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Sunday, September 23, 2007

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I SIMPLY LIVE FOR YOU

Say the word and I will sing for You
Over oceans deep I will follow
If each star was a song
And every breath of wind praise
It would still fail by far to say
All my heart contains
I simply live, I simply live for You

As the glory of Your presence
Now fills this place
In worship we will see You face to face
There is nothing in this world
To which You can be compared
Glory on glory, praise upon praise
You bind the broken hearted
And save all my tears
And by Your word You set the captives free
There is nothing in this world
That You cannot do
I simly live, I simply live for You

Yesterday's worship was a really special one for me :)

The first song's the one seen above. And it's a song I loved the moment I heard it! Heh... and the first time I heard it was when I visited CG for the first time at YanShao's condo function room. I still remember contemplating over whether I should go coz I hadn't converted at that time... So I was asking some classmates at the class bench to help me make the decision. Anyway the CG left first while I stayed at the class bench coz my decision-making process is worse than a snail's crawling speed. Then Leon smsed and said "I know you want to come right... Just come come come!!!" And haha when he/I called, I remember hearing in the background the CG playing games and someone (is it Xiangyu haha) screaming about Leon wearing a skirt. haha okay somehow, against all my doubts, I just decided to go. When I reached, games were over and it was worship session already. I remember being very surprised and happy at the same time to see Suet, at least someone familiar. haha. And yea the 2 songs were "I simply live for you" and "above all" (which DaiXuan sang solo for us during the worship session). haha I still miss the first song sometimes and I wonder why we never sing it anymore ever since then. and sometimes I would make a mental note to myself that if I did worship next time, I would use this song even though it was unfamiliar to most in the CG now. haha. and it was just a few hours before church that I was listening to this song on the comp. So it was really cool that while my mind was really quite unfocused during the praise session, God brought me back in awe with this song. God spoke much to me during this song and while I was still immersed in deep thought, guess what the next song was - "Beautiful Saviour"! haha, for those whom I study with and borrow yr ipods/mp3s, you probably know that this song is one that helped me to sail through the prelim period perhaps a little more smoothly coz I would loop this song over and over while I studied. haha. and I love this song as well! haha. So I'm really thankful for having these two songs which spoke to me lots during worship :)

Hmmm anyway these few days I've been reading quite a bit, taking out old books from the storeroom which I haven't seen in ages. heh and I'm glad that they've gently reminded me about what I've learnt before in the past but forgotten as I scamper through this busy college life :)

We live in a world of sight - a large cause of our unsatisfaction. We see ourselves succeeding, and yet when we see others doing better, we see ourselves failing. We look away and tell ourselves, hey let's not compare, we live our own individual lives. But when we turn back and continue living our everyday lives, we inevitably see what other's lives are about, we see that they've got the better stuff, that they've got so much more. We see that we don't have what they have, we see that we cannot achieve what they have. Maybe it's time for us close our eyes for a while, just as we do when we sleep, and that's when we have dreams. It's the time when we shut our eyes, shut the eyes of our heart and stop looking at the world, that we start to dream and hope.

""We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently." [Romans 8:22-25]

"You see," he says to the girl, "you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. You must trust - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling."

~.*hUiYiNg*.~ says Amen. @ | Sunday, September 23, 2007

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