100th Post

Finally reached the 100th post mark after like what, 4 years? Not bad though, 25 posts a year :P.

So how does one then commemorate such an "achievement"? Keeping a blog has allowed me to look back at what I was 4 years ago in NS and see the journey that God has so graciously led me through.

Looking even further back, I cannot help but be amazed at how God has led me through my short 23 years on this Earth and I will commemorate this 100th post by declaring His faithfulness and Grace.

Primary 4 1994 - Having chosen Scouts as my CCA, somehow we had to redo the whole exercise due to some administrative problem. Talked to my mum and she said: "Join BB cause your dad and uncles had all been part of it." And thus started my time in the BB

1997 - Posted to SJI. Somehow managed to appeal into ACS(I) and joined 12th(I)

1999 - That one night of brokenness and helplessness in LTC II. The day we bared our hearts and our vulnerabilities to one another.

2000 - The camp that God so graciously came even though we were so undeserving of Him. The six months in Boarding School where I was so overwhelmed by God's power and Majesty.

2003-2005 - The NS years where even though I wandered away so many times, God came and guided me through. Went through BMT twice and still managed to enter OCS. Got assigned to RSAF ADA then reassigned to C3, a (I admit) much easier vocation than most.

This is a faithful saying:
For if we died with Him,
We shall also live with Him.
If we endure,
We shall also reign with Him.
If we deny Him,
He also will deny us.
If we are faithless,
He remains faithful;
He cannot deny Himself.

- 2 Timothy 2:11-13

Back to Basics & to repentance

Since the end of last year I had been asking God for a Word, for myself and especially in view of the (very close) TA Camp, and the words that struck me were "Back to Basics"

What is the crux of salvation? What is it that defines Christianity when you strip away all the high theology and "cheem" arguments of Creation versus evolution. As Paul wrote to the Corinthians,

"And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony[a] of God. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified."
- 1 Corinthians 2: 1-2

Back to the cross. Back to that single greatest moment in human history when God Himself sent His only begotten Son to die on the cross for the redemption of man in spite of man's terrible sin. Back to the realization that only the death of the Son of God would satisfy the wrath of God that had so far been stored up for sinful man.

Back to repentance, to the daily confession of Sin, realizing that the evidence of salvation is a changed life. Back to the realization that God deserves EVERYTHING that I have because of the price that was paid. Back to praying unceasingly and to the weeping over my sins and for those in my care.

What is my greatest fear as of now? That I may one day lose this fervor and desire for holiness and righteousness. Lord I pray that this may not be so.

For all Christians to Remember

Do nothing that you would not like God to see.
Say nothing that you would not like God to hear.
Write nothing that you would not like God to read.
Go no place where you would not like God to find you.
Read no book of which you would not like God to say, “Show it to Me.”
Never spend your time in such a way that you would not like to have God say, “What are you doing?”

-J.C. Ryle

Another Reminder

Though the fig tree may not blossom,
Nor fruit be on the vines;
Though the labor of the olive may fail,
And the fields yield no food;
Though the flock may be cut off from the fold,
And there be no herd in the stalls—
Yet I will rejoice in the LORD,
I will joy in the God of my salvation.
The LORD God is my strength;
He will make my feet like deer’s feet,
And He will make me walk on my high hills.

Habakkuk 3: 17-19