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Name: Jonathan
Birthday: 4/29/1984
Gender: Male
Expertise: Cooking and delivering breakfast early morning, I guess I'm also good at not answering questions correctly.
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| This space has been abandoned for sometime. Though as time passed, I seem to grow out of blogging - or may be I'm just lazy. Anyway, I have been returning to the book that I left before finals - Glory Days by Julian Hardyman and would like to share this very obvious but important point.
In this chapter called the two great commission and two great commandments, Hardyman contrasted the implications of each of them, and challenged us (at least me) to think about the application of all of them as a combination. At the end of the chapter, he used this simple but effective illustration.
"Actually everything we do flows out of our being new creations: (a list of examples)....... And the problem is not that some things are spiritual and some are secular. The question is whether we do things for the glory of God or not:
Spiritual - done for God's glory Secular - done for ourselves (i.e. sinfully)
Worship, prayer, bible study - Worship, prayer, bible study
Work in church to enable all of ...work in church to enable all of the above
the above
Home life, family life, working life Home life, family life, working life
Friends, community involvement Friends, community involvement
Hobbies, holidays Hobbies, holidays"
A lot of the time I think that when I do a list of things (particularly church related activities, and more recently - my "work"), I'm doing OK as a Christian. Though as the table above points out, it's not just the action, but also the attitude and the heart. Whether you're doing things for the glory of God, only you and Jesus would know. Though I confess that a lot of the time, I find it hard to - especially on the inside.
A lot has happened recently, and many areas of my life is changing rapidly, which unfortunately (or fortunately) forced me to face up to myself and ask "how am I living my life for Jesus" and also "how could I live my life for Jesus?". The bible makes it very clear, though whether one would be able to follow is, perhaps, not so straightforward. Yet, I long to see transformation, and that's my prayer for now, and will be for a long time.
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| 8th week Wednesday, Hilary Term 2007. I have just had a class and people were counting down the classes and lectures left in our time in Oxford. It is frightening to hear or realise that I now have, 1 lecture(!) and 6 classes remaining before I have completed the cource teaching for my MEng course!!! In no more than 4 months time, I'll be walking out of exams schools, finishing my finals. The closer I get to the end of this chapter of life, the more I regret not doing more during the time as a university student. Looking back, the past four years seems quicker than a blink of an eye, and probably worse still, I can't recall what I've gained or learnt (well... if I really have to, I can  ). In any case, I still have 6 classes and 1 lecture, and there's not much room for procrastination as yet - will there ever be? | | |
| I think I finally start to see why Chinese see drinking soup at home such an important thing (for me anyway).... it is a blessing to have something nice at the end of a long day.  All I want to say for today: Praise God. | | |
| Went to Chinese Church today, and the bonus of staying for early dinner is - a very tasty box of egg tart, and "Lo Por Beng".  Some others got pineapple buns as well. On top the needed interaction, I guess it made the stay that little bit more worthwhile. Week 3... = worse than 5th week. Delayed lectures, delayed classes, and delayed experiments all piled into 1 week. And on top of that, putting things into place for the Saturday evangelistic meeting. Still praying for many to come and to know Christ. If you're reading this and you have 30 sec, please pray those coming, for the speaker, and for those taking part and that God's will be done. Though I do thank God that I currently have no interviews or tests to sit. Quite extraordinary consider that I had 2 per week until week 1. But I trust that it's all in good hands - God's, full of love and strength. | | |
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