Extra-Ordinary Life

I am sure I am not the only person who passes through Life's intersections. Intersections of Life are those times when you are faced with decisions you know will affect your future. Maybe a university to enroll in, a company to apply in, your career path, your life partner, etc. Your intersections can be subjective depending on the person. Maybe a choice where to eat rice or not is a big thing for oneself but has minimal or no importance to some. I can say that now, year 2012, I am again facing intersections in Life. I know that my life was already planned out by God even before I was born. Now this is the hard part, It is me begging for wisdom to choose the right path. I am not saying that I am in control of my life. Each decision I make can affect other people's life and I know that in whatever path I choose God will allow me to Glorify Him. Proverbs 16:9 "The heart of man plans his ways, but the Lord establishes his steps." In my heart I know I need to weigh all...

The year 2011 is over and I think this is a year that passed so quickly. But why? It is really this fast when you are a member of the working society? Because it went by so fast I wasn't able to keep all the faith goals that I set for 2011. But again by faith I'd like to keep that list and add some more. :) +1. By Faith, I'd like to tithe more that the expected 10% of my earnings/salary every Sunday and learn to bless others. +2. By Faith, I would like to bond more often and mentor the boys (disciples) entrusted to me. +3. By Faith, I can read the whole Bible in a year. (time to get me a new Bible reading plan. :p) +4. By Faith, I will work out, exercise and get into other sports. (I pray for strength, Lord) +5. By Faith, I will memorize the name of the people I meet and successfully match them with their faces. Hahaha +6. By Faith, I will widen my vocabulary and improve my grammar. :( +7. By Faith, I will read more than 10 books in 2012. :) I Pray that God will help me r...

  Last June I spend 4 days in Hongkong. I enjoyed my stay there and saw how lovely the city is. They say that 1 picture contains a thousand words so I will just show some random pictures I took from my HK album. :D  PS. These pictures remind me of God's goodness. :)  

I am currently reading The Treasure Principle by Randy Alcorn which talks about handling the money that God gives us. This book changed my perspective in the way I handle my finances. Maybe this is God's reason why He brought me to this state of 'nothingness'. I lost my smart phones, dropped my good paying job, drained my savings and my ipod got stolen. Maybe this is it. I might have not learned this lesson if I cling to these treasures. The book reminded me that all my possessions are God's. He owns everything that I possess. I also learned to invest on eternity. Why work hard for material things that you cannot bring to heaven? What struck me was the story of a missionary who had dropped all his wealth (coming from an affluent family) and served God in Egypt where he eventually died. He invested on eternity. I don't know who said this but they say there are only 3 things that will last until eternity: God, His Word (Bible), and people's souls. Another thin...

If there is a man that lived on this earth aside from the people in the Bible that I want to model, it would be this man, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. He lived from 1834 to 1892 in England. What really made me adore him is that he truly at a young age grasped the true gospel and very humbly lived his life. I think it was a year ago when I found interest in this man being mentioned by pastors like John Macarthur and John Piper. I then started to read his autobiography online in the web or even mobile web. My interest was revived when I watched this 1-hour video in youtube about him. Sharing the link here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvgcqDTc6vg  It was amazing learning from a life of a single man. He was a very popular pastor in England gaining respect even from the royal family. Learning from his life story, at age 15 he came to truly came to know God after making God realize how dark his heart was. Wait, at age 15 he was conscious about t...

Random thoughts. :) Learn how to paint. Not on walls but on a canvases. Climb a mountain. Those tall mountains in the Philippines. Visit gorgeous beaches in the Philippines. White sand, virgin beaches. Go CWC-ing. Wake boarding. Hot air balloon-ing. I think this is an annual event in Clark. Road trip with a friend to anywhere. Luzon area only. Photowalk around Manila. New lens is required. I wanted to put pictures for each wanna-do-soon item but chose not to. I will just edit photo's of me actually doing these things na lang. God-willing. :)

According to the movie Meet the Robinsons, that I just finished watching. We must keep moving forward. It is not a principle that the world create for us but was already written in the Bible when Paul says that our life is like a race we need to press on towards the goal to attain the prize (Philippian 3:14-15). This teaches us to focus on the future things that we can do in our lives to impact other lives and glorify God. Applying this saying in my life there are a lot of things I need to forget and just keep moving forward. Since this is a blog that I guess no one reads I will share some parts of is what's going on in my life. Just this September, I quit my corporate job with a big company and ended my career. I gave it all up to pursue what I love doing and later on pray to begin studying to become a servant of the LORD, to become a pastor. I want to use my time and energy, my prime, for greater things. Things that has eternal value. But lately I have been ask...