Sunday, August 10, 2008
Making Straight the Crooked
"Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked" (Eccles. 7:13).
Often God seems to place His children in positions of profound difficulty, leading them into a wedge from which there is no escape; contriving a situation which no human judgment would have permitted, had it been previously consulted. The very cloud conducts them thither. You may be thus involved at this very hour.
It does seem perplexing and very serious to the last degree, but it is perfectly right. The issue will more than justify Him who has brought you hither. It is a platform for the display of His almighty grace and power.
He will not only deliver you; but in doing so, He will give you a lesson that you will never forget, and to which, in many a psalm and song, in after days, you will revert. You will never be able to thank God enough for having done just as He has. --Selected
"We may wait till He explains,Because we know that Jesus reigns."
It puzzles me; but, Lord, Thou understandest,And wilt one day explain this crooked thing.Meanwhile, I know that it has worked out Thy best--Its very crookedness taught me to cling.
Thou hast fenced up my ways, made my paths crooked,To keep my wand'ring eyes fixed on Thee;To make me what I was not, humble, patient;To draw my heart from earthly love to Thee.
So I will thank and praise Thee for this puzzle,And trust where I cannot understand.Rejoicing Thou dost hold me worth such testing,I cling the closer to Thy guiding hand.--F.E.M.I.
today's passage for QT... Ecclesiastes 7:13. kinda read thru the whole of Ecc 7.... read e NIV version anyway... KJV always sound more poetic to me than meaningful.. =x heh heh.. in certain parts sometimes lar. =p oh well.. found Ecc 7:14 kinda meaningful alsoz...
Ecc 7:14 When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, a man cannot discover anything about his future.
sometimes we tend to grudge and grumble and klasdjlkjdas when things dun really go e way we want them to.... when things goes smoothly, we may be happy... joyful and all... and sometimes we just take things for granted.. but when things are going the wrong way... we never fail to ask.. why is this happenin... how come lidat... etc. but nobody did promise a smooth sailing life and actually can no one say that humans DUN usually learn from their mistakes? It is in fact that people often LEARn wats wrong from their past mistakes and it is thru mistakes... sufferings dat we actually realise wat went wrong... and dat we will truly remember what to or what not to.... sometimes we will grumble abt how things are unfair.. but then again.... who can be totally fair... and then again.. why in good things dat we compare to people who are better off.. and why in bad things u dun compare u are far better than someone else who is worse off?
hmmmm.... sometimes humans are really crap lar.. hAHa.. i am one... so no offence for puttin down any other fellow humans lar... but i guess everybody tinks abt themselves most of e time lar... if not we wun be humans liao.... then again.... i really hate being taken for granted also larz.... and sometimes i hate to be e one whos always takin e initiative ok?!?!?! even tho i dun seem to care... its tiring larz.. not dat i really hATE.. ish juz it can get tired aft some time lor... its also tiring to be e one who does all e talkin n talkin n talkin... =/
i am not in a grumpy mood by e way.. in fact today was a happy day. ha... =p juz dat my brain is workin abit today....
nuf said.. till den
Jie crapped at 10:58 PM
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