. That's a lot of money for me. I mean no one that I barely knew ever given me that much money before. I was so thankful and I remembered how I felt before. I was ashamed of myself in front of God.
I knew God always give me the best quality that is suitable for me and what I need in this phase of my life. But sometimes I lose faith because I see this world and lured by all its riches. If I surrender to God and do as He says,I know He will never let me down. It doesn't mean that I will be a rich person, but I will have enough to live my life never less, that's good enough. Doesn't mean that I will live my life in all the riches in the world, but i will surely have a happy, wonderful feeling that God has provided for me. I always knew this for a fact, but sometimes I guess I just forget it and forget all the wonderful things that God has done for me. I'm sorry Father, please forgive me. You are a wonderful God and You work in wonders that sometimes I cannot think or thought of beforehand, cause if I really can think your thoughts then You won't be God at all. Thank You.
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. So I borrowed some from Novi, our money keeper, so that I could buy some stuffs here. She gave me 300 yuan and when I looked at the prices
, I cannot afford any good things.
But what made me really get the "feeling" is that my boss and the other friend, Mr Budi just picked up anything and buy it just as if money is just flowing out of their pockets and never stops, as for me i could only swallow my saliva at the sight
. I couldn't buy anything that I liked cause they are too expensive and on the other hand they are just buying clothes and stuffs as if they had no worry in the world. So I just went out of the store and waited until they finished shopping. What else can I do?
I don't dare to touch another stuff cause I know I can't afford it. When we went outside to the street, there were many beggars and "low class" people also walking along that same street and just watching as people come out of the stores, with the "look" on their faces as if they are deep envy on the people that had just come out. I can see and feel the similarities of me and the people. I feel helpless cause I cannot buy anything and can only enjoy it from the outside. Or maybew I may see it but I cannot own it. I feel so much the same as they feel; so I thought.
I thought to myself, why am I feeling the same thing as them. I am for one thing is much luckier than they are. I can go to China now; not everyone can do that. I have a job; so many people in China is unemployed. I can eat at fancy restaurants, even though not with my money; not many can do the same. So what have I got to complain about? Am I complaining to God because I haven't got much money? But God has provided all my needs so that I don't get hungry or naked and humiliate myself. God has been too good to me all throughout my life. What hasn't God provided for me. It's just that there are certain times and certain phases in life that God wants me to go through. maybe someday i will become one of them, but then again maybe not. Maybe some day I will become someone very popular in the world, but then again maybe I'll just be a person that lived in a so and so place that nobody knew about. But al through it all I know that God is always with me. God never let me go astray as if without a sheperd. He always guide me all through my life. It's just that maybe I don't listen to Him and pay attention to His works for me that made me feel "cheated" by God. God never cheats on me, He always provide everything that I truly needed as long as I listen to Him and do as I told. He's good to you too, did you know that?
Don't feel crushed by this world, God is good all the time
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|W|P|10823076516700500|W|P|Hiatus in perspectus (whatever that means)|W|P|hendra@gmail.comWell, everybody it's just two more days to go. Next Monday I'm gonna fly to China again. Wow, new experience again. Actually last September I have been there already. I went from Surabaya to Jakarta then off to Guangzhou. Transited there for 5 hours, can you imagine 5 hours just waiting at the airport. We had to wait 5 hours cause the plane schedule from Guangzhou to Jinjiang, the destination, was only twice a day and it was at around 6 or 7 pm. So we waited cause there's no use in getting a hotel room, cause it's just a waste of money. ![]()
Well there were many other interesting things that happened there, some just for me to know and for you to find out (secretly embarrasing). Well I hope that this trip is gonna be better, because the last one I almost had a fight with my boss's son. Hopefully now I'm going with his sister things are just gonna get better. Hahaha. But this time instead of just transitting in Guangzhou we are gonna attend a shoe exhibition there, so I'm gonna get some time to see this city, not just the airport.
The best thing about the last trip was that we went to Shanghai. Ohhhhh such a wonderful city and also Xiamen. Beautiful city, very beautiful. I just wonder when Indonesia can learn from these Chinese. Just imagine in just less than 10 years they have opened up the country and do amazing things and so many developments. But on this trip we are also going to Korea, yup Seoul and also Pusan. But maybe the Seoul part is also just a mere passthrough, I don't know we'll see. I just can't wait.But I haven't prepared anything special for this trip. Nothing too fancy. I haven't even bought anything new to bring there. maybe I'll buy some there to take home and give some to friends. Well guys, wish me luck. Cause on Monday morning around 6.30 am I'm flying from Surabaya. Hopefully nothing bad is gonna happen. Amen.
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|W|P|108182046003032278|W|P|P - R - A - I - S - E|W|P|hendra@gmail.comWoi kok beneran sepi semua yah. Tak ada kata, tak ada canda, tak ada tawa. Ada apa dengan kita semua? Semakin lama semakin sibuk semua bahkan untuk sekedar say hi. Uuuh sometimes I kinda miss everyone so much cause I guess sometimes I just feel really alone in this world, you know. No one to talk to, no one to care about, no one to be advised and to take advice from. These few days I've been really depressed, dunno why but i just do. Everything I said above is what i really truly exactly feel right now. I only feel that my only "friends" are those people whom their blogs I read (viceversa) and sometimes these people are really nice. I chatted with some of them and asked them lots of things especially newthings that interest me. They're really cool people who don't hesitate to help me. Some even out of nowhere just sent me emails about the things we talked about. I was kinda surprised I thought these internet creeps just doesn't care about anyone just themselves. I guess I was wrong. The people that I met in real life on the other hand is taking suspicions on me. Many talked behind my back. Some are cooperative and supportive but most of them I dont meet everyday. Is it just me, I wonder? Have I changed so much that they starting to hate me? What have I done to deserve such treatments? I dunno the answer. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like without me here and maybe if I were to not to come to this place in the first place, would things be any better. If I havent met all these people that I know now would my life be "better"? Makes you wonder doesn't it. Guys, sorry to take up your time to make you all read my writing. i just sometimes dont know where to turn to except just write on my computer, scribble all my thoughts all my cries for help, I send it to you so that I know at least someone else read it, not just me. Oh yeah before I forgot Happy Easter everybody, but really i dont feel at all happy today. Lots of things on my mind that just wont let me stop thinking. I cant rest so I just went to the internet rental store and just entertain myself by doing this and reading something interesting. OK once again sorry all for my mistake if I ever did it to anyone of you that I may have forgotten about.Especially if that makes anyone not want to keep in contact with me anymore. But that's understandable. Dont worry.Yeah i guess sometimes even the bests of friends tend to forget each other, especially when they are separated far away and never meet in such a long time. maybe sometimes we're just so busy with our new activities and new found friends that we forget our old friends. But friends are forever you know. The real true friend is the friend who are willing to die for their friends, that's what the bible said. Maybe there really aren't any real friends in this world, maybe there is but I just haven't found one. Have I been a friend to someone else. I dunno, only they could answer that. Maybe I haven't been much of a friend huh. I'm sorry to those friends who I haven't been a friend to (confused?). Anyway I better try to get things back up again, there's no use in feeling like this. Doesn't change anything. If I wanna change something then I should begin from myself. I can never change anyone else. And I'm not supposed to change anyone else cause it's their right to be whoever they are. If I want others to treat me better, then I guess it's time for me to treat them better first. I guess I should begin again
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Tommorrow we will celebrate Good Friday, "The day that GOD died". Is God really dead? What does God's death had to do with us? What does it make us? Why should we care? Let us reflect on these questions.
On April 8, 1966, the cover of Time magazine asked in bold black letters, “Is God Dead?” The lead story described the work of several theologians who no longer held to traditional concepts of God. They were alike in concluding that the God of our fathers had not survived the dawn of evolution and birth control.
The debate that followed wasn’t as much about God as it was about us. We were in the middle of a turbulent decade. Our world was changing. An unpopular war in Vietnam was prompting bumper stickers that said, “Question Authority.” Science and technology were improving our lives and making us less aware of our need for a supernatural God.
Other reasons to believe God is dead. Challenges to the traditional view of God multiplied in the decades that followed. Not all were secular. Consumer fraud in religious broadcasting subjected the God of the Bible to public ridicule. Promises of “blessings for dollars” associated the name of Christ with “get rich quick” or “get thin fast” scams. Most recently, evidence of clergy abuse surfaced in the public media. With these reports came stories of victims, who, because of their abuse, no longer considered the God of the church a live option.
Those enlightened by science or disillusioned by religious leaders, however, are not the only ones talking about the death of God.
The Bible also talks about the death of God. The God of the Bible was so deeply moved by the harm people do to one another that He actually died because of it. At a moment in time, the eternal God closed His eyes and stopped breathing. Under the weight of wrongs that had hurt those who were dear to Him, His body fell limp and lifeless. At that moment God was dead—not just in the perception of others, but in real time and in an actual place.
In making this claim, the Bible goes far beyond the cover and pages of Time magazine. Instead of asking, “Is God Dead?” the theology of the Bible leaves us with a mystery that is beyond human comprehension (1 Timothy 3:16). The Second Person of a three-in-one God became a real man to die a real death for us (Philippians 2:5-11; John 1:1-3,14).
As this unparalleled drama unfolds, physical death was not our God’s greatest sacrifice. Even before breathing His final breath on a Roman cross, He endured the hellish darkness of spiritual separation from His Father in heaven. As the skies darkened in the middle of the day, His anguished cry echoed through the halls of heaven and history: “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Matthew 27:46).
According to the Bible, our Creator endured such an agonizing death to show us that He is alive and that He loves us.
What the death of God tells us about ourselves. Those of us who are inclined to think of ourselves as victims, rather than offenders, might conclude that Christ’s death probably says more about the evil of others than about ourselves. We can always point to someone we think gave us an excuse to respond in an unloving way.
We get a different picture, however, when we look more closely into the suffering of Christ. If the Bible is right, He didn’t die just for someone else’s sins. He died for us (Romans 5:8; John 3:16). The pain He endured says volumes about the extreme nature of our own need (Romans 3:10-20).
Anyone who wants to be included in Christ’s death must admit that in God’s eyes our own wrongs rise to the level of those who violate federal law with capital offenses. The extent of His sacrifice says that without His intervention we would still be condemned lawbreakers, without hope, and waiting on “death row” for what the Bible calls “the second death” (Revelation 20:14; Romans 6:23).
How the death of God can help us find a new life. The Scriptures offer no hope to those who refuse to believe Christ suffered for them. The Bible offers a whole new life, however, to those who believe that Christ lived and died as their substitute. Like persons who enter a witness protection program, those who find refuge in Christ take on a new identity. Their troubled past is hidden in Him (Colossians 3:3). They assume His name. They receive His Spirit and become temples of the living God (1 Corinthians 3:16; 6:19).
Those who allow the Spirit of Christ to be seen in them are an antidote to the opinion that “God Is Dead.” Their happiness and tears become a quiet showcase for the love, and joy, and peace of a God who is alive and reaching out to others through His people. No one does this perfectly. But few things are needed more than imperfect, troubled, grateful people who are growing in their willingness to let Christ live His life through them (Romans 8:11).
How can we come to that surrender? We can begin by watching Jesus our Lord move through the Garden of Gethsemane to the center page of human history. On the way He groans, “Nevertheless, not My will but Yours be done.” Then in the middle of a howling mob, on a hill outside the walls of Jerusalem, He willingly endured the eternal weight of our sin and death—for us.
Taken from the writing of Mart De Haan
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I had a fight with Vanny yesterday. I don't know why. But things hasn't been ok yet. We are both still hurt, maybe. I don't even know what happen. I mean, I didn't even mean to do anything that could upset her, but she was upset and the whole thing turned into one big disaster.
Yesterday I promised to help her with her graphic assignments. I was to go to her place late i the afternoon coz she was also having lots of things to do, like typing her other assignments and having singing practice for Easter day. I don't know why but I guess I just didn't have the best of day, yesterday. I wasn't a bad day, but I wasn't feeling in the mood. I was so not in the mood for anything. And to make it worse, my glasses broke just the other day and I haven't repaired it yet, so I'm practically blind. I can see people but very blurry. It makes everything so uncomfortable because then I have to close my eyes (how do you say it) to focus so that I can see something clearer. So maybe that made my face looked kinda sad, angry and not in the mood. You know, the Danger Look.
When I got to her house she was still asleep and I had to wait for her. I was getting a little annoyed because she said that it was important but she slept. But I get myself thinking maybe she's just too tired. But maybe my face hasn't changed too much, without me knowing. So I was contaging her with that look because after that she had nearly the same look on her face. Nothing was said. Not so many things were rhere to be said. I was just not in the mood.
After we went to the rentals to work on her assignment, she didn't bring all her files, such as pictures and logo so I was furious. I said how can we work without all that. So we stop early. Wedidn't really get to do anything done. All the way back to her house still silence and not many words were spoken. Actually she was very happy that day she said, and she wanted me to be happy to. So she kinda "mademe" be happy but I wasn't in the mood. Maybe she felt alone, and after we got home, she started to cry. I hate it when there's a problem, the other party has to cry because nothing can be accomplished with all that crying. I'd like to just talk it over. What the problems are and solve it. That's more like problem solving to me. But no, she just had to cry it all as if to telll everybody in her house that we were fighting. I wasn't liking the situation. I felt cornered and had to just leave the whole situation except she can stop crying and start behaving like adults and talk about it.
So I just went outside and just wanted to get away. But she stopped me and grabbed onto my motorcycle making me unable to exit her gates. I was angry and just left the motorcycle and just walked out of the house. I mean she was crying louder than before and I just can't hold my cool anymore. We got into a fight and maybe the whole neighbourhood heard us. How embarrassing could that be.
But I started to slow down and try to control my anger and start to talk to her, but she wouldn't listen. It took us quite long to actually talk without anymore tears and cries. And we talked it over and I thought it was over. But when I went back home I guess I still think about it and maybe still angry at the way she handled the whole thing and humiliated in front of the whole neighbourhood.
This morning she called my office and she was also not feeling relieved after yesterday. But she was still making it like it's my fault. So it made me got angry again on the phone, yep at the office. Until now I haven't called her again.
Oh Lord, please help me. I love her and don't want to fight with her. Help me please.
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