It was for my own good that I had such hard times

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who had been called according to his purpose"

-Romans 8:28

Have you ever go through to a lot of difficulties, trials and sufferings in life? Have you ever had to deal with difficult people or difficult circumstances? And you feel like there's no way out. Me? I have my own share of difficulties in life. Life in itself is so full of uncertainties, sometimes life is happy and sometimes it's not. But one thing is for sure that God sees whatever circumstances we are undergoing through. He sees the pain, the hurt, the suffering that we went through brought by events and people around us. In our pain, God is also in pain, in our suffering God also suffers. I know in my heart that our Heavenly Father is not willing to send all those sufferings in our life but He had to for our own good. Like an earthly father who had a child with cancer. He let his child to undergo through medication process, We all knew that medication for cancer is a painful process. As his child goes through the process, He sees his child suffered and cried in pain, He also along with his child suffers. He's not willing to let his child to suffered all those pain but he had to for his child to get well. In the same way our Heavenly Father had to send those difficulties for our own good. It is through problems, trials and difficulties that God works to mold us to become the person God wants us to be. So if your'e suffering and having difficulty in any way cheer up for God is in control of all our circumstances.

"Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?"

- Lamentation 3:37.

"I create the light and make the darkness. I send good times and bad times. I, the Lord, am the one who does these things"

-Isaiah 45:7.

"It was for my own good that I had such hard times."

-Isaiah 38:7a

- 陳錦錦

Are you coward???

Have you ever known or met people who are backstabbers? I don't know why but it seems that there are a lot of people who enjoy badmouthing other people behind their back. With their spare time they either gossip or badmouth others, In the process they ended up judging others to the point of degrading others as if they were perfect. Don't they know what the Bible tells us about judging and gossiping?

"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."

-Matthew 7:1-5

"But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgement for every careless word they have spoken."

-Matthew 12:36

"The tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell."

-James 3:5-6

Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting judgement on it."

-James 4:11

"He who gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy man keeps a secret"

-Proverbs 20:19

I don't know what they can get from talking about the lives of others or what they can get from backstabbing and degrading others. The most coward people in this world are those people who can't tell something against you straight to your face but instead saying those things against you behind your back. Not brave enough, right? Are you one of them? Are you coward?

- 陳錦錦

To different places, Never thought even in my wildest imagination

Before I got my second job. I had never gone to far places alone. When I was a student my routine was home, school, then school, home. You might say that my life as a student was boring but I didn't think it that way back then. I, an introvert person usually prefer to stay at home than outside. And honestly right now, I have a little regret. I should have spend more time with my friends. I should have gone to different places while still a student so as to broaden my experiences. Well it's not yet too late, with my second job I was able to go alone as far as the Bulacan province and that's because the job requires it. At first I was scared, I never gone alone to far places except school and office. When I was still young I gone to Baguio, Tagaytay, and Zambales to name a few but with my relatives. At high school, I gone as far as Laguna because of field trip and the senior's retreat and it's with teachers, counselors and pastors. At college, I gone to the farthest place I ever went through, the province of Isabella. Went their with my friends and it's because one of our subjects requires us to have a plant visit. You see whenever I gone to far places I never traveled alone, it's either I'm with my relatives, with my teachers, counselors, pastors or with my friends. So when my boss told me that I have to go to a place outside Metro manila, my natural reaction was, I was afraid. The first to fourth times I went to M. Bulacan, an officemate goes with me and I think that by the fifth time I went alone and I was really so scared. Then on  my next and succeeding visit to M. Bulacan the nervousness inside me died down and my feelings were normal I'm not scared anymore. Recently because of the year end inventory count I went to P. Bulacan, the first time I went there I traveled with my superior and the second time I traveled alone and I had an uneasy feeling. To go there to P. Bulacan I need to go to the Grace Park bus terminal, It's my first time to go alone there at that terminal and was afraid that I won't be able to see it or the jeep that I rode might passed it without me noticing it but thankfully to God I was able to noticed it. Then yesterday I went to Araneta Cubao alone. During my fourth year in college I remembered going to Cubao with my friend. But yesterday I went there alone to meet my officemate and to do work. Never thought even in my wildest imagination that I would be able to went to those places alone. So far I already went as far as Pasay, Makati, Monumento, Grace park, M. Bulacan, P. Bulacan and to Cubao alone. And right now I'm waiting where's the next place that I'll be traveling alone. It's fun because it will add to my experiences, and going to places alone teaches me to become more independent and to be dependent only to God. Well at first it was scary but when you got used to it the feelings would be normal.

- 陳錦錦

I'm in a good hand with God

Another year had passed, another year has come. Oh how times really flies so fast. It seems that the year had just turn 2010 and now it's already 2011. I don't know what to expect this year. I don't know what would happened to my life. Will I'll be rich? Will I a have blossoming carrier, or will I finally get a love life? I don't know the answers to those question but God does. God knows what lies ahead. Whatever God has in mind for me I know it's for my own good, that's what he promises in His word to His sons and daughters. "For I know the plans I have for you declared the Lord plan to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you a hope and a future" Jeremiah 29:11. So there's no need for me to be afraid about what year 2011 will brings. In fact I welcome 2011 with a smile because I'am rest assured that I'm in a good hand with God.

- 陳錦錦