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do not make mention of God enough in all my blogpost. In fact, there maybe too many hints of pride and boasting of my achievements. Words can sometimes not express accurately the pregnant feelings, emotions and gratitude of a heart. There is no doubt the pride and joy of a daddy in my blogging, with of course, a little pinch of opinion and idealistic thinking as well. In actual fact, I owe everything to the grace of God and others. Everyone have been kind to me throughout my journey. And I believe all this is made possible through the many opportunities God has blessed me with. In order, for this to continue, I always pray that I will never forget the goodness of God, but to remember Him always. While we could do many things for God and make many vows and commitments, the most important of all is to remember that God is the center of all good things we enjoy. We need to remember the awesome acts of God, as well as the daily provisions, simple and basic as they are. Remembering and acknowledging them are the foundations of a good relationship with God. And that starts young. Or at least, while we could remember every good thing from the beginning to remember God for. Thereby, starts the pattern of God's blessing on those who remembers Him.
The author of the s
cripture text of this blog title, probably Solomon, wrote these words of wisdom at the end of his life after reflecting that life only has value when we remember God. All other things will fade away. But, there is so much purpose when we can delight ourselves in the knowledge that we belong to God and that God's love for us is eternal and unchanging. Yet, that starts when we come to the humbling realization that there must be a Creator and if the Creator is the God who loves humanity as depicted in the bible, I want to acknowledge Him, know Him and remember any good He will be doing for me. It does not require a supernatural ability to be religious, perfect or holy to do that. Just a sense of remorse and humility that we are in need of our Creator. That sense came to me when I was 12, as I realized there must be a God who created everything. I was further touched that despite His supremacy, God loved and I felt his love and wanted it. After that fateful day, of telling God that I want to know Him more and wanted Him to guide my life, slowly things began to change. I received more res
ponsibilities in school and received more expectations to show a good testimony of being a Christian. Every step of that journey, I did not fail to remember God and God was pleased with me until a climatic encounter when God tested me if I would commit my life to Him to serve Him as a Christian Fellowship president. In a tug of war between having more time for my studies, I gave to God my time, the little I had. Yet, God did not want to take from me, as He only wanted to know the contents of my heart and if I loved Him and remembered Him. That day onwards, I knew for sure that God took care of me, even at certain times, He was teaching me to be patient in rough times. I am still far from being a "good Christian", but I know that God is real and loves me. And this was established when I was young.
Do we remember God enough? Fortunately, God judges us by knowing our heart in the midst of our circumstances and weaknesses. God is good and compassionate all the time.
(Photos show Sacre-Coeur on high grounds and St Augustin seen afar from the Obelisque, Paris).
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