Grace That Makes You Gasp

This Is The Day (I Will Sing Of Your Faithfulness)
Translation by Sijia (according to How Joo :))

I will sing of Your faithfulness
我要唱主祢信实
of Your mercy and Your love
祢的慈悲祢大爱
I will say this is the day
就在今日我们唱
that the Lord has made
祢所定之日

I'll hold on to Your promises
我紧抓住祢应许
and Your resurrection power
和祢复活的大能
Restore to me Your joy
喜乐充满我心
I will praise You now!
我要称颂祢

Be glad and rejoice!
高兴同欢喜
For the Lord our Savior reigns!
我救主祢称王
And the joy of the Lord
主祢的喜乐
Shall be our strength
是我力量

I was born to be
我是祢的殿
Your dwelling place
祢与我同在
This is the day
就在今日
That the Lord has made!
神所定之日

Whee! I came back from helping out with some filming for Nurture Programme. Turns out my new boss has a lot of filmmaking experience - I could see it from the way she held the camera (she's no noob haha), and the terms she used... *respect*

Yet another insight into the blessing that God has given me. Which is very amazing, because I also want to do scriptwriting too. 'Cos one of my dreams is to make a Christian film to bring glory to God by sharing the Gospel through such a film. I see how God is opening doors for me! Package deal some more sia... =D

And one of my new colleagues - she was from Hope Church for many years before God called her to move to another church - told me that our new boss is really one of the nicest persons she's ever met in Singapore. Very caring and so on.

Whoa. When I sit back and think about all this, I'm so sweetly shocked by the grace and kindness that God is showing me. I mean... haha... just can't say thank you enough to Jesus.

And strangely, today, I somehow find my heart responding to Him, wanting to become more and more like Him in character... not as an obligation, but because He's winning my heart.

"I really want to worship You my Lord
You have won my heart and I am Yours
Forever and ever I will love You"

Ah. Ephesians 2 says:

1-6: It wasn't so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It's a wonder God didn't lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.

7-10: Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It's God's gift from start to finish! We don't play the major role. If we did, we'd probably go around bragging that we'd done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.

Ah! All this fruit, that is His work, and we just play our minor role... but the final purpose is not even that we can declare ourselves to be better men. NO! It is ultimately all to showcase the GLORY, the goodness and the generosity of God!

It all starts with God the Father, and it was done by God the Son, and it is being done by God the Holy Spirit. It is totally about God, God and God! Not us, but Christ! Christ, Christ and nothing less than Christ. To live is Christ, to die is gain! First and Last, Alpha and Omega, Beginning and End.

Not just experiencing God's blessings of having good things, or even having a calling... but He is helping me see the next stage of being His - He is calling me to become more and more like Him. He's winning my heart, slowly making it wanting to be more like Jesus.

Such a rich and juicy relationship with God. Not a dry and wonderless "relationship". I am so looking forward to God changing my heart and character in days to come! =D

Ah! Calyn wrote something very similar in her blog:

God had been so amazing in my life, how He had sought after me all these while and how i eventually come to have this relationship with Him. The transformation that He has done in my heart and life and He is still doing and working. How God had really bless me in my life, my studies, family and people around me. Recently, i feel so overwhelmed by people. My friends came up to me and said they have been praying for me and offered to pray for me. God has been good to me and the prayers that i have been persevering in are finally answered and i am seeing breakthroughs and miracles. Family has been a great blessing to me and i feel so overwhelmed. Life cannot get better :) Recently, God opened the door to a NIE cg and now i am taking care of a NIE cg and this is so amazing :)

=D. Dear friends, are you feeling dry, and not having a breakthrough for so long? Then don't dictate to God what you want Him to do for you... but give Him your life, and let Him take it, just as it is. And He will not only show you the plans He has for you... but you will also be able to know Him personally. Not just know about Him, but know Him.

God really is so amazing and wonderful. Honestly. He is so real and so good and so generous and so kind and so grand and so powerful and so wise ... ahaha... I think cannot have enough words. But yes! do turn back to Jesus and seek Him. Really seek Him. And He promises that He'll let Himself be found by you... if only you will seek Him! Hurry!