or for me anyway, I often skip this part (evidently supported by me skipping breakfast). There's something about the morning, and spending quiet time with the Father, that trumps even the feeling of sleeping in and being lazy. Something tells me we were designed this way, and that, it is a privilege to welcome every morning and dedicate the day to Him.

Of course, I'm by no means a morning person, so this is easier said than done =)

See the morning, see it rising
Over the mountains high
See the mercy in the mighty hand of God

Living Water come and fill us
Only You can satisfy
Turn our sorrow into singing
The song of life

- Chris Tomlin

Witty He is ...

So I was reading and came upon something that usually doesn't strike me as being so stark, or even important. When Jesus was talking to the Pharisees and teachers of the law. Kind of makes me think twice about boasting in all the rhetoric and other theological know-how that I have managed to accomplish:

43"Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the most important seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

44"Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without knowing it."

45One of the experts in the law answered him, "Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us also."

46Jesus replied, "And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.

47"Woe to you, because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your forefathers who killed them. 48So you testify that you approve of what your forefathers did; they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs. 49Because of this, God in his wisdom said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and others they will persecute.' 50Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world, 51from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible for it all.

52"Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering." - Luke 10:43-52

Let us not live lives that are worthy of being insulted, nor invite it.

Don't Let Your Joy Be Robbed

Frustration with ourselves is one way that I find that my joy gets robbed. It is without question that I am saved by Him and no longer have to live in sin, but yet, on those days, it seems that these things are all a world away.

"14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.^[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it."- Romans 7:14-20