Bread of Life

John 6:35

Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty."

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My quiet time verse. Does the Transformers song come to mind anyone? "Transformers" *transforming sound* "More than meets the eye". (I think the 2nd time is "Robots in disguise" haha... ok off track).

Points to ponder:

• How do you link thirsty to having bread? Doesn't bread make your mouth dry and thirsty usually?
  

• Why did Jesus use bread? Why not some fruit that can both fill our stomach and provide water? It might be interesting to note that Jesus has never said He is water (although Bruce Lee DID say "Be like water my friend" ^ ^). If you think He did, welcome to the club haha... Eh... at least in my NIV He didn't say nor imply la... Please correct me if you know otherwise!
  

• Why do you have to go to be fed, yet only sit there and believe to be quenched? Why the distinction between the two? Which attributes of these 2 entities set them apart to be dealt with differently?
  

Lets not write off the possibility of God meaning this both figuratively AND literally. Isn't it possible to Him to give us both bread and water in the literal worldly sense? At the same time, can't He provide for our spiritual needs?

What do YOU think? Lets hear some thoughts and grow together :)


*PS: I hope the color coding helps link things back to the verse! ^ ^

Late Night Musings

On Time Travelling

If someone could go back into the past, he wouldn't be able to change anything.. to us. All he'll do is spawn a parallel possibility and NEVER be able to return to this time and space. A different one brought about by his emergence in the past perhaps. To us he's simply disappeared, never to be seen again.

If someone were to try and travel into the future, he'll cease to exist. Because although the future already exists, for him it won't, cos of his non-existance in between, thus wiping him out during the jump forward into NOTHING.

So is time travel possible? Why not? Although personally i think not. The kind of energy required would most probably suck all life out of this world. The most likely achievement would be to stop time for the "time traveller".. for maybe a second.. ha.. Even if u could travel through time, its not going to make any difference to the rest of us. So why bother?

As to why the future already exists. Sure, its shaped by our decisions that we've yet to make. It seems fluid but its really not. Example: What is my future 5mins later (T+5)? Unknown? i can go sleep or continue blogging. 5mins later whichever choice i made would have happened, thus if u look at T now, T+5 is already known, just not when we were at T. So here i am blogging still. Sure i can argue i could have gone to sleep. But i didn't did i? There is a future where choices have been made n things have happened. Just that it hasn't YET. Don't worry, we still have free will, its not predetermined, we still made the choice despite it feeling otherwise.

Brain twister huh? i kinda think i'm right though.. Haha.. Lalala.. all cos of dat stupid commercial on the upcoming drama.

Why can't we have such creativity?!

Thanks -J- for the mail. Thought i'd share it with everyone. Really nice advertisements that people have in other parts of the world!


I like this Fedex t-shirt actually... but only works for fatties i think haha... Eh should we buy for ZL, Alvina and Furong? :D

Very, very creative! I like this one!


I think the 3 x heavy weights (see Fedex description above ^ ^) will pose forever if we had this here! Haha...

And of course, my personal favourite... put their photos there! (And tilt the board more... ALOT more~) :D :D :D

I like this quote!

Some people complain because God puts thorns on roses, while others praise God for putting roses among thorns.

Twist your brain around this!

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such a violent reaction against it?... Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if i did that, then my argument against God collapsed too--for the argument depended on saying the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies. Thus, in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist - in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless - I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality - namely my idea of justice - was full of sense. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never have known it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

C.S. Lewis

I hate to prove this to you but...

Anything to say? Haha...

God Speaks

God works FAST. Only yesterday I had responded and today He confirmed what I felt. And it happened in the last place i expected: SAF cookhouse in a rundown camp with wooden buildings.

It started off with this non-uniformed SAF old chap, around 50 yrs of age i'm guessing, sitting down next to me during lunch. We started talking, lamenting about the robotic lives that Singaporeans generally lead, how we cannot afford to take a 3 month break like others are doing in the western world. Then, he started talking about his daughter, how she changed her mind almost half a year into her studies in England, wasted $30k, came back, rejected by the local universities because she had rejected their offer earlier, flew off to Australia, completed a degree in finance, came back, worked for DBS, quit after a couple of months cos "no future", joined some german bank, same thing happened, then joined OCBC, started working as a trader / investment agent of sorts, asked dad for help cos no customers, no network, Dad offered to pray for her, next thing they knew, two of her collegues decided to quit to look after their children, all of a sudden she has TOO many customers, asked her dad how to choose, Dad says lets pray, did that, somehow she landed the big fish, who introduced more big fishes to her, and her first paycheck hit $40k in commission.

*DEEP BREATH*

Got it so far? There's a part 2 and part 3, but i'm not going to bore everyone with that. Basically its how he learnt to put his trust in God, how he gave God His due, and saw God's blessings come flowing back ten-fold. Oh, one incident in particular strikes deep into me. There was one time when the gear shift of his car suddenly went down, making it impossible for him to engage gear 1, and he happened to be so tight that month that he only had enough money to either fix it or give it as tithe as originally intended. After much struggle, he chose to give God what's His. Uh, nope, miracle didn't happen YET. 2 weeks went by with him struggling with the car, and him asking God for help. Happens that that Sunday, he and his friend saw this chap in church who's the kind who's kinda slow, if u catch what i mean, and they offered to pray for him. When they were done with the prayer, that chap suddenly asked if he can pray for him in return, which he agreed of course. And guess what? That chap went: Dear God, please help make Peter's car well. They were shocked, cos to their knowledge that chap couldn't have known about the car! And yes, when they went back to the car, the gear shift was good as new...

I guess it was special cos it made me think back to the days when i used to pray for God to make my faulty PS1 work, or to make that damn pirated CD run... Haha... silly i know, but I really looked to Him for EVERYTHING. When did i start thinking that some things should be solved on my own? That i shouldn't bother God with such trivial nitty gritties?

Just as i was going through that in my head, this dude started saying: God wants us to be like children. Has a child ever doubted that his Father would give him what he promised? Didn't God say He would bless us? Not because of what we do or who we are, but because He wills it?

Wow... All along i only saw one facet of that phrase, that is to be as pure as a child is, innocent and without guile. How could i have missed something so obvious and linked?

This brother may know it, but his sharing today had helped me enormously. All of a sudden the path that i've been seeking all along has opened up before my eyes. Finally i know where place my first step on my trek towards God. All i have to do now is do just that! All these years of wandering, countless trips and falls... I'm not entirely convinced I had learnt all that I'm supposed to. But i know that all that has made me very appreciative of what I've heard today.

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Hebrew 12

5 My child, don't ignore it when the Lord disciplines ou, and don't be discouraged when he corrects you. 6 For the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes those he accepts as his children.

25 See to it that you obey God, the one who is speaking to you.

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How many more exodux will i embark upon? I don't know, but I certainly hope this is the last. But only if i've learnt the lesson He has prepared for me!

Time to get rid of that black suit

I'm back!

Applause?

*Cold wind blows*

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ANYWAY... i'm thinking of revamping my blog somewhat, include a few new sections of interest, and make the whole thing more professional. What do you think? I'm just afraid i won't have that much time. Hmmm...

Right. Some explaining to be done?

Hmmm... I realised there were some things in my life that i had to sort out after i came back from Akha. Stuff that were getting out of hand and threatening to take over me. Much like that Venom suit that Spidey had. I took things into my own hands and took a vocation. Then came the 2 months plus that was my Advanced Course for my work...

And then things got complicated when i started dating again. >..<

If you ask me if i'm ready and free from the "suit", i'd say no. Not yet. But i really don't think its right to drag my exodus out any longer. Especially when God has started calling.

So then... here i am. At least back in my dusty lil blog. And then come Sunday i'll be back fully!

Lalala...