Isaiah 6:1-8 - Burning Off Sin

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This is one of my absolute favourite parts of the Bible, especially when Isaiah has a totally different attitude at the end in verse 8.


There's a lot of different areas of our body that need the burning experience... such as my eyes, my brain for telling my body to be lazy, my body, my hands. Those are the main one, but in general if God desires for my entire self to be burnt then that's better in the long run for me. It's a scary thought though, whenever we pray for change, we don't realise how scary it is. Because God really does answer prayers. It's like praying about impatience, God WILL burn it off harshly by putting different things in your path... I won't say "don't go down that path" because it's a good path. I'm still walking mine, I don't enjoy it as much as I thought though I can tell you that. But we can set our eyes onto the goal. The image of Christ.

Isaiah

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Devotions on the book Isaiah.

Author: Isaiah (traditionally believed)

Song of Songs 8:6-12 - Love is invincible

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The bible always talks about how God's love for us is the jealous kind. Kind of like where v11-12 talks about how the man views his property. Hm... I haven't really come to much "insight" or "growth" through this book... I wonder if Song of Songs is better for when I've experienced more =S

Song of Songs 4:9-15 - God has eyes for you

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If Song of Songs is a comparison of God's love for us, then it sure is a new perspective on His love. We always talk about His love in the broad sense, how it surpasses all love on earth, how it's a sacrificial love, how it's a jealous love etc. Even though we talk about our love as a marriage, we never literally think it.


But out of all the imagery in the passage, I think I'd rather God see me as "on who looks God's way" rather than "one with kisses like honey" or whatever =S That's too innovative for me for now.

Song of Songs 1:5-10 - Accepted just as you are

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Song of Songs is a very interesting book in the Bible for me in the sense that, I LOVE flipping through it and reading it aloud to the world for fun, but I have never just sat down and read through the entire book. Maybe I'm not up to the age yet? I'm not sure.


The conversation seems to be between a man and a woman, and the woman clearly is worrying about her appearance. The man goes nah it's okay you're fine as la di da. Modern society bombards us with narcissistic ideas that we have to keep our self esteem up anyway, so what more does this book tell us? I'm yet to find out too.

Song of Songs

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Devotions on Song of Songs

Author: maybe Solomon... again

Ecclesiastes 11:9-12:7 - Make the Most of Your Youth

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The author of Ecclesiastes is writing in the perspective of an aged person, making a warning to all the youths out there to relish our lives. It's true, old people's bodies don't listen to the brain as much as ours does.


My grandpa is like 90 or something, I remember when I was younger and he was about 60-70, he played with me in the park, took me around to places etc. Now I have to take him around to places. He used to have a very just personality, very quiet and just kept to himself, and in my memory has a very clear conscience. Now he's very pessimistic and morbid, and talks about how the only thing he's waiting for is my graduation, but thinks he can't wait that long etc... it's quite saddening for people around him.

I once heard the sharing of a brother in Christ I really respect... He said that he spent 10 years in Uni and the Uni fellowship called CCF. Some people said he wasted his time, or asking him every year "are you STILL here!?" (most people in CCF stay for 3-5yrs, the length of a degree) But he said, he's really glad he made the decision, and he believes he spent his prime years in God's work and is a great blessing for him. I agree with him. How many more years can we stay up the entire night working on a promotional poster? Or making welcome back for newcomers? Or travel to different places finding props? Or do a lot of physically and mentally draining preparation for programs?

We MUST make use of our youth...

"If you want to walk on water, you've got to get out of the boat" - Chapter 1

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This is an awesome book, telling us about the relationship between risks, failures, growth and our "boats". It focuses on the event where Peter gets out of the boat and walks towards Jesus, and he wrote a new page in history where man walked on water. I'm pretty sure he's the only one I know of, besides Jesus.

We often focus on failures in life, because society tells us to succeed. Peter didn't fail. Peter triumphed on water, although only for a while, and the triumph stopped when he lost focus on Jesus and looked towards the storm. He succeeded. The other 11 disciples failed, because they missed the opportunity to feel success.

I'm a fairly risk-adverse person. I don't gamble(mainly due to my religion, but I wouldn't gamble if I were atheist), I don't buy shares. I never do anything that I think might let me fail. I enjoy my comfort zone very much. Maybe because I have a reputation to keep, it's too much on the stake. If I join a new ministry, and I have no experience in it, then I fail... what will people think of me? I also don't put the effort into making new genuine friendships. I have many acquaintances, but I feel too comfortable with my existing "close friends" to risk putting pointless energy in making new friendships. Probably due to the fear of rejection, and I'm tired.


Whatever it may be, I'm definately one of the disciples in the boat. But the water is where Jesus is...

Book Reflections

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Here I'll be posting some of my thoughts after reading a book.

If you want to walk on water, you've got to get out of the boat - John Ortberg
Chapter 1 - On Water Walking

Redesigning of UNSW CCF website

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I'm in the process of redesigning UNSW CCF's website (accessed at http://www.ccf.unsw.edu.au).

This is the prelim process of the main page template... is the template a little too business looking for a student society?