Living under open heaven

 You are my freedom, Jesus You're the reason Where would I be without You, You'v saved a wretch like me.. 24. Now i look back at my life, I see how everything is pieced together so beautifully. Even the broken pieces, how God is gathering and mending every pieces back altogether again, forming a beautiful art-piece. From my childhood, to youth, and now adulthood, He never leaves. He knows. He loves. I was both a victim of the world and a culprit of my sin, and He saves me when I could no longer do anything to this seemingly hopeless me. Could it gets any better? Yes, He'v taken me from that miry clay, and can do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within me. (Eph3:20)

Looking back, there was this night that I felt so anguish looking at my academic achievements. I regarded that as trash when i foolishly believed it plays no part in the purpose you have planned for me in this broken world. I just couldn't see. When i look at the needs out there in Singapore, and the millions of people in the world.. I felt so helpless. How useless my degree is, all that I have? Now thinking through, I repent Lord. As what CS.Lewis put it, “Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that.” My laments comprises questions perhaps are unanswerable. It's like you looking at me with love, shaking your head and said "Chill, My Child, you don't understand." I'm thankful of how much you have blessed me Lo...

It's not easy watching Jesus wash these feet. But he doesn't speak. He removes his robe and takes the servant's wrap off the wall.  Taking the pitcher, he pours the water into the basin.  He kneels before them with the basin and sponge and begins to wash.  Isn't it enough that these hands will be pierced in the morning?  Must they scrub grime tonight?  and the disciples.. do they deserve to have their feet washed?  Their affections have waned; their loyalties have wavered. You can hear them sneaking away from the soldiers. They make promises tonight. They'll make tracks tomorrow. Look around the table, Jesus. Out of the twelve, how many will stand with you in Pilate's court? How many will share with you the Roman whip? And when you fall under the weight of the cross, which disciple will be close enough to spring to your side and carry your burden? None of them will. Not one. A stranger will be called because no disciple will be near. Someti...

The treasure that I choose, is a treasure that last. Nothing I desire, could ever come close, to what I have in you. Forgive my desire, forgive every motive, forgive my intention, cause i'd rather have you. If it's not your will God, I don't even want it. Now I surrender, cause I'd rather have you.. I just want you Jesus.  Lord, I pray for my life to provoke others into godly jealousy, or to sell out more completely to Jesus, and to what Keith Green had said it. Be it just a song, the way I love and serve, my heart, what's inside and outside. Oh Lord, you're beautiful Your face is all I seek.  And when you're face in on this child,  Your grace abounds to me I wanna take your love and spread it all around first help me just to submit Lord and when i'm feeling down,  help me to rely on you for my reward is to know you more.  Search me God, and know my heart, Test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is a...

"Jesus’ story makes no economic sense, and that was his intent. He was giving us a parable about grace, which cannot be calculated like a day’s wages. Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting. We receive grace as a gift from God, not as something we toil to earn... The employer in Jesus’ story did not cheat the full-day workers by paying everyone for one hour’s work instead of twelve. No, the full-day workers got what they were promised. Their disc ontent arose from the scandalous mathematics of grace. They could not accept that their employer had the right to do what he wanted with his money when it meant paying scoundrels twelve times what they deserved. Significantly, many Christians who study this parable identify with the employees who put in a full day’s work, rather than the add-ons at the end of the day. We like to think of ourselves as responsible workers, and the employer’s strange behavior baffles us as it did the original hearers. We ...

When we arrive at eternity's shore Where death is just a memory and tears are no more We'll enter in as the wedding bells ring Your bride will come together and we'll sing You're beautiful Like a bride waiting for the groom, we'all be a church waiting for you Every heart longing for our King..

I am the woman at the well, taken aback that this man would dare to be seen with me. 
I am Zaccheus, standing at a distance and hoping to catch a glimpse of the Messiah.
 I am Peter, promising I would never deny Him and then turning around to do exactly that.
 I am Peter, weeping when I meet Jesus’ eyes and realize that I have failed and failed big, again.
 I am Martha, running around trying to guarantee my worth and everyone else’s happiness. 
I am Mary, collapsing at His feet because I am so desperate for His presence. 
I am the adulterous woman, standing guilty for all the world to see.
I am the bleeding woman, utterly incapable of healing what ails me. 
I am a mess, in process, just like all of them. Looking through its pages, I see pieces of me all through God’s Book. 2 cor 1:19-22 19 "For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us —by me and Silas and Timothy—was not “Yes” and “No,” but in him it has always been “Yes.”. For no matter how many promises G...

Once there was a man who dared God to speak. Burn the bush like you did for Moses, God. And I will follow. Collapse the walls like you did for Joshua, God. And I will fight. Still the waves like you did on Galilee, God. And I will listen. And so the man sat by a bush, near a wall, close to a sea and waited for God to speak. And God heard the man, so God answered. He sent fire, not for a bush, but for a church. He brought down a wall, not of brick, but of sin. He stilled a storm, not of the sea, but of a soul. And God waited for the man to respond.          And He waited. . .                And He waited. . .                       And waited. But because the man was looking at bushes, not hearts; bricks and not lives, seas and not souls, he decided that God had done nothing. Finally he looked to God and asked, "Have you lost your power?" And Go...

Oh Lord, You're beautiful Your face is all I seek For when Your eyes are on this child Your grace abounds to me Oh Lord, please light the fire That once burned bright and clean Replace the lamp of my first love That burns with holy fear I wanna take Your Word and shine it all around But first help me just to live it, Lord And when I'm doing well, help me to never seek a crown For my reward is giving glory to You   ”I only want to build God’s Kingdom and see it increase, not my own. If someone writes a great poem no one praises the pencil they used, they praise the one who created the poem.  Well, I’m just a pencil in the hands of the Lord.  Don’t praise me, praise Him!” “I repent of ever having recorded one single song and ever having performed one concert if my music, and more importantly --  my life -- has not provoked you into godly jealousy, or to sell out more completely to Jesus!”   Keith Green "He is no fool who gives what he cannot kee...

Here I am, Lord, and I'm drowning in your sea of forgetfulness  The chains of yesterday surround me I yearn for peace and rest I don't want to end up where You found me And it echoes in my mind, keeps me awake tonight I know You've cast my sin as far as the east is from the west And I stand before You now as though I've never sinned But today I feel like I'm just one mistake away from You leaving me this way Jesus, can You show me just how far the east is from the west 'cause I can't bear to see the man I've been come rising up in me again In the arms of Your mercy I find rest 'cause You know just how far the east is from the west From one scarred hand to the other I start the day, the war begins, endless reminding of my sin Time and time again Your truth is drowned out by the storm I'm in Today I feel like I'm just one mistake away from You leaving me this way I know You've washed me white, turned my darkness into light I need Your peac...

Dear child, Come to me because there will be no inch of Condemnation. A place you find yourself dead to sin and any kind of death but rather alive in me. You are alive and you are free. Your past will no longer have any grip upon your life because I died to give you a new life and I desire to give you life and life to the fullest- one that is beyond your wildest imagination. I am not far or distant but I live in you. I love you and gave my Son for you. I sent him in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering and so I condemned sin in the flesh so that the righteous requirement of the law is fully met in you. Not by works so that no one can boast but by grace and grace alone. Therefore you don't have to do anything to repay. Because though my grace is free, it is costly. You are precious and pure. You will no longer be a Slave to fear but you will cry out abba Father. You are a child of the most high king, heir of God and co-heirs with Christ. I will give you joy i...

You have been, and You will be, You have seen, and You will see. and still You Love me. You hung the stars, and You moved the sea. and still You Know me. Nothing is hidden from your sight, wherever I go You'll find me. This is not our home.... When I feel disappointed by God, it's because at that moment there's something I'm longing more than him, whether it be healing, deliverance, employment, and marriage might be, none of them will come close to satisfying me as much as God himself.  So when I'm disappointed by God, what does it says about my faith? Am I trusting that god himself is who he says he is for me in Jesus? Am I trusting in Him as my all-satisfying treasure? Sanctification; to set apart for particular use in a special purpose set by the designer.  Sanctification always requires God's presence. His presence is more than his "being there" a corollary of his omnipresence. It is his dynamic presence, producing fruit for...

God is our refuge  and strength,      an ever-present  help  in trouble.   Therefore we will not fear,  though the earth give way      and the mountains fall  into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar  and foam      and the mountains quake  with their surging.   There is a river  whose streams  make glad the city of God,      the holy place where the Most High  dwells.   God is within her,  she will not fall;      God will help  her at break of day.   Nations  are in uproar,  kingdoms  fall;      he lifts his voice,  the earth melts.   The  Lord  Almighty  is with us;      the God of Jacob  is our fortress.   Come and see what the  Lord  has done,      the desolation...