The fear of the LORD teaches a man wisdom, and humility comes before honor. To man belong the plans of the heart, but from the LORD comes the reply of the tongue.

>> Proverbs  15:33-16:01 <<

Lesson

A lesson too hard to learn? Never. It might take time. It might take a lot of failures. It might cause a lot of pains. But it definitely takes more than one man to learn. By totally relying on the one and only God, we will sing victory over sin and glory to God.

Big picture and little details

The other day I saw a photographer taking macro photo of flowers by the road side. It reminds me of the photos that I have seen taken of nature. They are basically in two categories. One is the macro photos and the other is the view of something big like the sunset, and stuff.

I found both really beautiful and relaxing to look at. Through the macro photos we see the beauty hidden in the little details, which we may not always notice. From the bigger picture, we see the awesomeness when little details come together.

In our life, sometimes we see the beauty of the little details but we forget what it means when the small things work together. Other time we admire the result of the working together of small things, but we forget to appreciate each of the small things.

We enjoy in some events that happen in our life, and we suffer through the others. However, when we look back, when we see the bigger picture, when we see how those incidents work together to shape ourselves, then we realise how beautiful it is.

God has created this world with atoms, but when they work together, they form creatures with different functions, with different looks, with different purposes. This world is beautiful both from the macro view and the scenery view.

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2

This is one of the movies I watched when I was on the long flight today. I especially touched by the scene when the food-animals all came together, recognising their 'creator'. Though it's a lot related to heroism, where a very common and unspecial person becoming a hero to the whole ecosystem.

When I replayed the scene again in my mind, what touched me even more is that, they actually recognised their creator. Not just acknowledging the machine which made them, but they knew the creator behind it. However, human do not know and do not recognise the creator when He came. People see that our parents are the cause we exist, but they forget about the almighty creator behind the whole picture, behind the whole story.

How awesome!

What more can I ask? How better can I expect? Other than what He has planned for me, even without I requesting...

He always put someone important in my life at the exactly right timing when I need them.

Twice, I have experienced this. When I'm trying to solve problem with my own ways, He put KW and Josh who had went through the same problem, close to me, to share their experience, to help me go through and for friendship.

That's how You are helping me. My struggle, my desire, You teach me to handle through people who have gone through the same thing. You know I'm stubborn, I don't listen to people who just tell me the way but never really undergoing the same thing. I need someone who can feel it for me to feel comforted, to know I can trust him with my feeling.

How amazing, out of all these people You bring me close to them.

PS. How good is He to me that He didn't push me to deal with all problems at a time but instead, one by one?

Serving because of need and love

This is not intended to provide theological teaching, just a merely insight on my own situation. This probably differs from people to people and situation to situation.

Serve because it's needed?
Serve because you love, not because it's needed?

Which one do you think you are?

This comes into my mind when I was talking a solitary walk tonight.
As we know, we serve not because God need us, but because we need.

When I serve in particular area because nobody do it, I don't really feel the happiness from serving. But when I serve because I love God, I love the church, and see what I can do, I'm joyful, in happy.

This is actually comparable to what you do to your lover. You do things for lover not necessarily because it's needed, but because you want to show your love. That's basically same analogy about serving God,  serving church, serving people.

开心的鱼

常跟人说，我少吃鱼，就容易生病
也告诉人，我吃了鱼，就会开心

今天吃了鱼，心情开朗了些。

谷歌了一下，发现原来是有道理的。吃鱼真的可以让人开心。
难怪，前一阵子挺忧郁的。
只是不知道，为什么在我身上会有这么明显的作用呢？ 

http://www.3fatchicks.com/increase-serotonin-levels-with-fish-oil-supplements/