I'm BACK...finally :)

Finally i'm able to post something! After 2 weeks of not being able to go online at home, i actually feel very thankful for being able to use the Internet again. Although people frequently say it's bad and pollutes the mind with not so good things, but it all boils down to how we use it. A tool by itself is not bad, it's what we use it for that determines if it's good or bad. It's just like money, money by itself is not bad, it's what we use it for that determines it's value; if we use it for our tithes, for donations to charity, to buy food to replenish our bodies, it's GOOD money; but if we use it to do unlawful things, for instance, buying drugs that are harmful to our body, it becomes BAD money.

Hmm...wonder how those thoughts that i just typed came to my mind..guess it must have been a prompting of the Holy Spirit, God revealing things to me, cos honestly, i hadn't planned on writing those things at all.

A man plans his way, but it is God who directs his path.
Read this verse before somewhere in Proverbs. Don't really remember the references though, it's something i think i really need to improve on, there's a tendency for me to remember the verse but not its reference.

It is true that we may plan and think...i wanna do this n that by a certain age and then move on to do this by another age, but really God may have other plans.

For me, i remember, i always planned to furthur my studies in NUS in Arts and Social Sciences and get a degree straight after i finished JC. But my A level results weren't gd enough to qualify me to go to any uni at all, so i retook my A levels. But i still didn't do well enough the 2nd time round and my parents did not want to send me overseas to do my degree. So very reluctantly, i signed on with MOE as a teacher and went to NIE. And i was only admitted into the diploma course then, n during the orientation talk the lecturer was telling us that only the top 10% would be considered for the degree course after our 2 yrs in the diploma course. What chance do i have of being in the top 10%? i thought to myself. And of course, my 1st semester there, i wasn't a very happy person either.

But God had other plans. Sometime in my 2nd semester, when i felt really down n felt i couldn't handle my situations anymore, i just thought of sabrina n asked her to bring me to church n she suggested going to City Harvest. It didn't really matter to me which church i went to, so long as i got to go. Things really started to change from there, n i'm really proud to say that i've never stopped going to church ever since my 1st time in CHC, (even though it was really hard at first cos i didn't really know anyone at all, n sabrina went back to her old church for a few months, but i think God used that experience to make me a stronger person :) ) . Slowly, God revealed things to me n He gave me a vision that i could actually get into the degree course. It seemed unbelievable at first, but i decided to put my trust in Him. It wasnt a smooth trip all the way, but i continued to trust Him. And i did get to do my degree in the end! And now i just graduated this July! :) All in all, it took about 4 years before i got accepted to do my degree! It certainly took me a much longer time than my other sec sch n JC classmates to be accepted into uni, but it has certainly helped me to appreciate the chance to study for a degree. I guess that's why i felt a particularly strong burden for those who wanted to upgrade themselves when Pst Kong said he wanted to pray for them, cos i answered a similar altar call by him about 2 yrs ago. And just a month after that, i got a letter from NIE saying i was accepted into the degree programme!

We cannot fathom the mysteries of God, but we can trust in Him, that what He has in store for us is ALWAYS good, n not evil.