Friday, September 2, 2011;
♥ 4:37 PM
Havent blogged in a long while, and havent been doing my devotions either, but I just decided that i must do devotions today, and it reads a beautiful piece:
When I was a kid, I had a hero: Pete Maravich, a high-scoring basketball player who handled the ball like a magician.
Problem was, my desire to be like Pistol Pete blocked my satisfaction with who God made me to be. When I realized I could never play like Pete, I grew discouraged. I even quit my college team briefly because I couldn’t measure up to the Maravich standard.
Kids still do that kind of thing. They grow unhappy with who God made them to be because they measure themselves by their “perfect” heroes.
Christian singer Jonny Diaz recognized this and wrote a song called “More Beautiful You.” The song begins: “Little girl fourteen flipping through a magazine; says she wants to look that way.” Some young girls wish they could be like Disney star Selena Gomez or another star the way I wanted to be like Maravich. Diaz sings, “There could never be a more beautiful you; don’t buy the
lies . . . ; you were made to fill a purpose that only you could do.” Diaz is saying what another songwriter said under the inspiration of God thousands of years ago: “[We are] fearfully and wonderfully made” (Ps. 139:14).
God made us the way He wants us to be. Believe it. There could never be a more beautiful you.
We are beautiful masterpieces designed by God.
Psalm 139: 1-14
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1 You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
Reminds me of this song
:
展开清晨的翅膀
主耶和华祢已经鉴察了我
我坐下我起来祢都已晓得
我行路我躺卧祢都细察
祢也深知我一切所行
我舌头上的话
祢没有一句不知道
祢在我前后环绕着我
按手在我身上
这样的奇妙是我不能测透
祢的至高祢的尊贵
是我永远不能所及
我可以往那里去躲避祢的灵
我可以往那里去逃可躲避祢的面
我若展开清晨的翅膀飞到地极
就在那里祢的双手也必引导我
Thank you Lord for the wonderful reminder to keep you as the centre of my life every single day.
Missing everybody back home in Sunny island, esp my mum
I love you mum!
the voice of truth
tells me a different story
the voice of truth says
'do not be afraid'
