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Thursday, July 21, 2005

-The Right thing @ the Wrong time is still the Wrong thing-

BGR, having relationships nowadays are very common and if you all tell me you don't have any attraction for the opposite sex, I'll say you are lying! (mayb except for Yvonne..lol)
Therefore instead of hiding/running away from this topic, we should be more knowledgable and of coz more accountable when comes to handling this issue. Below is an article that I read online that I feel is very useful and inspiring. Pls take your time to read it.

The Right thing @ the Wrong time is still the Wrong thing

We can only determine the appropriate time to pursue romance when we understand God's purpose for singleness and trust His timing for relationships.
Modern culture thrives on immediate satisfaction to our desire (follow your heart etc), but God's Word teaches that there are appointed seasons for everything in our lives, including relationships.

Three principles are given to help adjust wrong attitudes toward the timing of relationships:
1. The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing. A good thing taken out of its appropriate season can actually be destructive.
2. We don't need to shop for something we can't afford. Before two people are ready for the responsibility of commitment, they should content themselves with friendship and wait for romance and intimacy.
3. Any season of singleness is a gift from God. God has created this season as an unparalleled opportunity for growth and service. We shouldn't let it slip by.

Waiting for God's timing requires trust in God's goodness. We develop patience as we trust that God denies us good things in the present only because He has something better for us in the future. Waiting for God's timing also requires strength. This strength comes from God alone. His strength and grace will sustain us through any circumstance.

True Contentment
That was the apostle Paul's secret. In Philippians 4:11-13, he wrote, "I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength."

For Paul, the knowledge that God is sovereign and will sustain those who trust Him was the secret to contentment. Apply it to your situation. Are you content even if a relationship is something you have to wait months or years for? Do you believe that the "everything" God's strength will help you do includes waiting on His timing for romance? Do you believe that God's strength can meet you in your present circumstances and help you be obedient right where you are? If you can, then you've found the secret to contentment-something that no one can take from you.

Excerpted from the "I Kissed Dating Goodbye Study Guide by Joshua Harris + www.crosswalk.com

Some notes from me: This is very true, because I have come across many so called right guys but they came @ the wrong time and so I have to choose if I want to go ahead with the relationship and of coz I choose to wait... and God always reveal that in the end it was not to be. From these experiences I learnt that God indeed want the best for me, and if I am willing to be patient and trust in Him, God will bless me with the best guy I can ever have instead of some tom, dick or harry (oops..lol)
Many people are amazed that I managed to stay single for almost 4 years (given my 'old' age) but while it is not easy in the natural, in my heart i have that true contentment in God that no matter what the outcome, it will be the best for me. Therefore I will not want to even consider anyone that is not the best for me.

So young people of W300, learn to trust in God in every area. Don't be too caught up with heat or passion that you lose your mind.

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Felix's Testimony

Hi everyone...just want to shared with you all how I got saved in church. Some of you guys have heard of this testimony while the others haven't. Anyway, it's a great honor for me to share what God has done for me when I first got saved in church. So, hope you will take some time to read through it and be blessed by it.

I remembered I was being pestered to church by a certain wonderful sister called Samantha. Upon arriving at the church, I was immediately amazed by the church building, the church auditorium, the svc and the members...then came the altar call, when Pstor Phil had asked for those people who had put up their hands to come down to the altar, I was felt suspicious and quite reluctant to do so coz in my heart I don't want to become a Christian and the only reason I put up my hand is because I admit I am not perfect and have sins in me(I know nuts about altar call or anything to do with Christianity at that time)...anyway, I was easily persuaded by Samantha to come down to the altar call(at that time I still don’t know the true meaning of responding to the altar call) and it was until I went up from the altar call then I knew that I have made a decision to accept Christ to be my Lord and savior…so there I am, saved for my first time in church but without anyway emotions, commitment and faith in my salvation but rather someone who is quite reluctant and downhearted about it…but I decided to give God a chance and this church a chance to prove to me why all these people can be so fervent about their religion...

For next three weeks or so, whenever anyone ask me how I was being saved in church, I would answered them that I was saved by luck and chance, that my salvation is really a funny one and it cant be any lamer...I mean, where got people get saved so unknowingly and unwillingly as me??...but little do I know, God has already shown His grace and mercy towards me on that day I was saved..

One night, after a makeup cell, I was home getting ready to sleep...lying on my bed, my mind was going through all the things that happened on the day itself…my mind then came up a recapped of what happen after the makeup cell where I was waiting for a bus with a sister call Hengling. We had a brief conversation regarding my salvation..

Hengling: "Felix, tell me how you get saved in church lei."

Me: "Oh, aiya... it was by luck one la... "

Then all a sudden, a voice spoke in my mind "Hey Felix, you are not saved by chance" I was stunned and my eyes were wide opened now, I knew it was not my voice and I was afraid (I mean who wont?? Don’t tell me you are not afraid when you heard a voice and there is no one around…) but all the fears were quickly swept away now as a strong and thick wave of love started to descend upon my body and in my mind, a vision birth forth…it was the day of my salvation, I can see God’s Spirit hovering across the sanctuary looking for souls, and He saw me, and He knew me, that why He purposed in His heart to let me got saved unknowingly so I may have the chance to know Him and experience His great love towards me...

Tears started to stream down my cheeks as I caught hold of this truth from the vision God had revealed to me…and in the awesome presence of His love, grace and majesty, what else can I do than to rejoice, dance and kneel before my great King.

Haha...sometimes I wonder is it because I am been so faithless in my salvation even after so many people have told me it was by God will I am saved that God has to come down personally to show correct me…so my friends, I don’t want you to make the same mistakes as I do, I just want to assured you all that your salvations are no fake!! No matter how you see your salvation as "unspecial" or you feel unworthy that God would actually want to save you (like what I felt when I first got saved), know that you are very significant to God. :)

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