4/25/2004 05:50:00 AM|W|P|klomprangkentang|W|P|Remember what I posted before this, how I felt because I haven't got any money. Well I didn't feel that way anymore after that especially after writting it on this blog. I was alright. I wasn't blaming God or other matters like that. I wasn't even thinking about it anymore, but God heard my cries. Hahaha and He gave me something, a new experience for me to be remembered at all times, that God understand what I need and will fulfill it in His own time which is always the best time. What really happened you ask? Well, remember Mr Budi, the factory boss that came with us, well yesterday was his last day with us as he will go to Guangzhou one day ahead of us. Because his flight is not until 6 pm and he has to check out of the hotel, so he just took all his luggage and keep it in our office, after that we went to see some shoe factories and also some more outsole factories. Afer lunch we separated into two groups and one is still to see more shoe factories while Mr Budi and Ms Effi my boss went to the market searching for some shoe material that we need and maybe something new that is available on the market. After we got back together, he handed us an envelope. He gave it to Lenny who was sitting closer to him cause I was sitting in the front. He said this is for Lenny and Hendra and Totok, something to buy stuff with. We all refuse because he was just a friend and I just barely knew him. I only met him this once in Jinjiang, even though he's a good friend of the company in Surabaya. He insisted and said it's ok. Lenny took it and kept it. I thought it was only something around 100 RMB or the max 200 RMB each. But to my surprise after we opened it back in the office, of course after we dropped him at Jinjiang airport, there were $ 300 , which means $100 each for us. . 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. - What do you think - |W|P|108284913774195005|W|P|Wonderful God |W|P|hendra@gmail.com4/23/2004 09:37:00 PM|W|P|klomprangkentang|W|P|Wow I can really feel what the poor people really think and feel when they are looking at the rich. Well today we (me, Totok, Novi, Lenny and Miss Effi-my boss and another friend Mr. Budi also a factory boss) after finishing some business with Juman Inc. - the company that made some samples for us in Jinjiang, as usual Ben Lin - Juman's boss, dropped us at the hotel. After that we walked along just sightseeing and window shopping through the road in front of the hotel. We went from one store to another just looking around. To my surprise the stores have changed and this time most of them are really "high class" stores. There were new stores that I haven't seen since I first came here last September. New stores that really sells expensive stuffs; clothes, jewelerry, shoes, just about everything. Well we just went in and I just take a look at some clothes and wow I was shocked at the price. Actually i was shocked because I wasn't prepared at all. For this trip I didn't bring any money at all. Zilch. 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 - What do you think - |W|P|108273339616693619|W|P|He's good to you and me|W|P|hendra@gmail.com4/22/2004 11:57:00 PM|W|P|klomprangkentang|W|P|To my surprise, I get to manage some time to write some things on my blog despite the condition I'm in. Hi all, I'm writing from Jinjiang, from my office at 1 a.m. in the morning, while all my friends are sleeping, also my boss. Had such a tiring day today. All the days that I've been here (that's 4 days) its always been very tired, almost never stop, only for lunch and dinner. Just go all around trying to find more shoe designs and making samples in the factory and many things, so I am really tired today but I just couldn't help it but to open the computer and connect to my blog. As you can also see that I've put up my new layout made all by myself, with help from some fellow bloggers, not quite ready yet cause I'm planning to make some more touch ups but I guess now is not a right time cause I haven't got enough time. Anybody that wants to help me build this template please contact me cause I really need many people to ask cause I'm so new and fresh at making templates, I know almost "zilch" so needs more improvements. I also added my new taggie from tagboard so feel free to write your message here. Thank you all for your support and help. When I said about help, I really mean it. So if maybe there are any of you who feel challenged to helping me make a better layout, please let me know. Thank you very much in advance. - What do you think - |W|P|108265371664412225|W|P|Hi all ,back again (I think)|W|P|hendra@gmail.com4/18/2004 11:27:00 PM|W|P|klomprangkentang|W|P|I guess I will be in hiatus for a couple of weeks cause of my travel to China and Korea. I don't know if I will ever get a chance to post anything new from there. So goodbye friends. I'll probably be meeting you again in early May, hopefully. - What do you think - |W|P|10823076516700500|W|P|Hiatus in perspectus (whatever that means)|W|P|hendra@gmail.com4/17/2004 08:24:00 AM|W|P|klomprangkentang|W|P|

Well, 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.

In Guangzhou we ate in a restaurant and because we had to wait for a long time, we ordered chinese tea. Cause we can't understand a bit of Chinese especially the writings we didn't know what it says. To tell you the truth, very little Chinese that understands English, so it's time to speak Tarzanese (read:sign language). We didn't know what it was, maybe just understand the price hahhaha...... Well one of the tea on the menu said a price of 39 yuan and with tarzanese we said is this price for four person cause there's a mention of four person, not knowing what it means though. The waiter said yes, so we ordered with some other food that we think are "eatable". So after lunch we just sat there talking and laughing and observing new things, it's time to go and to pay up. To our surprise the price of the tea was 39 yuan for one person, that's Rp 39.000 for a mere teaWell this tea is really only leaves that were poured into a kettle that was always on top of a little fire, everytime the water is nearly empty, the waiter would come up and fill with more water. So it was only a handful of leaves for Rp 156.000 wow, we can only laugh about it cause there's nothing that we can do. Hoping that it's such a powerful tea that can enhance our health to a higher degree. hahahahaha.

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.

- What do you think - |W|P|108216570373942844|W|P|New experience again|W|P|hendra@gmail.com4/13/2004 08:39:00 AM|W|P|klomprangkentang|W|P|Yesterday night I went to attend a mass at my church. There was Jeffry S. Tjandra who has been invited to teach us something about Praise and Worship. What is praise, how we should praise, attitude when praising and many more. It was more of a living testimony of how God had helped him all through his life. What God has taught him about how to praise God in spirit and in truth. Actually at first, I wasn’t really at all interested in this event. I was feeling heavy in my head with all my thoughts that haven’t been solved. I was not really thinking about it but still my head hurts, I haven’t eaten dinner and my stomach was grumbling badly. Usually when I am really hungry, I can’t wait to eat. I would get even dizzier and just wouldn’t feel well to do anything, especially to listen to someone blabbing in front. But the Holy Spirit was helping me in all ways possible. It made me really calm, I can control my hunger and as I listened to the preaching, my headache just slowly disappears like magic. Amazing. Well anyway, Jeffry has taught me and everyone there something very important in my life. You know at times we feel weary, dreadful, not in the mood, inspirited, sad, heavy hearted, and more it’s because in this life we lack praise. Praise is actually a very important subject in our lives whether we know it or not. Every human being is created with a special design that is to praise the Lord and that’s a necessity. Yup it’s very necessary to praise the Lord and when we don’t do it, there are some consequences that we must pay, whether we are conscious about it or not. Some people say but I always sing and praise the Lord every week, and I always go to church. I even counted as those who are the most diligent in attending these services. I read the bible everyday and I know verses from the bible. But actually doesn’t say that we’ve been praising God. Sometimes we don’t have the right attitude when it comes to giving praise, and that just makes it all worthless. Jeffry taught about some aspects of Praise and Worship that I also want to share to you. He split all the letters from Praise and Worship to show some values that we must know regarding this subject. As such: PRAISE P – Proclaim (proclamation) The word Proclaim means to say something that we believe in out loud. It’s more than just a mere statement or announcement. Such as Soekarno-Hatta proclaim the independence of Indonesia to the whole world with spirit, so must we proclaim the love of God full spirited. That’s because we so believe in it and has experienced it so we should tell others about it with all our hearts so that everyone else can understand and maybe even experience it themselves. We must proclaim and speak loudly and proudly of the truth of our God’s love and praise Him for all His kindness. Sometimes when we sing praises we tend to scratch our heads, play with our fingers or books and other stuff, look to the left and right, maybe amuse ourselves with something other than really trying to understand the meaning of the song that we are singing. This attitude doesn’t bring us the understanding of God’s love and it’s absolutely useless. So let’s try to put all our trust and faith in God and tell everyone about it. R – Rejoice The bible says ‘rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice’. So why is God so eager to tell us to rejoice? What if we don’t anyway? God knows that the secret lies behind this word: rejoice, because the Lord is enthroned in our praise and joy. We must always rejoice no matter what the condition is. When we are happy, rejoice, when we are sad, rejoice, when persecuted, rejoice, when in danger, rejoice, in sickness and near death situations, rejoice, always and through all conditions. What makes it sometimes so difficult to rejoice is that we still have suspicions on God. We are always suspicious that God is being unfair to us and He is too slow in doing and answering our prayers. This makes us complain all the time to God. Whenever we are suspicious of the Lord then we will never be satisfied and always complain, making it harder to rejoice. A – Applause When we are awe struck by someone, when this person amazes us, the most likely thing that we do is applaud him. Clapping our hands is one natural way of praising someone for their amazing talent or skill etc. When an artist is called to receive their Academy Awards some people just stood up and gave a round of applause and a standing ovation. This is a very disturbing thing he said, because for an artist people who are also artists who are just as great as the one being applauded gives a very great salute to him, but when God is present in our church we aren’t so eager in congratulating Him on His wonderfulness and His mightiness, even if we clap our hands we do it halfheartedly. We must praise God and show our truly appreciation for all His works. Now that’s praise. I – Intimacy Intimacy is when two people have common interest in satisfying each other’s needs. Between parent and child, or husband and wife. When two people are intimate, all they wanna do is make the other party happy. When we are intimate with God, then we would communicate openly to God about everything we go through and know that God is listening and is preparing something wonderful for our lives. When we are intimate, sometimes words couldn’t express the situation. We might not even have to speak our needs to the Lord but He knows, and we know what God wants from us because we are so intimate. When we begin to have an intimate relationship with God then we will be able to understand how to praise Him in spirit and in truth. S – Shout When a supporter o a football club sees that his team had just made a goal, he would jump up and scream at the top of his voice, overwhelmed with joy. He may sing and jump some more showing his happiness. The same should happen with our Lord. When we praise the Most High Judge we should show all our happiness with all our might and all our strength and mind. Sometimes we are shy to show it all and express all our praise to the Lord. The praising becomes cold and “dead’. When we sing praises to the Lord, all parts of our body, from top of our head to the tip of our toe should move and show our true feeling of thanks and joy to the Lord, even more than when our team had won the World Championship. E – Expression Expression is also a way to really show our deep appreciation for the Lord. Expression is not something that can be taught. When we are happy, no one teaches us how to smile, but we do that we are happy. When we are sad we frown or even cry. The same should go with our praises. How we express our true feeling towards god shows from our body attitudes and gestures and this really helps when praising God. God wants us to praise from our heart and just show Him all that we feel without hesitations. When we can really learn how God wants us to praise Him, we will really truly begin to see God from all different perspectives. We would start to understand what God wants us to do with our lives. We would start making Him proud of us. So let us begin to praise God and do what we were designed to do. But you know what made it more amazing. After the sermon my heart just felt so light. As I said all my headaches are gone, just seems like all my burden had been taken away from me and I started to praise God, even throughout the way home from church. What an amazing night this has become. - What do you think - |W|P|108182046003032278|W|P|P - R - A - I - S - E|W|P|hendra@gmail.com4/12/2004 10:58:00 AM|W|P|klomprangkentang|W|P|I'm feeling a little weary these few days. I feel as if I'm not going anywhere in life. Not having friends to talk to eventhough there are so many friends beside me. But I guess i just feel kinda alone right now. I had a little misunderstanding with my GF yesterday. I just don't feel like myself at the moment. I dont feel like doing anything. I was so stressed out last night I sent an email to some of my friends.
Woi 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
FROM SQUARE ONE
So help me God - What do you think - |W|P|108174485372626768|W|P|Alone again|W|P|hendra@gmail.com4/10/2004 12:12:00 PM|W|P|klomprangkentang|W|P|1. I hurt: my feet this weeks 2. I love: to love and to eat 3. I hate: hipocrites 4. I cry: when I was a small boy 5. I fear: creepy crawlers as in snakes 6. I hope: to achieve all my dreams 7. I sadden: when people don't care about me 8. I feel alone: when I'm left alone 9. I kill: mosquitoes 10. I talk: to strangers (naughty me) 11. I listen: boyz II men and beyonce 12. I break: your head if u don't be nice to me 13. I see: my computer typing this post 14. I smell: pizza..ini baru hoki 15. I taste: delicious food coming my way 16. I work: on my computer designing shoes 17. I remember: nothing at all.... 18. I hold: the mouse 19. I hide: when I want to hide 20. I pray: everyday lah what do you think 21. I walk: the Hall of fame 22. I drive: a crappy motorcycle 23. I read: sometimes 24. I burn: your house if u not nice to me 25. I breathe: fresh air 26. I play: basketball 27. I miss: your face but will hit it again later if u not nice to me 28. I touch: the keyboard 29: I learn: to make a better looking blog 30. I feel: good about myself today 31. I know: that I'm gonna make good one day and go to heaven 32. I said: "so what do you think, babe?" 33. I dream: to be like mike 34. I have: to go now 35. I want: to eat, I'm starving 36. I fall: in love with a girl now and then (nah..joking) 37. I wait: for you to comment on this post 38. I need: money..badly 39. I live: my life for you 40. I die: when I'm 94 years old on 2072 - What do you think - |W|P|108157491919462775|W|P|I do|W|P|hendra@gmail.com4/10/2004 10:32:00 AM|W|P|klomprangkentang|W|P|Oh yes tommorow is Easter day. happy easter day to everybody who's celebrating it and may God bless you all. - What do you think - |W|P|108156873257195433|W|P|Happy Easter|W|P|hendra@gmail.com4/08/2004 09:32:00 PM|W|P|klomprangkentang|W|P|I just came back from church and just stepped into this internet rental store. I just watched the movie "The Passion of the Christ". Wow, it was amazing. I was kinda shock with all this. I mean I know from other people's story and of course also from some movie reviews that I've read about it. Many people said that they cried all through the movie, and I thought "yeah, really...that amazing". But when I saw it, I have to admit it's amazing. I didn't cry or anything, it's just that I was shocked and it took my breath away. The movie made me kinda stop breathing for a while. All this time I would just think of the crucifixion as an event that was just like that and that it had happened so many years ago and that maybe don't have to connect much with me. I mean it was always as a story that was told for centuries and every year we would just reflect on it, but maybe we just don't know what to reflect, cause all these times we were just so busy doing "our stuffs" and that because it was time to go to church on Good Friday and Easter that we do it. But do we really know the truth and do we really understand what the story is all about? I find it kinda difficult to understand sometimes, or just maybe I wasn't concentrating too much, that it just sometimes seems like some ordinary day for me and after the mass is over then maybe I just get back to the things that I do. I mean all these time I would probably think of this and maybe knew the facts but just couldn't picture it in my mind. maybe all these time I would picture it as Jesus who was hung on the cross, but maybe His body is still clean of bruises just like the pictures on the typical wall calendars. But tonight I knew exactly how Jesus felt. i just couldn't stand all the beatings that He took, all the mockery that he had to stand up against. I mean He is God but He just refuse to show all His Almighty powers to punish all those people. The satan tried to make Him turn away and not die on the cross to redeem all mankind. He could've listened to satan and avoid all those sufferings that He had to go through. He was 100% man and He felt all those pain just like any other man would feel it. I can't imagine all the pain if I had to go through all that. I'd just rather die and give up on everything maybe than go through all that. Scary. But thank God Jesus didn't back down and chickened out. Cause if Jesus did just that, then we're all just some walking corpse waiting to surely die cause it's just a matter of time and after that....destination:Hell. I had to hold my breath everytime He took a beating especially after they used the metal-studed slash. I could just see all the skin and the flesh that was torn out of His body. You might not even call it a body anymore. It's worse than how you would treat a very filthy animal. such treatment is just not worthy for a man. When the thorn went inside his head, all the blood that He had to shed, the look on His crushed and deformed face. All that just to save me who just about sinned every single day. A Lord Almighty so Holy and powerful denied all that He has and received such treatments. Awesome Jesus. Now maybe every time that I wanna pray or maybe commit a sin, I might just be remembered again by this vision, so that i don't play around with all His grace for me and that I should take it more seriously even more. A friend of mine took her friend that is a non believer to watch the movie today. By the look on his face I could tell that he's also shocked, but i don't know how he felt (really, honestly felt ). Many people from believers and unbelievers turn to God after watching the movie, some just think about it as some stupid movie, others just couldn't care less, but I know that God is working wonders through it and may more and more get the understanding. If you have already understood, consider yourself lucky, and as for those who are yet still to understand and believe, don't worry God is still working on you. Thank you Lord that I may know the truth and please help me as to tell all people about such grace that Thou hath provided through Your son, Jesus Christ. - What do you think - |W|P|108143915678110166|W|P|Just watched it....Amazing grace...|W|P|hendra@gmail.com4/08/2004 08:20:00 AM|W|P|klomprangkentang|W|P|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 - What do you think - |W|P|108138920920175513|W|P|The Death of God|W|P|hendra@gmail.com4/03/2004 08:23:00 AM|W|P|klomprangkentang|W|P|
Election is only two more days to go. All the campaigns have stopped. At last the streets are "clean" once again. Even though not clean as in really clean but it's free from all the campaigning party attributes. Since yesterday all the parties had to take out all their flags, brochures, any attributes that are on the streets and leave the people in peace for the next three days. Well it's kinda cool to know that nothing majorly bad and disasterous has happen during the campaigning period. Yes there are stupid people that died from their own stupidity, but what I meant was that there are no gangfight, party against party that caused a major disaster for all of us. But this is only the beginning. What happen on the D-day, 5th April 2004? Will everything be fine? The ballot paper hasn't been distributed to the whole place in Indonesia. Even some small cities that are quite easy to access hasn't received their share of ballot paper yet. What about the more remote places? I wonder if the election could be held exactly on the same day nationally. Hopefully, because if that doesn't happen it could trigger some major clash between the parties or even with the election bureau (KPU). Yeah, hopefully nothing bad is gonna happen, OK. But why do I have the feeling that the people that will make it as a representative (DPR) will not be much different from the former DPR with their attitude that thinks that they're so honorable, with their minds that only thinks what's good for them, even though they have a large wage but still want more and more without thinking about all the small people that can't even eat for one day if they don't work very hard for maybe 12 - 15 hours a day non stop. Why do I get the feeling that the DPR that will rise will be just as corrupt as the former DPR or DPRD. I understand that the people of Indonesia are still narrow minded. They think of making it to the DPR seats as another way of making money or even taking as much money from the country that they "legalize" themselves making it seem to be not corrupted from the country's treasury. You know "take as much as you can while you are here: attitude. Very stupid. They always say that they will represent us and will hear all our aspirations and take it to the council meeting or whatever, but once they have seated in the DPR seat they have forgotten about us all. How low can you get. I mean that's sooo low, but all the Indonesians are just too stupid to understand that they are all have been conned by these stupid, crazy, stinking politicians. They have a very sweet lips when they are campaigning. They say so many nice things and promises so that we will vote for them. but they are all so arrogant once they get their seat. Believe me, if they don't start from themselves, to change themselves then they could never change Indonesia or make it into a more developed country and not the most corrupted country in the world anymore, but again that's not what their perspective is. If this country change for the better then they won't have the chance to take as much money anymore and that's their loss. So believe me that not for another 20 or 30 years that Indonesia will start to change little by little. After all these stupid politicians have gone and maybe die in all their sins and replaced by a newer, hopefully cleanerand younger politicians. So who should we vote for to become our representatives. I can't say, but that's all up to us. Whatever we choose will take effect to the whole country. If we chose wrongly, then it's our loss, but if we choose wisely, not just some stupid party fanatism, then we will surely gain something good from it all. I may have some hope in the people running in the election, just a little hope. Maybe a few people are still to be trusted and they can be trusted but that's just a small number, so please choose these small number so that we can live a better life in Indonesia. As for president. Never choose those stupid people that have already been president cause they have shown that they can't run a country. Please choose wisely everyone. This is for the sake of yourself, your neighbourhood, your community, your future, your children's future, the future of Indonesia.

Jayalah Indonesia

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Well, guess what everybody, we made up. Yup me and Vanny is alright now. Thanks if anyone has prayed for us. Vanny I love you honey.
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- What do you think - |W|P|108087659821646098|W|P|Yes Thank you Lord|W|P|hendra@gmail.com4/01/2004 01:02:00 PM|W|P|klomprangkentang|W|P|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. - What do you think - |W|P|108080205748908721|W|P|Cruel World|W|P|hendra@gmail.com