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Name: Tze Hoong
Country: United States
Metro: Wichita
Birthday: 8/9/1983
Gender: Male
Interests: music, cars, philosophy, serenity of an acoustic guitar's rhythm, a good supper at Quiktrip...
Expertise: Think... (i can't miss this one out!), music, your life problems-my ears, staring at you until you get scared
Occupation: Student
Industry: Business
Message: message meEmail: email me
MSN: heirs@hotmail.com
Yahoo:  tzehoongtan@yahoo.com
Member Since:
1/14/2004
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| Humility to men may be humiliation to God...
Growing up in an Asian culture, humility is an essential virtue that is instilled by parents. A child's performance or achievements are masked with modesty or sometimes even "counter-degrading ". This is for the avoidance of prideful appearance. Even as compliments and appreciations are not handled well, Asians tend to mask down their performance.
This can be a danger, even in the church. There is an understanding... a vital understanding that we are humans that have fallen short of the glory of God. We will continue to make mistakes and there is not much that we can do about our sin-driven nature, other than with the help of God. This very issue is to be established from the very beginning of a believer's faith.
However, we do not need to dwell too much into our own inadequacies. I hear a lot of people spilling their hearts about their failures and how stupid and how undeserving they are... Nothing wrong with that, because it is true right from the start of whether people are realizing it or not. I do understand the humility factor to this but sometimes God is wanting glory from the victory in the things He has done more than our dwelling in repentance.
Know that you are unworthy and undeserving and inadequate but know also of the power and ability of God's forgiveness. So we should stop with too much sulking of our own sins and focus more on the forgiveness he has done. Because if we spend too much time in our inadequacies, we are not glorifying God's work of forgiveness but humiliating Him by not receiving well of the unconditional grace that he extends to us...
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| I'm writing this post for all readers of my blog...
I never knew how boring I was until I went back and read through some of my old entries. Not that I saw myself as interesting, but I become to cautious to be careful what I write. Having to be so guarded, I lose trust in my readers to draw their attention to what is real.
As I browse through my list of readers and their comments, I thought maybe I have become a predictable author of a predicted lifestyle. I forget that it is those little things that tells people what they can identify with... I am trying to change...
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| Many times I have come to the point of rambling my frustrations here but I won't and I can't.
As one that used to be a song-writer, I have tendencies to write about depression, heartaches, being at the end of the rope, wanting change and so forth. But I don't find myself writing much about it anymore. Not that I blog about happy posts and not sad ones, I do have sad ones but I never try to write one without understanding that I have God's safety net underneath it.
It has been an insightful year and the many things that has happened did changed me a little and I do hope for the better. I am meeting God with grace, God has always been almighty to me and I am aware of the punishment of sin but meeting God as grace kept me from running away. Meeting Grace was soft and easing, there was no threat.
So even as I walk through life this time around, I choose not to run away and linger for a chance to see forgiveness that stems from something that I cannot understand. The law of 'cause and consequence' is put on hold, so that I can see God clearer and to my understanding... my stupidity and my intelligence, my fear and my faith is no trigger to my forgiveness. I am just forgiven with no strings attached...
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| I really cannot deny how much God is trying to reach out to me. In my midst of troubles, and worries I am easily put into the spot to find my heart breaking down before Him...
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| Dc talk wrote...
"...remember the deepest seeds still finds the light of day..."
It is God's design, it is how He made it to be. When you have His spirit inside of you, you will know His heart. As far as a seed is buried deep in the ground, its purpose is to grow towards light. It sense sunlight when the sun shines, it knows where to go.
I was hit with news about God and in my heart fled with tears, I cannot hold back the truth that I know about God and the things that I have so very ignored and forgotten. As those words came into my ears and into my heart, I was filled with how much God is real and I knew so very well that my spirit longs to burst into joy and worship. Despite how may be blinded to many distractions in front of me, but when God's words come by, I cannot deny His power and that it brings me to my lowest...
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