Psalm 40:2
He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along.
The past 2 weeks have been filled with heaps and heaps of stuff. I don't call it work because so much of it were not value added and really just a pain in light of the key projects which I needed to do. I liken it to having many pesky houseflies constantly flying around you as you attempt to sit down by a breezy beach to read a book.
But thankfully, despite the long hours spend at office and with constant barrage of people coming by to ask for 1 cent, 2 cent work to be settled by me, somehow the past 2 weeks have gone by swiftly. Again and again, the key verse that I've been chanting to myself as I walked to the bus stop in the morning and in the evening was "do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own" (Matthew 6:34).
I know that by the very grace of God, every moment of the past 9 days have been covered by God's covering as I walked along. Why? Simply because as I entered the office and before I could settle down on my routine to wask my mug, get my water, much on a fruit and read my TODAY newspaper, I'll be asked work-related questions and would have to immediately get engaged in work.
Thus, in the midst of doing this and that, I also had to restart my 'get-a-drink-before-work' routine and part of that routine was to flip this daily 'best loved psalm' calendar. Amidst all the tumultuous work stuff and messed up daily routine of mine, every one of the daily psalm spoke to me in my daily condition. Some days it was of being blessed in the Lord because His lovingkindness is better than life, yet some other days it was about His unfailing love being my comfort and His compassion to come to me that I may live.
Not to sound shallow or hypocritical, but to lift up my hands and to thank God is very easy when you have just received a wonderful blessing. But it's always very difficult to do it during the worst moments. However, during the past 2 extremely messed up weeks, somehow there was a special covering that prevented me from dragging my feet to work, sighing all day long in grief and wondering why I was there at work and not somewhere else.
Looking back at the past situation, I'm grateful for the covering of God and provision of grace when I was in the midst of the mess. I'm not saying that it made me numb and all problems adn issues disappeared, but somehow amidst the chaos and mess, I didn't seem to lose my mind and I could calmly profess that nothing is out of control because God was in it. Only when I look back now do I realise the difference God makes in our lives. Unlike non-Christians, we have a different life because we have the covering of God's glorious grace as we live/work/study on the earth.
If you've been hit by a barrage of stuff that have made your life topsy-turvy, I pray too that you may find the covering of God's grace that would shield your mind from the messed-up conditions around you.
Blessings,
M.
"Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name." (Hebrews 13:15)
30 August 2007
Grace during the Past 2 Weeks
Psalm 40:2
He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along.
The past 2 weeks have been filled with heaps and heaps of stuff. I don't call it work because so much of it were not value added and really just a pain in light of the key projects which I needed to do. I liken it to having many pesky houseflies constantly flying around you as you attempt to sit down by a breezy beach to read a book.
But thankfully, despite the long hours spend at office and with constant barrage of people coming by to ask for 1 cent, 2 cent work to be settled by me, somehow the past 2 weeks have gone by swiftly. Again and again, the key verse that I've been chanting to myself as I walked to the bus stop in the morning and in the evening was "do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own" (Matthew 6:34).
I know that by the very grace of God, every moment of the past 9 days have been covered by God's covering as I walked along. Why? Simply because as I entered the office and before I could settle down on my routine to wask my mug, get my water, much on a fruit and read my TODAY newspaper, I'll be asked work-related questions and would have to immediately get engaged in work.
Thus, in the midst of doing this and that, I also had to restart my 'get-a-drink-before-work' routine and part of that routine was to flip this daily 'best loved psalm' calendar. Amidst all the tumultuous work stuff and messed up daily routine of mine, every one of the daily psalm spoke to me in my daily condition. Some days it was of being blessed in the Lord because His lovingkindness is better than life, yet some other days it was about His unfailing love being my comfort and His compassion to come to me that I may live.
Not to sound shallow or hypocritical, but to lift up my hands and to thank God is very easy when you have just received a wonderful blessing. But it's always very difficult to do it during the worst moments. However, during the past 2 extremely messed up weeks, somehow there was a special covering that prevented me from dragging my feet to work, sighing all day long in grief and wondering why I was there at work and not somewhere else.
Looking back at the past situation, I'm grateful for the covering of God and provision of grace when I was in the midst of the mess. I'm not saying that it made me numb and all problems adn issues disappeared, but somehow amidst the chaos and mess, I didn't seem to lose my mind and I could calmly profess that nothing is out of control because God was in it. Only when I look back now do I realise the difference God makes in our lives. Unlike non-Christians, we have a different life because we have the covering of God's glorious grace as we live/work/study on the earth.
If you've been hit by a barrage of stuff that have made your life topsy-turvy, I pray too that you may find the covering of God's grace that would shield your mind from the messed-up conditions around you.
Blessings,
M.
"Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name." (Hebrews 13:15)
He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along.
The past 2 weeks have been filled with heaps and heaps of stuff. I don't call it work because so much of it were not value added and really just a pain in light of the key projects which I needed to do. I liken it to having many pesky houseflies constantly flying around you as you attempt to sit down by a breezy beach to read a book.
But thankfully, despite the long hours spend at office and with constant barrage of people coming by to ask for 1 cent, 2 cent work to be settled by me, somehow the past 2 weeks have gone by swiftly. Again and again, the key verse that I've been chanting to myself as I walked to the bus stop in the morning and in the evening was "do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own" (Matthew 6:34).
I know that by the very grace of God, every moment of the past 9 days have been covered by God's covering as I walked along. Why? Simply because as I entered the office and before I could settle down on my routine to wask my mug, get my water, much on a fruit and read my TODAY newspaper, I'll be asked work-related questions and would have to immediately get engaged in work.
Thus, in the midst of doing this and that, I also had to restart my 'get-a-drink-before-work' routine and part of that routine was to flip this daily 'best loved psalm' calendar. Amidst all the tumultuous work stuff and messed up daily routine of mine, every one of the daily psalm spoke to me in my daily condition. Some days it was of being blessed in the Lord because His lovingkindness is better than life, yet some other days it was about His unfailing love being my comfort and His compassion to come to me that I may live.
Not to sound shallow or hypocritical, but to lift up my hands and to thank God is very easy when you have just received a wonderful blessing. But it's always very difficult to do it during the worst moments. However, during the past 2 extremely messed up weeks, somehow there was a special covering that prevented me from dragging my feet to work, sighing all day long in grief and wondering why I was there at work and not somewhere else.
Looking back at the past situation, I'm grateful for the covering of God and provision of grace when I was in the midst of the mess. I'm not saying that it made me numb and all problems adn issues disappeared, but somehow amidst the chaos and mess, I didn't seem to lose my mind and I could calmly profess that nothing is out of control because God was in it. Only when I look back now do I realise the difference God makes in our lives. Unlike non-Christians, we have a different life because we have the covering of God's glorious grace as we live/work/study on the earth.
If you've been hit by a barrage of stuff that have made your life topsy-turvy, I pray too that you may find the covering of God's grace that would shield your mind from the messed-up conditions around you.
Blessings,
M.
"Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name." (Hebrews 13:15)
