It's been an eventful week, starting right after the end of exams on monday. Celebrated birthdays (2-in-1 celebrations, cos everyone is just so busy), restarted FYP (sigh... spent 3 whole morning/afternoons on it!), went a-salsaing at union square (2nd time of the year there, introduced uninitiated friends to the best place to salsa and met up with suprisingly lots of people from my salsa-past... ), caught up with a couple of old friends (stomach feels funny from the variety of food), caught a movie (2012!) and just packed my bags for Korea (except my jeans which are still hanging to dry). Attending my nephew's one month old b'daylater today (I missed the last 4 month-old birthdays... Finally attending one!) and then flying off to Korea till 19th Dec (I'll check my hp once every 1-2 days).
Truth be told, I'm bushed. And I still haven't written last Sunday's sermon.
To sum it up in one sentence, here it is - Pray faithfully, and pray for more faith.
Faith is truly a powerful thing. And if there's one thing we all ought to have, it's faith. Faith gives us hope; faith helps us to love; faith enables us to trust; faith gives us the will to fight; faith grants us contentment, faith allows us to accept things already done and faith teaches us to follow God's plan for us.
Without faith, we are nothing.
I've been talking plenty to friends these 2 days... And although faith never really came up in any of these conversations, it nonetheless has a pretty big hand in the topics discussed. At least from my point of view. (If you've met me on the 10th or 11th, think back and perhaps you'll see a link)
2 verses popped into mind during the very last conversation, or at least bits of it.
Matthew 8:26
And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
Palsm 23:1
The LORD is my Shepard, I shall not want.
I am one of little faith, admittedly... Or at least I don't really act on it much. It is very much a weakness, and a sin. God has plans for us, no matter how bad or uncertain it may seem. The things of earth will definitely run its due course, and to have the faith to trust in God and accept whatever lot He has given us is something we should strive for. I am uncertain of what the future holds for me, and because of that I hesitate to act. I wonder if my motives and methods are right or adequate for the actions I have or am about to take. I have difficulty truly accepting my past and present, for some of these still haunt me to this day. Needless to say, I am needlessly frustrated..
Does this signify little faith?
If so, I pray that God will strengthen me in this aspect.