be a listener

My dear brothers and sisters, take note

of this: Everyone should be quick to listen,

slow to speak and slow to become angry,

because our anger does not

produce the righteousness

that God desires.

(James 1:19-20)

There's a time to speak, and there's a time to be silent. All this time, I think I just talk and talk, and less listen. But it's better that sometimes we can be just like Samuel.

And Samuel said,

"Speak, for thy servant hears."

(1 samuel 3:10b)

So, here I am humbly myself, to say. "God, please speak, I'm here listening".

Have a blessed day.

something to think about

Have u ever doubt God's presence?

Well I was. But, it just the most stupid thing that I ever did. I never questioned and doubt other things in my life, yet to believe in God just a difficult thing to do.

Sometimes when you are outside playing, I bet you see the leaves blowing in the wind and feel the wind blowing against your skin. Can you see the wind? NO! But you know it is there because you can feel it, can't you?

It's the same thing like God. Altough we cant see Him, but we know He's there, we can feel Him : His love, His magnificent power through His creation. Take a look around you! Is it make sense, that nothing made everything? when everything is just happen accidentally?

Although we cant see Him, but we believe, we have big faith.

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

Hebrews 11:1.

I'm gonna learn to listen to God, although i cant see Him. I just know it that He is always beside me.

Last night I listened to Mandisa's song. I've found 2 songs that I like the most. This is one of them, the other one is in previous post , it's called (The definition of me - mandisa) :

Everybody's got an opinion
Of what they want me to be
Everybody's got a condition
That I may never meet

So tired of looking in the mirror
It always says the same thing
I want to be about something different
Something more than the mirror can see

Like joy, peace
Alive in me
When it comes to my identity

I want the love
I want the light
I want the beauty
On the inside
I want the one that you can't see
To be the definition of me
More than the face
More than the girl
More than the voice
More than the world
I want the truth that I believe
To be the definition of me

Pretty is cool for a minute
But it always fades away
Trends are hot for a second
They'll be gone the very next day

So before you get lost in the moment
Let’s get one thing clear
Only love will last forever
That's the reason that we're here

It's up to you ‘cause everybody's looking
Who do you want them to see?

They say I’m cute with the boots
And the trendy attire
You kinda reminiscent of a younger Mariah
But do they see beyond what I got, what I rock
They’d be shocked if they knew it was my soul that was hot
Hot boys don’t affect my own self respect (no!)
And neither do the magazines and vanity tests
Who’s fly and what’s next
Start it off with love, joy, peace, and end it with blessed

Not guilty

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. For these couple of days, there was something wrong with me. I wasnt feel good at all, I began to doubt God's plan in my life, and focused way too much to my problem. To be honest, it was irritating. I didnt like this kinda feeling at all, I didnt want this to happen. Everything I convinced myself to be positive, but what happened was I just fall deeper. Everytime I remembered this, I just began to cry. I was hurt.

But, just a moment a ago. I accidentally found this song, and I searched the lyric:

I stand accused, there's a list of my long

of all my sins, of everything that I've done wrong

I'm so ashamed, there's nowhere left for me to hide

This is the day, i must answer for my life

My fate is in the Judges hands,

But He turns to me and says

I know you, I love you

I gave My life, to save you

Love paid the price, for Mercy

My verdict, not guilty

How can it be, i cannot begin to comprehend

what kind of Grace, would take the place for all my sins

I stand in owe, now that i have been set free

As the tears well up, as i look at that Cross

Coz it should've been me

My fate was in the Lord's sweet hands,

He stretched them out for me and said

Im falling on my knees to thank You

With everything i am, I praise You

Some people pull the words i heard you say

Love paid the price, for Mercy

My verdict is, not guilty.

This is it, today's the day that I must answer my life, to stand up again, getting off things that I once love and began to love again thesedays. Thanks God for the new hope, new strength. Now Im ready to face the day.

ps: you can listen this song at http://www.tangle.com/Mandisa --- NOT GUILTY

If I listened to all of the praise, I could easily fall into pride, and if I listened to all the horrible things people say, I could easily fall into depression. But God is showing me that my value, my dependence, and my satisfaction, need to come from Him. Satisfaction doesn’t need to come from food. It doesn’t need to come from what other people think about me. Finding satisfaction in God is what true freedom is. - mandisa