On a second thought....

While in the jeep going home, it crossed my mind or should I say I was tempted to play lotto. I was tempted because of the huge jackpot price which is now about 205 million pesos. We're not rich and I'm in the middle of what I so called "crisis in my life". I want to resign from my present job but I'm worrying, what if I wasn't able to find a job immediately after my resignation? Then it crossed my mind, what if I play and win the lotto then my problem will be solved. Anyway playing lotto would only cost me 20 pesos and if I win, I'll be an instant millionaire, the 205 million will be mine. I can resigned at once and there's no need to be in a hurry to look for another job but on a second thought.... I choose to trust God instead of betting in the lotto. I know that God will be my provider so there's no need to try my luck on some lotto games.

- 陳錦錦

How do you describe your love for God???

How would you describe your love for God??? That was the question asked by CAB during our carecell this afternoon. I answered her that I don't know. Honestly I really don't know how would I describe it and until now I'm still wondering the word to describe my love for God. So while pondering, I examine myself, my motive. I asked questions, like why do I go to church every sunday? why am I joining carecell? and why do I suddenly attend prayer meeting? Since I graduated from high school (I graduated from a christian school where every week we had a chapel service) I was worried that I won't be able to go to a church because my parents have different religion. So when the time my mother become a born again christian I was glad. I can go with her in a small church. In 2008 of October 20 while waiting for the result of the exam that I had taken, In my anxiety I told God that if He would just let me pass the exam I would go to church every sunday. Well I wasn't able to fulfilled my promise to go every sunday because there are times that I have to work during sunday particularly in the months of March to April. Though I wasn't able to  fulfilled my promise God is still faithful. I joined carecell because I made a promised again to God at around the 1st quarter of 2009 that if He would just let me get out of my current situation I would joined carecell. He did help me get out of my situation and right now I'm still attending carecell but it's not every week Then the 3rd question that I asked my self why do I suddenly attend prayer meeting? Well I attend prayer meeting because of the difficulty I am having right now with my current job. I remember what DS said during sunday service when she was inviting us to joined the prayer meeting. She had said something like there are things that we like to happened but we don't have the control over the situation so all we can do is pray because prayer is powerful. See I have some problems, so I attended prayer meeting. I read my bible regularly. Back when I was in high school I read my bible because I want to know more about God but now I don't know if knowing more about God is still my reason. There are times when because of tiredness I wasn't able to read my bible and because of that I got fear that something might get wrong. Am I just doing what I'm doing because of my love for God or am I doing it because I fear that if I didn't, things will not turn out well, am I just doing it  to make sure that thing will go okay for me. In my thinking I come to the point of asking myself if I truly love God. I know my fear is unreasonable because God is a loving father. Though we might desert Him, go away from Him, forget Him God will never ever leave us nor forsake us. He still love us no matter what. His love for us never change. I still don't know the word to describe my love for God and I'm still confused. But I know that in time God will make things clear for me and by then I would have the word to describe my love for my Abba Father in Heaven

- 陳錦錦

A lollipop for you

A father giving his daughter a lollipop

When a kid cries or feels bad, sometimes you just have to give her a lollipop to make her stop crying and to brighten up her day. Just a while ago I feel so bad, so down as in super. It seem that you did all your best in your work and yet a client still expresses his dissatisfaction over your work, and what's more, that client is talking to my superior at the top of his lungs. I feel bad, it seems that it's my fault. That client was assigned to me and my superior was being scolded because of my work. and also 因為有一個人在辦公室. I really felt like crying, while waiting for a Jeep going home and still thinking about those things and being emotional I saw a college friend. I approached her and we talk for a while. After our chitchat, you could see a smile in my face because of the gladness that I felt in seeing a friend. I can't help but think how amazing God is. Just at the time that I feel so bad, so down, so depressed, that I felt like crying, God gave me a lollipop to make me feel better. He let me meet a college friend.

And another thing, when I open my face book I felt like God is saying something to me through the application -- God wants you to know. It says:

On this day of your life, Elle, we believe God wants you to know ... that you weren't created to be a failure.
	Sure some things may not have worked out and there have been some disappointments. But all these things helped guide you in a direction that was meant for you. Your life has purpose and significance. Try to be patient if it isn't all crystal clear just yet. For now, just know that you weren't created to fail.

Even though people might not appreciate my effort, I will still do my best because there is someone above who appreciate my effort, there is someone up there who sees how well I do my work and it's none other than my Abba Father. "Whatever you do work at it with all your heart as working for the Lord not for men."

- 陳錦錦

Be careful that you are not deceived

I can't believe this, I can't believe what I'm hearing over the news, from people regarding the beatification of PopeJohn Paul II. In an interviewed a man narrating about his encounter with the pope. He told that he was able to kissed the hand of the pope with the pope's ring in it and how he felt cleansed after kissing it. Upon hearing that interview, I can say that that person is ridiculous. I don't understand why people exalted John Paul II more instead of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the only person who could cleansed us from all our sins and not some human. It is only through Jesus Christ name that our salvation is found.

"Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

- Acts 4:12

"Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

- John 14:6

There are even people who prayed and are glorifying the pope as if he is a god. Do you think that if John Paul II is alive He would be glad to see people praying and glorifying him instead of Jesus Christ?  If  John Paul II is really a godly person then he should not be glad, because if he does, he's not at all the godly person most catholic people think he is. The person who should be glorified and exalted is the Lord Jesus Christ alone and not human. Let's see what John the Baptist replied when his followers were concerned that everyone is going to Jesus to be baptized.

After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were coming and being baptized. (This was before John was put in prison.) An argument developed between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew over the matter of ceremonial washing. They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—look, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him.” To this John replied, “A person can receive only what is given them from heaven. You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah but am sent ahead of him.’ The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. He must become greater; I must become less.”

-John 3:22-30

John the Baptist said "He must become greater, I must become less." John the Baptist was not trying to exalt himself neither does he glorified himself. but he's giving all the glory to the Lord Jesus Christ. Or in case of Paul and Barnabas, what did they do when people in Lystra tried to make them a god and offered sacrifices to them.

In Lystra there sat a man who was lame. He had been that way from birth and had never walked. He listened to Paul as he was speaking. Paul looked directly at him, saw that he had faith to be healed and called out, “Stand up on your feet!” At that, the man jumped up and began to walk.

When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!” Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes because he was the chief speaker. The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates because he and the crowd wanted to offer sacrifices to them.

But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of this, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting: “Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human, like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them. 

- Acts 14:8-15  

The person (John Paul II) that they are trying to exalt, the person (John Paul II) where they prayed to was only human like us. So why pray to him? Why exalt him and give him the glory that should have been for Jesus Christ alone. Going back to beatification process, Beatification according to wikepedia encyclopedia, is a recognition accorded by a certain Church of a dead person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name (intercession of saints). According to the free dictionary, is to proclaim (a deceased person) to be one of the blessed and thus worthy of public religious veneration in a particular region or religious congregation and to exalt above all others. We don't need other intercessor other than Jesus Christ. As far as I'm concerned the only mediator we have is the Lord Jesus Christ, We should never prayed to any other people or in any other name except in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. How can a human acts as an interecessor or mediator between the Father God and another human? That can never be because Human no matter how good He lives is by nature a sinner. The only person who can be a mediator is Jesus Christ alone because He is sinless. The canonization of John paul II would only add up to many idols that a certain religion had. Idols by meaning are anything or anyone that takes a person's attention away from the True God. People are praying, glorifying, and exalting John Paul II instead of Jesus Christ. Clearly, that's idolatry. God hates idolatry. The canonization process involves that the person being canonize should show two miracles. They claimed that John Paul II performed one miracle when a French nun was healed from Parkinson disease after praying to him. I know that what the catholic church are doing is definitely wrong but what I don't understand was the miracle that they claimed that John Paul II performed. If what they're doing is not right how can their be miracle? Last night while praying, I asked God the same question, then the preaching of Jesus about the end of times just enter my mind out of nowhere. I believe that it is God answering me about my question. So I look up at the Bible to confirmed the words that Jesus said, and it says:

"At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you ahead of time"

- Matthew 24:23-25

In the book of Galatians, Paul reaction when many people are turning to a different gospel

"I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!"

- Galatians 1:6-9

So be careful that you are not deceive by false teachings, false gospels and traditions of religion.

- 陳錦錦

Pencil sharpener

Have you ever thought of using a pencil sharpener in your finger to sharpen your nail?

While I was buying a pencil sharpener today, I remember a funny experience with it when I was young but back then it was not a funny experience. Usually grown up ladies had always had their nail long and polished. In fact my mother had a long nail too. Back then I too would like to have a long nail. I don't know what's running in my head at that time, but you know what I did with my index finger?????? I sharpen it with a pencil sharpener thinking that it would grow long, like a pencil that gets sharpen after using the sharpener. The result??? I cried because I wounded myself and there's a blood... Hahaha........  I really cried because of the pain, it may not be super painful but I was a kid back then. Just a simple pain, wound, blood make any other kids cry so why would I be different. Right now I have no desire of making my nail long, it's not phobia as people may think. I just realized that it's not my style. Now whenever I remember that incidents I would laugh and think how foolish I am for thinking such thing

- 陳錦錦