I don't mind if you've got something nice to say about me
And I enjoy an accolade like the rest
You could take my picture and hang it in a gallery
Of all who's who and so-n-so's that used to be the best
At such'n'such ... it wouldn't matter much
I won't lie, it feels alright to see your name in lights
We all need an 'Atta boy' or 'Atta girl'
But in the end I'd like to hang my hat on more besides
The temporary trappings of this world
I want to leave a legacy
How will they remember me?
Did I choose to love? Did I point to You enough
To make a mark on things?
I want to leave an offering
A child of mercy and grace who
blessed your name unapologetically
And leave that kind of legacy
I don't have to look too far or too long awhile
To make a lengthly list of all that I enjoy
It's an accumulating trinket and a treasure pile
Where moth and rust, thieves and such will soon enough destroy
Not well traveled, not well read, not well-to-do or well bred
Just want to hear instead, "Well Done" good and faithful one...
reason being that i might be blogging my week's stuff..haha.. or i tend to be long winded. i am so used to go on to stream of consciousness state when i start writing (haha.. those who read lit will noe stream of consciousness is, but of coz, im not like sylvia plath who did it in a way that u nd much reading, im still readable..haah) anyway, was reading some blogs of my frens and decide to post one. u see sometimes frens do inspire u to write coz u have comments after u read theirs.
realise that most blogs, if not all, involves things abt themselves. well, that is of coz, coz is like a personal journal. but then the difference is..hm.. or rather u see the emphasis on the different thigns. soem ppl alwasy tok abt their problesm. so ppl only tok abt other ppl's problems(that is busybody) some ppl always tok abt their hurts and of coz, some just narrate wat has happened to them. ha.. me..i guess i just type watever comes to my mind. and i happened to type more and more without writing wat i realli wanted to when i turn on my blogger.
i tink i have past the problems abt emotions. not that i dun have, but somehow when u turn older, or rather the Lord's grace, those things about urself dun seemed to matter anymore. those mood swings, those feelings of rejections, those feelings abt i want to leave this world just simply left my head. ok.. i guess is not just mental maturity but rather spiritual maturity. things that i worried abt has become of other ppl rather than myself. though in an angle, it is still about myself, but the emphasis is not on me anymore. afterall like i said to jonathan this afternoon. Christianity is on people ministry. and why we care abt people and minister to people beause people is in the very heart of God. That is why Jesus came to die for us. He has compassion for the people and it is in His very heart. People misnistry is not ez. y? coz humans have free will, free choice. not like other things. and that is wat makes human special. God make humans with free will. they can choose. they do not just respond to stimuli. and humans are often not sensible though they think they are. heart fell for those who do not noe the Lord and are struggling with life. frankly speaking, if they noe the Lord, life will be so much so much better. how do i noe? coz i am a living testimony! ha...
one thing i learned. be thankful for everything! God is good, all the time! amen!
took this excerpt from a book..
He gave Rees a sudden shock one night by asking him if he was "born again". Rees had never heard the expression. He was " as ignorant as Nicodemus." But he knew he was wounded and raised his defenses:"what do you mean? My life is as good as yours." " That's not the point. Put it this way: do you know you are saved?"" I am a Christian, and that's good enough for me."
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The light began to dawn as he was reading one of an outstanding book of that time, Professor Henry Drummond's Natural Law in the Spiritual World. Drummondwas telling how he had never thought it possible to give a definition of life, till he found one in the works of Herbert Spencer, who said that life is "corresondence with environment." A child is born with five sense and various bodily organs, and each corresponds with something in his environment: the eye sees sights, the ears hears sounds, the lungs breathe air, and so on. ' While I can correspond with my environment, I have life, " said Spencer, "but if something happened to me which prevented me from corresponding with my environment then i should be dead; death is failure of correspondence,"
Drummond took the definition back to Adam. The Lord has told him that the day he disobeyed, he would surely die. Did he die? On Spencer's definition he died spiritually, for though he continued to have a natural life, he lost his correspondence with God and could only come back to Him on way of sacrifice, the way of a victim killed in his stead.
On reading this, the first thought that came to Rees was, Has he correspondence with God? Could he say the Saviour was as real to him as his mother? Did he know God as a daily presence in his life, or did he only think of Him in prayer meetings? If he died, had he another environment with which to correspond? He was a part of his parents - distance didn't interfere with their fellowship, but he hadn't a relationship with God like that. Back came those words to him which his cousin had constantly been quoting:" Except a man be born again... he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God."
" I saw it!" said Rees. " I believed in the Savior, but one thing i knew, I wasn't born of Him. So far as having correspondence with the spiritual realm where the Saviour lived, I was a dead man, I was outside the kingdom, which all my good life and religion had never enabled me to enter, I was outside, though i was not a drunkard or a thief, beacuse I had no correspondence with God.
are u in the Kingdom of God? or are u still outside? mayb like Rees, u have only seen, but u have not enter... or have u even seen it?
Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born gain, he cannot see the kingdom of God." Jesus answered, " Most assuredly I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Jn 3:3,5
