Scott’s First Post!

okay well i think im kinda late in posting here but better late than never right? hahaha! anyways today i did quiet time on

Acts 15:22-35

The Council’s Letter to Gentile Believers

²²Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, two men who were leaders among the brothers. ²³With them they sent the following letter: The apostles and elders, your brothers, To the Gentile believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia: Greetings.²⁴We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said. ²⁵So we all agreed to choose some men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul— ²⁶men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁷Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to confirm by word of mouth what we are writing. ²⁸It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: ²⁹You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.

³⁰The men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they gathered the church together and delivered the letter. ³¹The people read it and were glad for its encouraging message. ³²Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the brothers. ³³After spending some time there, they were sent off by the brothers with the blessing of peace to return to those who had sent them.^{[a] 35}But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, where they and many others taught and preached the word of the Lord.

1.As i was reading the first one God reminded me of how we/I live my life… cos if you read carefully it says that Paul and Barnabas, they risked their lives for God which means that they gave God their all and they were willing to put themselves out there for God and God blessed them by giving them leadership and the power of influence. They were able to preach the word cos they lived life for God, God saw it and God used them.

Then a questioned popped up in my head.
“What bout you, Scott? Have you been living life for God or yourself?”
You may think this is a easy question and the answer is obvious but think bout it. Carefully.
Many atimes we dont realise but we do do things our way and not God’s way. Why? Cos of our EGOS AND PRIDES.
You see we all have that monster inside of us called EGO. it needs/wants the attention and that attention makes us feel… secure? good? mighty?
But we all do not realise that if it weren’t for God we wouldn’t be where we are today.

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Acts 15:36-41

Disagreement Between Paul and Barnabas

36Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in all the towns where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing.” 37Barnabas wanted to take John, also called Mark, with them, 38but Paul did not think it wise to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not continued with them in the work. 39They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company. Barnabas took Mark and sailed for Cyprus, 40but Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord. 41He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

Well the second part really got me thinking like in terms of like why did Paul not want to bring John(Mark) along, like i mean all he did was leave them for a while. but as i thought thru it, it suddenly dawned on me that if John did not leave Paul and Barnabas behind, then the work load would have been less on Paul and Barnabas. Moreover John decided to start this race with God and then he left God hanging while he left. But then you might ask why did Barnabas then choose to take John and go on? Well John was actually Barnabas’ relative so obviously Barnabas had to side with him. But Paul didn’t feel that way cos John abandoned them at the time where they were going to do something great and well i think Paul felt that John wasn’t worthy of carrying on the journey cos he was gonna reap something that he didn’t sow. Where as Silas went thru thick and thin.

Yup so there you go! heh! my first yo! haha=D

This blog must never be dead!!-daryl

 14 But the disciples had forgotten to bring any food. They had only one loaf of bread with them in the boat. 15 As they were crossing the lake, Jesus warned them, “Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and of Herod.”16 At this they began to argue with each other because they hadn’t brought any bread. 17 Jesus knew what they were saying, so he said, “Why are you arguing about having no bread? Don’t you know or understand even yet? Are your hearts too hard to take it in? 18 ‘You have eyes—can’t you see? You have ears—can’t you hear?’[a] Don’t you remember anything at all? 19 When I fed the 5,000 with five loaves of bread, how many baskets of leftovers did you pick up afterward?” 

“Twelve,” they said.

 20 “And when I fed the 4,000 with seven loaves, how many large baskets of leftovers did you pick up?”

   “Seven,” they said.

 21 “Don’t you understand yet?” he asked them

I believed that this is the verse that God wants to tell most of us, that why are we still walking in sinful ways?? why are our hearts so hardened?? why do we have eyes but not see and have ears but fail to hear?? Why do we choose to follow the world after God had done so much in our lifes?? 

Guys lets take this time to reflect on ourself and i mean everyone which include myself.

Do What We As Christians Should Do (Proverbs 5:7-9)

I am using both a NLT and NIV verison to share my quiet time. Firstly, GOD gave us wisdom, he even told us what we should do, and what we should not do (v7). It is really up to our choice to listen to GOD or not. Lets remember that our classmates and friends are looking at us, as a christian. These people have a good perspective of christian, it is really our life that shows them what a christian is. If we behave like a salt and light in our sch, ppl will natually look up to us as christians. But if we behave like a non-christian, people will look and think “Huh? I didnt know christians are like this, I though christians surpose to behave like …..” So the name of “Christ” are in our hands, it is up to us to tarnish it, or to glorify it…. Like what I say, if these people see christians like themselves, nothing special, then we are actually destroying their “good” view of a christian, and therefore making it hard to communicate with them. Natually, they will draw away, far from us and christian will lost its honor and respect, we become a disgrace to GOD’S name (NLT v14). So guys, do u feel the weight of being a salt and light wherever we go? GOD’S name is in our hands, dun take it like something light ,like a ball, where we can play and throw and kick it like nothing happen. Treat it as something with great power and weight, something that people want to see.

By, Jun Hao