Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Snowy Scotland...

So, I'm at home in Aberdeen, fun fun fun... it finally slowed today. We've been waiting! It's the first non-white Christmas I can remember! How crazy is that?
Erm... Last night spent 11hours straight watching a Korean TV Series... subsequently didn't sleep at all last night, since i finished watching them at 7am... so I spent lots of time with God... and it was totally fascinating.
God is SO, SO fascinating. I love Him so much!
Someone spoke at the church I go to up here on Sunday morning based on crackers (as in, Christmas Crackers). The thing that really stuck in my mind is that the cracker has to break, it has to snap, in order to obtain the gift inside. It's the same with Jesus. He had to break, to snap, in order for me to be able to have the relationship with God that I have, for me to be able to have eternal life. And so with me, I have to daily hand a broken heart to Jesus, be totally vulnerable to His sculpting (not really a worry since He's the best sculptor in the world!) and mending. And daily, He puts my heart back together.

Jesus take this heart of mine
Lord put these pieces together once more
I've tried to put it together myself
But I just can't do it on my own
Jesus melt this heart of mine
Make my heart soft again
Jesus will You mould this heart
Into the jar You want to make

Jesus is amazing. Everyday I hand Him a broken heart, everyday I fall deeper in love with Him.

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Glorifying God through studying

We were created to reflect God's glory. We were created by God so that He could have a people who worshipped him. I am one of those people who has chosen to live a life of worship. In choosing to life my life for God, I have chosen to let go of my control on my life and give Him full control. It's amazing - such vulnerability, yet such security. Vulnerability because you have to let go of your life, every little bit of it, and yet security because God won't take you to the wrong place, or make you do the wrong thing. Once you give Him full control, and everyday do so, He doesn't shrug off responsibility, no, He takes full control and in tune with Him, things will not go wrong. So anyway... the things I do in life are study, spend time with my local church, socialise, go out, practise, and that just about sums it up! Of all these, my studies take up most of my time (which is a good thing, I love Law!), and since my life is to reflect God's glory in all I do, I want to glorify God in my studies. That means putting my utmost into my studies, doing my best. To achieve less than my full potential is not glorifying to God, since He has given me this potential. (Man I'm starting to feel convicted even as I write this, and I thought I was doing ok!) So I have to think big, think outside of the box, because as Keri Jones once said, 'The only place that success comes before work is in the dictionary'. I want to be successful, I want to be successful so as to glorify God.
Right. I'm going to go and work now. :-)