Post Camp Post =D

Hi ppl! camp is over, but we all took back with us loads of stuff from this camp! I'm sure every single one of you experienced God in a very real and touching manner during the camp, and I hope it will be one that lasts you your entire lives!

But today's post will be about something different. This is a phrase we often hear. "We cannot live from one spiritual high to another." That is some sobering truth like a pail of freezing water onto your face at 4am while you're in the middle of a really good dream. Before I start on that, let me illustrate how my day unraveled today.

6.00am- Wake up
6.07am- Really Wake up
6.10am- Throat aching
6.30am- Wear green uniform
6.38am- Put on boots
6.39am- Cannot find garter
6.40am- Use rubber band
6.43am- Walk to bus stop in rain (because real men don't use umbrellas)
6.48am- Thank God for reserving my favorite seat on the bus for me
7.50am- Get scolding, but wasn't my fault
9.00am- Clear back log of work
12.30am- Lunch
1.30pm- Mundane work
4.00pm- Listen to colleague's ex-gf problems
4.15pm- Mundane work
5.30pm- Run for shuttle bus
6.15pm- Get pretty sad sms
6.16pm- Listen to 90% worship songs all the way home
7.30pm- Post this blog post

As you can see, reality hits me for 834792374630264962 damage.
I think i might fall into post camp depression or something.

But seriously, after every camp, we go back to our own "usual" lives, and we face all the problems we never anticipated we would face when we promised God whatever we promised Him during the camp! And as our lives go on, we find that things can get pretty tough, and yes, I won't lie, the devil ain't gonna make it easier for you.

BUT brothers and sisters! Let me encourage you!

Romans8:28-39

More Than Conquerors

28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

31What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As it is written:
"For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Man, love Paul! If God is for us, then WHO can be against us? WHAT can separate us from the love of God? Brothers and sisters, through all your hardship, trouble, sadness, joy, temptation, disappointment and a thousand other more things anyone can go through. Remember that God is always with us, and victory always rests in the Lord! Amen! Remember also, that in the problems and trials we face, God is also constantly trying to teach us, to refine us into better strong people!

Psalms 66:10 For you, O God, tested us; you refined us like silver.

So to close, let me just put it in one simple sentence.

CHOOSE JESUS DAILY!

I pray that each and everyone of you have exceeding Joy that comes from the Lord to face every challenges everyday, and that we all become over-comers of the world!

1 John 4:4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.