Had been very tired for the past few days... The Freshmen TeamBuilding Camp (FTB) was really tiring... Initially it was still okay... but the sun... the physical and mental activities... the lack of sleep... the mosquitoes disturbing my sleep... the rocky ground we slept on... made me feel super tired at the end of it all... and i didn't feel tired till the end of it.. thankfully...

And I guess I didn't get enough rest after that... Went to a CIP thing on thursday, and then spent the whole Friday with my church friends... and alas, I caught a slight fever...

Rested at home for the whole day already... Feel much better... should be able to recover by tomorrow...

Hmmm... A new environment... the university... SMU... many temptations, distractions surfaced since matriculation. I thank God for the revival camp committee... that as we discussed about certain issues.. it presented a reminder to me as well... that my life was slowly shifting to the world again... and from Friday morning's QT sharing... that sometimes we lose sight of why we uphold certain principles... and that we too often assert our supposed 'rights' too strongly... I ask myself... since others are doing it, what's so wrong about me doing it ? Or worse still, since other 'christians' are doing it, what's wrong about it? I guess this resulted in not spending enough time with God...

I remember Wei En's sharing... Satan spends 168hours trying to distract us from God... and we only spend so little time with God... A lesson learnt and currently trying to apply is to talk to my God more... Too many times I try to reason out things in my own way... not talking to God about it... Again I go back to Wei En's sharing bout continually conversing with God throughout the day... short prayers, is a good help to keep focus throughout the day...

There are many things out there that can discourage us... Christians who don't be have like christians... arguments that arise... etc. but ultimately, we're not here to judge. And God has already given me the hope of salvation... the faith and love that He has given to me... The strength and everything to continue to walk with God... He is our all in all... He is the Lord Almighty... The Most High... The King of Kings... Just heard the song from ziling's blog... it's really a gd reminder... a simple yet powerful song... :

"Did you ever talk to God above?
Tell Him that you need a friend to love
Pray in Jesus' name believing that
God answers prayers

Have you told Him all your cares and woes
Every tiny little fear He knows
You can know He'll always hear
And He will answer prayers

You can whisper in a crowd to Him
You can cry when you're alone to Him
You don't have to pray out loud to Him
He knows your thoughts

On a lofty mountain peak He's there
In the meadow by a stream He's there
Everywhere on earth you go
He's been there from the start

Find the answer in His word it's true
You'll be strong because He walks with you
By His faithfulness He'll change you too
God answers prayers "

I like the part about every tiny fear, telling Him everything, and that He knows our thoughts, and to continue learning bout His word and walking with God as He walks with us...

Let us continue to walk in Christ, being focused on God alone, viewing other things as rubbish just like Paul did... and have the courage to let go the things we need to let go... ; )

"But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Pressing on Toward the Goal
12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."

Philippians 3: 7 -14