For a moment there I forgot the point I wanted to talk about today, and got really annoyed about it, but thank God for memory. Another important lesson: in life, if you don't write down an idea, it will never exist.
I've always been a kid that loves reading. I remember the story my mum loves to tell, about how one night she woke up at 4 in the morning. Seeing the light on outside, she walked out into the living room to find her 7 year old son sitting on the sofa with a stack of encyclopedias at his side. She wondered if there was something that was keeping him up, but apparently he just didn't stop reading since an hour after dinner.
Yes yes, inquisitive boy. But one thing I remember, that stands out clearly in my mind, was my fascination with the universe. Because I realized everything that I saw around me was just a tiny bit of the vastness of space. The idea that there were places out there, planets composed of just gas, huge clumps of swirling clouds, rings of small tiny asteroids, it amazed me. By the age of 9, I could tell you that Jupiter was over 1300 times the volume of earth, that Uranus differed from the other planets by it's axis of rotation being vertical, while the other planets had it's rotations horizontally. I was awestruck by the amazing-ness of it all.
And nowadays, when I look at all of it again, do you know what amazes me?
That God did all of that with a simple "let there be...".
Our God's pretty awesome :D
But I think we forget that pretty often.
Hello, what are you worried for? Or have you forgotten that the One who builds and sustains everything is on your side.
Maybe it's something to do with the way that we sometimes treat God. I know for myself that I've been praying for a renewed sense of respect for Him. There have been times where I catch myself sinning with the thought that 'it's okay, he'll forgive'. And there is something deeply deeply wrong with that. I wonder how He stands it sometimes, I wonder why He doesn't get pissed at me. And I remember that He loves me, and as long as there's still time, there's still hope.
But He's God. Of all. Of everything. Every description of God in the Bible holds Him as the Awesome God. Reading about how God appears to the nation of Israel at Mount Sinai holds me in amazement. Exodus 19, where a dense cloud appears over the whole mountain and a loud trumpet heralds the arrival of the Lord of All. Everyone in the Israelite camp shivers because they know that the Awesome King is there. During the Azusa Street Revival between 1906 to 1915, old ladies who were young girls then tell stories about how the children would sit below the table while the adults were praying, and they would literally play with the small clouds of God's glory.
And this is the clincher, that reminds me every time. He is God. And when He sets a goal for me, nothing can stop Him. If He decides that I should grow wings and a unicorn's horn for some reason, it's gonna happen. If He decides that the best way to showcase His glory in my life is for me to be a rapper, then be prepared to see Double G's newest album, "DOUBLE G OR BUST" go platinum.
So stop being worried. If you're in your school because that's where God has called you, then do what He wants you to do there, and stop worrying about the extra stuff, because your God is an Awesome God. If you're in another country because that's where God will use you, then do what He asks, focusing on Him, not your circumstance, because your God is an Awesome God. If you find yourself getting something you didn't want, and finding yourself having to go somewhere you don't want to, trust that He has a purpose behind what's He's doing, and go where He's leading you, because your God is an Awesome God.
You have a call, a purpose, a direction for what He'll do through you. Now stop worrying about the extra stuff, seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness, let the other things be added unto you.
Because our God is an Awesome God.
And I shall start 2010 on that note :)