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# One Way
Okay, first off, replies to shoutboxes
Dawnie - Hehe!! get PSP soon k!!
Shums - IGNORES YOU....
- Okay im not that evil, yeah, i wish i could have been there, and pls lor, it's not expensive, u know how much it costs to SET UP one Mardi Gras? Let me tell you it runs into 5 digits! And I dun mean Ringgit. Yeah, haven seen u online in ages!! Where have u been hiding? Or u block my MSN!!!! Hoorrrr!!1!! And yeah, it's nice to be back, though not for too long... Can get bored quite easily.. hehe.. But food here still rocks lar, SG should really learn a thing or two about mamak stalls!
Yumei - Hehe! How come u're broke? Maybe u can win more money at the mahjong table! Hehe!! Hint hint!
Okay, now back to the initial post itself (yes, there was actually a deeper reason to this post than replying those 3 ppl)
Have been in malaysia for about 6 days now. Initially it was very depressing coming back here and hearing how disgustingly corrupt the country is. Then it got worse hearing how things are, with news about my cousin and how doctors can be so NEGLIGENT and get away with inflicting such excruciating pain and then charge us for it. Then of course came the fact of who I am, away from the easy life in Singapore. Reality hits. And it doesn't use a baseball bat, it comes with a bulldozer AND a wrecking ball.
Then, the magic of QT came. Not so much of those whole sermon revelation kind of thing, but rather from listening to this very old and familiar song. For those of you that might know, actually i think only 1 person knows, but, oh well, have been struggling with this issue for about a month already? Then the release came.
One Way, Jesus,
You're the only one that I could live for
Simple chorus, yet, it never came with such simple truth. Well, at least truth for me lar, for the millions of you who already know it, be thankful lar hor...
And yeah, for me, it struck me again that I'm only to live for one person. Not to impress anyone, not to prove to anyone, not to convince even myself. That simple. The only reason I hunger, the reason i cry out in desperation, my reason, it's You. I don't have to be good enough, or even achieve a certain standard. But it's just a life lived for You. Yes, there are His standards that I strive to achieve, but I meant more of what I was trying to achieve before this. Yes, the pressures to "perform" do come everytime "that" happens, but I remember this chorus, that the only one I live for is You, Jesus (=
Now for the bridge
You are the Way, the Truth and the Life
Jesus said He is the Way. To me, it's quite obvious that there are many ways to go about life. There's the mega on-fire, siao ons, ultra radical Christian.
There's the I'll live my life the way I see best, according to my convictions.
There's the dun pressure me, I'm doing much better than the rest of the world already way.
Then there's the Way.
Oddly enough, before Christians were called Christians, they were called followers of "The Way". Cool eh? And i think this is really significant as it means that there is really only ONE WAY to live our lives. And deriving from that fact, there are obviously OTHER ways as well. And in the end, I choose that no matter what great teachings come about, what "seasons" come and go in YA, what "level" we choose to come up to, I will hold on tight to The Way, and how He lived His life. Like what Hosea preached, the double doctorate of Jesus,
We are to be poor, hungry and desperate to preach, heal and deliver.
And if being hungry and desperate means to engage in prayer, then it's time be serious about that. If it's stepping up in preaching the word, not from the pulpit but from the stage of life, it's time to up my game. If it's humbling myself, knowing im nothing, and that God has to come through for me, i'll cling on to my Mighty Deliverer, my Triumph and Truth (=
Yup, it's time for life to be so peculiar that it is called "The Way"
Then, the truth. Cuz im blogging like days after the revelation, I'm not so clear and sharp already about this point, but in essence, He is The Truth. What He says, He will do. Like Gabriel said, the promises in the Bible are not to taunt us, but for us to grab hold of and see a true God come true for us. The "sad" thing about Him being THE Truth, it makes EVERYTHING else lies. Scientology, Atheism, Many-paths-one-God, Mediocrity, Antinomianism, Insularism, Materialism, Karma and whatever else the world deems acceptable, there is only ONE standard. And only one "Man" has claimed to be that standard. And since He is The Truth, the true reason can only be found in Him.
Finally, the life. I've often said to people (and very wrongly I'll admit now) to "get a life" or to even say that when I'm in uni, I have "no life". I know it's kind of a slang thing, but taken literally, Jesus is The Life. That's quite funky if you think about it. The Christian life, is The Life, when we choose to follow The Way in all truth. It's really quite exciting to fulfill the full mandate thrust upon us as Christians. We will truly be living the life with The Life in us (=
Okie, that's about it for this edition of Kenneth's musings on songs. Anyone got any nice songs to recommend? If not Hillsong and Planetshakers will keep on being on the Song of the Day kind of posts.
I WANT A PSP!!
and that olympus game, crisis core, patapon, syphon filter : logan's shadow, and various other blow-em-up games (= whee~~
the story ends like this;
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