Finishing 2008 and Entering 2009

Back from Bangkok, and I seriously think that I need a holiday for this holiday due to the shopping marathons that I have participated. Nonetheless, it was a great holiday spent with my girlfriend and buddies.

Anyway, coming back to my main focus of this entry, it's 2009! This is surely going to be a year of new things and new expectations. Even as we were praying and worshiping God together back in our hotel room yesterday night, I was reminded of the goodness and faithfulness of God throughout these six years. God then begun to show me about these six years, the things that were added into my life. Indeed they were resounding victories, however something really struck me. I begin to realize that although victories were sweet, but sometimes they will have the effect of blurring our lives, causing us to lose focus or distract us from our first devotion to Jesus.

Year 2009 is not just going to be a year that I am away to study, but it will be a year of coming back to where I first started this walk, it will be a year of going on a holiday with God, quieting my life from distracting noises and a year to learn to see things in the perspective of God.


Deut 8:10-18
"10 When you have eaten your fill, bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. 11 "But that is the time to be careful! Beware that in your plenty you don't forget the Lord your God and begin to disobey him. 12-13 For when you have become full and prosperous and have built fine homes to live in, and when your flocks and herds have become very large, and your silver and gold have multiplied, 14 that is the time to watch out that you don't become proud and forget the Lord your God who brought you out of your slavery in the land of Egypt. 15 Beware that you don't forget the God who led you through the great and terrible wilderness with the dangerous snakes and scorpions, where it was so hot and dry. He gave you water from the rock! 16 He fed you with manna in the wilderness (it was a kind of bread unknown before) so that you would become humble and so that your trust in him would grow, and he could do you good. 17 He did it so that you would never feel that it was your own power and might that made you wealthy. 18 Always remember that it is the Lord your God who gives you power to become rich, and he does it to fulfill his promise to your ancestors."