plans

The past weekend with Nick Vujicic was simply amazing. I really really wished my friends came for the service. Nick was born without arms and legs, and everyone thot it was a tragic event. His parents were church pastors, and everyone was shocked when he was born cos no one understood why they deserve such a "punishment", Can you imagine the thots that probably went thru their minds? And Nick himself, the hurt and pain he must have gone thru. Times when he read the bible and it said


Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."


How can someone who has to be dependant on others all his life possibly have a future?


Yea i guess some of you may probably attribute his ability to overcome all these as part of his strong will power, but today I'm not asking you to compare your situation with someone who is worse off than you are cos theres simply no hope in doing that.


But whenever you ask God why... why am I in this situation today.. I thot the bible said "ask and we'll receive" but "why?"...

I'm sure Nick and his parents prayed for a miracle to happen. Prayed for miracle arms and legs...and thats when what he said hit me.


see we always plan the miracle FOR GOD. haha ok mayb not "we" but I.

I have the tendency to "think on God's behalf" to plan the way that God can do a miracle in my life. and maybe thats why I had sucha bad fall earlier this year. Like when I first found out i was rejected frm nus, I had it all planned out in my head. That God will do a miracle by getting me in thru the appeal period and then I can give testimony for him. and then when i din work out, i thot hey, when i get into ntu, den i'll be able to give testimony abt the miracle he has done for me. And so it goes on and on. when things dun work out the way i plan, i always have a back up plan for God. hahahha. sounds funny.


and in fact, Nick was sharing abt how he too planned the way he's going to be a testimony for God. He was thinking like if God miraculously grew arms and legs for him, he would hit the headlines, the news!. He would go all around the world to share his testimony abt how God gave him arms and legs miraculously.


But if you think abt it, would his testimony be as powerful as it is today? I mean if he now came to us as a physically healed man. And showed us pictures of his past. I think many people will say its just camera tricks.


Indeed, when we are weak, HE is strong. His strength is made whole in our weakness.


hahaha wait a min, I'm not saying God is sadistic. He has great plans for us. And what seems great to me may not be great to God, cos it pales in comparison to the even GREATER things he has planned for me.



Oh well. but i must admit. till today, i'm still trying to figure out what is God's GREATER plan for me. Rapheal has been telling me that the 3 unis are gonna increase the intake for next year and keeps asking me to consider... haha which again puts thots in my head. I mean, if i can do reallie reallie well at rmit for my first year, I would stand a higher chance rite? haha but if God wanted me to go there then why put me in SIM in the first place? But this time, instead of racking my brains trying to figure out the answere why... haha i'm gonna rack my brains over my accountancy text book. I'm sure i'll know the answere one day..its just a matter of time.