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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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| Luke 23:39-43...
It was not a mystery that Jesus is innocent. He stands among the public and led a life honoring the Father. The reason for His persecution was also clear, and that reason stems from the pharisees' own sanctimony.
It takes knowing of who Jesus is and trust in Him as the prisoner did, and to find himself being with God in the end. It takes knowing the truth, and as so prominently, the truth sets you free...
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| How do you know that you are forgiven? How do you know that God saw your repentance and deemed it to be true and genuine? How do you know that God is pleased with you? How do you know that you are safe with Him when you leave this world? How do you know that He still keeps hold of you despite of your failure and sins?
Romans 8:27-39...
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| I want to bury my face into the ground, breathe the dirt, and go blind...
I don't think I am a person who can handle too much stress and pressure, at a certain point I will start shaking.
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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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