MetaMorphosis - Rooted and Built Up

back from an awesome meta camp!! =)) i'll say meta will always be the best camp(s) in my life. to be around like-minded God-loving pple is always a priviledge. learnt alot this camp. so here goes!!

some really basic stuff tt we tend to forget. we forget that God loves us JUST AS WE ARE! we are blessed, loved, His precious ones and He is always thinking of us. sometimes i cant understand how He can love me just as i am. but im glad and thankful that it is just by HIS GRACE that we stand, by HIS GRACE we can be called His precious children. it is indeed a TRUTH that God loves us, so despite the feeling that we may experience, we cannot deny the fact that He loves us and sent His Son, Jesus to die on the cross for us. So, WHY DID JESUS DIE? He died to set us free from sins. He was the willing, pleasing sacrifice that used His blood to wash our sins as WHITE as snow. and all this cannot be a lie. bcos NO MAN would DIE for a lie. Jesus was executed bcos He claimed to be the Son of God and even to the point of death, He would not deny this fact. so if any normal man was to go through all the whipping and humiliation and even being nailed on the cross for a lie, he would have admitted he was lying. but Jesus did NOT admit to lies. He faced the cross out of obedience to the Father. so Jesus died. but here's the BIG difference. HE ROSE AGAIN 3 days later! He is not a dead God. we are NOT worshipping a dead body. He is THE LIVING GOD. it is a distinct difference between all other religions and Christianity. and Jesus said He is the way, the truth and the life. no one comes to the Father except through Him. =)) so what's next? we all have to receieve Him into our lives. He loves us SO MUCH!! and this love runs deeper than the ocean and it stretches as wide as the ends of the earth.

wells. besides this, i personally experienced how God prepared the ground that i went during Project X (evangelism). how the people's hearts were so responsive is really the work of God and not by any man's own efforts so we may not boast, but give praise and glory to Him. =))

and also our vision. MOVEMENTS EVERYWHERE - so that EVERY STUDENT will know someone who truly follows Jesus. this campus is one which the Lord has given us, we must be good stewards of it and yeps, BUILD MOVEMENTS! as long as we have a willing heart, God will be able to do a great work in and through us. but its a CHOICE we make. we choose to let God use us. me myself am NOTHING, but God can show His everything through me. and this meta, i learnt what it was to MAKE a CHOICE to praise and worship Him. i knew in my heart i was angry at God for the rain on tues which spoilt all the games plan, and i was questioning God why did it rain. afterall we had really worked really hard for the games and prayed really hard. but i came to realise this anger came from the frustrations and confusion i felt when the rain came. and when we were singing the song that goes 'i will worship', in my heart i was telling God 'yes, i will still CHOOSE to worship You despite everything'. and im glad i made that choice. and i pray that should the world collapse, each and everyone of us will still make the choice of CHOOSING to praise Him.

and thank God for the great CG i had and the new brothers and sisters that i came to know! they're all great encouragement to me. to see how each and everyone seeks to serve God with whatever they have. its marvellous. lifes change, hearts change. and all this are NOT the work of Man. but the work of God. =))

im all His =))