just realised my blog is really dull ! there are no pictures ! no appeal =x okay just a picture from taiwan.. to spice things up a little =x

was browsing through some of the channels on the tv... The Apprentice is such a gross show... The business sector is like a dog eat dog world...

Although they were formed into teams of two to complete a project for Donald Trump, when it came to the point where one of them had to be fired due to failure to deliver.... both of them turned onto each other... The acrimonious remarks they gave to each other... the animosity !

It revealed the core of human sin... self-centredness... every man for himself... even the seemingly humble point... when the person could defend herself no longer... she mentioned that she accepted her mistake and immediately tried to play down the project's significance in evaluation of her abilities... but Donald Trump fired her immediately upon hearing this statement... Quite shrewd and decisive of him...

I can't believe that I might be entering into such an industry in years to come...

Saw the presentations and ideas that they had to come up with... I'm like thinking... at crunch time... will I be able to deliver??? I've had a few experiences speaking in front of big crowds... the stage fright isn't really there... but I sometimes struggle with the words to be used... Oh well... Do not worry about tomorrow ! okay sorry.. it's not years to come... it's coming... Project presentations in uni ! oh no !

And I was just thinking about the future ministry involvements... and I realised that I'm gonna get really busy ! really... it's like... I'm not even sure if I have time to squeeze in my exercise times...

Looks like I really need to find time to sit down with Ying Qian to set the principles and priorities for life in university as we previously discussed...

Just read Wei En's blog again... on the sermon about knowing God's will in our life... how to be sure... like how Abraham was sure... reading the trajectories of His word... and His leading...

2008 is the year when Wei Hong is finally disciplined... okay... trying hard to keep the principles i've set myself.. and thank God for the courage to explain it to my other friends as well.. yay...

Have a blessed week... brothers and sisters...

There are some things that really steal focus from God... Thank God that He has started to take away some of my greatest distractions...

Things that preoccupy your mind when you're alone... Sometimes some things just pop up in your mind... when this time could be better spent thinking about other things...

I pray that I'll be able to consistently improve in these areas... ; ) Yay...

I'm finally freed of one of my tuition students... The one that was most difficult to handle... He lives at punggol... and sometimes he is crying when I reached his place for tuition... for very lame reasons... and he wastes alot of my time.... So it's good that I'm finally rid of him... =x if i put it in a bad way.. yeah...

The past week was pretty busy... but thank God for all the lessons learnt... and the times of fellowship with brothers and sisters... yeah... take care folks.

Thank you Wei En for a very encouraging verse... will share to you all here...

Find rest, O my soul, in God alone;
my hope comes from him.

He alone is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.

My salvation and my honor depend on God [a] ;
he is my mighty rock, my refuge.

Trust in him at all times, O people;
pour out your hearts to him,
for God is our refuge.

Psalms 62 : 5-8

Was quite troubled yesterday... but God is amazing... He turned my troubles into something to be happy about... Was thinking through some things... and perhaps I've finally gotten the answer from Him... Will continue to seek His will in this matter...

It takes courage to let go... to get out of your comfort zone... ; )

Be strong Wei Hong!!! uRghh... many things to improve on... I pray for strength to ercome them...

Thank God for His guidance, grace and teachings this week.
Thank God that He has let me readjust back to life in Singapore already.
Thank God for the talks with Ailing and Kai En and with brothers this week.
Thank God that my mom is eating healthier already.
Pray for wisdom to continue to plan and ponder about future directions and how to better help spur each other on in Christ.
Pray for understanding and continual application of His word.
Pray for strength to overcome temptations and not to gratify the desires of the sinful nature. ( Away from com. games for most of this week... Pray that can resist temptations of television)
Pray for extended times of prayer and reading of His word.
Pray that I'll be a good steward of time and money given by God.
Pray for understanding and applying the true meaning of being holy, not just in setting rules, but the heart to be set apart from sin ... and that I can achieve it in all aspects in life...
Pray for brothers and sisters in christ who are facing struggles..
Pray for CYYAM revival...

My prayer requests for the week.

sometimes... you'd think you understand a person... but in fact you don't...

you can try to observe... you can try to analyse... you can try to evaluate... but you can't seem to identify the radical self...

society and whatever external factors has shaped you to who you are today... you try desperately to put on a false facade... of what you hope others to think of you...

is it really you? or issit just a masquerade??? Unmasking the real you... who are you ... my dear friend... my closest one...?

The mystery of the hidden self...

As John Calvin tries to sum it up, " There is no deep knowing of God without a deep knowing of self and no deep knowing of self without a deep knowing of God."

There are some things that not even thorough introspection can't shed light on the truth of your self...

For as mentioned in scriptures... " The heart is deceitful above all things" Jeremiah 17:9

Well... before you understand yourself better... albeit it likely a lifelong journey... how'd you go about understanding others??? do you doubt their motives? question their character? embrace their false self? is it hypocritical to be that?

Well... As mentioned in Matthew 7 : 1-5 .. do not judge your brother... embrace each other in love... we can try to identify other people's flaws... but we seemingly have difficulties identifying flaws in ourselves...

Love always trusts, always hope... 1 Cor 13:7

just some thoughts on a book I read... and on how to bring it to understanding others as well....

Lastly... how to find your other half?? haha.. how to know her... ?

haha.. I guess it's difficult... but with prayer and seeking it's possible...

Proverbs 19:14b " but a prudent wife is from the Lord"

Feel free to make comments brothers and sisters...

okay... I officially hate english....

There are just so many words that I do not know... It's frustrating...

Oh well... I shall be learn to be more patient... and sustain my diligence in checking the dictionary for all the unknown words...

Going to write every word that I learn into some notebook... but I haven't found a notebook yet... and I'm not very enthusiastic bout the idea... urgghs..

just to clarify... i din remove my tagboard... something wrong with my blog... lols... i'll try to fix the tagboard soon

Eh thanks for the prompt response from Ying Qian... Haha... after typing this post... I decided to pick up my bible to read... Read Ephesians 4:17 - 5 :21... Talking about living as children of light. Really many reminders... and had a good discussion with Pei En on Romans 14... about the weak and strong faith over disputable matters...

Anyway... I think the why I felt lost was because of watching too much television... Being influenced by the wrong content in the media... Which led to negative thoughts...

Managed to overcome any urges to play games today.. but succumbed to the temptation of the box... Tomorrow will be a better day... as a promise to Wei En... I'll spend even more time reading the bible tomorrow..

Thanks for prayers ; )

I tend to pass judgements on people too quickly... was brought to light during my army times... and continues to create struggles in me...

I dunno if talking to the people whom I think i have made bad judgements would help clear the doubts... or that it might create more hurt...

rather not face it now ba.... see how things go... I guess I can be more proactive in understanding the people who I think that I have wrongly understood.

feeling a bit down... dunno why... i think i'm just physically really tired... hope to recover from this state of restlessness... Please pray for me.. thanks..

Taiwan

The Taiwan trip was just fantastic...

Many lessons learnt... a few opportunities to think through of some stuff...

Okay... I just love the jungle... we went for quite a few adventurous hikes... one was at yang ming shan... the other 2 at hua lien... it was fun to go back to the wildlife... where I used to have so much training at.... Managed to apply some of the skills learnt from training last time... so least the SAF training didn't go down the drain....

There were many opportunities to serve each other... We helped each other... helped look out for one another... and helped encourage...

There were so many fun times that I cannot mention each and everyone of them... It was just really great to have such fellowship...

I particularly like the hostel too... cos it like made me remember of my army .. haha... it was like a 6 man bunk... double decker beds... we had to set the rules... and worked for the hygiene of one another... having the room to ourselves for the first 2 nights allowed us to have late night talks... haha.. it was super fun... all the brothers together... talking, sharing, praying... it was great...

The scenery at Hua Lien was breath-taking... The majestic gorges... the beautifully sculpted pebbles and rocks... the gushing waterfalls ... can't be accurately penned down... it's sad that i don't have a camera... but I'll definitely get some pictures from my brothers and sisters..

Well... there were some nights... I guess I was really tired... some may think i was at an emotional state... but I was just thinking through some stuff.. yeah... there were some incidents that sparked off my thinking... and realised that I hadn't fully entrusted some parts of my life to God... some things that I thought I did... but realised I didn't...

Then there was one night when I was again reminded that I depended on myself too much... when problems surfaced... the first thing I did was to try to settle myself... Olivia really believes in the power of prayer... and then she reminded me to pray... instead of being flustered and worrying and trying to solve myself... because then we faced some communication breakdown... and I had no contact with a group of people who were in a different cab....

Alas, everything turned out fine... and we met up with each other at the desired location...

There was another incident... when we were trying to bring Uncle James in for his sharing on some verses... but somehow or another... things were working against us... It started raining when we were singing songs of praises... and to make matters worse Uncle James had a bad migraine... I was thinking like there was some force working against us... and was a bit upset... but later on reminded that it was probably God's way of saying that that wasn't the best method to share to the seekers...

Thank God that through other methods... the gospel was succesfully shared to Winnie and Alene... though both yet to accept Him yet... but hopefully having the seed implanted in them... they'll one day learn that no gift is as great as the gift of salvation from God.... The reunion with your creator... with the being who loves you most...

Now... being back in Singapore... i'm not really used to everything yet... hahs... i think i'm 1/3 taiwanese... it feels so natural to be in taiwan... it's really a nice place.. and i get the feeling that this isn't the last trip to taiwan yet... ; )

Well... went for a swim today... back to my healthy diet after consuming all the oily foods in Taiwan... hahx... likely to go gym tomorrow... yay... okay shan't waste any more time today... will go and read some books... wanna finish my narnia books... bought them and didnt follow thru... a bit wasted... okay.. take care folks ; )

ARGGHHHH!!!! so happy today !

learnt something new.... I was wondering how come... in times of trial or temptation... even when I tried to quote the bible verses... Sometimes I still failed and succumbed...

Now I understand... when you're quoting scriptures... be wary of the serpent who is similarly aware of the scriptures as well... As Satan tempted Jesus... even he quoted scriptures to try to deceive Jesus... but Jesus believed and understood the word... and quoted the scriptures accurately ... unlike Eve who though understood God's words... but quoted wrongly...

Thus... do not be shocked when there's a battle within you... when you seem to ponder about the truth about a particular verse... Quote accurately... and have faith... and remember what are the principles you need to live out...

HAPPY!

Hello !

Dear readers.... haha... sorry ah... soooooo long never update... dunno why also... lost the stamina to.... Guess I didn't quite knew what to blog....

Okay... many thoughts recently... and learnt a lot through Quiet Time with God... church camp ... serving for Him and from brothers and sisters in Christ...

First and foremost... I really see God's work through us in the church camp... He has spoken to many of us and through the sharing and through the actions.... I see growth in many of us... His words cut deep into us... people who live in the city... The problems we face as an urban church...

I always thought... that... methods were secondary... that as long as we shared the gospel... it was alright... until now... that I understand that even with faith... our deeds must be planned... The methods we use to reach out must be catered... suited for our target groups... Even in sharing the gospel... we cannot be rigid... Planning and saying things that are more relevant or more catered to a specific person is not that we do not have faith... but rather we have faith and we have wisdom in speaking to those who need the gospel so much....

Next... I would like to share the eagle story... for those who still do not know about it....

Once there was a farmer... who went up a hill to chop some lumber... He went in the morning... and on his way up... he heard some weird noises near a tree.. He went over... and realised that there was a small eagle in its nest... with its mother nowhere to be seen... He thought that the mother eagle went to gather food for its child and thus continued with what he had to do... After gathering the lumber... on his way back to his farm... out of curiosity, he went to take a look at the nest again.

To his amazement, the young eagle was still there... all alone... seemingly malnourished and he made an effort to locate its mom, but to no avail..
He decided to save the small life... and thus brought the eagle back to his farm.

He looked around his farm for a place to rear the eagle... As he had no idea how to provide a proper environment for it... he resided to growing the eagle with his brood of young chicks. The baby eagle and the baby chicks grew up together... feeding on rice scattered on the floor by the farmer himself... Anyone passing by can hear the sounds made when the chicks and eagle pick up the rice on the floor. " tok, tok, tok..." they went...

As time passed by... it was inevitable that the eagle was sticking out from the pack. It was so much bigger than its "relatives"... One day... one of the farmer's friends visited him... and he mentioned about the unsually large chicken... "How did u manage to rear it to be so big? " "The farmer mentioned that it was an eagle that he picked up in the woods"

The farmer's friend then understood.. He was very insistent that an eagle shouldn't live with chickens... and he managed to convince the farmer to release the eagle into the air...

He shook the eagle for a bit... and then said " Go eagle... you belong to the skies... FLY !" The eagle struggled a bit, but managed to extend its wings... and took flight... The eagle had sharp eyes... and it zoomed in on the rice on the floor that he fed on.... " Time for food" it said... and it flew down to the ground... and then " tok, tok, tok..." It stayed back on land... where it didn't belong...

The farmer's friend intervened again... and was determined to give the eagle back to the skies. This time he brought it up to the farmer's roof... and again he did the same thing... " Go eagle.. you belong to the skies... FLY!" And again the same cycle repeated. The eagle took flight... but due to its sharpness, flew back to the ground... and then "tok, tok, tok..." it fed on the rice on the floor...

This time the farmer's friend was even more determined. He took the eagle up a hill... and on the peak of the hill he released it...

"Go eagle... you belong to the skies... FLY!!!" This time... things were different. The eagle could no longer see the rice on the floor as it was too high up... It was a majestic sight... The eagle fully extended its wings, gliding across the horizon and howled as if in extreme delight...

Actually many christians are like that... we forget that we belong to the heavens... we are just passers-by on this earth... Do not focus on what is seen but what is unseen for what is seen is temporial but what is unseen is eternal... 2 cor 4 : (last part) dunno wad verse.. haha.. i think 18...

I am so stuck in my worldly life... this fallen world has taken so much of our time... Post modernism theories embedded in our heads... Education, money, ambition, hobbies have taken up our time... Instead of loving God... we end up loving the world... loving ourselves...

The greatest commandment... love your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind... and the 2nd greatest... loving thy neighbour as yourself...

How to love God?? An abstract idea? Or kissing your bible...?

3This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. 1John 3-5

Loving God is obeying his commands... How best to obey his commands??? Through understanding and familiarising and living out His words.... I thank God that my quiet time has improved by leaps and bounds... and He has spoken to me a lot through His words...

Again... Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. 9The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet,"[a] and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbor as yourself."[b] 10Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. Romans 13 8-10

Loving your neighbour is an action to fulfil the laws... to obey his commands... There are still many instances where I fail to keep this law... to love even non-christians... To be patient... to live out what love is in 1 cor 13.... Sometimes... being a D-character... I tend to be impatient... I just shouted at some Malaysian crewman that day... felt bad about it... I really need to be slow to anger ! argghh...

Also... in the later part of Romans 13... 14Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature..

Sometimes... it's just so easy to try to gratify your own desires...

Another point mentioned by Pastor Lai during the church camp is that we are to die to ourselves... We are no longer living... Living in us is Jesus Christ Himself... The Holy Spirit lives in us.... And we are not to gratify any desires... as they are but temporary....

I still can't let go of many things... I still can't find enough joy in spending every min. of my life wisely.... I'm working on it...really really... Pls pray for strength to overcome the stupid games... and stupid television... thanks !!!!

Okay.. I'm really tired.. getting a bit frustrated.... feeling so sticky and all... and my dad keeps asking me random questions... urgghh.. i'm boiling up... okay going to bathe and sleep now... Taiwan here we come... ; )