Oh let me not forget...

A man’s heart plans his way,

But the Lord directs his steps

-Proverbs 16:9

This is my Father's world: I rest me in the thought

This is my Father’s world,
and to my listening ears
All nature sings, and round me rings
the music of the spheres.

This is my Father’s world:
I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas;
His hand the wonders wrought.

This is my Father’s world,
the birds their carols raise,
The morning light, the lily white,
declare their Maker’s praise.
This is my Father’s world:
He shines in all that’s fair;
In the rustling grass I hear Him pass;
He speaks to me everywhere.

This is my Father’s world.
O let me ne’er forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong,
God is the ruler yet.
This is my Father’s world:
the battle is not done:
Jesus Who died shall be satisfied,
And earth and Heav’n be one.

Words: Maltbie Davenport Babcock

What are your plans for the year?

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."

New Year- Thoughts and Dreams

Taking some time now to blog some thoughts down for 2013, I know its Feb but they always say CNY is our second new year.

I believed I have failed to consistently looked upon my life purposefully for quite a while. In short, life feels crowded up and there is less time spent on deliberation of ideas. My thoughts many a times are mixed and cluttered along with things I read/learn about both online and as I study. The people whom I interact with, the food I eat, the activities I engage in, shaped and unknowingly pulled me on to forming what so many people call their identity.

I feels almost like I have not taken a stand strong enough. Like Christ was not where I root myself in, not where I would lose myself in so that I could be found in Him. (Matthew 10:39)  Pride overrides the need for dependency. Often I thought I was good, alone, with friends, with studies, with sports, with games.Perhaps it's because of dissatisfaction with what I have, thinking I could have so much more.

Its been more than a year for CNY for 2014 has past too. This is an unfinished post and I'm publishing this post just for administrative sake (clearing up the clutter of draft posts in this blog)

Whatever that is true...

"Oh how the mighty has fallen"
If there's anything worth mentioning at this post of my life, it will be just that. It felt as though I had gone downhill in my life.

As I briefly read through my previous few posts, it dawned upon me that I had almost completely lost it. I had almost lost that art of thinking and mediation. My life now is filled with so much noise. Friends in school, friends from swimming, computer games. It's to the point where I see myself doing badly in school work. If I'm able to pull it through this semester, it could only be by His grace and mercy.

I have to confess that I had intentionally spent more time with friends from school beyond school work and time since this semester. I do acknowledge that the company was great, lectures/tutorials seems more fun and it's like a good cure for loneliness. Yet, along with it comes its perils, there is a decrease in concentration,

This post was written last semester (I believe 3-4 months back) and its shocking to see how much things have changed since.

Longest sentence in the Bible

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, 9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, 10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. 11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, 12 that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. 13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

Ephesians 1:3-14

Jotting it down because of the all the wonderful truths this contains. It's like orange concentrate, or thick chocolate fudge. :-/

What fills us up?