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February 07 Hard timesIn life we face good times and hard times.
The good times seem to go so quick and the hard times seem to drag on for eternity.
Why is life like this?
Guess the thing I've learnt through the hard times is that there's always going to be hard times
but you've got to get through them.
What would life be like without the hard times?
I know it might seem strange to some people but i thank God for the hard times.
Through them I come to know how incredibly awesum His love and grace is for us
Read this song
It was a real birth in a real stable
In a real dusty Judean town
And a real mother nursed her
precious baby
And a bunch of wide eyed
Sheperds gathered round
And real angels sang "Glory"
For real hope was born that day
I Bet all I have on Jesus
I will throw myself on Him
for the one who died
A real death for real sin
I bet all I have on Jesus
And throughout eternity
I will marvel at the real hope
That my saviour won for me.
It was a real like
He had real friends
He walked shoulder to shoulder
with the lost
He wept real tears
For the fallen ones
And He angiushed over sin
dreadful cost
And on a real cross He cried
"Forgive them"
As His real life drained away
I Bet all I have on Jesus
I will throw myself on Him
for the one who died
A real death for real sin
I bet all I have on Jesus
And throughout eternity
I will marvel at the real hope
That my saviour won for me. I have real fears
I do real sin
And I hurt the ones
I cherish and adore
But the real mercy
Of the true God
sees the filthy fallen purchased
and restored
And I cry "My God- O fill me
with a heart completly yours"
I Bet all I have on Jesus
I will throw myself on Him
for the one who died
A real death for real sin
I bet all I have on Jesus
And throughout eternity
I will marvel at the real hope
That my saviour won for me.
Colin Buchanan
"Be still, and know that I am God"
Psalm 46:10a
Through our hard times its so easy to think that God isn't there and He doesn't care
Jesus died a real death for our real sin, never forget that!
There is nothing more satisfying than a relationship with God
Nothing the world can offer ever fulfil you, only Jesus can
"Be still and know that I am God"
try this next time your feeling down or going thru a rough time,
we can't change the times, but we can trust that God has it all under control April 24 EasterHavn't dun an entry for ages, mainly because i havn't been bothered and have been pretty busy, but i have holidays now so i have a little extra time to catch up on things i used to do.
The reason why i've been busy is to do with my car, got the twin carbies on and ran into problems such as an air leak in the head that needed to be blocked off because the inlet manifold didn't match up completly, so it was sounding like a lawn mower and a jet wasn't working, the carbies are now fine but the inlet vlave on the first cylinder is gone so i have very little compression, so now the head is getting reconditioned, very costly but its worth it as the car will run alot mre smoothly and God willing i won't have any problems with the head again.
For all of you who don't know much about cars and don't really care, that whole paragraph probably went right over your head, thats ok but i hope this next one doesn't
Easter was just last week, how many people went to church just because it was easter? We shouldn't celebrate Jesus' sacrifice once a year, but all the time, this is a great and awesum gift, FROM GOD. There was no other way that we could join him in heaven when we die, that we could have a proper relationship with Him than to have a sacrifice, and not just a sacrifice of an animal, but of a man. An animal can never remove our sins, Jesus could. He was God's son, He could do it, God sent Him seeing no other way that we could be saved, He sent Him for US, and although God sent Jesus, Jesus didn't have to die for us, But He did his fathers will and went through it, paying the price for OUR sins, How amazing
"If you love me, you will obey what I comand. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another counselor to be with you forever, the spirit of truth. John 14:15-17
Let us not forget what Jesus has done for us March 24 busynesslife seems alot busier than it was last year, not much free time anymore :(, but thats not all bad, its good to be doing something all the time :).
Went to see a band called "faker" last night, they were really good. the three bands before them were ok. Lots of uni students as it was at the uni bar. Anyway the story begin after the concert.
I went up with my mate Benje and walked back to the car after the show, turned the ignition and nothing happened, bummer!, was the it the battery? was it the starter motor? was it an ignition lead or could it be the distributor. All of these things were were running through my mind. Convinietly enough i'd left the jumper leads at home because my dad car has a flat battery.
Firt option was to clutch start, that is to roll it down a hill wth the ignition on and then let it out of gear., NO LUCK!. we popped the bonnet and there was a noise comming from the positve battery terminal, strange! two guys from the show were walking back and noticed our trouble, they had had a bit to drink, but were very friendly and obligied to help us for the rest of the night, they suggested hitting the starter motor to get it going, they'd done it before, that didn't work. Benje had left his phone at my bros house, i had no credit and neither did they. across the road were supposbly where some of their mates live, so we went over looking for a Steve or Penny. the guys that were helping us were "steve and Camo", lol. We asked many randoms walking along if they knew where they lived, no one did. We knocked on doors, knocked on windows where the light were on inside, no one knew, probably because they were mostly American students that had just moved in.
We got to a place where some Uni guy that works for the uni opened the door andhe told us to stopknocking on peoples doors, fair enough it was 12 at night, but Camo and Steve wouldn't take no for an answer, everntually that uni guy caught up with us and called security because Steve had a go at him, he was quite rude actually. anyway we went back to my car wheere we waited for Camo's girlfriend to pick him up, we got a lift with him to my bros place, Steve walked off because she accidently ran over his foot.
At my bros place i woke Matt up and told him the situation, he had jumper lead, so we drove back to my car. After turning the ignition to find that the car still was doing anything with jumper leads, i was thinking something bad had happened. we drove back and Matt said that i'd have to get up early or i get a couple of tickets. eventually at 1:30 i called the NRMA and drove back to my car, He had a look and took the positive off the battery and cleaned it, put it back on and WHALA! it started, yay. The NRMA guy was cool, talked to him for a while bout mechanics, quite interesting, anyway that was my night and early morning. yeah March 06 Graceheaps has been happenin lately. Between tafe, work, scripture teachin and youth group, taekwondo and the gym i don't have heaps of free time. But thats ok, its good to be doing something instead of wasting time that could be used doing something.
Guess lately i've just been realising how amazing Jesus and what He did on earth, alot!
Karin talked to me about Mark 5:1-20, which is about the healing of the demon possesed man. I never realised how amazing it was. First there was this guy possesed by all of these demons and lived in these tombs by himself. No one could bind the man, because of this super-human strength he had because of the demons
3This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him any more, not even with a chain. 4For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. 5Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones.
No one would talk to him or go near him, he cut himself and he was so so lonely and depressed, but saw Jesus. He fell on his feet and shouted, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Swear to God that you won't torture me!" 8For Jesus had said to him, "Come out of this man, you evil spirit!". Jesus then sent the demons into a herd of pigs, two thousend in number. He gave them permission and they went.
Who is this man that the demons had to have permission to leave the man? By what authority could He give that permission? Jesus is the son of the Most High, the son of God. Jesus had compassion on the man and healed him of his demons. He had that same compassion on us, in that He died for us Hebrews 7:24-25 24but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood. 25Therefore he is able to save completely[a] those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
He ALWAYS lives to intercede for them, for us! If we belive in Him, that He can do all things, and accept Him as our Lord and saviour then He will intercede for you aswell, Only in Jesus can we find our true happiness, if you are searching, search no more, try Jesus because its the best thing i've ever done February 26 When we are downHow many of us can accuse God and get mad at Him when things get us realy down? I know I can.
In my meeting with the other youth leaders from church this morning I learnt some pretty amazing stuff. I felt some pretty amazing stuff. As Christians we go through very hard times. When I wasn't a Christian I went through some pretty rough stuff aswell, but never called on God. Never acknowlegded Him and if it was it would be "Why are you doing this?" "What have i possibly done to deserve this?", Now I realise that I deserve everything that comes at me, I don't deserve to live. I've rejected God and His word so many times, yet He still called me back. He saved me...
As a Christian, rough and bad times can bring about mixed feelings, still, "Why are you doing this?", then you realise. Jesus not only died for me. He suffered for me. Jesus not only was put on the cross. He was beaten. Jesus was laughed at, wrongly accused. How many of us get anoyed when we're accused of something we didn't do? We get mad, we defend ourselves. Jesus didn't get mad. He knew He had done nothing wrong when He said that He was the son of God. He really was.
In the meeting/study, we looked at Mark 4:35-41, Jesus calms the storm. We broke it down alot. It has a clear message that I never saw before. At the time Jesus was sleeping in a boat with His diciples who were sailing across this Lake. A big storm came while Jesus was sleeping under the deck and was swamping the boat. These diciples were once fishermen, they knew what a storm was like, it wasn't new to them. They tried everything they could to stop the ship from sinking and finally they went below and said to Jesus. "Teacher, don't you care if we drown?". He got up, rebuked the wind and the waves, "quiet! Be still! Then the wind died down and it was completly calm v39.
Jesus is always there. If we ask him then He will help us, but if we don't and keep trying with our own strength then He won't. He is always there when we are down, He is always there February 13 God is greatalot happened since i last wrote an entry so i'm just going to chop into it.
First of all, started TAFE last week doing automotive which is really good. Learnin heaps from it, at the moment only basic stuff like putting cars on hoists, taking wheels, putting wheels together, indetifying parts under the car and changing oils. Yeah its quite good. making some good friends aswell, i like it.
What else, ah yes, did youth group on Sunday. That went really really well aswell, although in the small groups two of the guys weren't really focused at all, always getting trailed off, looking at eachother and being silly, but its like, just have to deal with it as best i can i guess, its really fun though, i feel kinda like a teacher, confiscating stuff, tellin people to be quiet (all of this is in a God loving way) and yeah its good. Also prepared for scripture teaching with Micheal and Pauly, that should be fun, but very hard aswell, but God is with me, "I can do everything in Him who gives me strengh" Phillipians 4:13, what a great verse!
I think its so so amzing how Jesus died for us. He was tempted in everyway. God could of and should of just destroyed us. We reject Him, We forget Him and we use His name in vain
Jesus' crucifixion
35The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, "He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One."
36The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar 37and said, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself." 38There was a written notice above him, which read:|sc THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. 39One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: "Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!" 40But the other criminal rebuked him. "Don't you fear God," he said, "since you are under the same sentence? 41We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong." 42Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.[a]" 43Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise."
we mocked Him, divided up His clothes, put the nails in his arms, and stood Him before us and laughed at Him. Laughed at His death and accused Him of something He didn't do. He went through all of that for us! after we did that to Him He still died for us and He still loves us so so much. If we have faith in Him then we can be saved and forgiven for all of this. Just like one of the criminals next to Him. "We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong" "Remember me Jesus when you enter your kingdom". This criminal had faith in Jesus, he knew of who Jesus was thus saying, YOUR kinkgdom. To which Jesus answered to him "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise".
If we believe in Jesus then we can be forgiven and have enternal life with Him! That is the amazing and awsum gift He has given us! February 03 We're all sinnersyeah i thought i'd bother u with another entry now because i'm going to be pretty busy soon. I'm seeing some old friends tomorow, Steve, Matt W, Scott and Simon. Be great to catch up with them again. Although none of them are Christians, they are still great firneds and its good to talk cars with them. Then after that its Bec's going away party, that should be a blast aswell lol.
Can't wait for Sunday, i'm giong to the cricket, Strayer, thats how the commentators pronounce Australia, take of South Africa, should be good! and then TAFE next week and scripture teachin on Thursday, anyway, thats what i'm going to be doing, not what i have been doing.
This week has consisted of not very muc. Not really any work, but some time off which is alright. Hung out with Karin on Wednesday, was really good to catch up with her again and apart from that have just been at home. I did put this really cool air filter on my car, a chrome one! it loks much beta now, but anyway. One good thing i've learnt this week was about judging people, which i picked up from Karin.
Theres been this really bad murder in Nowra lately where a couple were found in 44 gallon drums, burning in Tomorong, south of Nowra. The media has been publisiing it alot and now it seems its hit everyone in Nowra, its definitly hit me. Two people have been charged with the murders and i just feel really mad at them, its probably natural though, but how could someone do that? It really shows us what we are capable of, how bad we can get. I guess some of the worst stuff i've heard or learnt about humanity is in Russia, i did that for modern history.
Some of the stuff i do'nt want to metion, because its so graphic. Modern Histroy was probably the best class i've ever done, and even though our teacher didn't really teach much of the sylabus, he did teach us about life and reality itself and just how bad the world is. How corrupted it is, its scary and shocking.
Romans 5:6-8
6You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Jesus died for US, for humanity, for every human born, everyone, even the worst, we are ALL sinners, we have ALL done wrong in God's eyes and NO ONE is perfect, only if we can accpet Jesus's death and resurrection make Him our God can we be saved and washed clean from everything we have done, because we surely have done so so much.
January 30 a new yearThis year is about to take off, lots of stuff happening. the mains being a youth leader and the automotive pre apprenticeship course. lots has happened since i last wrote an entry so here it is
I bought twin carburettors for my car the siggy last month and my dad and i tried to put them on on the weekend but the fuel pump was in the way so their not going on, so that kinda got me down, but its not the end of the world, i'm sure i'll find something else to do with it and sell them, if anyone is interested in these twin solex carbies, im' giong to sell them for about $250 with the manifold. Anyway all the aside i worked on my car today and fixed a leak in the radiator hose which im' proud of. I also saw some old school friends from Christian communitiy which was different aswell.
I've been reading a really good book which my bestfriend Karin gave to me "no compromise" about a singer in the 70's called Keith Green. Its really interesting because he and his partner are on a constant search for meaning to life and they try all this differnent stuff, mainly drugs and eastern religions, but then finally start getting into Christianity, they eventually become Christians but their search for Christianity is deressing, they have a whole in their eart which nothing can fill but God. This is how we were made, our true happiness is found in God, we are completed when that space is filled, that space that wonders what is life after death? how was this all made?, why am i here? Is there really a God? Yes there is, there is a God and He loves us so much, He isn't distant, He is with us and if u believe and accept his son Jesus as your Lord and saviour then He will be with u aswell.
Its been great noticing how everything fitss together perfectly, everyday is planned, everything for a reason.
Psalm 139:16 "your eyes saw my unformed body, All the days ordained for me were written in your book before on of them came to be" He has our lives planned for each and everyone of us and if u believe then you can experience this amazing and awsum plan aswell. Thats it from me.
Dave January 16 something to think aboutHavn't done one of these for a while, but anyway heres an entry. The last couple of weeks have been ok, been working heaps and went down to Melbourne for a day, it gets so boring driving on a completly straight highway for three hours at the same speed, listening to music that you've heard over and over again, but thats the joy of driving on the Fume highway i guess.
Hung out with Karin today and saw Bec and Pauly and Ange, We got some gospel tracts, "two ways to live" and they are pretty good, now just gotta work out who can help us door knock and give them to people all around Nowra and how we're going to present them to everyone, its not as simple as just inviting the people to church its having a discussion with them and telling them the great and awsome slavation they can have in Jesus and only Jesus. . Finished anotyher book on a Chinese missionary aswell called "Bold as a Lamb" about the pastor Samual Lamb and his life, quite a life it is aswell, through all the troubles this guy has with the government and being sent to jail He is always faithful to God and trusting in Him even when things look like they can't get any worse. We need to trust God with all our hearts and not take our eyes of Jesus. A great example of this is in Matthew 14 where Jesus walks on the water, at first the disples on the boat think that Jesus is a ghosht in the stormy waters in the middle of the night, i would to!But Jesus imediatly says to them 14:27 "take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid", don't be afraid could that also mean not worrying bout our current troubles? to take courage and to put our trust in Him, it goes on, verse 28 Peter replies "Lord if its you, "tell me to come to you on the water". "Come" Jesus says. Peter gets out of the boat and into the stormy water and walks towards Jesus, v30 "But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, "Lord save me!". Immediatly Jesus reached out His hand and caught him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?", How relevant that passage is to us when we doubt in God's plan for us, we take our eyes onf Jesus getting lost in our own troubles and being to sink, however when we do and we cry out for help Jesus is there ans saves us. He is right there infront of us, yet it seems so easy to get swept up in our worldly troulbes, this passage has helped me lately, i hope it can help you. And for those of you who don't yet know Jesus Its definitly worth considering, because He is ALWAYS there and loves us so much we cannot comprehend us, lets never take our eyes off Jesus when things start to get bad, this is what helps us grow and build our faith, lets rejoice in our sufferings as Paul said.
anyway thats it from me, Dave December 26 CHRISTmasanother Christmas gone, this year has gone fast. Christmas was yesterday or how we should pronouce it, CHRISTmas, what would the world be like if Christmas was the other way round, focusing on the birth of Jesus rather than some imaginary character called santa that gives out presents to everyone. Maybe Christmas afternoon would be such a depressing time, you've opened all of your presents and all of the hipe is over. Butwe all seem to forget that these presents are merely gestures or olbigations. God's present to us is out of love and grace, did anyone give the best present to someone they didn't really like, someone that didn't treat u write, called u names, talked behing your back, always having a go at you and pushing u around, i didn't. The truly amazing this about God is that He doesn't hate this person, He loves them as much as He loves us, for He created everyone and everything and even when this world has turned its back on god and decided that it doesn't need God, God hasn't done that to us, turned His back on us, quite the opposite. We are sinners and dirty and destastble infront of Him but He's given us a way out, He gave us what no earthly person could give and that is Jesus. God's very own son who sits at His right hand God sent down from Heaven so that we may be pure infront of God, Jesus died for our sins so that we can have eternal life in heaven, He died so that we can have a perfect relationship with God. None of us deserve to go to heaven to be looked at by God to deserve to live after what we've done to Him and yet despite all of this He sent Jesus so that we can avoid His wrath so that we can have eternal life with Him after we die, How amazing is that! Thats what CHRISTmas is all about, God's gift to us
3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5he[c] predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. 7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace 8that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. 9And he[d] made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 10to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.
Ephesians 1:3-10
Merry CHRISTmas everyone, lets never forget what God has done for us, amazing grace! December 21 another entryif memory serves me correctl it is CHRISTmass soon. Ah the times at Christmas, waking up to the sound of an anoying bell that is only used once a year to drag me out of bed. Why can't we all just sleep in? anyway enough of the complaining and more of the celebrating because we're celebrating the birth of Jesus. I was watching the simpsons tonight and it actuall made me smile. Homer had selvishly bought this $500 present for himself from the "uneccessary gifts" store which tells you who's birthday it is or famous persons birthday and at the end through all of the jokes and controversy it said and on this day "our Lord Jesus Christ was born", I hope this CHRISTmass everyone will remember that and not forget the true meaning of Christmas, which was God giving us the greatest gift of all, Jesus.
Today was good, I hung out with my good friend Karin and we went door knocking despite the 30+ heat. some people didn't really accept it and gave us the "no thankyou" response, but others were really good and seemed enthuisastic about it. at one house we created a queue outside some randoms door because we were waiting for the guy to answer and while we were waiting a random Australia post guy had to wait behind us. I bet the random guy must of felt pretty special, all of these randoms waiting to see him, just to get a glimpse, lol. Anyway it was a good day and i have to work tomorow! I can't wait, "i'm not being sarcastic" lol. ah. thats it for now. If your not a Christiana and read this entry then i'm realy glad cause the creator of this earth sent His only son to die for US!!! Isn't it strange how we so easily forget God and live our ignorant lives, oblivious to the fact the He is controlling them. God created this earth and everything in it and He loves us so so much and yet we live like " ants" Gavin Wilcox 2005 not realising or recognising our awsum creator, et despite this He sent Jesus so that we could have a perfect relationship with Him, how amaizing is that grace! We should be so thankful, so don't forget the true meaing of CHRISTmass, when God reached out and saved us. December 17 resultsi'm probably not going to uni so i don't really care about my UAI mark, i've learnt all i need to from school. I guess the best thing i learnt was in modern history about how corrupted the world is, ie America and how they have to be involved in some sort of war to keep they're strong military status. I don't like Maerica very much at all. Its strange that i leanrt allt he from an American teacher, how ironic!
my UAI was 59.25, pretty bad i know, but its alright, God's incontrol and my future for Him probably won't involve having to be overly smart, i hope not! Apart from all of that i havn't been doing a great deal, caught up with one of my old friends Simon when we, Karin, Micheal, Amanda and her boyfriend went out for dinner the other night. It was good to catch up with him and cruise around Culburra in his commodore, its got alot of power, I wish the Siggy had as much, hmm. Anyway on the 8th of January I'm catching up with a group of other Sigma owners and then we're heading down here, should be great, i can't wait. My boss at the servo was surpirsed when i told him "they're still around are they?", he thought he was funny, lol he was though. Thats about it for now. Just thinking about CHRISTmas coming up and that God sent Jesus for us to die for us so that we could be perfect in His sight through Jesus. Amazing Grace, December 10 WitnessingToday was great, i and other church members went out into Nowra and witnessed to many people, hopefully and prayerfully God will have mercy on them and save them. We sang carols in junction court which was cool even though i ate a fly in the process and spat it back out, that wasn't so good, but it happens. After that Karin and I went into the mall and gave out pamphlets, it was really good to do, to reach out to the Nowra community, some people welcomed the invitations to the church, others just seemed to of ignored us and kept walking and didn't take any interest, some guy thought i was cracking onto hs girlfriend and looked like he wanted to fight me.
It was strange, the toughest looking guys, eg this guy with a megalith shirt and biker like appearance was very welcoming and nice. Anyway it was a good day.
Another great thing that has happened is that my bestfriend Karin, is staying down here next year! God answered our prayers for you Karin, and its so great that you'l be hopefully enjoying this job, teaching little kids and giving them an education. Go Karin!
and in other news, i'm doing the "automotive" course next year through TAFE which will be excellent, get to work on cars every moday and wednesday. The class room is actually a workshop, i can't enter it without overalls the teacher said, which is pretty cool, anyway thats about it for now. December 06 The Siggy is fixed!We got her back going on the weekend which is great. I drove her once during the week just down the road and when it came to the weekend it had nothing left in the radiator, all had dripped out. But its good now, dad picked up a new water pump and shes runnin fine.
Kim:
The Sigma has abit more room under the hood, older cars are good in that their easier to fix and service, it doesn't require pulling off masses of protective stuff like in my moms falcon. It must be a real pain with the Colt, they are pretty small. Does it have a tendancy to "run on" after the engine is turned off? My brothers old Sigma always did that, his lancer does it and my sigma does it, I think its just a Mitsubishi thing.
Anyway, just sittin at home now, not sure what i'll get up to today, maybe the crickets on? or maybe work will call me, i doubt it. Anyway, thats all for now. TuesdayWhat a great day today was. Its good to just get out and do random stuff, not knowing what your going to do next. That was like today. We first entertained ourselves, Me, Karin, Benje, Bec and Micheal by paying a visit to the local McDonalds in Bomaderry. I wore a tansformer, Optimus prime face mask into the driver though and ordered 5 cones, one for me and Karin and the rest for Benje, Micheal and Bec behind us. It was quite funny, and its always good to do stuff out of the ordinary for fun. Next it was off to our friends Tim Craigs house just down the road where we filled up the bought water bombs from Woolies and loaded three water guns. To our demise, Micheal and Tim gave Karin the shotty gun which didn't shot properly and so when we found out that Tom wasn't home our whole operation backfired and Karin and I were completly soaked, what could we do? a shot water gun and i through the entire bucket of water bombs at Tim, narowly missing him. Anyway it was a great day as it wound down.
Something that has struck me however and has been on my mind, was that while we may plan to go oversees and spread the gospel to foreign countries which really do need it and i'm not disencouraging that because the people that do it are true diciples, ready to die for our Lord. But what about in our own communites. It seems to me that not very much of Nowra knows of God and if they do they've rejected Him. I pray that Karin's idea of reaching out to Nowra will become reality, its really important and would be so great to see.That is all November 26 The FutureNext year is getting closer and closer and i can't deny that i'm scard about it cause i am. I don't know whats going to happen. I know that a lot of my friends will leave Nowra, maybe even my closest ones. I'm scard most of all that those friendships will continue and not be broken. But God has a plan and just like on Karin's blog, I've gotta surrender my dreams, especially when the future looks so gray and hazy.
Gods always in control and that a great thought, nothing can stop His plans for they are set, nothing can stop God. If your a Christian then your putting your hopes on the Lord of Lords, the guy that created this complexed universe and life. He is all powerful and all wise. I do trust in Him.
apart from all of that, things have bin ok. The water pump on the Siggy (Sigma) broke today and it was really scary as when my dad and I just turned the engine over after the coolant had been replaced it started to idle at 2000rpm, much to fast as when its cold in the morning only does 1500rpm. The engine was going very fast and I could smell something burning so we turned it off and it kept running really rough even with the ignition in and then smoke bellowed out of the radiator, hopefully no damage has been done to the engine, at first we thought the engine had blown, but its just leaking from the water pump and so things aren't to bad to what they could have been. Thats prety anoying, now shes in the carport resting until we get a new water pump, shes very sick! My dads a good doctor! anyway thats about it, apart that Lowndes won the v8 race today and Brian Lara got 226 runs!, My favourite driver and my favourtie Cricketer! November 21 ah.. freedomthe reason why entry has not been posted for so long is due to the fact that i havn't used a computer for so long. the last week has been so great. Went to Geroa with friends, Benje, comrade Browne, Lucas and Micheal. it was a very good time away, so relaxing, did whatever we wanted whenver we wanted. it was really good. And today was just was just as great. Went to school to sign the leavers form and for some strange reason they think i'm missing a economics book! i did give it back. anyway got to have a great day with my very good friends and taunt Tom Browne with Karin, lol, good times, invovling water bombs and many different people including Pauly calling him up asking where to deliver his pizza's, lol. then we went out to Chinese at my new work and a fellow delivery driver served us but he was kinda rude cause of the swearing factor, didn't really apreaciate that, but the food and the company was good. After that we (Karin and I) travelled to Simons place with Lennon and saw some random neighbour ploughing his backyard with a home made plougher thingy attached to his car, quite funny. The day was great and things are good. Thanku God. I'm so thankfull for the great love he has for each of us I'm contuinually amazed by that its so cool, just like a real father, I'm so glad to know God and to know His love and care for not only me but everyone else in this corrupted world. Thanku God November 10 1 more day1 more day to go and then its all done, ah i can't wait. This week is probably the busiest week of my life, I don't have any spare time whatsoever, its pretty alright. Tomorow I finish my exam, economics, go for my green P's, hopefully will pass cause its $95, washin the car, hanging out with my good friends friday arvo till 10, getting up early the next morning to change the oil and coolant in the siggy. then hanging out Stevie, Scotty, Tommy, Simmy and myself on saturday and working saturday night delievering Chinese! getting up at 7 to work at the servo for 9 hours till five, then church and going to Geroa on Monday for four days...
pretty busy can u match it? Bible study was good last night even though it was so so hot, It was really interesting to analyse 1 John and understand why he was wrinting it and to who, very interesting. Gotta think about option for working for God aswell, all of these jobs are good to earn some money and then maybe bible college, who knows? But God, anyway beta do sum more study, I forgot how fun economics is! November 08 ah not long nowtomorow is business studies, some may ask, am i ready and i tel u, I don't know, as long as i finish it. I get to do my first shift alone at the servo on Sunday. I can't wait. 8 or 9 hours by myself serving the community much needed petroleum, and at the same time because it is so quiet on sundays I can watch the V8 race. Hopefully Lowndes can win! all that aside today is a great day, not because of studying which is rather boring but the atmosphere and the weather. I can't wait till its all over and then I can enjoy these days, with friends and the by just driving around with someone.
Its strange how people think that all of this was created by chance, by a "big bang", but God really does exist and all you have to do is look outside, everything and everyone is differenent in someway, is that by chance? It'd have to be a pretty big chance, no its from a creator. God made all of this and He is in control November 06 next yearnext year is coming on fast, and although i'm so happy that HSC is soon finished, everything else is all up in the air and I've gotta keep trusting God for help and guidance. Went to the selection weekend for the youthworks thing whichw as good, but tiring. It seems like a really hrad job, but if God wants me there then thats where I'll goe, because He'll sustain me. The epople there a really nice, some of the guys are so funny, the only thing i didn't like was the half an hour of sleep due to the fact that someone in our room was snoring al through the night and when that guy swapped he must of tagged someone else because i just couldn't get any sleep. Then we had to get up at 6:30 to go canoeing. Long days!
Last night was great at work. I found out my firned Luke was really interesting in talking about God and aspects of Christianity, He just searching for answers and said he'd copme to church which is great, I hope and pray He can be changed by God.
Today has been a little average though thats only cause I'm feeling really sorry for the West Indies who are suffering a very humiliating defeat by the Aussies. I just want them to win, so i decided to come down here and post this. Anyway thats enough for now. beta get going, Dave |
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