Can I be a good dad?

Today I haven't had a chance to do a full fledge devotion yet. So I looked at daily bread as well as daily verse on biblegateway. The message on daily verse is more meaningful to me, closer to my heart.

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. - Proverbs 22:6

God, please lead my path, guide me. Teach me to be a good father to Season, to nurture her grow up in Christ.

Amen.

God is tempting me?

LP woke up very again today. While I was at Staples after my late lunch, we chatted. It was a very very very random, but we discussed something very very very DEEP and IMPORTANT. It solidify our relationship once again. Thank you God, for the plan you have for us.

About our own evil desire as James 1 taught us. Next I remembered about bible study of our own awareness of sin: Walk - Stand - Sit - Psalm 1:1. We are all imperfect, but each and everyday we are trying to be more like Him, to live a life like He taught us. Then I remember about the progression approach: Ask - Seek - Knock - Matthew 7:7

The bible is full of lesson that we keep learning and reviewing each and everyday...

Be happy all the time!

Daily Bread's entry for today reminds me the first day I shopped at a Christian bookstore. The very first bible verse bookmark I bought, was with this very same verse on it. It even has a little capsule pill on the bookmark as a symbol of medicine.

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

-Proverbs 17:22

At this very moment... a little bit heavy. Cause I know LP is writing an email to 'gor gor'. The very rare short moments of alone time that we could have spent together... I have to be the supportive and understanding LG. It's just... easier said than done.

Don't waste any more moments...

Ecclesiastes 9:9, a bible verse gift from LP's friend on her Facebook profile

He's my best friend!

Who's your best friend, that will be there in any circumstance at anytime that you need?

Learn to appreciate the 'beautiful imperfections'

Today's lesson from our book of love is a wonderful reminder.

The art of maintaining an intimate relationship consists of being appreciative of each other's virtues and perceptive of each other's limitations.

親密關係的秘訣是欣賞對方的優点, 左乎洞悉對方的限制.

Just happen, in Hong Kong, it's Bryan's and Patty's 2-yrs baptism anniversary. It triggered me to look up that bible verse regarding two-better-than-one. A perfect detour for today' entry.

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work:

If one falls down, his friend can help him up.

But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up!

- Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

Can we be the 'beautiful imperfections' to each other?

We can love, because He's with us - 因為有主在當中... †

Both 因為你先愛我們 and 我們愛[讓世界不一樣] are great!

So today I learned these 2 other great praise songs that is a great company with 好好戀愛. I learned of 好好戀愛 a long while back, definitely more than a year ago. For the past 8 months, I prayed faithfully for Him to lead my way. For those brothers & sisters that knew or asked me, they would have known how I prayed since I came back after a month-long spent in Hong Kong during Dec 2008. Even though now her & I are separated internationally 7000+ miles apart, we entrusted our path in Him. This time when I listen to it, it's a completely different feeling.

In the most unanticpated, unexpected timing and circumstance... God brought us back together.

If you haven't watched 'Fireproof', rent it. Ever since I watched the salvation scene, 1 John 4:19 had a completely different meaning to me. It's not just another bible verse on wedding program or wedding invitation, not another 'love' like 1 Corinthians 13. Brothers & Sisters, it is not an easy lesson to learn to 完全交托 and 順服. Keep practicing it with prayer!

Brothers & sisters that can remember, 當你走到無力 is my 2nd most favorite songs out of all the praise song. Other than 徐偉賢, I like 文雅言 a lot also. If not because of Martin gave Agnes to Flora, I wouldn't know her. If not because of those praise song, I might often still have questions and doubts. So I hope this song 放心 can give you encouragement, like a booster shot.

I remember when I first got 角聲使團's 振翅翱翔 from Steven, I wasn't like all the other people. Many people love 因著信, but my favorite was Immanuel. To me, Emmanuel/以馬內利, 神與我同在 is more important than anything else. He gave me peace and content that no one else can. Now when I listen to it, not only I feel God's embracing me, this lyric jump out to me - ...在愛中找到轉機...

In His name, I continue to pray...Amen.

p.s. only a -very few handful- of people know what's my absolutely most favorite #1 praise song~~~

A Lamp on a Stand

In both Matthew, Mark and Luke, there's a passage about exposing secrets, from the shadows into the light...

Jaeson Ma

I was reading this magazine I got from HK as a free gift, and there's a quote from Pastor Jaeson Ma regarding pre-maritial sex. I have heard of his name mentioned before... I'm not sure if he's the very same pastor that Eric Suen mentioned during his personal testimony at First Church of the Nazarene of Pasadena. So I went online google him a little bit, found an interview and video about him. Read about his encounter with Edison Chen. Browsed to his Facebook page. He got a interesting birthday - 11/11! At only 29 years old (he's not even 30?!)... I'm impressed.

Commit to Him - 交託?

Psalm 37:5 reminded me...