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Bread And Not Stone
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Post camp lesson.
Throughout the camp, many things needed to be changed. Rain and time snowballing and restrictive circumstances caused so many things to be changed or canceled and we as the camp comm had to be constantly thinking on our feet how to manage the changes.My heart broke when I saw the thundering clouds came by during the first day. All our efforts, our 2 months worth of planning was going down the drain with a single cumulonimbus cloud to wash it all away. I looked up into the skies and prayed. I prayed that the clouds would go, but also for God's will to be done.One thing God impressed upon me, was that sometimes when we pray to God with so much hope, that He will help us with a certain scenario, and then it appears as though nothing happened, we begin to feel God isn't there. But are we praying out of own will or for God's will to be done? Is our faith in prayer of a humanly perception of God, or the view of the true God Himself?
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that He hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of Him. (1 John 5:14-15 NKJV)
And when things that we plan for fail or doesn't suit the way we want it, we begin to complain and ask God why, but we need to come to see that many times, God's will for us is far beyond and greater than what we can currently perceive. The human perspective of life is often only confined to the present, what's in stored for them now.For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:9 NKJV)
And finally, as we understand that as things may not go the way we want, God is in control, and His heart for us to never of harm nor malice, but to help us grow, prosper us. And in NKJV, it is written as plans for "peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:10-13 NIV)
We believe that what we have planned for ourselves are best, also because its in our control. But whatever happens, God is in control with a better future. And everything will work out for good no matter how bad it seems. Just gotta learn to believe, trust, have faith and look beyond what I can see around me.
As long as things don't go your way,
God intends something better for you.
Labels: camp, God, thoughts
Darren Nico Pillai
Not-so-average teen, deep thinker, perfectionist with quirky randomness. Trained in the art of sarcasm and nonsensical logic.
Overcoming the circumstances of the present, and the issues of my past,
striving in self-betterment with a moral balance with the hope of the fulfillment of the destiny to be a light for Christ in His likeness,
spreading the love of God as how He first loved us
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Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to the things unseen
Show me how to love like You have loved me
Break my heart for what breaks Yours
Everything I am, for Your kingdom's cause
As I walk from earth into eternity
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- Hosanna -
Philosophy:
I like to think about life, especially pursuing on the concept of love. Not that lovey dovey romantic kind, but the affections we have for one another
that ties us together,strangers, friends, besties, family, that's the love I wanna know about. Love is the essence of life that ties us together,
love is what we were made for and to be, love is embracing the gift of the relationship with GOD.
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Collection of inspirations and reminders: Nico_thoughts@Twitter
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Bread And Not Stone
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Post camp lesson.
Throughout the camp, many things needed to be changed. Rain and time snowballing and restrictive circumstances caused so many things to be changed or canceled and we as the camp comm had to be constantly thinking on our feet how to manage the changes.My heart broke when I saw the thundering clouds came by during the first day. All our efforts, our 2 months worth of planning was going down the drain with a single cumulonimbus cloud to wash it all away. I looked up into the skies and prayed. I prayed that the clouds would go, but also for God's will to be done.One thing God impressed upon me, was that sometimes when we pray to God with so much hope, that He will help us with a certain scenario, and then it appears as though nothing happened, we begin to feel God isn't there. But are we praying out of own will or for God's will to be done? Is our faith in prayer of a humanly perception of God, or the view of the true God Himself?
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that He hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of Him. (1 John 5:14-15 NKJV)
And when things that we plan for fail or doesn't suit the way we want it, we begin to complain and ask God why, but we need to come to see that many times, God's will for us is far beyond and greater than what we can currently perceive. The human perspective of life is often only confined to the present, what's in stored for them now.For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:9 NKJV)
And finally, as we understand that as things may not go the way we want, God is in control, and His heart for us to never of harm nor malice, but to help us grow, prosper us. And in NKJV, it is written as plans for "peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:10-13 NIV)
We believe that what we have planned for ourselves are best, also because its in our control. But whatever happens, God is in control with a better future. And everything will work out for good no matter how bad it seems. Just gotta learn to believe, trust, have faith and look beyond what I can see around me.
As long as things don't go your way,
God intends something better for you.
Labels: camp, God, thoughts
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