Spent most of the entire day trying to do my accounting assignment again, i finally got all my answers done, all i have to do is to present it properly and hand it in tomorrow. Nothing special happened today, but there was one thing that got me struck me a bit. Su and i started talking on msn, and then she asked me something like has God spoken to me recently. I couldn't confidently say yes. I have been doing my devotions everyday, and i have been getting a lot of stuff from the Bible, God's word, but when was the last time He actually spoke to me apart from His word? Made me feel that I haven't been spending enough time focusing on God himself. Ever since i stopped playing games, i do feel like i have much more free time, but with this free time that i now have, i haven't really changed it all into God time. I have been sleeping longer, and wasting more time by simply doing nothing. So i realized that i've gotta change all this unproductive time into God time, so i have more time to seek Him and to hear from Him. So the next time someone ask me if God has spoken to me recently, i can confidently say yes.
For today's devotion i read from Ecclesiastes 3:9-14, i stumbled across this passage while taking part in Sam's project #316 :)
9 What does the worker gain from his toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on men. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. 13 That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him.
i felt this passage pretty hard to understand at first, so i had to read it a few times over. Even then it took me a while to get what it meant, and not sure if my understanding is right. Verse 11 was an important verse, its so true and reminded me of the book 'Driven by Eternity'. It's so wonderful to know that God has made everything beautiful in its time, even all the work and toil that we face, and that everything God has placed it upon us is for a reason. I'm still not quite sure of what it meant in verse 11 where it says that 'He has also set eternity in the hearts of men', what is that supposed to mean? Does that mean that in each and everyone of us in our minds God has placed a 'eternity' trigger? So that we may think with an eternity mindset that in whatever we do it would count to how we would spend the rest of eternity? If that's the case, there are still so many people who are unable to understand that what they do now will affect how they spend eternity after they die. Sadly, even i sometimes forgot to turn on this 'eternity' mindset and unconsciously live for the near future. A major reason for this case would mainly be that most people are unable to see and understand that there is such a thing as the spirit realm and it does exist! Many people are blinded by this world and fail to see that there is more to it than it meets the eye, that this is one of the devil's trick to cause people to not believe in God and say that there is no God. But i can't blame them as sometimes we ourselves tend to forget that these things do exist, and thats why we slip back into sin.
My prayer is that we all open our spiritual eyes and ears, and that God will give s His divine wisdom that we may totally understand and realize that the spiritual realm is always there and that it is a very very real thing. May we not fall into the devil's trick where because we can't see it or feel it so it means that it doesn't exist. May we have this discernment and be aware 24/7 about the things that are going on around us in the spiritual realm, because only then would we be able to grow in spirit.
Chains be broken, Lives be healed, Eyes be opened, Christ is revealed
For today's devotion i read from Ecclesiastes 3:9-14, i stumbled across this passage while taking part in Sam's project #316 :)
9 What does the worker gain from his toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on men. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. 13 That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him.
i felt this passage pretty hard to understand at first, so i had to read it a few times over. Even then it took me a while to get what it meant, and not sure if my understanding is right. Verse 11 was an important verse, its so true and reminded me of the book 'Driven by Eternity'. It's so wonderful to know that God has made everything beautiful in its time, even all the work and toil that we face, and that everything God has placed it upon us is for a reason. I'm still not quite sure of what it meant in verse 11 where it says that 'He has also set eternity in the hearts of men', what is that supposed to mean? Does that mean that in each and everyone of us in our minds God has placed a 'eternity' trigger? So that we may think with an eternity mindset that in whatever we do it would count to how we would spend the rest of eternity? If that's the case, there are still so many people who are unable to understand that what they do now will affect how they spend eternity after they die. Sadly, even i sometimes forgot to turn on this 'eternity' mindset and unconsciously live for the near future. A major reason for this case would mainly be that most people are unable to see and understand that there is such a thing as the spirit realm and it does exist! Many people are blinded by this world and fail to see that there is more to it than it meets the eye, that this is one of the devil's trick to cause people to not believe in God and say that there is no God. But i can't blame them as sometimes we ourselves tend to forget that these things do exist, and thats why we slip back into sin.
My prayer is that we all open our spiritual eyes and ears, and that God will give s His divine wisdom that we may totally understand and realize that the spiritual realm is always there and that it is a very very real thing. May we not fall into the devil's trick where because we can't see it or feel it so it means that it doesn't exist. May we have this discernment and be aware 24/7 about the things that are going on around us in the spiritual realm, because only then would we be able to grow in spirit.
Chains be broken, Lives be healed, Eyes be opened, Christ is revealed
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