12 December 2007

Our Pets ^_^


COW



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Romans 12 (THE MESSAGE)

Place Your Life Before God

1-2 So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

3I'm speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it's important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.

4-6In this way we are like the various parts of a human body. Each part gets its meaning from the body as a whole, not the other way around. The body we're talking about is Christ's body of chosen people. Each of us finds our meaning and function as a part of his body. But as a chopped-off finger or cut-off toe we wouldn't amount to much, would we? So since we find ourselves fashioned into all these excellently formed and marvelously functioning parts in Christ's body, let's just go ahead and be what we were made to be, without enviously or pridefully comparing ourselves with each other, or trying to be something we aren't.

6-8If you preach, just preach God's Message, nothing else; if you help, just help, don't take over; if you teach, stick to your teaching; if you give encouraging guidance, be careful that you don't get bossy; if you're put in charge, don't manipulate; if you're called to give aid to people in distress, keep your eyes open and be quick to respond; if you work with the disadvantaged, don't let yourself get irritated with them or depressed by them. Keep a smile on your face.

9-10Love from the center of who you are; don't fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good. Be good friends who love deeply; practice playing second fiddle.

11-13Don't burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master, cheerfully expectant. Don't quit in hard times; pray all the harder. Help needy Christians; be inventive in hospitality.

14-16Bless your enemies; no cursing under your breath. Laugh with your happy friends when they're happy; share tears when they're down. Get along with each other; don't be stuck-up. Make friends with nobodies; don't be the great somebody.

17-19Don't hit back; discover beauty in everyone. If you've got it in you, get along with everybody. Don't insist on getting even; that's not for you to do. "I'll do the judging," says God. "I'll take care of it."

20-21Our Scriptures tell us that if you see your enemy hungry, go buy that person lunch, or if he's thirsty, get him a drink. Your generosity will surprise him with goodness. Don't let evil get the best of you; get the best of evil by doing good.


Jethro and Ryu

Jethro on Lupang Hinirang

11 December 2007

FUTURE GLORY (Romans 8:18-27)

18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. 20For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

22We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? 25But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.

My Kids going to school
















This is my youngest son Jethro and Ryu at the back seat of the driver. This is their mode of transportation going to school. hehehehe Just can't imagine I am the mother of this two kids. Giving me so much headaches! hehehehe But they are the angles of my life...

03 December 2007

The greatest thing on earth is to love and be loved

The greatest thing on earth is to love and be loved. Does it make sense? I guess so everyone knows what is love but only few amongst us has pure love. It's a mind boggling thing for this issue. It has become an issue because no one really knows what is love really. How can this become the greatest thing on earth where no one really knows what does this mean.

I had come to the point where I am given up of everything in life. Tired of some certain things that causes me to become broken, scared and confused. I often asked myself where do I go from here. What would tomorrow bring me? Will there'll be a rainbow after a heavy rain? Or will there be really a tomorrow for me after all the circumstances I went through my life.

One day I get up from bed with a question in my heart not in my mind. Whom I have lived for to love and whom who lived for to love me back? It's so confusing thus, feeling so bad which is up to this moment, it is still there like a shadow of illusion. Illusion in some ways that I can say it, this odd feelings doesn't really exist. Because I wanted to pretend that it doesn't matter to me at all.

But later I realized everything. One great thing that gives me the reason to keep on holding is that it isn't really "the greatest thing on earth is to love and be loved", but the GREATEST THING ON EARTH IS THE LOVE OF GOD to the citizens of His Kingdom. That no other love will be greater than His love for us. For that, I have more reason to live without hoping for someone to love me unconditionally for it is hard to expect from someone whom you loved, to love you back the same way how you loved them.

Why?

Why? Its always there. Why for this, why for that. Sometimes you can say it that, it's a stupid thing to keep asking yourself of those whys. Duh! It's first day of the week again and it's another manic Monday I wish it was Sunday! hehehehehe

Well, good thing is, I can still manage to smile despite of all the odds in life. God is great all the time. hmmmmm But still, something bothers me. So it is still the "why"...